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Trumpland with Alex Wagner

Giuliani, at center of Trump election subversion schemes, spoke with federal prosecutors

Trumpland with Alex Wagner

MS NOW, Alex Wagner

News, Society & Culture

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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...Plus, Once a Trump target, arc of the moral universe bends for Yusef Salaam

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0:00.0

If you follow politics at all, then you will remember that President Trump's lawyer,

0:06.2

Rudy Giuliani, held a news conference right after the 2020 election.

0:10.0

It was held, if you remember, at four seasons total landscaping, a gardening business just off the interstate in Philadelphia,

0:18.2

nestled in between an adult bookstore and a crematorium.

0:22.4

Honestly, I don't know that we ever definitively settled on. store and a crematorium.

0:22.6

Honestly, I don't know that we ever definitively settled on why the press conference was

0:26.3

held there, but the whole reason Rudy Giuliani trutted himself out that morning

0:30.5

in front of the gardening business was to baselessly claim that the election

0:34.8

had been stolen. The real chef's kiss here is that that fever dream of a press

0:40.9

conference took place exactly as national news networks were calling the

0:46.0

election for Joe Biden. And honestly as unbelievable as that series of events

0:52.0

was it was not even the most memorable news conference. as that where he appeared to be, for a lack of a better term, melting.

1:05.0

During that presser he claimed that Trump had won Pennsylvania by 300,000 votes and Michigan

1:11.0

by 50,000 votes. Mind you, there was no evidence of that, but he promised it was coming.

1:17.9

Giuliani made those claims alongside another Trump lawyer who alleged that the election

1:21.9

had been stolen by the

1:23.0

Venezuelans and the Cubans and the Chinese and that the voting machines had

1:28.1

been hacked by Hugo Chavez even though Hugo Chavez had died seven years prior.

1:33.8

All you had to do here was connect the dots.

1:38.0

So those bizarre spectacles were memorable,

1:41.1

but they were just the, what shall we say, the amuse boosh for what was to come.

1:47.4

By early December Giuliani had testified before Georgia State lawmakers spreading an elaborate conspiracy theory that two poll workers

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