The former Trump lawyer could face removal from the D.C. bar for false statements about the 2020 election.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Monday that it was his “obligation” as a lawyer to attempt to overturn the results of 2020 presidential election in Pennsylvania on behalf of his then-Client, Donald Trump.
Giuliani was the first witness called during a hearing Monday in front of the D.C. Bar Board of Professional Responsibility to determine whether he violated attorney ethics rules with the federal court challenge he launched in Pennsylvania to subvert President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory in that state.
During his testimony, Trump’s ex-lawyer echoed one of the former president’s favorite refrains, claiming he has been “persecuted” by federal investigations over the course of the last four years. He also claimed he wrote only one or two paragraphs of the initial complaint that was filed, leaving the majority of the work to local Pennsylvania attorney Ron Hicks, who withdrew from the suit before it was rejected by both federal district and appeals courts.
In his opening statement, D.C. disciplinary counsel Hamilton Fox described Giuliani’s legal challenge as “frivolous,” and said the former president’s attorney “weaponized his law license” in an effort to “undermine the constitution to which he, like all members of the District of Columbia Bar, took an oath to support.”
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Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Monday at his D.C. Bar hearing that it was his “obligation” as a lawyer to attempt to overturn the results of 2020 presidential election in Pennsylvania on behalf of his then-client, Donald Trump.https://t.co/XxDPmo6nZW
— POLITICO (@politico) December 5, 2022
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