Rudy Giuliani met special counsel prosecutors probing Trump over 2020 election

Rudy Giuliani, a erstwhile apical lawyer for Donald Trump, met successful caller weeks with national prosecutors who are investigating the ex-president for his efforts to reverse his nonaccomplishment successful the 2020 election, NBC News confirmed Wednesday.

Giuliani led the ineligible combat by Trump's run to overturn President Joe Biden's triumph successful the predetermination during the weeks earlier it was confirmed by a associated league of Congress that began gathering connected Jan. 6, 2021.

The quality of Giuliani's voluntary interrogation with peculiar counsel Jack Smith's prosecutors came arsenic investigators prepared to conscionable Wednesday successful Atlanta with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger arsenic portion of that transgression probe.

Trump, successful an aboriginal January 2021 telephone call, unsuccessfully pressured Raffensperger to "find" him capable votes successful Georgia to overturn Biden's triumph successful that state. Georgia was 1 of respective states that gave Biden his borderline of triumph successful the Electoral College, the assemblage that really selects American presidents aft the fashionable vote.

The telephone to Raffensperger occurred days earlier the associated league of Congress convened to certify the Electoral College results. The associated league was interrupted for hours by a mob of Trump supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol.

Ted Goodman, a spokesperson for Giuliani, said the erstwhile New York politician met with Smith's prosecutors on with his ain lawyer Robert Costello successful caller weeks, NBC News reported.

"The quality was wholly voluntary and conducted successful a nonrecreational manner," Goodman said.

CNN archetypal reported that Giuliani had met with Smith's investigators.

Costello past August told CNBC that Giuliani had been named a people of a abstracted transgression probe by a Georgia authoritative who is investigating Trump for his effort to undo his nonaccomplishment successful 2020 successful the state. The prosecutor, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, is expected to denote coming weeks whether she is filing charges against Trump and his allies successful the election-reversal effort.

Giuliani successful December 2020 spoke to Georgia lawmakers and made a bid of claims astir purported predetermination fraud arsenic helium urged them to name a slate of pro-Trump electors to the Electoral College.

Earlier this month, Smith obtained a Florida national tribunal indictment against Trump charging him with dozens of transgression counts related to his retention of classified records aft helium near the White House, and his alleged efforts with adjutant Walt Nauta to fell them from authorities officials.

Trump, who is seeking the 2024 Republican statesmanlike nomination, has pleaded not blameworthy successful that case, wherever helium is accused of keeping hundreds of classified documents astatine his Mar-a-Lago nine successful Palm Beach, Florida.