‘Two-Tiered Justice System’: Rudy Giuliani Responds to Trump Indictment

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani speaks to media at a press conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington, on Nov. 19, 2020. (Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times)

A spokesperson for Rudy Giuliani, the former attorney of Donald Trump, has slammed the federal indictment against the former president.

“This indictment eviscerates the First Amendment and criminalizes the ruling regime’s number one political opponent for daring to ask questions about the 2020 election results,” Ted Goodman, a political adviser and spokesman for Giuliani, said to the National Review. “This indictment underscores the tragic reality of our two-tiered justice system—one for the regime in power and the other for anyone who dares to oppose the ruling regime.”

Mr. Goodman justified Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Trump’s actions outlined in the indictment.

“Every fact Mayor Rudy Giuliani possesses about this case establishes the good faith bases President Donald Trump had for the actions he took during the two-month period charged in the indictment,” he said.

The spokesperson criticized Mr. Trump’s indictment, pointing out that such an action is “particularly egregious in light of the growing evidence proving that Joe Biden and his family made millions of dollars in bribes from America’s most intransigent adversaries.”

The indictment against Mr. Trump, filed by special counsel Jack Smith on Aug. 1, charges the former president with a conspiracy to “impair, obstruct, and defeat” the collection and counting of electoral votes, obstruction of the electoral vote counting by Congress on Jan. 6, 2021, conspiracy to obstruct the electoral vote counting, and a conspiracy against Americans’ right to vote.

The charge sheet mentions six co-conspirators. In the indictment (pdf), co-conspirator 1 is referred to as an attorney “who was willing to spread knowingly false claims and pursue strategies that the Defendant’s 2020 re-election campaign attorneys would not.”

US President Donald Trump (R) listens as his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani speaks to the City of New York Police Benevolent Association at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, NJ, on Aug. 14, 2020. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)

Even though names have been omitted, there is strong speculation that co-conspirator 1 is referring to Mr. Giuliani.

Co-conspirator 1 is said to have met with the Arizona House Speaker on Dec. 1, 2020, during his alleged attempt to overturn the election. When the Speaker asked co-conspirator-1 for evidence of election fraud, co-conspirator-1 reportedly said, “We don’t have the evidence, but we have lots of theories.”

A couple of days later, on Dec. 3, co-conspirator 1 is said to have “orchestrated a presentation to a Judiciary Subcommittee of the Georgia State Senate, with the intention of misleading state senators into blocking the ascertainment of legitimate electors,” the indictment states.

During this presentation, an agent of Mr. Trump and co-conspirator 1 “falsely claimed that more than 10,000 dead people voted in Georgia.”

Another agent “played a misleading excerpt of a video recording of ballot-counting at State Farm Arena in Atlanta and insinuated that it showed election workers counting ‘suitcases’ of illegal ballots.”

Free Speech Violation, Election Interference

In an interview, Mr. Giuliani lashed out at Mr. Smith for bringing the indictment against Mr. Trump, insisting that the former president’s free speech rights were being violated.

“Here’s what I say to Jack Smith—after the Supreme Court threw out your case, which should have been a disgrace, and you should have gone and found another profession because you don’t belong in this one. This one will be your legacy—violating the right of free speech of an American citizen.”

“Never mind whether he was president or not. It could be anybody. It could be a homeless person! You don’t get to violate people’s First Amendment rights, Smith! No matter who the hell you are, no matter how sick you are with ‘Trump derangement syndrome.’”

Mr. Giuliani said that this wasn’t the first time Mr. Smith was “acting like an unethical lawyer” and insisted that “it should be the last.”

The Trump campaign blasted the indictment proceedings, calling it a “pathetic attempt” by the Department of Justice and the “Biden Crime Family” to interfere with the 2024 presidential election in which Mr. Trump is seen as an ‘undisputed frontrunner.”

“Why did they wait 2 1/2 years to bring these fake charges, right in the middle of President Trump’s winning campaign for 2024? Why was it announced the day after the big crooked Joe Biden scandal broke out from the halls of Congress?” the Trump Campaign asked. “The answer is, election interference!”

“The lawlessness of these persecutions of President Trump and his supporters is reminiscent of Nazi Germany in the 1930s, the former Soviet Union, and other authoritarian, dictatorial regimes.”

Selective Justice, Pardoning Trump

In an August 2 post on social media, Representative Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) called Jack Smith a “rogue prosecutor with an axe to grind” against Trump.

“The selective use of the full breadth of the federal government to attack Trump while concocting sweetheart deals for Hunter, Hillary, and the rest of the Democrat Darlings is something you expect in a third-world country, not the United States of America.”

GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy accused the “corrupt federal police” of seeking to “eliminate Trump,” in an August 2 post on social media. He called the move “un-American” and committed to pardoning Mr. Trump for the indictment.

“Donald Trump isn’t the cause of what happened on Jan 6. The real cause was systematic & pervasive censorship of citizens in the year leading up to it. If you tell people they can’t speak, that’s when they scream. If you tell people they can’t scream, that’s when they tear things down.”

“If we fail to admit the truth, Jan. 6 will just be a preview of far worse to come, [and] I don’t want to see us get there,” Mr. Ramaswamy warned.