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May 30, 2024 - Rudy Giuliani
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America's Mayor Live (E419): Reaction to Guilty Verdict in President Trump's New York Trial
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Today's verdict officially marks the end of the United States being able to describe itself as a nation of laws.
This verdict is a political prosecution intended for the purpose of rigging the 2024 election.
These are the kinds of verdicts that occur in dictatorships and third world and banana republic governments.
Not in countries, even if not democracies, that are ruled by law.
The law had nothing to do with this case.
In fact, it was sacrilegiously violated time after time after time.
including probably the most notable, telling the jury that they could disregard 800 years of English and American law and find a verdict partially that is not unanimous.
In complete disregard of 14 different times that the Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that a verdict must in all respects be unanimous, Including most recently, in 2020, in Ramos against the United States, a case completely disregarded by this entirely lawless and seemingly extremely biased judge, or acting judge, more promptly, because he's never been elected and he's never been permanently appointed, has to show that there was real lack of confidence in his legal acumen and abilities.
To not understand the basis for a unanimous verdict is probably something that you don't even have to be a lawyer to understand.
But it is throwing aside 800 years of history.
Before Henry VIII, English men and women were instructed that a jury had to be unanimous in order to deprive someone of liberty.
And now America puts itself in a category of nations ruled by dictators with this verdict.
It is not a surprise to me.
I've been a New Yorker all my life.
I have a peculiarly good view of this city historically, probably more than anyone.
Certainly no one has a greater view than I have of it, both currently and historically.
This city has been a politically corrupt city for most of the last 150 years.
It is a one-party dictatorship, and that's a Democrat party.
The judges appointed are appointed by Democrat political bosses.
The idea of an election is as fictional as it was in the Soviet Union.
For example, Judge Angaran, in the other equally hideous case, was elected three times.
So you might say, Giuliani, why are you saying it isn't a democracy?
He was elected three times.
Yes, but he never had an opponent.
That's the way they elected them in Soviet Russia, or Nazi Germany.
Not in a country of laws.
That makes him the selection of the Democrat Party, who make sure there are no opponents.
The Democrat boss of that borough makes sure that the person wins, without any doubt, and then expects, and has for most of the last 150 years, his pound of flesh.
It's led to some horrendous scandals, including some that I personally prosecute.
What I am telling you is not fiction, it isn't exaggeration, and it isn't partisan.
It's fact and history.
This city didn't vote for Abraham Lincoln because it was so crooked.
It did not vote for Abraham Lincoln.
The state did, but not the city.
We're going back now to the days even before, I think, Boss Tweed.
But one of the most horrendous political criminals in the history of this city, quite fittingly, has a court named after him.
The Tweed Courthouse.
Reminding the current Democrats that they should be as corrupt as the prior Democrats.
Well, they've exceeded themselves with this one.
Because they have reversed American law.
The number of errors in this trial cannot come from incompetence.
It may in fact be true that Judge Merchant is incompetent.
One wonders why he has never been appointed, and he's only an acting judge, yet he's been given all the Trump trials.
The next one he is going to frame is Steve Bannon, because he has Steve Bannon's case.
I don't know why they even go through the mockery of a trial.
You knew on day one that Trump was going to be convicted.
Every ruling went for the state, every ruling went against the defense, when in fact it's always usually the opposite, because the judge protects himself against reversal, and therefore rules more often for the defense than for the state.
Well, he did just the opposite.
We don't even know what they convicted him of, really.
They never settled on the crime that he allegedly intended to further by the alleged false statement.
It could be one of four.
And they didn't have to be unanimous about that.
So, I don't know that he's been convicted of a crime.
I think an honest appellate court would say this is completely null and void.
And completely contrary to American law, or the law of any civilized nation, all in an effort to deprive him of the presidency.
But is there anything new about that?
Isn't this just another chapter in the never-ending saga of, let's prevent Trump from being president?
It started with Hillary Clinton extraordinarily paying 1.1 million dollars for a completely phony Russian collusion story.
It was untrue in every respect.
It was created for money.
President Obama and Vice President Biden at the time knew about it.
There's no doubt.
Certainly by their silence, they supported it and their support of Hillary Clinton, they supported it.
When a president learned that a candidate for president was constructing a false story about another candidate, his continued support to me is criminal, right?
But that isn't by any means the worst crime they committed.
When the FBI concluded quickly that they couldn't prove it before the election, their hopes were shattered that they could stop him.
But then they revived it again, even though they had concluded there was nothing to it.
And then they spent millions of your dollars, diverted the agenda of the United States for two and a half years, trying to dislodge a lawfully elected president, with fraudulently produced material that was paid for by Hillary Clinton and the Democrat Party.
Now, I don't know that there's anything that they've alleged, even alleged, much less proved about Donald Trump, that rises to that level.
That's about as grievous a crime as has ever happened in this Republic.
We'd have to go back to Benedict Arnold to find something akin to that.
Well, that failed.
It failed completely.
It turned out to be totally untrue.
Their special prosecutor couldn't find any evidence.
It was then determined that it was completely untrue, and then determined that it was purchased and created.
Hillary Clinton escaped justice, not only for destroying 33,000 emails, but for paying for a fraudulent story intended to dislodge a lawfully elected president.
How is it possible that she's walking around a free woman and Donald Trump was convicted of we don't know what?
We don't know what the crime is.
Because the judge never had the ability or courage or was afraid to put an actual crime to them because maybe if he did, they'd have said no.
Although that's unlikely.
It was a very carefully selected jury in a city that's 90% Democrat, afflicted with a very serious case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
As an expert on this city, I can tell you that.
District of Columbia is worse, but only by a little bit.
And the idea that he can get a fair trial here also completely violates any rules of justice that we used to have in the past.
I've had cases where venue was moved For far less prejudicial publicity than this.
I could go through, and I will at 8 o'clock, I could go through a list of all of the things that are wrong with this trial.
Professor Dershowitz said last night he's never seen a trial and a case worse than this.
More unfair, more biased, more prejudiced.
I agree with that.
I can't even think of a comparison.
The one thing that he did do, which there was fear that he would try to imprison Trump, President Trump, today.
In fact, the Department of Corrections of New York had several meetings with the Secret Service to decide how to imprison him.
They were even afraid he might sentence him.
And they were calculating if he got less than... If he got 11 months or less, it'd be at Rikers Island.
If he got more than 11 months, it would be in a state prison.
And if it was Rikers Island, their initial judgment was to put him in... Either put... Either put him in... I think to put him in a separate prison.
Because he has to have the Secret Service with him while he's in prison.
So, the sentencing date has been put to July... Is it July 11th, Ted?
July 11th.
July 11th, just four days before the Republican National Convention.
Talk about election interference.
Four days before... Yeah.
The whole case is very, very similar because I was going... I said this is a chapter in a book that started with Russian collusion.
And then it became the non-existent Ukrainian quid pro quo that was a complete lie from a staff member of Vice President Biden named Chiarella, whose identity has been hidden after they promised to bring him forward until the transcript contradicted everything he said.
The quid pro quo for a bribe was clearly done by Joe Biden when he got his son out of trouble Got the case quashed in Ukraine, and also got a crooked billionaire, got him his business back, and made at least nine million dollars.
All of which is provable from the hard drive.
Provable, not like this case, but I would say you could be a disc jockey and prove it.
That means you play recordings and show emails.
You don't even need witnesses, but you got plenty.
So, They've tried the January 6th insurrection.
They still talk about the January 6th insurrection.
Biden talked about it yesterday.
The only problem with it is they've charged a thousand people.
They must have investigated 10,000.
They admit they've spent more money on the January 6th investigation than any in history.
Hard to believe that's the most dangerous thing that ever happened to us in history.
And they've charged no one with insurrection, much less proved insurrection.
But they go around saying it.
They even had him taken off the ballot for insurrection until the courts intervened.
This is how desperate and how criminal they are in their approach to this.
This trial is just a part of that.
And there'll be more.
Who knows what will come next?
The simple fact is that they've, certainly in New York, for 150 years, with a couple of exceptions, LaGuardia, me, Bloomberg, been a thoroughly corrupt city, ruled by a democratic dictatorship.
It's no exaggeration.
Any smart New Yorker knows it.
Certainly true with regard to political cases.
I was told in law school you couldn't get a fair trial in a political case in the New York court.
Because it was controlled by Democrats.
So figure out a way of settling it.
That sort of guided me in my first election that I lost by a surprisingly narrow margin with lots of contested votes.
I decided not to contest it because I was told it would be a joke.
I would never... I could have a choir of saints as witnesses and the Democrat judge would rule for the Democrats.
Because he wouldn't be a judge if he didn't.
And he sure wouldn't continue.
I then had the opportunity of investigating that as a prosecutor and putting a lot of these people in jail.
So I know of what I speak.
So where do we go from here?
Where we go from here is the American people have to reject this.
The American people have to rise above it.
This conviction was created all by Democrats.
There wasn't a single... This is a A Democratic district attorney who ran saying he was going to get Trump, an attorney general here who ran saying she was going to get Trump, is a district attorney who has released about half the criminals that come before him.
I would say there are 79,000 people walking the streets of New York that would be in jail if I were the mayor, or Ray Kelly was back as the police commissioner, and they are wreaking havoc on New York.
Just yesterday, a group of policemen were beaten by illegal migrants invited into this country by Joe Biden.
They'll be free quickly.
They'll be free to do it again as quickly as possible.
You can't imagine how many people commit three and four crimes, you know, within a one-month period, and they've been arrested two or three times.
That's Bragg.
He's the prosecutor in the case.
And they have time for this ridiculous non-crime, which they can't even define?
You want to save the American justice system, you have to vote this demented dictator out of office.
And now he's going to have a... He has scheduled a speech, or something like a press conference, some kind of a canned talk, After the Trump verdict.
Although he proclaims this wasn't political.
What the hell was Robert De Niro doing here yesterday making a fool out of himself?
Sent by the Biden campaign if it wasn't political.
This whole thing is completely political.
It's an attempt to continue to brainwash you and to continue their propaganda.
Which they really are just following their Marxist guidance in doing it.
And you have to rise above it, understand what's going on, and we'll be back at 8 o'clock with more details on it because we'll be able to talk to some people and Learn a little bit more about what happened, why it happened, and what's going to happen from here politically.
Ted, is there anything else you'd like to cover now that we have their attention?
We have a live, yeah, we have a very lively, large audience right now.
People are tuning in to hear your reaction to what's happening.
Of course, sentencing July 11th, as we mentioned, The president on his way out had made some comments, so I'm just bringing those up right now while you... We'll analyze those as well and also get a chance to talk to some of the people who were at the trial.
Not a surprise.
I hope you can see that I was fully prepared for this, particularly when it was a quick verdict.
I knew it was a guilty verdict.
I probably knew it when the jury was picked.
The judge Create a real hurt in my heart.
Because I loved the justice system we had in this country.
I love waking up in the morning and being part of it.
Being fair, impartial.
I prosecuted Republicans and Democrats.
I didn't prosecute Republicans and Democrats.
I used to say neither party has a monopoly on virtue or vice.
I refused to do things that I thought would hurt a Democratic candidate for Vice President because it was politically inspired.
And I recommended a special prosecutor when I didn't think I had to, that I should, justifiably, but the law required me to do it for my own boss.
So I am dedicated to The impartial administration of justice is maybe the single most important part of our system of laws.
And when it goes, we no longer have a system of laws.
We have a system of deranged men who can decide our fate and change the laws.
Like, we don't have to have a unanimous verdict.
A very sad day for America.
It's a very, very sad day for anyone who values justice and has lived by it.
It's a very sad day for me.
And I hope this gets reversed very, very quickly.
And I do hope that my fellow citizens see where the crime was actually committed and who actually committed this crime.
People who brought this case are criminals.
And they are traitors to our system of justice.
And they should be held accountable for it.
We'll be back at 8, and we'll have more for you.
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