EXCLUSIVE: America’s Mayor Rudy Giuliani jets out of Atlanta hours after posing up for humiliating mugshot and posting $150k bail on surrender in election fraud case
- The former Trump lawyer is facing 13 felony counts including RICO charges
- ‘I’m the same Rudy Giuliani that took down the mafia that made New York City the the safest city in America,’ he said
- First mugshots RELEASED of Trump’s Georgia alleged co-conspirators
‘America’s Mayor’ Rudy Giuliani faced the humiliation of having his mugshot taken after getting booked at an Atlanta jail Wednesday.
It was just the latest setback for the former New York Mayor, who was once heralded as a hero of Sept. 11th. Giuliani now founds himself facing a criminal trial, along with a divorce, mounting legal fees, and a case accusing him of sexual abuse and harassment.
His mugshot came a day before the many he once represented, former President Donald Trump, says he plans to turn himself for processing.
Trump himself bemoaned the arrest of his former lawyer online, saying the man accused of false statements, conspiracy, and soliciting officials to violate their oaths was fighting for ‘election integrity.’
‘The greatest Mayor in the history of New York City was just ARRESTED in Atlanta, Georgia, because he fought for Election Integrity. THE ELECTION WAS RIGGED & STOLLEN. HOW SAD FOR OUR COUNTRY. MAGA!’ Trump wrote.
In the images released by the Fulton County Sheriff’s office, Giuliani can be seen looking straight ahead, showing a slight frown with industrial lighting shining on his forehead and a sheriff’s badge on his right.
It was a stunning and symbolic turnaround for the former mob boss prosecutor, who now must fend off election fraud charges.
Giuliani famously used the RICO Act to take down the Mafia in the 1980s during his time as a Manhattan prosecutor. Now, he’s being charged with violating the anti-racketeering RICO Act in an effort to upend the 2020 election results.
He struck a defiant tone during a hectic scrum of Trump supporters, protestors and press following his release Wednesday on $150,000 bail.
Rudy Giuliani, who served as former U.S. Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, is shown in a police booking mugshot released by the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office
Asked by reporters after he exited the prison whether he regrets attaching his name to former President Trump, Giuliani chuckled and responded: ‘I am very honored to be involved in this case, because this case is a fight for our way of life.’
‘This indictment is a travesty,’ he continued, calling it ‘an attack on the American people.’
He called himself the ‘most prolific prosecutor in American history’ and the most effective mayor ‘ever.’
‘If they can do this to me, they can do this to you,’ he said defiantly during the scrum in which he was physically jostled around.
A protestor held up a sign calling Giuliani a ‘clown’ as he scurried to his vehicle.
Giuliani, who is facing 13 total charges, joined a flurry of eight other Trump allies who turned themselves into the Georgia prison so far this week before the Friday noon deadline.
Trump and 18 co-defendants are accused in a sprawling racketeering case of trying to upend the result of the 2020 election.
DailyMail.com captured Giuliani leaving Atlanta on a private jet after he was booked into the Fulton County Jail
His staff surrounded him with bags as he boarded the jet at Dekalb-Peachtree Airport
He called himself the ‘most prolific prosecutor in American history’ and the most effective mayor ‘ever’
Rudy Giuliani turned himself into the Fulton County Jail on Wednesday August 23, 2023
On his way down to Georgia, he said he’s the ‘same Rudy that took down the mafia’ while warning Republicans their enemies are ‘gonna come’ for them.
‘I’m feeling very, very good about it because I feel like I am defending the rights of all Americans, as I did so many times as a United States attorney,’ Giuliani told reporters as he left his Upper East Side New York City house to head to Georgia.
‘I’m the same Rudy Giuliani that took down the mafia that made New York City the safest city in America,’ he said on his doorstep.
Rudy Giuliani leaves his NYC home to hand himself in for his Georgia Indictment
Brian Tevis, a lawyer of Rudy Giuliani, enters the District Attorney’s Office at the Fulton County Government Center in Atlanta, Georgia
‘Enemies of our republic were destroying rights, sacred rights. They’re destroying my right to counsel, my right to be a lawyer. They’re destroying his right to counsel. It’s not accidental that they’ve indicted all as lawyers. Never heard of that before in America,’ Giuliani told reporters.
He added a warning for Republicans that when political winds shift, ‘they’re gonna come for you.’
‘Now, whether you dislike or like Donald Trump, let me give you a warning. They’re gonna come for you. When the political winds shift, as they always do, let us pray that Republicans are more honest, more trustworthy, and more American than these people in charge of this government.’
‘Donald Trump told you this. They weren’t just coming for him or me.’
Giuliani has previously denied former employee Noelle Dunphy’s sexual harassment charges, and blasted the Trump-related charges against him on his podcast after he was indicted.
A flurry of Trump allies have headed to the Georgia prison Wednesday to turn themselves in before the deadline
Giuliani previously branded his indictment ‘an affront to American democracy’ and called the Georgia officials who have brought charges against him, Donald Trump and 17 others the ‘real criminals.’
The indictment lists a litany of telephone calls made by Giuliani, the former president and others to various state officials for the purpose, it says, of unlawfully appointing fake electors to swing the Electoral College in Trump’s favor.
Trump and his 18 co-defendants were charged on August 14 with attempting to overturn Georgia’s 2020 presidential election, and were given a deadline of Friday at noon to hand themselves in for booking.
A flurry of Trump allies have headed to the Georgia prison Wednesday to turn themselves in before the deadline.
The first to turn themselves in were John Eastman and bail bondsman Scott Hall on Tuesday.
Georgia-based lawyer Ray Smith and Trump campaign attorney Ken Chesebro were booked Wednesday along with former Georgia GOP chairman and state legislator David Shafer and former Coffee County GOP chair Cathy Latham.
Trump’s fiery former attorney known as the ‘Kraken’ Sidney Powell surrendered Wednesday afternoon in Georgia – and had her mugshot released.
Trump Attorney Jenna Ellis was also booked and photographed Wednesday.
John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped develop a plan to keep Donald Trump in power, on Tuesday morning became the second of the former president’s co-defendants to turn himself in to authorities in Georgia.
Eastman, 63, was booked at the Fulton County jail before being released by authorities.
He said his arrest was an attack on his First Amendment rights and that he had been targeted for simply being vigorous in pursuit of a case.
‘It represents a crossing of the Rubicon for our country, implicating the fundamental First Amendment right to petition the government for redress of grievances,’ he said in statement issued by his legal team.
‘As troubling, it targets attorneys for their zealous advocacy on behalf of their clients, something attorneys are ethically bound to provide and which was attempted here by ‘formally challeng[ing] the results of the election through lawful and appropriate means.”
Trump himself said a day earlier that he will present himself to the jailhouse on Thursday, before the Friday noon deadline.
The defendants were charged with 41 criminal counts in connection with efforts to reverse Trump’s defeat in the state’s 2020 election.
On Monday, court filings revealed the bond agreements reached by defendants and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. They dropped one by one on the court’s website.
A day later the defendants began handing themselves in.
The first was Scott Hall, a bail bondsman in Atlanta. He is charged in connection with an alleged voting systems breach in Coffee County, Georgia.
Rudy Giuliani leaves his NYC home to hand himself in for his Georgia Indictment
The former Trump lawyer is facing 13 felony counts including accusations of harassment of two Fulton County poll workers and violating the anti-racketeering RICO Act – designed to take down organized crime rings
Schafer was the third known co-defendant to turn himself in after Republican poll watcher Scott Hall (left) became the first this week, followed by attorney John Eastman (right). Above are their mugshots from Fulton County jail
Critics have used AI generated or photoshopped images of a Trump mugshot on their protest posters, but now might have a real one to replace it after Thursday’s surrender
The sheriff’s department says most people arrested in Fulton County are taken to the main jail on Rice Street, to the northwest of the city center, where conditions are being investigated
John Eastman, center, an attorney indicted with former President Donald Trump, makes a statement to media outside the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, where he was booked on Tuesday
Then came Eastman.
The indictment accuses him and others of pushing a scheme involving ‘alternate’ electors that would certify that Trump won.
He will not give a formal plea until he appears in court. In the meantime, his legal team said the indictment ‘sets out activity that is political, but not criminal.’
The case is the fourth time Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, has been indicted in a criminal case since April.
He maintains has done nothing wrong and repeatedly characterized the case as an effort to end his presidential campaign.
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