Donald Trump’s former personal attorney Rudy Giuliani is reportedly in talks with the Jan. 6 committee about testifying.
According to the New York Times, Giuliani is considering whether to invoke executive privilege or attorney-client privilege to shield certain information from the committee and is negotiating over whether to give an informal interview or a formal deposition.
Giuliani has signaled to the committee through his lawyers that he plans to take a less confrontational stance toward their subpoena than some members of Trump’s inner circle who are refusing to cooperate with the investigation.
Giuliani led Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential elections. He, along with other members of Trump’s legal team including Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell and Boris Epshteyn were subpoenaed by the Jan. 6 committee last month.
The committee said in a news release that Giuliani “actively promoted claims of election fraud on behalf of the former President and sought to convince state legislators to take steps to overturn the election results. He was reported to have been in contact with then-President Trump and various Members of Congress regarding strategies for delaying or overturning the results of the 2020 election.”
Giuliani was also reported to have “urged President Trump to direct the seizure of voting machines around the country to find evidence that foreign adversaries had hacked those machines and altered the results of the election,” the committee said.
