- President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani stopped to chat with reporters when walking into the president’s New Year’s Eve party at Mar-a-Lago Tuesday
- Giuliani said he’d be open to just about any role in the president’s Senate trial, including testifying as a witness
- He then said he’d even ‘try’ the case, likely meaning the one he’s been trying to track down in Ukraine as he continues to claim Joe and Hunter Biden are corrupt
- ‘I would prosecute it as a racketeering case,’ Giuliani said. ‘Which I kind of invented anyway,’ he added
Rudy Giuliani said he’d be open to take on just about any role in President Trump’s impeachment trial – telling reporters he’d testify, or even ‘try’ the case.
‘I would testify. I would do demonstrations, I’d give lectures, I’d give summations,’ Giuliani told reporters on the red carpet Tuesday night at Mar-a-Lago. ‘Or I’d do what I do best, I’d try the case.’
Giuliani is not expected to be a part of Trump’s defense team during his impeachment trial, which is expected to begin as early as the second week of this month.
The former New York City mayor, who also served as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said he’d ‘love to try the case.’
‘Well, I don’t know if anybody would have the courage to give me the case,’ Giuliani said. ‘But if you give me the case, I would prosecute it as a racketeering case.’
‘Which I kind of invented anyway,’ he bragged.
Giuliani was likely saying that he would go after Joe and Hunter Biden, who the ex-mayor continues to characterize as corrupt.
This week Giuliani said he has compiled a massive report on the Bidens that could verify the president’s concerns about corruption that he wanted Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate.
The issue of Hunter Biden’s time on the board of a Ukrainian natural gas company is at the heart of the impeachment inquiry.
In Trump’s July 25 phone call with Zelensky he is accused of trying to pressure the newly-elected Ukrainian leader into announcing investigations into the Bidens in return for the release of about $400 million in U.S. military aid.
Two of Giuliani’s associates, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman allegedly traveled to Ukraine to dig up dirt on the Bidens. And all three were called out by former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, for trying to oust her from her position in order to install someone more compatible with their agenda.
Parnas and Fruman are among a group of five charged with using straw donors to funnel illegal contributions to politicians they thought could help their political and business interests, including a pro-Trump super PAC as well as committees supporting other Republicans.
Giuliani himself returned from Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, last month after meeting with former general prosecutors and parliamentarians who have been known to peddle Russian conspiracy theories, including supposed plots that suggest Ukraine intervened in the 2016 presidential election instead of Russia.
Giuliani later said publicly that Trump asked him to relay the intelligence to GOP lawmakers.
As Giuliani entered Tuesday night’s glitzy New Year’s Eve fete at Trump’s Palm Beach club Mar-a-Lago, he dodged a question about whether he had plans to make a return trip to Ukraine.
The ex-mayor was one of the few guests to stop and gab with reporters while walking the red carpet at the annual party.
Trump, standing alongside first lady Melania Trump, also made the stop, with son Barron lingering nearby.
On impeachment, Trump said he’d be fine with there being a trial.
‘I don’t really care. It doesn’t matter,’ the president told reporters.
So far, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has held onto the articles of impeachment as Democrats and Republicans go back-and-forth on what a Senate trial would like like, including whether the Senate would call witnesses.
Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, want to see White House officials, including acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney and former National Security Advisor John Bolton, tell lawmakers what they know.
‘As far as I’m concerned, I’d be very happy with a trial,’ Trump said. ‘Cause we did nothing wrong. We didn’t even have a witness and we won 196 to nothing, we didn’t have a witness.’
While Trump was impeached by votes of 230-197 and 229-198, he’s boasted since the December 18 vote that no GOP lawmaker voted against him.
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