It has come to light that allies of former President Donald Trump, including former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former attorney Christina Bobb, were arraigned Tuesday in Phoenix on conspiracy, fraud, and forgery charges via WLT Report.
The 11 arraigned individuals “pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Arizona on charges related to their involvement in a plan to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state,” NBC News reports.
NBC News reported that The 11 people arraigned Tuesday include former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and so-called “fake electors” who signed documents claiming to be Arizona’s Electoral College electors. It’s noted that it happened even though now-President Joe Biden narrowly carried the state and Arizona certified his victory.
Others arraigned Tuesday were former Arizona GOP Chair Kelli Ward and her husband Michael Ward; state legislator Anthony Kern; Robert Montgomery, the former head of the Cochise County GOP; Republican Party activists Samuel Moorhead, Nancy Cottle and Loraine Pellegrino; Greg Safsten, the former Arizona GOP executive director; former Trump attorney Christina Bobb; and Tyler Bowyer, the Republican National Committee’s Arizona committeeman and the chief operating officer of the Trump-aligned Turning Point Action.
Giuliani, Bowyer, Cottle, Montgomery, Pellegrino and Bobb appeared virtually. They were among 18 people charged last month by a state grand jury over the plan.
CBS News reported that a spokesperson for Giuliani insisted the charges are political.
“These charges are essentially a cut and paste version of what they’re attempting to use to interfere with the 2024 election and to take down President Trump and anyone willing to take on the permanent Washington political class,” said Ted Goodman, a Giuliani spokesman.
“Joe Biden and his allies continue to weaponize the criminal justice system in their quest to take down President Trump and hold on to power. Mayor Rudy Giuliani—the most effective federal prosecutor in U.S. history—looks forward to full vindication soon.”
