Rudy Giuliani, once ‘America’s Mayor,’ gets mugshot in Georgia jail

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani — as soon as identified fondly all over the world as “America’s mayor” — was pressured to pose for a mugshot Wednesday within the case accusing him of attempting to unlawfully overturn the results of Georgia’s 2020 presidential election.

The grim picture of the unsmiling Giuliani was launched by the Fulton County Sheriff’s workplace shortly earlier than 5 p.m.

“They’re going to degrade themselves by doing a mugshot of me, like folks gained’t acknowledge me,” the one-time lawyer for former President Donald Trump told reporters Wednesday morning as he left his Higher East Aspect house to give up to officers in Atlanta.

Giuliani, 79, was indicted last week within the Peach State alongside Trump, 77, and 17 others — together with former White Home chief of workers Mark Meadows. The previous mayor turned himself in Wednesday on the Fulton County jail and was launched on $150,000 bond.

In a humiliating reversal, the previous Manhattan federal prosecutor was charged by Fulton County District Lawyer Fani Willis underneath Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corruption Organizations (RICO) legislation — just like the federal statute whose use Giuliani pioneered to take down the mob within the Massive Apple.

Giuliani — who’s charged with 13 counts — has maintained his innocence and blasted Willis’ case.

“You discover a prosecutor who has a greater document than mine within the final 100 years. Guess you don’t. Or mayor,” he mentioned Wednesday morning.

Giuliani had his New York legislation license suspended over his “demonstrably false and deceptive statements” after the 2020 election.

Trump plans to surrender on the similar jail Thursday, together with his attorneys agreeing to publish $200,000 bond.

Willis has given all the defendants till Friday to show themselves in and is asking for the case to go to trial on March 4.

The Fulton County Sheriff’s Workplace has mentioned it plans to launch mugshots each day till all the defendants give up.

Trump faces three different indictments: A New York case accusing him of falsifying enterprise information, a Florida federal case accusing him of hoarding troves of confidential nationwide safety paperwork at his Mar-a-Lago house and a DC case over his makes an attempt to stay in energy after his 2020 election loss. Trump has maintained his innocence in all the instances and has mentioned that they’re politically motivated.

“I’m combating for justice,” Giuliani mentioned Wednesday. “I’ve been from the primary second I represented Donald Trump, and as a person who has now been confirmed harmless a number of occasions.”