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Giuliani, who helped lead Trump's election challenges, spent
more than six hours in the Fulton County courthouse after a
judge ordered him to comply with a subpoena. His lawyers, who
declined to comment on his testimony, said he would refuse to
answer questions that violate attorney-client privilege.
The former New York City mayor, 78, appeared before Georgia
state lawmakers in December 2020, echoing Trump's false
conspiracy theories about stolen ballots and urging them not to
certify Democratic President Joe Biden's victory over the
Republican Trump.
"It's a grand jury and grand juries, as I recall, are secret,"
Giuliani told CNN on his arrival at the courthouse, when asked
to comment on his testimony. "They ask the questions and we'll
see."
Giuliani left the courthouse through one of the building's side
entrances, local media in Atlanta reported.
"We were ordered to be here, we showed up, we did what we have
to do," said Giuliani's lawyer, Bill Thomas. "The special grand
jury process is a secret process, and we're gonna respect that
process."
The Fulton County probe began after a January 2021 recorded
phone call in which Trump urged the state's top election
official to "find" enough votes to alter the outcome. The former
president has asserted falsely that he won Georgia, as well as
the 2020 presidential contest.
The special grand jury was convened in May at the request of
county District Attorney Fani Willis.
Giuliani, a former crime-fighting U.S. Attorney, was among
several Trump advisers and lawyers who received subpoenas from
the grand jury last month, including U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham
of South Carolina.
(Writing by Rami Ayyub, editing by Ross Colvin, Howard Goller
and Deepa Babington)
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