Former New York mayor and Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani is scheduled to appear on Tuesday before a special grand jury that is investigating Trump’s election interference in the state’s 2020 presidential election. But Giuliani is trying to dodge the subpoena with a classic Trumpian tactic.
Just as Trump used bone spurs to dodge the draft, Giuliani told prosecutors that he could not comply with a subpoena because his doctor would not let him fly.
Giuliani’s attorney Robert Costello said he provided prosecutors with evidence that the former mayor’s doctor had ordered him not to fly, and said that the judge had excused his client from testimony on Tuesday.
But Fulton County Deputy District Attorney Will Wooten called Giuliani’s bluff and offered him “a bus or train ticket” if he was unable to fly.
“We do not consent to change the date,” Wooten told Costello in an email. “We expect to see your client before the grand jury on August 9, 2022, here in Atlanta. We will provide alternate transportation including bus or train if your client maintains that he is unable to fly.”
Read the court filing here.