(Reuters) – Former Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani said on Monday he has posted $10,000 bond in Arizona on charges that he tried to undermine the 2020 election results in the state.
Giuliani, a former mayor of New York, said on his America’s Mayor Live show on social media that he posted his bond, was fingerprinted and had a mug shot taken at the Maricopa County sheriff’s office.
After hours of calls to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office and to the Maricopa County Superior Court clerk’s office, where Giuliani said he posted bond, calls were not returned.
“It’s hard for me to believe… that I actually had to appear as a defendant in a criminal case,” Giuliani said on his show.
It was last month that Giuliani was ordered to post bail after reportedly evading authorities’ attempts to serve him court documents accusing him of trying to undermine the 2020 election.
Giuliani has pleaded not guilty to charges that he conspired to falsely claim Arizona’s electoral votes for Trump in 2020, following Trump’s narrow loss to Democratic President Joe Biden. His trial starts in October.
Giuliani is one of 18 defendants in the case brought by Democratic Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes.
Giuliani and the other defendants face conspiracy, fraud and forgery charges over their efforts to assemble a slate of Arizona voters who have pledged to support Trump, an effort to undermine the certification of the 2020 election.
Trump, a Republican who will face Biden in November’s presidential election, continues to falsely claim his defeat was the result of fraud.
(Reporting by Brad Brooks in Longmont, Colo.; Editing by Miral Fahmy)
