Rudy Giuliani: Former Trump personal lawyer and former New York City Mayor

Rudy Giuliani, the former personal lawyer for former U.S. President Donald Trump, departs from the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. District Courthouse after a verdict was reached in his defamation jury trial on December 15, 2023 in Washington, DC. A jury has ordered Giuliani to pay $148 million in damages to Fulton County election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss.

Rudy Giuliani, the former personal lawyer for former U.S. President Donald Trump, departs from the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. District Courthouse after a verdict was reached in his defamation jury trial on December 15, 2023 in Washington, DC. A jury has ordered Giuliani to pay $148 million in damages to Fulton County election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss.

Former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani arrives at the federal courthouse in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023. The trial will determine how much Rudy Giuliani will have to pay two Georgia election workers who he falsely accused of fraud while pushing President Donald Trump's baseless claims after he lost the 2020 election.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani talks to reporters as he leaves the federal courthouse in Washington, Monday, Dec. 11, 2023. The trial will determine how much Giuliani will have to pay two Georgia election workers who he falsely accused of fraud while pushing President Donald Trump's baseless claims after he lost the 2020 election.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani addresses reporters outside the Merrimack County Superior Court, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023, in Concord, N.H. Giuliani plans to sue President Joe Biden for calling him a “Russian pawn” during a 2020 debate.

Rudy Giuliani exits his vehicle to speak with the media after he surrendered in Atlanta to be booked as part of county prosecutors' investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia at the Fulton County Jail Intake Center on Aug. 23, 2023 in Atlanta.

Former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani speaks with the media after being processed at the Fulton County Jail on Aug. 23, 2023 in Atlanta. A grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia indicted Donald Trump. The indictment includes 41 charges against 19 defendants, from the former president to his former attorney Rudy Guiliani and former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. The legal case centers on the state’s RICO statute, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani speaks during a Get Out the Vote Bus Tour campaign event for Republican gubernatorial nominee for New York Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) at PrivŽ on November 01, 2022 in the Staten Island borough in New York City. Zeldin and his running mate Alison Esposito held several campaign rallies a week before the Midterm Elections in a tightening race for Governor against incumbent Gov. Kathy Hochul.

Rudy Giuliani walks into the Fulton County Courthouse honoring his subpoena to testify before the 23-person special grand jury aiding in the Fulton County district attorney’s investigation in Atlanta on August 17, 2022. Giuliani is a target of the ongoing criminal investigation into Georgia’s 2020 elections.

Rudy Giuliani appears in support of his son, New York Republican gubernatorial primary candidate Andrew Giuliani, at an election night watch party in Manhattan on June 28, 2022, in New York City. Andrew Giuliani lost to Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY), who will take on Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul this fall.

Former Trump campaign Lawyer Rudy Giuliani is displayed on a screen during a hearing by the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the US Capitol on June 13, 2022, in Washington, DC.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani makes a call before joining a press conference by his son, New York gubernatorial candidate Andrew Giuliani and Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa, at City Hall Park in New York, on June 7, 2022. - Andrew Giuliani is expected to outline a plan to recall 'soft-on-crime' district attorneys.

Rudy Giuliani, the former advisor to President Donald Trump, attends the annual Memorial Day Parade on May 30, 2022, in the Staten Island borough of New York City. The annual parade included dozens of cars, veterans, local politicians, and nearly 50 motorcycles. This year's event comes after the parade was scaled back due to the coronavirus pandemic. Across the country, communities have welcomed back events honoring those who lost their lives serving in the military after being scaled back or canceled over the last few years.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who was a lawyer for President Donald Trump, speaks during a news conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington on Nov. 19, 2020. A law enforcement official tells the Associated Press that federal investigators have executed a search warrant at Rudy Giuliani's Manhattan residence. The former New York City mayor has been under investigation for several years over his business dealings in Ukraine.

Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani speaks on Jan. 6, 2021, during a speech at the Trump rally near the White House before the Capitol riot.

Detroit poll worker Jessy Jacob is questioned by Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City and an attorney with President Donald Trump's campaign in front of the Michigan House Oversight Committee in Lansing, Michigan on December 2, 2020. - The president's attorneys, led by Rudy Giuliani, have made numerous allegations of election fraud.

Rudy Giuliani speaks to the press about various lawsuits related to the 2020 election, inside the Republican National Committee headquarters on November 19, 2020 in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump, who has not been seen publicly in several days, continues to push baseless claims about election fraud and dispute the results of the 2020 United States presidential election.

Attorney for the President, Rudy Giuliani speaks to the media at a press conference held in the back parking lot of Four Seasons Total Landscaping on November 7, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The press conference took place just minutes after news networks announced that Joe Biden had won the presidency over Donald Trump after it was projected that he had won the state of Pennsylvania.

Donald Trump listens as his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani speaks to the City of New York Police Benevolent Association at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., on Aug. 14, 2020.

Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani worked together on presidential debate preparations.

Manhattan GOP chairwoman Andrea Catsimatidis, left, watches as former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani kisses his face mask after speaking at a news conference at the Women's Republican Club, Sept. 16, 2020, in New York.

Congressman Peter King, former NY City Police Chief Bernard Kerik and former NY Mayor Rudy Giuliani during the national anthem. The ceremony and reading the names of victims of the attacks of 911 were moved to Zuccotti Park, a block up from the World Trade Center Memorial in lower Manhattan, NY on Sept. 11, 2020.

Former mayor of New York and lawyer Rudy Giuliani takes pictures with people ahead of President Trump's acceptance speech for the Republican Party nomination for reelection during the final day of the Republican National Convention at the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC on Aug. 27, 2020.

Then-President-elect Donald Trump, right, and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani pose for photographs as Giuliani arrives at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster clubhouse in Bedminster, N.J. on Nov. 20, 2016.

In this Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001 file photo, New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, center, leads New York Gov. George Pataki, left, and Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., on a tour of the site of the World Trade Center disaster. While stumping for Donald Trump in Ocala, Fla., on Oct. 12, 2016, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani accused Hillary Clinton of falsely claiming to have been in New York on Sept. 11, 2001. It isn't clear what Giuliani was talking about. On many occasions, Clinton has described being in Washington, where Congress was in session, on Sept. 11 when hijacked jets began striking the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Flights were still grounded on Sept. 12, 2001, but Clinton traveled to New York City the next day aboard a federal plane. There, she circled the smoldering World Trade Center in a helicopter, then toured ground zero with Giuliani and Pataki.

President Bush greets New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, left, and Governor of New York George Pataki, right, at McGuire Air Force Base, N.J.,, Sept. 14, 2001. On Sept. 11, when asked to predict the death toll, Giuliani answered with his heart rather than his head: "The number of casualties will be more than any of us can bear ultimately." Giuliani went to scores of funerals in the awful days that followed.

President Bush, center, New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, left, and New York Governor George Pataki, second from left, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., second from right, and New York City Fire Commissioner Thomas Van Essen, right, look toward the fallen buildings during a tour of the World Trade Center, Sept. 14, 2001 in New York.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson (L) and Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani visit the South Tower Refecting Pool during memorial observances held at the site of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2014 in New York City to mark the 13th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people at the World Trade Center, Pentagon and on Flight 93.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani speaks during the 2016 Republican National Convention at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Giuliani endorsed and campaigned with then-candidate Donald Trump. In April 2018, Giuliani joined the legal team defending President Trump in the special counsel's Russia investigation.

Former NYC Mayor Rudolph Giuliani looks over the museum exhibits a day prior to the opening of the National September 11 Memorial Museum on May 14, 2014 in New York.

New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was named Time magazine's Person of the Year in this cover picture released on Dec. 23, 2001. The magazine's editors chose Giuliani "for having more faith in us than we had in ourselves, for being brave when required and rude where appropriate and tender without being trite, for not sleeping and not quitting and not shrinking from the pain all around him."

Conservative evangelical leader Pat Robertson (R) announces his endorsement of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani for the Republican presidential nomination at the National Press Club November 7, 2007 in Washington, DC. Robertson said he selected Giuliani partially based on the former mayor's assurance that he will nominate Supreme Court justices who would rule similar to conservative justices Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito.

Republican presidential hopefuls (L-R) former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani participate in a televised debate on Jan. 24, 2008 in Boca Raton, Fla. before the Florida primary on Jan. 29.

Republican presidential hopeful, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, speaks at the Republican Party of Sarasota County Lincoln Day Dinner in Sarasota, Fla. Jan. 25, 2008.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani lets out a hearty laugh as he signs a copy of his book, "Leadership" at a breakfast reception before he spoke at the 2007 New Hampshire Republican State Committee annual meeting held at the Palace Theatre in Manchester, NH on Jan. 27, 2007. At the time, Giuliani was considering a 2008 presidential run. At right is Giuliani's wife, Judith.

New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani smiles as he takes a break during his final live radio show in this Dec. 28, 2001, file photo at his City Hall office in New York. After eight years of taking calls from New Yorkers on his weekly radio show, Giuliani's term as mayor expired less than four months after the 9/11 attacks.

Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, left, gestures as he announces that New York City appears to be leading the nation's fight against crime on Jan. 5, 1997 at a New York City police precinct. Figures for early 1996 showed a 10.5 percent drop compared to the 3 percent nationwide decrease.

New York Mayor-elect Rudolph Giuliani hugs his wife Donna as a supporter holds a newspaper with a headline declaring Giuliani the city's new mayor at his victory celebration in New York on Nov. 3, 1993.