Rudy Giuliani's Attempt to Overturn 2020 Election Disrupted When He Texted His Plan to the Wrong Number: Court Filing

Mar. 15, 2025

Rudy Giuliani on Sept. 11, 2024.Photo:Michael M. Santiago/Getty

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Rudy Giulianiallegedly attempted to persuade a Michigan politician to help overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election — but failed after he texted his message to the wrong phone number, according to new court evidence.

Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump on Aug. 18, 2016.Brian Blanco/Getty

Brian Blanco/Getty

Although the person who sent the text message is referred to only as “Co-Conspirator 1,” or “CC1,” it’s widely believed to be Giuliani. In the original indictment, CC1 is described as “an attorney who was willing to spread knowingly false claims and pursue strategies that the Defendant’s 2020 re-election campaign attorneys would not.”

Giuliani’s attorney, Robert Costello, previously told theNew York TimesandCBS Newsit “appears” to him that Co-Conspirator 1 is Giuliani.

Giuliani’s rep did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment about the new allegation, though Giuliani has long been linked with the so-called “fake electors plot.”

Prosecutors in the case against Trump allege that his allies worked to “submit fraudulent slates of presidential electors to obstruct the certification” as the former president sought to overturn the 2020 election results.

The Trump-appointed slates of electors attempted to sign certificates that stated they were legitimate electors in their states, including Michigan. They then tried to get Congress to count the certificates on Jan. 6, 2021, but the plan failed, and theinfamous Capitol riot broke out.

Trump faces four charges including one count each of conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.

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The federal Jan. 6 charges were attached to the third of four indictments against the former president.

In the first indictment, he wasaccused of trying to bury evidenceof an illegal conspiracy to corrupt the 2016 election (he was convicted on all 34 felony counts), and in the second, he was indicted on federal chargesrelated to his handling of classified documentsafter leaving the White House (that case has since been thrown out). Hisfinal indictment was in Georgia, related to an alleged conspiracy to overturn the election results in the state.

source: people.com