Giuliani says evidence seized during FBI raid will prove him ‘innocent’

NEW YORK: Rudy Giuliani, the ex-personal lawyer of Donald Trump, said Thursday the evidence collected during an FBI raid on his home as part of a probe into his dealings in Ukraine would prove him and the former president ‘innocent’, slamming the government’s investigation.

The former New York mayor told Fox News’ Tucker Carlson that the electronic devices seized at his Manha an residence and a separate office Wednesday would show he did not violate federal law while helping Trump look for dirt on political rival Joe Biden in Ukraine in 2019.

“The evidence is exculpatory. It proves the president and I and all of us are innocent,” Giuliani said of the Ukraine dealings, for which the former president was later impeached.

Giuliani further accused the Justice Department of serving an ‘illegal warrant’ and said it had ‘spied’ on him by accessing privileged a orneyclient information through the cloud, “blatantly violating my constitutional rights.”

“This is tactics only known in a dictatorship,” he said.

And Trump also complained earlier Thursday that the raid was “so unfair.”

Under Trump’s turbulent presidency, he frequently accused US government institutions of playing political favorites but also used the power of his office to try to bend them to his will.

“Rudy Giuliani is a great patriot. He just loves this country, and they raid his apartment,” Trump told Fox Business.

“It’s very, very unfair.” Giuliani’s son Andrew Giuliani condemned the raid and accused the Justice Department of a political agenda.

But Biden defended the integrity of the investigation, telling NBC he had not even been warned a warrant had been obtained.