Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) has recalled the “weird” voicemail that disgraced legal professional Rudy Giuliani left on his telephone on Jan. 6, 2021, apparently whereas attempting to succeed in a special Republican senator.
Sullivan was requested concerning the incident by CNN’s Jake Tapper on “The Lead” on Tuesday. The element was talked about within the closing report by the Home choose committee investigating the U.S. Capitol riot, which was launched in December. The senator’s workplace stated on the time that Giuliani’s misdirected name was “incoherent” and “stated one thing about delaying the certification” of the 2020 election outcomes.
“This was a telephone name from any individual, I didn’t even know who it was, they left a message. I listened to the message just a few days later,” Sullivan recalled on CNN. “Sarcastically, Jake, it was truly for the fallacious senator. Rudy Giuliani had the fallacious telephone quantity.”
“I’ve by no means met him,” he continued. “I barely even understood what he was saying.”
“It was fairly weird,” he added.
Sullivan was not among the many eight Republican senators who voted to overturn the election after supporters of then-President Donald Trump laid siege to the Capitol in an effort to cease the certification of President Joe Biden’s win.
Giuliani, who was serving as Trump’s private legal professional on the time, led Trump’s authorized efforts to alter the presidential election end in his favor. He advised the Jan. 6 committee he was “in all probability calling to see if something might be completed … concerning the vote.”
Based on the report, Giuliani known as a number of Republican lawmakers along with Sullivan, together with Sens. Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.), Josh Hawley (Mo.), Mike Lee (Utah), Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and Ted Cruz (Texas).
Giuliani left a special unintended voicemail on Lee’s telephone. The message, apparently supposed for Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), stated: “We want you, our Republican buddies, to attempt to simply sluggish it down so we are able to get these legislatures to get extra data to you,” referring to the electoral rely from states that had shut outcomes.