Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) has recalled the “weird” voicemail that disgraced lawyer Rudy Giuliani left on his cellphone on Jan. 6, 2021, apparently whereas attempting to achieve a distinct Republican senator.
Sullivan was requested in regards to the incident by CNN’s Jake Tapper on “The Lead” on Tuesday. The element was talked about within the remaining report by the Home choose committee investigating the U.S. Capitol riot, which was released 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 cellphone name from any individual, I didn’t even know who it was, they left a message. I listened to the message a couple of days later,” Sullivan recalled on CNN. “Paradoxically, Jake, it was truly for the improper senator. Rudy Giuliani had the improper cellphone 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 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 lawyer on the time, led Trump’s authorized efforts to vary the presidential election lead to his favor. He informed the Jan. 6 committee he was “most likely calling to see if something may very well be performed … in regards to the vote.”
In accordance with the report, Giuliani referred to 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 different accidental voicemail on Lee’s cellphone. The message, apparently meant for Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), stated: “We’d like you, our Republican buddies, to attempt to simply gradual it down so we will get these legislatures to get extra info to you,” referring to the electoral rely from states that had shut outcomes.
