President Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani said Tuesday he is refusing to comply with a subpoena from Congress.
Giuliani, who was subpoenaed for documents related to his communications with Ukraine as part of the House's impeachment inquiry, told ABC News he won't provide them.
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Tuesday was the deadline for Giuliani to comply with the subpoena. In a letter late last month, House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), and House Oversight Committee Chair Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) cited the whistleblower complaint alleging Trump abused his power in an attempt to get Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, as well as Giuliani having admitted he asked Ukraine to do so.
"I consider their inquiry to be a joke," Giuliani told The New York Daily News Tuesday, calling it an "an abomination of due process."
Sale in a letter to Congress says Giuliani "will not participate because this appears to be an unconstitutional, baseless, and illegitimate 'impeachment inquiry'" and because the subpoena is "overbroad, unduly burdensome" and seeks documents that are "protected by attorney-client, attorney work-product, and executive privileges."
CNN reports people close to Giuliani have been urging him to hire a criminal lawyer, but Giuliani, in reference to no longer being represented by Sale, told the Daily News it's "silly to have a lawyer when I don't need one."
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