Donald Trump's top campaign lawyer Justin Clark called Rudy Giuliani a 'f***ing a**hole' during a vicious Oval Office phone call with the president after Trump lost the 2020 election.
According to Michael C.Bender in Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost, in an excerpt exclusively by DailyMail.com, Giuliani accused Clark and campaign manager Bill Stepien of 'lying' about the Georgia recount rules.
The heated conversation discussing how the campaign would deal with their allegations of voter fraud led to Trump not trusting Clark and instead believing Giuliani, who was at the center of pushing the wild theories.
Donald Trump's top campaign lawyer Justin Clark
'Less than a week after 2020 campaign manager Bill Stepien and Justin Clark, the campaign's top attorney, had walked Trump through their legal plan, Giuliani was blowing it up—and pushing his way further into the Oval Office,' it reads.
'On November 13, Trump summoned Clark into the Oval Office as Giuliani, on speakerphone, claimed the campaign had been too slow to contest election results in Georgia.
'Clark explained that state law required results to be certified before a recount could be requested, which hadn't yet happened. '
"'They're lying to you, sir!'" Giuliani shouted. Clark denied anyone was lying.
'Suddenly, the two men were shouting loud enough that it startled people waiting outside the Oval Office.
'You're a f***ing a**hole, Rudy!' Clark said. Clark had been the campaign's top attorney for the past year.
'He'd spent most of 2019 in the weeds of state and national party rulebooks ensuring that it was virtually impossible for any Republican to challenge Trump in a primary.
'During Trump's first two years, he ground out long hours as a White House aide.
'Now, after one phone call from Giuliani, the president was entertaining nonsensical attacks on his ability to read Georgia election code and to give an honest answer to a simple question to the president he'd spent four years trying to reelect.
'Clark stopped going to the White House.'
Michael C.Bender's book 'Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost' is out July 13
Giuliani took the lead for Trump in denouncing the 2020 election results and arguing - without proof - there was voter fraud.
Those claims led to Thursday's decision by New York state to suspended Giuliani's legal license for 'false and misleading statements' based on pushed on Donald Trump's election fraud claims.
'[W]e conclude that there is uncontroverted evidence that respondent communicated demonstrably false and misleading statements to courts, lawmakers and the public at large in his capacity as lawyer for former President Donald J. Trump and the Trump campaign in connection with Trump's failed effort at reelection in 2020,' the 33-page decision from the state appellate court read.
The court said Giuliani made numerous false statements about the voting in Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania, including that hundreds of thousands of absentee ballots or votes, including from dead people, had been improperly counted.
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