总统唐纳德·特朗普星期一，他的私人律师鲁迪·朱利安尼说，他在和新冠肺炎的战斗中表现“很好”，他说他早上在医院和他谈过话。
朱利安尼一直领导特朗普的法律团队，并在全国各地旅行，作为总统持续努力解决争议的一部分选举结果，仍然住院周日被华盛顿一家医院收治。
“鲁迪做得很好。我刚和他谈过。他做得很好。没有温度。他今天一早就给我打了电话。他是我接到的第一个电话，”特朗普在挤满人的椭圆形办公室对记者说，在向摔跤传奇人物丹·盖博颁发总统自由勋章的仪式上，几乎没有人戴面具。
特朗普继续说道:“他是另一个冠军，是纽约历史上最伟大的市长，他现在做的事情更重要。”。“他会承认的。他是最伟大的市长，做得非常出色，尤其是当你看到现在发生的事情时，丹。鲁迪·朱利安尼是一位伟大的市长。他现在所做的，以及他将要说的，更加重要。”
几位共和党政治家出席了会议，包括刚刚从新冠肺炎康复的共和党爱荷华州参议员乔尼·恩斯特和查克·格拉斯利，以及俄亥俄州众议员吉姆·乔丹，他本人也是一名前摔跤运动员，被指控在俄亥俄州立大学担任助理摔跤教练期间对广泛的性虐待指控视而不见。乔丹否认知道任何对运动员的性侵犯。
当被直接问及他是想改变选举结果还是想向美国人民证明选举已经结束时，特朗普重复了他毫无根据的说法。
“这是一次被操纵的选举。这是我们国家的耻辱。这就像一个第三世界国家，”特朗普说。“我认为这个案子已经结了，现在我们知道该怎么做了。在接下来的几天里，你会看到很多重大事件发生。”
在特朗普和巴尔对2020年选举的完整性所持的相互矛盾的立场中，记者们还听到了关于司法部长威廉·巴尔的就职典礼和命运的一般性问题，但特朗普只是走开了，没有回答。
在特朗普竞选团队要求的第三次总统选举投票后，格鲁吉亚国务卿将重新批准对拜登的投票，并维持拜登以近12000票的优势赢得该州。
上周末，总统在佐治亚州举行了一次集会，为即将到来的参议院决选进行竞选，这些竞选将决定国会上院的权力平衡，但特朗普没有为现任者游说，而是花了101分钟在舞台上推动一连串未经证实的指控，称选举被盗。
尽管特朗普要求佐治亚州等关键州的共和党议员颠覆选民的意愿，并找到一种方法来任命支持特朗普的选民进入选举团，但官员们基本上拒绝了这些呼吁，告诉特朗普他唯一可行的途径是通过法院，支持特朗普的努力迄今已以至少38次失败告终。
特朗普还面临周二的“安全港”截止日期，即国会授权选举结果被认为是决定性的一天，在12月14日选举团选民会议之前。
Trump says Giuliani 'doing well' fighting COVID-19, continues to contest election
PresidentDonald Trumpsaid Monday his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, is "doing well" fighting COVID-19, saying he spoke with him in the morning from the hospital.
Giuliani, who has been leading Trump's legal team and traveling the country as part of the president's ongoing efforts to disputeelectionresults,remains hospitalizedafter being admitted to a Washington hospital Sunday.
"Rudy is doing well. I just spoke to him. He’s doing very well. No temperature. And he actually called me early this morning. He was the first call I got," Trump said, speaking to reporters in a packed Oval Office at a ceremony presenting the presidential Medal of Freedom to wrestling legend Dan Gable where few, if any, attendees wore masks.
"He's another champion, greatest mayor in the history of New York and what he's doing now is more important," Trump continued. "And he will admit that. He was the greatest mayor, did a fantastic job especially when you see what's going on nowadays, Dan. Rudy Giuliani was a great, great mayor. And what he's doing now, and he will say it, is even more important."
Several Republican politicians were in attendance, including Republican Iowa Sens. Joni Ernst and Chuck Grassley, just recovered from COVID-19 as well as Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, a former wrestler himself who has been accused of turning a blind eye to allegations of widespread sexual abuse while he was an assistant wrestling coach at The Ohio State University. Jordan has denied knowing about any sexual abuse of athletes.
Asked directly if he's looking to change the outcome of the election or try to make a case to the American people that it was fixed, Trump repeated his baseless claims.
"It was a rigged election. It's a disgrace to our country. It's like a Third World country," Trump said. "I think the case has been made, and now we find out what we can do about it. You'll see a lot of big things happening the next couple days."
Reporters also audibly asked general questions about the inauguration and the fate of Attorney General William Barr amid Trump and Barr's conflicting stances on the integrity of 2020 election -- but Trump just walked out without answering.
The remarks come as Georgia's secretary of state was set to recertify the vote for Biden after a third count of the presidential vote -- requested by the Trump campaign -- maintained Biden won the state by nearly 12,000 votes.
Over the weekend the president held a rally in Georgia to campaign for the upcoming Senate runoffs there -- races which will determine the balance of power in Congress’ upper chamber -- but instead of stumping for the incumbents Trump predominately spent his 101 minutes on stage pushing a whirlwind of unsubstantiated claims that the election was stolen.
Though Trump has asked GOP lawmakers in key states like Georgia to subvert the will of their voters and find a way to appoint pro-Trump electors to the Electoral College, officials have largely rejected those calls, telling Trump his only viable path would be through the courts where pro-Trump efforts have ended in at least 38 defeats to date.
Trump is also running up against Tuesday's "safe harbor" deadline, the day that Congress mandates election results be considered conclusive, ahead of Electoral College electors meeting on Dec. 14.
