A former aide to former Trump attorney Rudolph Giuliani says he told her the ex-New York City mayor and then-president Donald Trump were offering to sell presidential pardons for $2 million apiece, according to court documents.

The bombshell allegation was levied in a complaint filed against Mr Giuliani by Noelle Dunphy, a New York-based public relations professional who is suing him for “unlawful abuses of power, wide-ranging sexual assault and harassment, wage theft, and other misconduct” committed while she worked for him in 2019 and 2020.

Ms Duphy’s lawsuit details an interaction she allegedly had with Mr Giuliani on or about 16 February 2019, when he was serving as Mr Trump’s personal attorney and attempting to dig up overseas dirt on then-former vice president Joe Biden, who at the time was two months away from entering the 2020 presidential race against Mr Trump.

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In August, The New York Times reported that former CIA officer John Kiriakou broached the topic with Mr Giuliani during a meeting at the Washington, DC hotel Mr Trump’s company ran between 2016 and 2022.

Mr Kiriakou, who in 2012 was sentenced to nearly three years in prison for disclosing classified information, told the Times that one of Mr Giuliani’s associates at the meeting said the ex-New York City mayor could assist him — for a price.

“It’s going to cost $2 million — he’s going to want two million bucks,” he recalled the Giuliani associate as saying.

He also told the Times that he did not pursue a pardon through Mr Giuliani because he could not afford to pay him $2 million.

“I laughed. Two million bucks — are you out of your mind?” Kiriakou told the outlet. “Even if I had two million bucks, I wouldn’t spend it to recover a $700,000 pension,” he said.

Just business, no biggy. Right Tex? Lane? Your guy for 24.

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Originally posted by wymple:
Just business, no biggy. Right Tex? Lane? Your guy for 24.

Why are you targeting Tex?

Just as he has his head up Trump's arse, you lot have yours up Biden and Hunter's arse!

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Originally posted by Saeed:

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Originally posted by wymple:
Just business, no biggy. Right Tex? Lane? Your guy for 24.

Why are you targeting Tex?

Just as he has his head up Trump's arse, you lot have yours up Biden and Hunter's arse!

Because President Biden isn't a criminal selling pardons?

How can you be so sure?

This didn’t come out until, what 3-4 years after the fact?

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Originally posted by Mike Mitchell:

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Originally posted by Saeed:

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Originally posted by wymple:
Just business, no biggy. Right Tex? Lane? Your guy for 24.

Why are you targeting Tex?

Just as he has his head up Trump's arse, you lot have yours up Biden and Hunter's arse!

Because President Biden isn't a criminal selling pardons?