The Justice Department is facing calls to investigate Donald Trump’s attorney and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani for allegedly plotting to sell presidential pardons. On Monday, a former associate of Giuliani’s, Noelle Dunphy, filed a $10 million lawsuit against him for sexual assault. Dunphy also accused Giuliani of scheming to sell pardons for $2 million, to be split between him and Donald Trump. In 2021, the CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou also revealed an aide to Giuliani had told him a pardon would cost $2 million. Kiriakou appeared on Democracy Now! in 2021 and talked about meeting Giuliani at the Trump Hotel in Washington during the summer of 2020.

John Kiriakou: “One of his aides who was there at the meeting then said to me, 'Rudy doesn't talk about pardons. You have to talk to me. And he’s going to ask you for $2 million.’ And I laughed. And I said, 'I don't have $2 million.’ I said, 'Are you out of your mind? Two million dollars? Why would I spend $2 million to recover a $700,000 pension? That doesn't make any sense.’ And I dropped it. But he said that that’s what the price was.”