On Jan. 6, 2021, just hours before a mob stormed the Capital Building, in a speech at the rally outside the Capitol, New York attorney Rudy Giuliani, counsel to the President, described the 2020 presidential election as "stolen" and said it involved "crooked ballots." The former mayor told the crowd. "I'm willing to stake my reputation, the president is willing to stake his reputation, on the fact that we're going to find criminality there [related to the election process]." "If we're wrong, we will be made fools of, but if we're right a lot of them will go to jail," Giuliani said. "Let's have trial by combat."