Nearly a week after supporters of Donald Trump violently stormed the U.S. Capitol, the president’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani said his call for “trial by combat” wasn’t one seeking to inspire violence, but rather a reference to Game Of Thrones.

Giuliani was one of the speakers at the Save America rally on the Ellipse that preceded the storming of the Capitol. In its impeachment report, the House Judiciary Committee cited Giuliani’s comment along with those of Trump. The president was impeached for the second time on Wednesday.

Giuliani told The Hill that he was referring to a trial that happened in the show – specifically citing Peter Dinklage’s Tyrion Lannister.

“I was referring to the kind of trial that took place for Tyrion in that very famous documentary about fictitious medieval England,” Giuliani clarified for the politics publication. “When Tyrion, who is a very small man,...