Posted on 12/11/2023 8:31:44 PM PST by bitt
WASHINGTON — Opening statements began Monday in a trial to determine how much Rudy Giuliani will have to pay two former Georgia election workers after he was found liable for defaming them with baseless claims that they committed fraud in the 2020 election.
Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, sued Giuliani over the bogus claims, which they say upended their lives. Giuliani, the former New York City mayor and former federal prosecutor, was found to have defamed the two women, including by falsely claiming they were handing around what he alleged were USB drives "like they were vials of heroin or cocaine,” when in reality they were exchanging a ginger mint.
Freeman and Moss received an “overwhelming” amount of “vile, racist, hateful comments” that were “fueled” by Giuliani and his co-conspirators, one of their attorneys, Michael Gottlieb, told jurors.
For a staggering number of Americans, their names have become synonymous with crime and fraud, Gottlieb said.
Giuliani attorney Joseph Sibley told jurors there's no question that Freeman and Moss were harmed and that they're "good people," but he added that the “punishment must match the crime.” He said Giuliani never promoted racism or violence and that the millions of dollars Freeman and Moss are seeking would be the “civil equivalent of the death penalty.”
“It would be the end of Mr. Giuliani,” Sibley added.
But in comments outside the courthouse Monday, Giuliani told reporters he did not regret his lies, and he claimed that he "told the truth" about Freeman and Moss.
“When I testify, you’ll get the whole story, and it will be definitively clear what I said was true,” he said.
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Welcome to Bizarro World.
How could he “defame” them when the azhos were never famed in the first place?
Wandrea “Shaye” Moss...
Nuff said...
Those two where caught on camera stuffing the ballots in the machines over and over.
No bias there from NBC Mockingbird Media. /s
Stalin’s USSR: Dissenters are shot.
Brezhnev’s USSR: Dissenters are placed in insane asylums.
Biden’s America: Dissenters are hounded with lawsuits and bogus criminal charges.
When you think about it, there’s not a whole lot of difference there. In every case, step off the reservation and you’ll get slapped, hard.
“Howell asked Sibley where his client was. Sibley replied that Giuliani was in New York, prompting the judge to remind him that her standing order instructed all counsel and parties to be present for the hearing.”
Nothing but a judicial dictator ordering Rudy to be in court at an arbitrary date and time, all while knowing Rudy would be in New York.
“But in comments outside the courthouse Monday, Giuliani told reporters he did not regret his lies”
So this author states that Giuliani said he did not regret “his lies”? LOL
Has Rudy been found guilty? If so, why is he talking about taking the stand? And why are his attorneys saying “there’s no question that Freeman and Moss were harmed and that they’re “good people,” “?
From what I understand, Rudy never mentioned her name.
Rudy admitted the claim was fake.
Talk about propaganda. As far I know he has not even been found guilty yet by a political jury.
The videos did not lie. Besides the arena video I remember the mother put out videos showing unsecured ballots she was working with in a back room before the election.
Giuliani is the idiot who told Trump not to get Syndey Powell her papers as special prosecutor for the election crimes that occurred for the 2020 Big Steal. Rudi effed up.
(Giuliani is the idiot who told Trump not to get Syndey Powell her papers as special prosecutor for the election crimes that occurred for the 2020 Big Steal)
What paperwork did she have and why would he do that?
Ok, hang on! Why did Trump want to name Powell Special Prosecutor? Who was she supposed to be going after?
Rudy should move ALL assets into an LLC and then file personal bankruptcy!! They can’t sue an LLC!!
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