Rudy Giuliani Leaves Defamation Trial To Defame Some Extra Exterior

Rudy Giuliani’s defamation trial acquired off to a rocky begin Monday, after he left the courtroom on the finish of the day to repeat to reporters the very same claims that acquired him in hassle within the first place.

“Everything I said about them is true,” Giuliani, Donald Trump’s former election lawyer, instructed reporters exterior the Washington, D.C., courthouse, doubling down on the very election lies he’s already conceded had been false.

“I told the truth,” the previous New York Metropolis mayor stated, whereas claiming he has no regrets. “They were engaged in changing votes.”

When a reporter reminded him that he has no proof to help his claims, Giuliani baselessly responded: “Oh, you’re damn right there is. Stay tuned.”

U.S. District Decide Beryl Howell reprimanded Giuliani for the remarks Tuesday, noting that they straight contradicted his personal lawyer’s opening statements about Giuliani earlier that day.

“How are we supposed to reconcile that?” Howell requested Giuliani’s lawyer, Joseph Sibley.

Sibley stated he mentioned it with Giuliani, however confessed that he “can’t control everything he does.”

Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, are asking for tens of tens of millions of {dollars} in damages after Giuliani repeatedly lied concerning the two Georgia election staff within the aftermath of Trump’s 2020 loss to Joe Biden.

Giuliani already has been discovered responsible for defamation. Earlier this 12 months he conceded in a court docket submitting that he’d made false statements concerning the pair, after which refused to show over key paperwork throughout discovery, resulting in a default judgment.

Freeman and Moss sued the lawyer in 2021 after he accused the 2, who’re Black, of “passing around USB ports as if they’re vials of heroin or cocaine” to change the vote depend on tabulation machines in Georgia in the course of the 2020 presidential election.

An investigation discovered that the purported USB machine Freeman handed her daughter was, the truth is, a ginger mint. That didn’t cease Giuliani and others in Trump’s orbit, together with Trump himself, from doubling down on the baseless conspiracy.

In an interview with the Jan. 6 congressional committee investigating the 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol, Freeman stated the assaults turned her and her daughter’s lives right into a Trump-fueled nightmare.

“I have lost my name and I have lost my reputation,” Freeman stated within the interview, which was introduced to Congress final 12 months. “I have lost my sense of security. All because a group of people, starting with Number 45 and his ally Rudy Giuliani, decided to scapegoat me to push their own lies about how the presidential election was stolen.”

“There is nowhere I feel safe,” she added. “Nowhere. Do you know how it feels to have the president of the United States target you?”