Rudolph Giuliani.Photo: Anthony Devlin/Getty
Rudy Giulianinow admits that he made false and defamatory statements about two Georgia poll workers followingDonald Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential election.
From the filing: “Defendant Giuliani concedes solely for the purposes of this litigation … that [he] made the statements of and concerning plaintiffs. He does not dispute for the purposes of this litigation, that the statements carry meaning that is defamatory per se.”
After Trump lost the popular vote in Georgia — which has historically been a reliably red state — to Biden, he and his allies almost immediately began to pin the loss on fraud, all while pressuring officials there to “find” votes in his favor.
Freeman and Moss testified before theJan. 6 House Select committeein June 2022, detailing the treats they had received after Giuliani publicized the video.
“A lot of threats, wishing death upon me, telling me that I’ll be in jail with my mother and saying things like, ‘Be glad it’s 2020 and not 1920.’ A lot of them were racist, a lot of them were hateful,” Moss, who had worked as an elections worker for over 10 years, said.
Asubpoena issued to Giuliani in 2022notes that he appeared before the Georgia state Senate in December 2020 and made “statements, both to the public and in subsequent legislative hearings, claiming widespread voter fraud in Georgia during the November 2020 election and using the now-debunked State Farm Video in support of those statements.”
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Separately, the U.S. Department of Justice is also investigating the alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election results. Giuliani has beeninterviewed in that probe, CNN reports.
The former New York City mayor is also defending himself against disbarment proceedings in both Washington, D.C. and New York.
source: people.com
