Dec 19, 2023
Giuliani SLAPPED With Another Defamation Lawsuit From Poll Workers
Giuliani SLAPPED With Another Defamation Lawsuit From Poll Workers
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Talks, and apparently he's not gonna
walk on some of the lies he told.
But how far will that go?
The former Georgia poll worker
suing Rudy Giuliani again.
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Boy, he has something else
in common with Donald Trump.
You just can't keep your mouth shut,
can you.
Percy and former GA election workers,
Ruby Freeman, and her daughter, Shay Moss,
who won a nearly $150,000,000
verdict against Rudy Giuliani for
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defamation on Friday.
We're talking days ago, have sued
him again, asking a federal judge
to permanently prohibit
Rudy Giuliani from lying about them.
Keep my name out of your mouth.
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I don't know another way to put it.
Now we've got to make it.
How do you say keep my name
out your mouth in legal term?
The judge is gonna have to issue
an order to get him to stop.
Maybe he should just stop talking.
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I don't know, because he's still at it.
Recently filed lawsuit comes as Giuliani
has continued to make false statements
about their work as absentee ballot
counters in the 2020 election.
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They were just doing a service to us all.
New lawsuit says, quote, defendant
Giuliani continues to spread the very same
lies for
which he has already been held liable.
Defendant Giuliani's statements, coupled
with his refusal to agree to refrain
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from continuing to make such statements,
make clear that he intends to persist
in his campaign of targeted defamation and
harassment.
It must stop.
Directly quoted from
the newly filed court case.
We're not talking about
the $150,000,000 verdict.
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It's a new one.
It's a new one.
He used to be a prosecutor.
He's disbarred, right?
Okay, new lawsuit represents the latest
round of fallout facing the former
New York mayor of his legal work for
Donald Trump after the 2020 election.
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Can we call it legal work?
It comes as Giuliani continues to be
buried in debt and legal proceedings.
He is also headed to trial for
criminal charges back in Georgia,
where he's pleaded not guilty related
to his 2020 election work for Trump.
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Again, CNN with the details.
Moss and Freeman's lawyers added
that even since the verdict,
Giuliani has indicated he wouldn't stop
repeating the false claims about them.
At the end of the first day of
last week's defamation trial,
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Giuliani told television cameras outside
court that, quote, everything I said
about them is true, and that he had proof
that the media should, quote, stay tuned.
Giuliani presented little defense
in the case and didn't testify.
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Let's stop there because,
didn't he acknowledge?
This is just about how much it was worth.
And in his view,
these were just two black ladies.
Not really worth much.
Two black ladies in Georgia.
Who cares?
Throw them a couple coins and
be done with it.
Well, a Georgia jury said no.
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Those coins are gonna add up to
a slow count of $148,000,000,
because they are worth something, right?
So he actually, through his lawyers, went
ahead and basically stipulated, I lied.
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I don't think I should be blamed for
everything that came their way,
including the death threats.
But I did lie.
Now he's saying he didn't lie.
Which one is he lying about,
the first lie or the second lie?
Moss and Freeman pointed out that
Giuliani also told the media after
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the jury's verdict Friday, he had no
doubt his comments were supportable, and
that he continued to repeat himself in
a podcast hosted by far-right figure
Steve Bannon on Saturday.
Supportable is different than truthful.
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A lot in the MAGA world did
support these ignorant lies.
They did, made these two women,
their lives, a living hell, very serious.
They'll never get their names back,
even now.
Their new lawsuit seeks a permanent
injunction from the federal court in
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Washington to be placed on Giuliani
that would prohibit him from making or
publishing or
causing to be made or published.
Further statements repeating any and
all false claims that the mother and
daughter, during the 2020
election ballot counting,
engaged in election fraud, illegal
activity or misconduct of any kind.
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Again, that's according to the filing.
Giuliani's assets.
What does he have besides
a bottle of open hair dye?
Okay, it's dried up.
A lot of times you gotta
throw away the extra portion.
I know, okay?
You can't hold on to that.
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We know he has a dried up
open bottle of hair coloring.
Where's the money?
While Giuliani has repeatedly
claimed he's broke, Moss and
Freeman's legal team is already carving
out ways to collect what they're owed.
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Lawyers for the women have identified
substantial assets Giuliani has in
New York and Florida, including bank
accounts, a condo in South Florida,
and a New York City co-op,
according to another court filing
following the jury verdict.
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During the last week of the trial,
Giuliani acknowledged he had reached
an agreement to host a show on a streaming
channel affiliated with
the right-wing network Newsmax.
Which could contribute to his income in
addition to earnings from podcasting and
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other appearances.
Moss and Freeman's team told the court
Monday they're already concerned Giuliani
may try to shield some of his wealth, so
they want to try to claim some of
his assets as soon as this week.
They struggled for months to gain a full
picture of Giuliani's financial state,
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with some of their only insight coming
from a year's old tax return of
Giuliani's that has not been made public.
He has reportedly even refused to
cooperate with subpoenas to determine his
net worth.
Additionally, court action on Monday
notes Giuliani still hasn't paid Moss and
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Friedman for reimbursements they won
earlier for their attorneys' fees.
Law firm that has represented Giuliani
in other proceedings is suing him for
almost 1.4 million of
unpaid legal bills as well.
It's a race, folks,
to get the pennies he has, okay?
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It's a race to wherever the money is,
whoever gets there first.
That's what we're dealing with now,
somebody who lacks integrity.
That's on top of the other debts
Giuliani has disclosed publicly,
such as tens of thousands of
dollars in unpaid phone bills.
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Who was he talking to?
Including litigation costs,
some of which Trump has helped him with.
Make that Trump supporters, PAC, whatever,
cuz he doesn't share with anybody.
Mayor, I want the judge
to issue this order.
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These women have been through enough.
I also think it's the American way for
them to get every penny,
if they have to rip the two pay off.
I don't know, if it's a two pay, and
I don't have anything against lace front,
not a thing.
But they should get everything of
value because he chose to give it up.
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But I don't know what a judge ordering
him not to lie is gonna do when he
doesn't follow the rules.
This former prosecutor doesn't follow
the law, doesn't answer subpoenas,
isn't truthful outside the courtroom,
then inside the courtroom,
what's it really gonna do?
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What's the cost?
What's the penalty here, mayor?
They're not gonna put him in jail for
civil things.
Maybe they could.
>> Speaker 2: Yeah, I think,
you know what I think?
Listen, this case, Rudy Giuliani,
as of late, has shone a light, or
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shone a light on who he really is.
And I think we should take a step back.
And this is also why I tell people,
be careful when you worship people and
personalities.
This is the mind allegedly that showed
us how to use RICO to go after the mobs,
right?
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This is the legal mind that supposedly
created that, showed us how you can use
that in courts, which means it probably
was some other attorneys in the office.
But because he was a DA,
he got credit for it.
Because what we're seeing is there's
nothing legal genius about this man.
There's no way you could be sentenced or
made to pay, found liable for
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$148,000,000.
And you walk outside and say the same
thing again on the courthouse steps in
front of a camera with the microphone on.
You have to be loony to do such thing.
And speaking of loony,
I know Times has to feel a little crazy.
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They named this man man
of the year before.
This man was man of the year.
He was on a cover of Times,
when in actuality,
the only reason Rudy Giuliani should be
named man of the year is if it's to talk
about how ridiculous he is as a person.
We are finding ourselves.
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We know he can't have
$148,000,000 stashed.
He does have a $6 million apartment
in New York he's trying to sell.
I think this $148,000,000, which is 100
million more than these two women were
asking, is to say to all of these people
who will threaten democracy with lies,
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who would challenge election integrity,
that you better be careful
because we will come after you.
So this is more than a sentence and
a punitive to Giuliani.
It was a message to all of you all.
Remember, this is the second large
lawsuit settlement we've seen for
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people like this.
Dominion won one against Fox,
that was five or
six times larger than this 148,000,000.
And I think what people are trying to say,
courts across this country,
is you will not play with our democracy,
even if Donald Trump told you it was okay.
>> Speaker 1: Yeah, apparently if you hold
on long enough and you fight hard enough,
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you realize that somewhere along the way,
the fix is not in.
And a Georgia jury said, no, sir.
No, sir, okay?
We're not doing this today.
We're not doing this with you anymore,
okay?
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I just wanna know when his privilege,
and maybe it is loony.
I also think it's very privileged.
I'll put him on the cover,
too, mayor, man of the year.
And I put a sub head,
America, look at your life.
Here go your life, America, okay?
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I would think about doing that.
And then, because they like to do it,
maybe it was Newsweek, but
I might add my own little interpretation.
I'd play with the colors, like they like
to do when black men are on the cover.
I'd make them whatever I want it to be,
but this ain't democracy.
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I want a judge to order him to shut up.
Shut your mouth, talking about these
good women who are worth something.
They were worth something
before this verdict.
And it's disgusting that you thought
you could just throw them away.
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