Trump, Giuliani, Meadows among 19 indicted in Georgia 2020 election probe

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Trump, Giuliani, Meadows among 19 indicted in Georgia 2020 election probe​

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Samuel Chamberlain and

Victor Nava
August 14, 2023 9:09pm
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Former President Donald Trump and 18 of his allies and supporters were indicted Monday by a Georgia grand jury in connection with his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in the Peach State.
Also charged in the indictment — which was signed by Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney shortly before 9 p.m. and unsealed approximately two hours later — were former Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis and Kenneth Chesebro.
Also accused were former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, ex-Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark and Trump 2020 Election Day director of operations Michael Roman.
Trump, 77, faces 13 counts in the case, matching a docket prematurely posted to the Fulton County Superior Court’s website around noon.
Hours after the indictment was handed down, the former commander-in-chief took to Truth Social to rail against Georgia prosecutors, saying, “So, the Witch Hunt continues! 19 people indicated [sic] tonight, including the former President of the United States, me, by an out of control and very corrupt District Attorney who campaigned and raised money on, ‘I will get Trump.’
Former President Trump is facing 13 counts in connection with his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia.AFP via Getty Images
“And what about those Indictment Documents put out today, long before the Grand Jury even voted, and then quickly withdrawn? Sounds Rigged to me! Why didn’t they Indict 2.5 years ago? Because they wanted to do it right in the middle of my political campaign. Witch Hunt!”
The charges against the former president include violation of the Peach State’s anti-racketeering law, conspiracy, false statements, and asking a public official to violate their oath of office.
All 19 defendants are charged with Georgia’s equivalent of the federal RICO statute, which can be used against any group of individuals deemed to use criminal means to attain an objective. The acronym refers to the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
Also charged in the indictment was former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, as well as attorneys John Eastman, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis and Kenneth Chesebro.AFP via Getty ImagesWhite House chief of staff Mark Meadows (right) is also being accused in the case.AFP via Getty Images
Crucially, the defendants’ alleged scheme does not have to succeed to be found liable under state law.
“[The] Defendants … [30] unindicted co-conspirators … and others known and unknown to the Grand Jury, constituted a criminal organization whose members and associates engaged in … false statements and writings, impersonating a public officer, forgery, filing false documents, influencing witnesses, computer theft, computer trespass, computer invasion of privacy, conspiracy to defraud the state, acts involving theft, and perjury,” the 98-page indictment read.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who launched the investigation into Trump and his associates nearly two years ago, told reporters at a late-night press conference that she intended to try all 19 defendants together and that they would be given less than two weeks to turn themselves in.
County Clerk Che Alexander (right) speaks with Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney.APThe Georgia grand jury examining efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in the Peach State indicted 19 people.AP
“I am giving the defendants the opportunity to voluntarily surrender no later than noon on Friday the 25th day of August 2023,” Willis said.
Hoping to move quickly, Willis added that her office will be seeking to take the case to trial “within the next six months.” If approved by a judge, that would make Georgia the first jurisdiction and Willis the first prosecutor to put a former American president on trial.
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“I don’t have any desire to be first or last,” Willis said. “I want to try him and be respectful for our sovereign states.”
The DA refused to say whether she discussed her case with special counsel Jack Smith, who is overseeing two federal cases against the former president in South Florida and Washington, DC.
John Eastman, on the list of Trump’s allies and supporters, was indicted.AP
The grand jury had been expected to sit Monday and Tuesday but pushed through its agenda more quickly than anticipated.
At least one witness, independent journalist George Chidi, tweeted that he was initially told to come to the courthouse Tuesday, was called on Monday afternoon, and was dismissed without having to testify.
“The events that have unfolded today have been shocking and absurd, starting with the leak of a presumed and premature indictment before the witnesses had testified or the grand jurors had deliberated and ending with the District Attorney being unable to offer any explanation,” read a statement from Trump lawyers Drew Findling, Jennifer Little and Marissa Goldberg after the indictment was unsealed.
Sidney Powell was charged in the indictment signed by Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney.APJeffrey Clark, former acting assistant attorney general for the Civil Division, was also on the list of people indicted.AP
“In light of this major fumble, the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office clearly decided to force through and rush this 98-page indictment. This one-sided grand jury presentation relied on witnesses who harbor their own personal and political interests — some of whom ran campaigns touting their efforts against the accused and/or profited from book deals and employment opportunities as a result.”
The statement continued: “We look forward to a detailed review of this indictment which is undoubtedly just as flawed and unconstitutional as this entire process has been.”
Giuliani blasted the indictment as “an affront to American Democracy.”
County Clerk Che Alexander departs the courtroom holding paperwork.AP
“It’s just the next chapter in a book of lies with the purpose of framing President Donald Trump and anyone willing to take on the ruling regime,” the former New York City mayor said in a statement.
“They lied about Russian collusion, they lied about Joe Biden’s foreign bribery scheme, and they lied about Hunter Biden’s laptop hard drive proving 30 years of criminal activity.
“The real criminals here are the people who have brought this case forward both directly and indirectly.”
The bill was presented to Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney.AP
The Georgia indictment is the fourth brought against Trump in approximately four and a half months. In late March, he was charged by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg with 34 counts of business fraud for allegedly falsifying records to hide the reimbursement of hush-money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels.

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In June, Smith hit Trump with more than three dozen counts of keeping classified national security information at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla. Weeks later, Smith indicted Trump again on four federal counts in connection with his bid to remain in power following his defeat by former Vice President Joe Biden.
Giuliani, Eastman, Powell, Clark and Chesbro have also been identified as co-conspirators in the federal case concerning the former president’s 2020 election shenanigans.
The remaining co-defendants in Monday’s indictment include Georgia Republican Party chairman David Shafer; state Sen. Sean Still; former Coffee County GOP chair Cathy Latham, and Coffee County elections supervisor Misty Hampton.
Shafer, Still and Latham are accused of presenting themselves as the true electors from the state of Georgia and claiming that Trump was the actual winner of the state, which prosecutors say amounted to forgery and false statements under oath.
Latham, Hampton and a Republican poll watcher, Scott Hall, are also charged in connection with a Jan. 7, 2021, breach of voting equipment in the rural, ruby-red county.
The Trump campaign called out Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis as a “rabid partisan.”AP
The remaining five defendants include Robert Cheeley and Ray Smith, local lawyers who helped push the former president’s fraud claims, as well as Stephen Lee, a pastor; Harrison Floyd, a leader of the group Black Voices for Trump; and Trevian Kutti, a publicist accused of attempting to intimidate Atlanta poll worker Ruby Freeman.
Willis’ probe was triggered by a Jan. 2, 2021, phone call Trump had with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, in which the 45th president implored the state official to “find 11,780 votes,” enough to reverse his loss to Joe Biden.

Keeping track of all of Trump's indictments​

Former President Donald Trump has been hit with a number of charges following his time in office.
Here are all of the legal troubles Trump will face as he heads toward the 2024 election.

Mar-a-Lago classified docs​

• The former president received 40 felony counts related to his storage of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort.

• Trump is the first former president to receive a federal indictment.

Former President Donald Trump is facing a number of indictments as he heads toward the 2024 election.AFP via Getty Images

• Trump is accused of taking around 11,000 documents, some containing sensitive national security secrets, and hoarding them in a haphazard manner at his Palm Beach, Florida, estate.

Stormy Daniels ‘hush money’​

• Trump was indicted by a New York grand jury in March over “hush money” payments to porn star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 campaign.
• The former president is accused of falsifying business records in connection with the payments
• Trump’s then-lawyer Michael Cohen paid Daniels $130,000 in exchange for her silence about a sexual encounter she claimed the two had.
• Trump pleaded not guilty to the charges and is trying to have the case moved to federal court.

Former President Donald Trump is accused of falsifying business records in his “hush money” payment to Stormy Daniels.AP

2020 election overturn bid​

• Special counsel Jack Smith charged the ex-president with four counts in connection with his attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
• Prosecutors charged that the 45th president’s incessant claims of election fraud costing him re-election “were false and [Trump] knew they were false.”
• The indictment is the second brought by Smith against the 77-year-old Trump.

Trump and Meadows were both charged with solicitation of a public official to violate his oath in connection with the call, while the former president was also hit with a false statements charge for making wild claims to Raffensperger — including that between 250,000 and 300,000 ballots “were dropped mysteriously into the rolls,” that almost 5,000 dead people voted in Georgia, and that Freeman was a “professional vote scammer.”
The Trump campaign blasted Willis as a “rabid partisan” on Monday, likening her to other prosecutors who have brought charges against Trump since leaving office.
The Trump campaign blasted Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis as a “rabid partisan,” likening her to other prosecutors who have brought charges against Trump since leaving office. REUTERS/Leah Millis
“Like Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, Deranged Jack Smith, and New York AG Letitia James, Fulton County, GA’s radical Democrat District Attorney Fani Willis is a rabid partisan who is campaigning and fundraising on a platform of prosecuting President Trump through these bogus indictments,” the Trump campaign said in a statement released Monday night.
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“Ripping a page from Crooked Joe Biden’s playbook, Willis has strategically stalled her investigation to try and maximally interfere with the 2024 presidential race and damage the dominant Trump campaign. All of these corrupt Democrat attempts will fail,” the statement continues.
The Trump campaign also derided Willis’ investigation as the “latest coordinated strike by a biased prosecutor in an overwhelmingly Democrat jurisdiction.”

 

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Out of all indictments, Georgia is the most perilous threat to Trump​

By
Andrew C. McCarthy
August 14, 2023 4:43pm
Updated

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Another week, another indictment of Donald Trump.
In Georgia, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis unveiled an ambitious indictment of the former president and 18 of his 2020 campaign advisers and operatives.
The charges relate to Trump’s efforts to undo the Peach State’s popular election, which was narrowly won by former Vice President Joe Biden.
Like Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Willis is an elected Democrat.
In Atlanta as in the Big Apple, employing the criminal justice system against the Democrats’ archnemesis makes for good progressive politics, even if it may be dodgy law.
That is not to say that Willis’ case will necessarily prove as dodgy as Bragg’s appears to be.
The potential election interference charges brought against Donald Trump in Fulton County, Georgia, could be the most dangerous for the former president, according to Post columnist Andrew C. McCarthy.Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images
In the Soviet tradition of Lavrentiy Beria, Bragg started out with a man he was targeting, then scoured the penal statutes to find a crime to pin on him.
The result is an embarrassing effort to convert a bookkeeping irregularity that harmed no one and that may not even have been a misdemeanor into 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
Fulton County DA Fani Willis’ case against Trump was presented to a grand jury.AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File
In theory, Trump could be sentenced to over a century’s imprisonment — in a case brought by a paradigm progressive prosecutor whose default position is to refrain from prosecuting more serious crimes that plague New Yorkers.
Willis, by contrast, is probing serious misconduct — the duplicitous and heavy-handed schemes by which Trump tried to remain in power despite losing the election.

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She can plausibly maintain that she is investigating Trump based on what he did, not who he is.
The question is whether what he did amounts to criminal offenses.
In this, she is running into the same complications that Biden Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith faces in the election-interference charges he has brought against Trump in Washington, DC, federal court.
In fact, there is significant overlap in that case and Willis’ — the federal case includes the Georgia shenanigans but is broader because Trump’s schemes went beyond Georgia, seeking to reverse election results in additional battleground states won by Biden.
Smith’s problem is that the federal penal statutes he has invoked — relating to fraud, obstruction and civil rights — do not clearly and narrowly target the kind of conduct in which Trump engaged.
The special counsel will have to stretch the law and get favorable court rulings to make the charges stick. I am not convinced that he can (or at least that he should) prevail, but it’s a serious case.
By contrast, Willis could have smoother sailing.
A courtroom sketch of Trump at his arraignment in Washington, DC, after getting charged with election interference on August 3, 2023.REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg//File Photo
That’s because the federalist system designed by our Constitution gives the states primary responsibility to conduct and police elections.
Ergo, the states have laws that are tailored specifically to election irregularities and attempts to subvert state processes for tabulating and certifying votes.
Unlike Smith, Willis can invoke laws that are specifically designed to deal with election-interference conduct of the kind Trump engaged in.
That is not to say she won’t make some heads turn, particularly because she indicted Trump under Georgia’s anti-racketeering law.
Willis will have an easier time prosecuting Trump in Fulton County due to Georgia’s state laws, according to McCarthy.ERIK S LESSER/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
We usually hear about racketeering in the federal context, where the RICO statute is used to prosecute organized crime groups.
But the basic idea behind anti-racketeering is to group a set of disparate criminal schemes under one conspiratorial arrangement.
Thus Willis depicts Trump and his campaign as the overarching racketeering enterprise, and alleges that this group engaged in a variety of schemes all aimed at corruptly reversing the election outcome — from Trump’s efforts to pressure Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to invalidate ballots cast for Biden, to the so-called “fake electors” plot to substitute a slate of Trump electors for the slate of electors who cast the state’s electoral votes for Biden, consistent with the popular election result.
It sounds like ambitious charging, but it may not be all that much of a reach.
To be sure, Willis’ election case may not be as cut-and-dried as Smith’s Mar-a-Lago documents indictment.
Trump leaves Washington after getting indicted in federal court.Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
I still regard the latter as the most perilous case for Trump: It involves an easily provable retention of national defense intelligence, and it occurred after the election, so there are fewer constitutional ramifications.
But Willis’ case may well be more straightforward — less legally problematic — than Smith’s election interference case, and it will surely be more compelling than Bragg’s nakedly partisan business records indictment.
What should most concern Trump is that the Georgia case could be the most enduring of all the criminal indictments.
If Trump or another Republican were to win the 2024 election, the new president could issue a pardon or otherwise have their Justice Department drop Smith’s federal indictments against Trump.
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Indeed, that is why Smith is pushing so hard to get the federal courts in Washington and Florida to accelerate the schedule and get the cases to trial in the next few months — before Election Day 2024.
Presidents, however, have no authority to pardon state crimes.
It remains to be seen whether Wills can convince a jury of Atlantans to convict Trump. But even a newly elected President Trump could not make the Georgia prosecution go away.
If he were convicted, it would stick.
Andrew C. McCarthy is a former federal prosecutor.

 

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Judge smacks down Rudy Giuliani again over Georgia election workers suit​

By
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August 30, 2023 1:48pm

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A federal judge sanctioned former Donald Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday, ordering him to cough up thousands of dollars as part of a civil case brought by two Georgia election workers whom he accused of rigging the 2020 presidential election, court filings show.
DC-based US District Judge Beryl Howell issued a default judgment against former New York City Mayor Giuliani, 79, for repeatedly failing to provide electronic communications or complete financial records to attorneys for Peach State election workers Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea “Shay” Moss in their defamation suit.
In a 57-page memo, Howell said the former federal prosecutor had “given only lip service” to a process he knew intimately from experience and instead “thwarted” the plaintiffs’ attorneys at every step.
“Donning a cloak of victimization may play well on a public stage to certain audiences, but in a court of law this performance has served only to subvert the normal process of discovery in a straight-forward defamation case, with the concomitant necessity of repeated court intervention,” she wrote.

A federal judge sanctioned former New York City Mayor and Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday as part of a civil case brought by two Georgia election workers.AP

US District Judge Beryl Howell issued a default judgment against Giuliani, 79, for repeatedly failing to provide electronic communications or complete financial records.The Washington Post via Getty Images
The evidence requested included private emails and messages from Giuliani’s electronic devices, which were seized by the FBI in April 2021 before being returned in August 2022 — at which point, Giuliani claimed, they had been “wiped out.”
However, Howell sided with the plaintiffs’ attorneys in finding that Giuliani had done little to preserve his personal communications, noting at least two devices were not seized by federal agents.
Financial records from the former mayor’s businesses — Giuliani Communications LLC and Giuliani Partners LLC — and his podcast “Common Sense” were also not sufficiently produced, the judge said.

Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea “Shay” Moss are suing Giuliani for defamation.Getty Images
Howell ordered Giuliani to pay $89,172.50 in fees with interest for withholding the information.
His businesses must also pay an associated $43,684 in fees, with interest associated, if he fails to comply again.
The plaintiffs have until Sept. 8 to submit any further costs for discovery motions, and Giuliani has until Sept. 15 to file any objections to the judge’s order.
By Sept. 20, both parties must submit three proposed trial dates between November 2023 and February 2024. Giuliani by the same date must pay all fees and provide the court with financial records.

In a 57-page memo, Howell said the former mayor and federal prosecutor had “given only lip service” to a process he knew intimately from experience.Getty Images
Howell said the jury for the case will be told that Giuliani’s failure to provide information should be interpreted as an intentional attempt to hide his finances and deflate his net worth.
“This 57-page opinion on discovery — which would usually be no more than two or three pages — is a prime example of the weaponization of the justice system, where the process is the punishment,” Giuliani’s political adviser Ted Goodman told The Post. “This decision should be reversed, as Mayor Giuliani is wrongly accused of not preserving electronic evidence that was seized and held by the FBI.”
Freeman and Moss filed the defamation suit against the man once known as “America’s Mayor” in December 2021, alleging he falsely claimed they had committed election fraud by pointing to a heavily edited video clip of the supposed crime.

Freeman and Moss filed the defamation suit against the man once known as “America’s Mayor” in December 2021.AP
The pair also sued One America News Network over the same claims, as the video footage was also circulated by various Trump allies.
Giuliani said the mother-daughter duo had passed a USB drive “like vials of heroin or cocaine” to commit ballot fraud, but Moss later testified to the House January 6th committee that she was handing her mother a ginger mint.
Georgia’s State Election Board in June dismissed the allegations following an investigation into the matter, stating that the fraud claims were “unsubstantiated and found to have no merit.”

Giuliani’s political adviser Ted Goodman told The Post his boss “is wrongly accused of not preserving electronic evidence that was seized and held by the FBI.”AP
Giuliani admitted the next month in court to making “false” claims about the plaintiffs and did not contest their allegations in the case.
“The Defendant Giuliani, for the purposes of this litigation only, does not contest that … such actionable factual statements are false,” the July 26 filing read.
However, he disputed that the remarks were “defamatory, per se” and called them “constitutionally protected statements or opinions.”

Giuliani was indicted in Georgia earlier this month along with former President Donald Trump and 17 co-defendants for their attempts to overturn 2020 election results.AP
Giuliani was indicted Aug. 14 along with former President Trump and 17 co-defendants for their attempts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results.
He faces 13 counts, including charges under the state’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, the federal version of which he relied on as a federal prosecutor, conspiracy, false statements and asking a public official to violate their oath of office.

 

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Georgia special grand jury recommended charges for Sens. Lindsey Graham, David Perdue, Kelly Loeffler​

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Samuel Chamberlain
Published Sep. 8, 2023

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A special grand jury recommended last year that Atlanta’s district attorney charge three current and former US senators for allegedly aiding former President Donald Trump’s attempts to reverse his 2020 election loss.
The panel urged Fulton County DA Fani Willis to indict Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and former Sens. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) and David Perdue R-Ga.), according to its 28-page report, released Friday.
Willis, an elected Democrat, did not immediately comment on her decision not to charge the trio when she indicted Trump and 18 alleged co-conspirators on Aug. 14 on charges including racketeering, historically used against organized crime.
A special grand jury is seeking to charge David Perdue and two others in connection with Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.Ron Sachs – CNP
Graham testified to the grand jury in November of last year about his actions following the 2020 election — after unsuccessfully suing to block a subpoena by citing the Constitution’s Speech or Debate clause.
Grand jurors voted 13-7 in favor of indicting the four-term senator, according to the grand jury report.
Graham apparently was in the panel’s crosshairs because of his post-election outreach to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
The panel, whose 28-page report was released Friday, recommended Fulton County DA Fani Willis to indict Perdue, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) (above) and former Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.).AP
Raffensperger, a fellow Republican, said that Graham asked him about matching ballots to voters, which he felt implied that the senator wanted to throw out some votes.
Graham said he was just seeking information and denied wrongdoing.
More jurors voted to charge Loeffler and Perdue, both of whom narrowly lost re-election in a pair of run-offs held Jan. 5, 2021, amid Republican in-fighting over Trump’s loss.
Panel members voted 14-6 to indict Loeffler and 17-4 in favor of charging Perdue.
Willis may have opted against indicting the pro-Trump senators because the grand jury breakdown indicated difficulty winning a conviction at trial.
The panel, whose 28-page report was released Friday, recommended Fulton County DA Fani Willis indict Perdue, Graham (R-SC) and former Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) (above).REUTERS
Other Trump allies listed in the document but not ultimately charged include former national security adviser Michael Flynn; Boris Epshteyn, a top adviser to the 45th president, and attorney Lin Wood.
Grand jurors voted 20-1 in favor of indicting Flynn, Epshteyn and Wood — raising questions about Willis’ decision not to charge them.
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The panel also voted 20-1 in favor of indicting Trump, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, former Trump personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and other codefendants in the case.
Willis accepted those recommendations.

 

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Giuliani skips testimony in Georgia poll worker defamation case​

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Published Dec. 14, 2023, 11:33 a.m. ET

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Outspoken former Mayor Rudy Giuliani passed on testifying in his own defense Thursday in a defamation case brought against him by two former Georgia election workers
On Wednesday, Giuliani had told reporters, “I intend to, you always leave them guessing” when asked if he would take the stand.
Andrea “Shaye” Moss and her mother Ruby Freeman are seeking more than $43.5 million in damages from Giuliani, who they say slandered them with false accusations of fraud following the 2020 presidential election.
Moss and Freeman initially sued Giuliani in 2021 along with One America News (OAN), but the conservative network settled the claims against it separately.
Giuliani was found liable for defamation of Moss and Freeman by default in August when he failed to hand over electronic communications or complete financial records to the women’s attorneys as part of the discovery process.

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The current case is to determine how much the man once beloved as “America’s Mayor” owes the two women.

Andrea ‘Shaye’ Moss and her mother Ruby Freeman during a Jan. 6 Committee hearing last year.AP
On Tuesday, Moss recounted that she rarely leaves her home after receiving threatening and racist messages stemming from Giuliani’s accusations. Freeman added that the deluge of threats left her feeling “terrorized.”
Giuliani claimed in late 2020 the mother-daughter duo had exchanged a USB drive “like vials of heroin or cocaine” to commit ballot fraud to boost Joe Biden’s vote count in heavily Democratic Atlanta. Moss later testified to the House January 6th Select Committee that she was actually handing her mother a ginger mint.
Georgia’s State Election Board in June dismissed the allegations following an investigation, stating that the fraud claims were “unsubstantiated and found to have no merit.”

Rudy Giuliani faces protesters peeved at his actions during the aftermath of the 2020 election.Getty Images
Trump also name-checked Freeman in his infamous Jan. 2, 2021, call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which he stressed the need to “find” votes needed to flip the election result in the Peach State..
A spokesperson for the former mayor did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Giuliani was also one of 18 Trump allies and supporters to be indicted along with the former president in August by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
Four of the co-defendants, including attorneys Sidney Powell, Kenneth Chesebro, and Jenna Ellis, have since cut plea deals.

 

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  To think that he used to be a prosecutor. How many people ended up in jail because he would lie, fabricate evidence and do anything to win convictions and to improvetheir stats?
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  Man, Giuliani has plummeted so far.
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  Guiliani and trump — birds of a feather
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Rudy tonight says he doesn’t care if he lost all his money because money is the root of all evil and he is proud that he stood on principle and his dad and Jesus Christ are proud of him.

 

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