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On the first day of Rudy Giuliani’s trial to determine how much he will owe a pair of Georgia election workers he defrauded, his attorney said he was forced to pay $43 million in damages. bad that his victims demanded – or anything close to it – would be a “death sentence” for Giuliani.
The unusual claim came in attorney Joseph Sibley’s opening statement to jurors Monday afternoon, in which he said Giuliani was not the direct cause of Ruby Freeman and Shaye. Moss received death threats and harassment after the 2020 election—despite the federal decision. August Giuliani was bound.
“If you give them what they are asking for, this is the end of Mr. Giuliani,” Sibley said.
It’s unclear how much Giuliani could pay in damages. The former mayor of New York—and Donald Trump grifter—has made his financial struggles public this year, with unpaid wages and legal fees running into the hundreds of thousands.
Freeman and Moss, both black women from Atlanta, are seeking between $15 million and $43 million in punitive damages from Giuliani, whose false statements about them forced them to to live in fear and change their lives, their lawyer is Von A. DuBose. said Monday.
The crisis came after Trump’s victory in 2020, which included Joe Biden carrying Georgia in his biggest victory in the electoral college.
DuBose said the Giuliani scandal involved callers making slurs about women, which included one message in which a man called them traitors who should be hanged. near the US Capitol – close to the people so that the public can feel “their necks. .”
“Your name is the most important thing to you,” DuBose said in his opening remarks. “You will hear how Mr. Giuliani and his conspirators stole the lives of Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss by destroying their names.”
DuBose said angry Trump supporters also came to the women’s homes, accusing them of fraud. He said the incident involved people ringing Freeman’s doorbell in the dead of night, forcing him to go find a new job.
DuBose said the trouble didn’t end there, however. He said Freeman walked out of a job interview at Chick-Fil-A with his head down after the hiring manager pulled up a story about him online and asked if she is the woman who committed fraud.
Giuliani told a reporter The Guardian during the lunch break on Monday there are “a few surprises” prepared for his trial, which is being held in a courtroom in Washington, DC, and is expected to after a week.
Several reporters who attended the first day of the trial, which closed to jury selection in a few hours, reported that Giuliani at one point remained seated when asked by the representative of the courtroom everyone appears before the judge before recess.
In another case, POLITICS reported that Giuliani made “slight” eye contact with Freeman, Moss, the judge, and anyone else in the courtroom.
Sibley acknowledged that Giuliani’s actions were wrong, saying that the court has already concluded that he made false statements about women. But Sibley insisted that the violent threats and racist comments Freeman and Moss received were not Giuliani’s words, but a combination of MAGA’s hatred after the election.
“There is no question that these plaintiffs are harmed,” he said. “They did not deserve what happened to them. But what happened to them happened because of a dispute that involved many people, not just Rudy Giuliani.
Order‘s note: The title of this article was changed to reflect the correct quote “death penalty” from “death penalty.”