Clearly $148 million in legal penalties isn’t punishment enough for Rudy Giuliani, who took to Newsmax’s airwaves on Monday to vent even more defamatory lies about Georgia poll workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss.
“Your initial allegations, do you still believe them to be true?” asked host Rob Schmitt.
“Yeah. Well, of course they’ll sue me again when I say that, but yeah, I do,” Giuliani said. “But they want me to lie. They, basically, they are suing me in order to lie to them.”
“If I showed you the evidence right now, and I think you’ve played it on your air, people would see that what I said was absolutely true,” he said.
Unfortunately for the former federal prosecutor, claiming that people made him lie may not be the concrete defense he hopes it to be.
.@RudyGiuliani on defamation ruling: “It’s a fascist system run by the Biden regime; they turned the court system into a two-tiered system of justice.” @SchmittNYC pic.twitter.com/4FFY3fooqy
— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) December 19, 2023
Before last week’s judgment, Giuliani repeated election lies that he had previously admitted were untrue mere steps outside the courthouse, resulting in a wrist slap by U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell, who warned that it could result in more defamation charges for the broke fixer. And despite repeated promises to provide evidence on his debunked allegations, when the time came to finally take the stand and make “definitively clear” that what he said about the pair of workers was true, Giuliani opted not to.
Freeman and Moss originally sought $24 million each in damages after the former New York City mayor accused them of manipulating ballots—claims that transformed into months of harassment, death threats, and protesters at their doorsteps. Instead, the jury decided they deserve far more. On Friday, a court ruled that the mother-daughter duo would receive $16 million each in damages for defamation, $20 million each for emotional distress, and another $75 million in punitive damages from the former Trump attorney.
On Monday, the pair hit Giuliani with another lawsuit seeking a gag order and to permanently bar America’s disgraced mayor from continuing to trash-talk them. That new suit is based entirely on baseless claims that Giuliani made over the weekend, including some statements allowed to air on Newsmax, according to the legal complaint.
“Are they actually going to put a gag on me while I walk around?” Giuliani joked on air.