Just minutes after leaving the first day of his civil trial, Rudy Giuliani repeated a false allegation about the pollworkers.

Rudy Giuliani’s defiant public statements outside a Washington, D.C., federal courthouse — just minutes after he departed the first day of his civil trial for defaming two Georgia election workers — may have defamed them yet again, the judge presiding over the proceedings said Tuesday.

“Was Mr. Giuliani just playing for the cameras?” wondered U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell, who has already found Giuliani liable for lying about the workers, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, by accusing them of manipulating ballots in the 2020 election.

His attorney, Joe Sibley, agreed that he could not reconcile Giuliani’s out-of-court comments on Monday evening with the more contrite argument Sibley had made on behalf of the former New York City mayor earlier in the day.

After the first day of his trial, when jurors began to hear evidence to determine just how much Giuliani must pay for defaming the two women, Giuliani approached television cameras outside the courthouse and reiterated his attacks on them.

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    11 months ago

    “This has taken a bit of a toll on him. He’s almost 80 years old”

    Boo fucking Hoo. They should ride that fucking traitors corpse into the poor house if they have to.

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      11 months ago

      He could have sold his NY real estate, moved to a cozy home upstate with full time nursing care if he was so enfeebled.

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      It’s a stupid fucking excuse. If the man’s been on this earth hurting people and spreading bullshit for 80 years, why should I feel any sympathy for his age? These vile assholes don’t deserve peace, they shouldn’t be allowed to just get away with it because they’ve been ruining lives for long enough.

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      Won’t someone please think of the perpetrator?! /s

      @ Ghouliani: Get rekt you crooked, traitorous fuckstick.

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    Question for the legally aware:

    I’ve seen many cases where the court will adjust jury-awarded penalties downward. A jury might find a chemical company liable in polluting a river and award the claimants $100M, and the court will adjust it to $5M.

    The justice and potential for corruption etc aside, could the judge in a case like this and given an event like this increase the amount Rudy must pay over and above the $43M or whatever it is that’s being asked? Could the court say that the impenitent and repeatedly offending nature of Rudy merits additional penalties above and beyond what was asked for in the context of this case, or like with the Trump defamation case would it need a separate trial?

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      In E Jean Carrolls case against Trump, after the judge awarded her $5mil, Trump walked out of the courtroom and lied to the camera, again, even having just lost on it.

      The attorney filed a motion against Trump the next day asking for double damages and was promptly awarded it. $10mil total.

      So yea, the judge has some discretion.

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    11 months ago

    Lol, his attorney trying to be all “Oh he’s just an old man,” and Howell putting a stop to that shit instantly.

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    Is it reasonable to double the fines for each act of defamation? Or should the multiplier be larger?

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      Doubling is fine, people tend to be awful at visualizing exponential growth as it is