A jury has already ensured that former New York City mayor and Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani will pay sizably for spreading false election fraud claims about former Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss. Now, the pair wants to make sure he keeps their names out of his mouth for good.
Rudy Giuliani must shell out $148 million to Moss and Freeman, which a jury determined would atone for the distress they suffered after Giuliani falsely accused the mother-daughter pair of committing ballot tampering during the 2020 presidential election in a flagrant defamation campaign.
That multi-million dollar award was decided in a Washington, D.C., court on Friday. By Monday, news was already circulating about a second lawsuit Freeman and Moss filed against Giuliani, this time to request a federal judge to forbid him from ever speaking publicly about them again. As it happens, Giuliani has continued to defend his claims even after being found liable for defamation.
“Defendant Giuliani continues to spread the very same lies for which he has already been held liable,” the new injunction says. “Defendant Giuliani’s statements, coupled with his refusal to agree to refrain from continuing to make such statements, make clear that he intends to persist in his campaign of targeted defamation and harassment. It must stop.”
Although Giuliani never testified during this month’s trial to determine damages after the August default judgment against him, the suit notes a press conference held while the trial was still happening in which Giuliani stated he would testify and make “definitively clear that what I said was true, and that, whatever happened to them — which is unfortunate about other people overreacting — everything I said about them is true.”
News reporters even asked Giuliani if he regretted his inflammatory statements about Moss and Freeman, to which he replied, “Of course, I don’t regret it … I told the…
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