Rudy Giuliani faces having to pay Georgia election workers up to $43.5million for pushing false theories they were rigging the 2020 election – and left them too scared to leave their homes
- Rudy Giuliani arrived at the Elijah Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse Monday morning for his defamation trial
- The court will determine whether he must pay Georgian election workers Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss damages for spreading lies about them
- The two election workers are seeking between $15 million and $43.5 million after Giuliani falsely said they tried to rig the election for President Joe Biden
Rudy Giuliani could be forced to pay as much as $43.5 million in damages to two Georgia election workers he falsely accused of rigging the 2020 election to benefit President Joe Biden.
Giuliani arrived at the Elijah Barrett Prettyman US Courthouse in Washington DC a little late on Monday morning and did not speak to reporters as he entered the building.
Then jury selection began in the trial, which will determine whether Giuliani must pay damages to Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea “Shaye” Moss β and how much money is at stake.
The two election workers are seeking between $15 million and $43.5 million in damages in the defamation case.
Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, was one of former President Donald Trump's election lawyers and has already been found guilty of defaming Freeman and Moss.
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Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani arrived at the Elijah Barrett Prettyman US Courthouse in Washington, DC on Monday morning for the trial that will determine whether he must pay damages to two Georgia election workers
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The trial will determine whether and how much money Giuliani will have to pay Shaye Moss (left) and her mother Ruby Freeman (right) after former President Donald Trump's attorney repeatedly raised debunked claims that they tried to steal the election for Joe Biden
He advanced a conspiracy theory that they engaged in election fraud while counting ballots at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia.
The lawsuit says Giuliani repeatedly advanced debunked claims that Freeman and Moss produced suitcases of illegal ballots and committed other acts of fraud to try to change the outcome of the 2020 race.
Giuliani pushed the story that the mother and daughter passed each other a USB stick and were guilty of fraud.
Moss gave tearful testimony before a House committee on January 6, 2022, explaining that her mother had presented her with a “ginger coin.”
The two women received death threats and feared for their lives.
Moss described the racist comments she received online after Giuliani called her and her mother household names.
βThere was just a lot of horrible stuff in there,β Moss said. 'Threats, many threats wishing death on me. They tell me I'll be in jail with my mother and say things like, be glad it's 2020 and not 1920.'
![Rudy Giuliani faces having to pay Georgia election workers up to $43.5million for pushing false theories they were rigging the 2020 election - and left them too scared to leave their homes 7 Rudy Giuliani steps out of his car in front of the federal courthouse in Washington on Monday morning. He highlighted that Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss pulled out suitcases of illegal ballots to help President Joe Biden win in the swing state of Georgia](https://nybreaking.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/1702316017_16_Rudy-Giuliani-faces-having-to-pay-Georgia-election-workers-up.jpg)
Rudy Giuliani steps out of his car in front of the federal courthouse in Washington on Monday morning. He highlighted that Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss pulled out suitcases of illegal ballots to help President Joe Biden win in the swing state of Georgia
βA lot of them were racist,β Moss said. “A lot of them were just hateful.”
Moss also testified that several people who believed Giuliani's story showed up at her grandmother's house to make a citizen's arrest.
“I've never heard or seen her in my life,” Moss testified. 'She called me at the top of her lungs… saying there were people at her house. I just felt so helpless.β
Freeman testified before the Jan. 6 committee but did not take the position publicly.
Instead, her video interviews with committee members were played during the public hearings.
'There is no place where I feel safe. Nowhere,β Freeman said in the pre-recorded video. βDo you know what it feels like when the President of the United States focuses on you? The President of the United States is supposed to represent every American, not target just one American.β
“But he was targeting me,” she added.