'He certainly acted badly': Ex-Bill Barr aide struggles to defend 'sad' Rudy Giuliani

Fox News legal editor Kerri Urbahn, a former aide to then-Attorney General Bill Barr, struggled to defend former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani after he defamed Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss.

A day after Giuliani reacted to a court hearing by telling reporters he had "no cash," Fox News host John Roberts asked Urbahn if it was fair for a court to award $148 million to the two former election workers because they were falsely accused of rigging the 2020 presidential election against Donald Trump.

Roberts noted that Freeman and Moss were forced to leave their jobs after Giuliani's claims.

"Does someone's bad behavior give a jury or the legal system license to destroy them in perhaps a disproportionate way?" Urbahn said. "Certainly, the decline of Rudy Giuliani, I think, is a sad one, and he certainly acted badly with respect to these two election workers with repeatedly, repeatedly accusing them of fraud when investigations revealed that wasn't the case."

"But this effort by the court, the legal system to grind him into the ground until there's nothing left, it, it feels uncomfortable," the conservative pundit continued.

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Urbahn suggested that the rulings against Giuliani might amount to "cruel and unusual punishment."

"Just because someone does something bad, it doesn't mean that the justice system can't respond badly as well," she said without offering a legal defense for Giuliani.

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