Rudy Giuliani, faced with a defamation lawsuit from election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, is doubling down on the false claims he made about them stuffing ballots during the 2020 vote count — and is even lashing out at the opposing counsel, claiming they have ties to Hunter Biden.
It's gotten to the point where even people close to the former New York mayor don't understand what he's doing, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman told CNN's Jake Tapper on Wednesday.
"Giuliani told reporters everything he said about the women was true," said Tapper. "And this could support another defamation claim. We know Giuliani already has serious financial troubles due to the Trump legal cases. Does he have value digging into these lies more than the money he could lose?"
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"It's hard to fathom why Giuliani is saying what he is saying," said Haberman. "Anybody who has been around Giuliani, who is no longer with him privately says the same thing. People can't understand what the strategy is here."
"Why is he even testifying?" Tapper pressed her. "To be quite frank, he says a lot of really wild, crazy, untrue things. And he's now saying them, you know, under oath."
"Based on people I talk to close to him, there is a part of him that genuinely believes he has been proven right about various things, whether it's some of his arguments about Hunter Biden, because he was the one trying to force that laptop into the conversation in 2020. That he genuinely believes he's right in some of the allegations he's making here. And many of them have adapted the Donald Trump ethos of fight, fight, fight. If you believe you're right, then you fight. I think that's what he is doing. This is different than what I would have expected to see him do a couple of decades ago."
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