Rudy Giuliani was roundly trashed by a CNN panel on Tuesday morning for his ongoing false attacks on election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, as he faces a lawsuit for destroying their reputations.
This comes as Giuliani, who falsely claimed that Freeman and Moss were stuffing ballots during the electoral count in Georgia and sneaked in a "USB device" that was actually just a ginger mint, continues to bungle his own trial appearance, with the judge even annoyed at his lack of punctuality.
"Everything is a lie," said anchor Phil Mattingly, turning to analyst Josh Barro. "And he is coming out at the moment he might have to pay tens of millions of dollars. What's the deal here?"
"I mean, I don't know exactly what's going on inside his head," said Barro. "You know, through the process in this trial where he has been ruined financially by the immense legal costs from so many simultaneous legal proceedings, he did filings, he tried to admit to certain things for certain purposes and not other things and the judge wasn't having it. He claimed in writing he is admitting certain things he said were not true. He is saying now they were true ... at this point the people who got so deep in these efforts spreading the lies around the 2020 election, trying to justify the legal and extra legal efforts to overturn the 2020 election."
Ultimately, he added, "It's not good legal strategy to reiterate the claims you already said were false."
"Beyond the money, when Rudy Giuliani continues to lie like this, these women endure pain again," said anchor Poppy Harlow, directing her attention to former Trump White House staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin. "The question is, how many people believe Rudy Giuliani, despite the fact and what that does to these women."
"That's the point," said Griffin. "These are two of the most tragic bystander events leading up to January 6th who were doing their jobs, they were maligned, faced all number of threats simply doing their jobs. Rudy is engaging in Trumpian-like behavior. There is no path to not have to pay out the settlements so he is going to fight, fight, fight. Reminds me of after the E. Jean Carroll [verdict], Trump expressed more lying points that led to him having to pay more money. It's a similar case. It's horrible. It resonates with people who still look to Rudy Giuliani as somebody who is telling them the truth and telling them facts and it's why as much as 60 percent of the GOP has questions about the election."
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