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'Been through enough': Lawyer claims Giuliani shunned testifying to protect victims

Joe Sibley, an attorney for Rudy Giuliani, on Thursday explained that his client decided not to testify on his own behalf to protect two former election workers who he was found to have defamed.

At the start of closing remarks in the defamation trial, Sibley admitted that the testimonies of plaintiffs Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss were credible. Following the 2020 presidential campaign, Giuliani made the two women the focus of false conspiracy theories about the election.

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'Money talks and Rudy Giuliani finally listened': expert on why ex-mayor didn't testify

Rudy Giuliani decided not to take the stand in his defamation case involving Georgia poll workers Thursday before his defense rested its case.

Legal analyst Lisa Rubin explained that throughout the trial, Giuliani has been defiant with continued attacks against Ruby Feeman and Shaye Moss, who are suing him for accusing them of election interference in the 2020 vote. The two testified this week in an emotional appeal to the jury, explaining how their lives were turned upside down based on lies about their volunteer work counting the votes in Georgia.

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Trump co-defendant flirts with violating bond conditions by attending Giuliani trial

Harrison Floyd, one of Donald Trump's co-defendants in an election subversion case, apparently avoided violating his bond conditions on Thursday when he attended Rudy Giuliani's defamation trial — though his appearance risked doing so.

Floyd was seen in court on the fourth day of a trial where Giuliani is accused of defaming two Georgia election workers by claiming they rigged the 2020 presidential vote.

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Rudy Giuliani flakes out of defamation trial testimony at last minute

A spokesperson for former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani announced on Thursday morning that he will not testify in the trial that will determine the damages he will pay to Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, the two Georgia election workers whom he defamed in 2020.

As CNN reports, "the decision not to appear comes after the Georgia election workers – Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Shaye Moss – provided gut-wrenching testimony over the course of two days about how the lies spread by him damaged their reputations and upended their lives."

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'Deadbeat' Rudy Giuliani has nowhere left to go but prison: reporter

Rudy Giuliani is currently spending his days in court awaiting to find out how much he will have to pay to two former poll workers in Georgia after being convicted of defaming them and things are about to go from bad to worse for the man once called "America's mayor."

According to Daily Beast reporter Jose Pagliery, the former mayor and Donald Trump lawyer is penniless and, because he can't pay his legal bills among the many other debts he is being sued for, he won't be able to put up much of a defense when his Georgia racketeering trial begins late next year.

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Giuliani's friends 'can't understand' his flailing courtroom strategy: Maggie Haberman

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.

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'I'm a real person': Trump faces wrath of former election worker at Giuliani trial

Former Georgia election worker Ruby Freeman lashed out at Donald Trump on Wednesday in a defamation trial against Rudy Giuliani.

On the third day of Giuliani's trial, Freeman took the stand to testify to the harassment she received after the former New York mayor made her — and her daughter, Shaye Moss — the focus of a campaign to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

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'Silly notion': Fani Willis laughs off suggestion she pause Trump trial for election

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is prosecuting the Georgia election racketeering case against former President Donald Trump, rejected the idea she has any responsibility to put the trial on hold to let Trump run for re-election.

In an interview with the Associated Press released Wednesday, she said, “If the prosecutor finds that they violated the law, they have an ethical duty to bring forth charges and so this is a silly notion to me that because one runs from office that your criminal case would stop."

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'Flat earth people': Giuliani attorney insults Trump's followers during Georgia trial

Joe Sibley, an attorney for Rudy Giuliani, seemed to insult Donald Trump's supporters by comparing them to people who believe the Earth is flat.

During the third day of a defamation trial, The Guardian's Sam Levine explained Sibley's strategy was to suggest Giuliani helped Ruby Freeman and Shay Moss when he defamed them with falsehoods about the 2020 presidential election.

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'It's as clear as day': Giuliani judge berates lawyer for missing 'critical things'

U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell reportedly chastised Joe Sibley, an attorney for Rudy Giuliani, after he missed a key detail on court documents.

During the third day of Giuliani's defamation trial, expert witness Dr. Ashlee Humphreys testified that it would take millions to restore the reputations of Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss after they were falsely accused of rigging the 2020 presidential election.

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Rudy Giuliani 'can't even afford a new car': former spokesman

Rudy Giuliani has allegedly gone from Gracie Mansion to the poorhouse.

That's according to his one-time press secretary, Ken Frydman, who appeared on CNN's "Laura Coates Live," who suggested that the once-revered top prosecutor and NYC mayor is desperately hurting for cash.

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'Racist overtones and complete lies': CNN panel writes Rudy Giuliani's political obituary

Rudy Giuliani, the man once known as "America's mayor," is facing a potentially ruinous financial penalty for defaming Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman, two Georgia election workers whom he falsely accused to helping to steal the 2020 election from former President Donald Trump.

In discussing Giuliani's plight on CNN Wednesday, host Phil Mattingly noted that Giuliani's attacks on Moss and Freeman were "completely lies" and filled with "racist overtones," such as when he falsely accused the two Black election workers of "passing around USB ports as if they’re vials of heroin or cocaine."

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Rudy Giuliani attacks poll workers' lawyers — and claims they're tied to Hunter Biden

Fresh from the latest day of the civil trial brought against Rudy Giuliani by Georgia poll workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, Giuliani declined to discuss the case directly with reporters — but he lashed out at Freeman and Moss' attorneys, and claimed they had ties to Hunter Biden, reported Politico's Kyle Cheney.

Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor and mayor of New York City who helped former President Donald Trump push conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, is accused of defaming Freeman and Moss with false claims that they were stuffing ballots during the vote count in Atlanta.

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