Rudy Giuliani

A 29-year-old participant in the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 recently pleaded guilty in federal court — and his attorney is partially blaming Fox News.

The Daily Beast reported Thursday that Delaware man Anthony Alexander Antonio pleaded guilty to charges of obstructing an official proceeding in relation to his storming of the US Capitol in an attempt to delay Congress' certification of the 2020 Electoral College count. His attorney, Joseph Hurley, said Fox News "played constantly" in his client's home in the months leading up to the 2020 election, and that Antonio eventually became "obsessed" with watching the network.

Michael Gottlieb, the attorney representing defamed election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, delivered a scathing denunciation of Rudy Giuliani's character in the closing arguments of his defamation trial.

As reported by journalist Brandi Buchman, Gottlieb told jurors that Giuliani felt free to baselessly smear Moss and Freeman as thieves who stole the election from former President Donald Trump simply because they are not rich or powerful as he is.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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."

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.