Rudy Giuliani has to go to court on Thursday because he said false things about two election workers after the 2020 election.
Ruby Freeman, a former poll worker, and her daughter Wandrea Moss are taking legal action against Mr Giuliani for saying untrue things about them being involved in election fraud.
Ms Moss said she was very scared because of the pro-Trump groups after Mr. Giuliani posted a video of her in 2020.
He has been declared responsible, now they are deciding on the consequences.
Ms Freeman and Ms Moss want $15m to $43m in money for what they say they have suffered. Giuliani, who is Donald Trump’s lawyer, says he does not have that much money to give them. Giuliani said in court that he lied about the pair.
In a court in Washington DC, Ms Freeman told how she had to run away when a bunch of Trump supporters came to her house and the FBI warned her that she was at risk.
“I felt like they were going to hurt me with their ropes on my street,” she said. “I was really afraid. ” I didn’t know if they were going to hurt me.
Also,Freeman mentioned that she feels lonely because her friends and acquaintances are scared to be seen with her. As a result, she now lives alone and is afraid of being recognized in public.
“It’s really frightening. Every time I have to say my name when I go somewhere,” she said. “Right now, I don’t actually have a name. ”
Ms Freeman and her daughter’s lawyers finished presenting their evidence on Wednesday.
Mr Giuliani helped Mr Trump try to change the results of the 2020 election by saying over and over again that the election was not fair.
During the trial, a teacher from Northwestern University, Ashlee Humphreys, said on Wednesday that many people saw Mr Giuliani’s mean comments, up to 56 million times.
The judge in Ms. Freeman’s case won’t let her talk about the false election fraud claims in court. However, he keeps saying outside the court that the lies he told about Ms. Moss and Ms. Freeman are true.
“On Monday, he said that when he tells what happened, you will understand and see that what he said was true. He also said that whatever happened to them, if others overreacted, it was not their fault, but everything he said about them is true. ” “Of course I don’t feel bad about it, I told the truth. ”
Mr Giuliani is in trouble in Georgia for being involved in a plan to change the election results with Mr Trump and others. He says he didn’t do it.
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Rudy Giuliani to assist in 2020 election slander lawsuit
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Trump and 18 others accused in Georgia election investigation
Former US President Donald Trump has been accused of trying to rig the Georgia election in order to reverse his loss there in 2020.
This is his fourth criminal prosecution in as many months.
Along with 18 other allies, Mr. Trump, the front-runner for the Republican nomination for president in 2024, was charged.
All 13 of the allegations against him, which include interfering in elections and racketeering, are denied. They are politically motivated, according to him.
In February 2021, Georgia’s Fani Willis initially opened an inquiry into claims that Mr. Trump and his allies had interfered with elections.
Prosecutors filed a 98-page indictment against the 19 defendants, which was made public late on Monday.
Defendants had until Friday, August 25, noon to voluntarily surrender, according to Ms. Willis’ announcement. She stated that all 19 defendants would be tried concurrently.
Former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, former White House top of staff Mark Meadows, and former White House attorney John Eastman are on the list of alleged co-conspirators.
Others include Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis, two Trump attorneys who emphasised unsubstantiated claims of widespread election fraud, as well as Jeffrey Clark, a former justice department employee.
The defendants “knowingly and willfully participated in a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favour of Trump,” according to the indictment.
The former president is charged with several felonies, including
- Violating Georgia’s racketeering act
- Solicitation of violation of oath by public officer
- Conspiracy to impersonate a public officer
- Conspiracy to commit forgery in the first degree
- False statements and writings and filing false documents
The defendants are referred to in the indictment as a “criminal organisation,” and they are charged with witness tampering, computer trespass, theft, and perjury, among other offences.
Violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations Act (RICO Act), the most serious charge, carries a possible 20-year jail sentence.
The statute, which was created to aid in the dismantling of organised criminal syndicates like the mafia, aids prosecutors in establishing a causal link between subordinates who breached the law and those who gave them commands.
The Trump campaign said in a statement that the district attorney was a “rabid partisan” who had brought “these bogus indictments” in an effort to sway the 2024 presidential election and “damage the dominant Trump campaign”.
The statement read, “This latest coordinated attack by a biassed prosecutor in a predominately Democratic jurisdiction not only betrays the trust of the American people, but also exposes the true motivation driving their manufactured accusations.”
He is the only former US president ever to be charged with a crime.
In February 2021, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis began an inquiry.
Before the grand jury voted to return an indictment, a list of criminal charges against Mr. Trump posted on a Fulton County website earlier on Monday, causing uncertainty.
According to the document, Donald Trump was accused of racketeering, conspiring to commit fraud, and making false statements.
The document was described as “fictitious” by a Ms. Willis representative, who did not, however, explain how it wound up on the court’s website.
The apparent clerical error was used by Mr. Trump and his friends as evidence that the system was biassed.
Federal prosecutors in Washington, DC, charged Mr. Trump earlier this month with plotting to rig the 2020 election, which he lost to Democrat President Joe Biden.
The operations of the Trump campaign in Georgia received a good deal of attention in that charge sheet. In that instance, Mr. Trump entered a not guilty plea.
Georgia is the centre of Ms. Willis’ inquiry, a crucial state in the race for the US presidency that Mr. Trump just missed winning.
On a discussion with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in January 2021, Mr. Trump was overheard pleading with him to “find” the 11,780 votes he would have needed to defeat Mr. Biden in that state.
An alleged plan to tamper with voting equipment in one Georgia county and steal data is described in the indictment.
It also refers to an alleged plan to submit erroneous lists of electors, the people who decide who becomes president and vice president through the Electoral College.
State charges, like those in Georgia, have important distinctions from federal ones. Notably, Mr. Trump would not be able to exonerate himself of state accusations if he were to win the presidency again in 2024.