The judge’s order means Giuliani will have to pay damages for spreading false vote-rigging claims against the pair while he was acting as former U.S. president Donald Trump’s lawyer. Giuliani previously admitted in a court filing that his statements were false and defamatory, but claimed he was protected in making them by the First Amendment.
Giuliani, ostensibly knowledgeable in matters of law, claimed he had First Amendment protection to victimize the election workers with the spreading of inflammatory lies and by defaming them. Let this sink in for a moment, please.
In press conferences and before the Georgia legislature, Giuliani repeatedly pushed debunked claims based on selective video from Atlanta’s State Farm Arena that Freeman and Moss pulled out suitcases of illegal ballots and committed other acts of fraud to try to alter the outcome of the race.
Gabriel Sterling, Georgia’s voting system implementation manager, said shortly after those claims emerged that the full surveillance video from the venue indicated those ballot carriers were accounted for earlier in the day.
In summary, they fabricated horrible lies.
Giuliani, Trump, and their fascist associates are all despicable traitors.