Giuliani’s defamation lawsuit could bankrupt him, says a former Trump White House lawyer.
The outcome of Rudy Giuliani’s defamation trial will likely drown the former mayor financially, according to a former lawyer in Donald Trump’s White House.
The jury in the Washington, D.C., trial will determine how much Giuliani, a former personal lawyer to Donald Trump, will owe mother and daughter Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss for accusing the women, without evidence, of committing election fraud while they were counting 2020 election ballots in Fulton County, Georgia.
The two women, who were awarded a default judgment by the judge in August, are seeking between $15.5 million and $43 million in damages. This week, they said in testimony that they were subjected to harassment and threats after Trump’s loss to President Joe Biden.
The financial consequences of Giuliani’s comments about the women were described by Joe Sibley, the attorney representing the former New York City mayor. On Monday, the first day of the trial, he told the jury that the damages “would be the end of Mr.
