The former New York City mayor was in court Monday for jury selection as part of a defamation case related to the 2020 election.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani seemed to have showed odd behavior in court on Monday as part of a defamation trial involving Georgia election workers, according to court reporters.
Giuliani, the former personal lawyer to former President Donald Trump, appeared as part of a lawsuit filed by mother-daughter duo Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, who sued him following a series of false statements he made about their work related to the 2020 presidential election at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta where ballots were counted. He and other close allies of Trump’s have falsely accused election workers of committing fraud by processing “suitcases” of illicit ballots.
Last week, Judge Beryl Howell, who presides in Washington D.C., scolded Giuliani’s attorney, Joseph Sibley, after the ex-mayor failed to appear at a hearing prior to the trial’s commencement. She questioned whether Sibley was “falling on his sword” for Giuliani, and whether he took the proceedings seriously considering that a jury will decide damages to punish Giuliani for his “willful failure” and “willful shirking” of his obligations to hand over documents in the case.
Ted Goodman, a political adviser to Giuliani, released a statement ahead of the trial.
“In the fullness of time, this will be looked at as a dark chapter in our nation’s history, as those in power attempt to destroy their partisan political opposition in ways that cause great, irreparable harm to the U.
