Via Zoe Tillman:
Hello from the DC federal courthouse, where #RudyGiuliani is waiting to get through security as jury selection is set to begin this a.m. to determine how much in damages he'll owe two #Georgia election workers who sued him for defamation.
And jury selection is just getting underway in Rudy Giuliani's damages trial -- Judge Beryl Howell, who was not amused that Giuliani was not in the courtroom at 9am when they were supposed to begin, is presiding #legal 1/…
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Laffy
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Via Ryan Reilly:
Giuliani finally got through security.
His belt was still undone, hanging at his waist.
Someone just told him.
He fixed it in the elevator.
He’s now entering court, late, after he failed to show up to a pretrial hearing last week that he was required to attend.
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Amen to that.
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in reply to Laffy • • •3/ Via Andrew Weissmann:
The day of (civil) reckoning for Rudy for his actions against plaintiffs Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss. The sole issue for the jury is the amount of damages, including punitive damages
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in reply to Laffy • • •4/ Like Trump was going to testify? 🙄 If he does, same potentially disastrous result.
Via Reilly:
Judge Howell tells potential jurors that Giuliani was already found to have defamed the election workers, and that the only question for jury members is how much he's going to have to fork over.
Rudy Giuliani's attorney just told potential jurors that he plans to testify.
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in reply to Laffy • • •5/ Via Zoe Tillman:
Some of the case-specific questions that the prospective jurors are being asked ahead of individual questioning, incl. whether they believe Biden's 2020 election was illegitimate and if they've ever used the phrase "Let's Go Brandon"
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in reply to Laffy • • •6/ Via Ryan Reilly:
In the middle of his defamation trial, Rudy Giuliani’s X account just posted link to the far-right conspiracy website Gateway Pundit.
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Laffy
in reply to Laffy • • •7/ Via Reilly:
Another potential juror is a journalist with Al Jazeera English who covered Giuliani's lies and followed him on this platform.
Says she has some "pretty strong feelings" about what happened on Jan. 6 and some of the characters involved, but she'd do her best.
She's excused
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in reply to Laffy • • •8/ Via Kyle Cheney:
Minimal eye contact between Giuliani and anyone else in the courtroom, including Moss/Freeman and Judge Howell. Notably, Rudy remained seated when the courtroom deputy asked everyone to rise for the judge as they took break.
Process is moving briskly. At least 6 of 1st 8 jury candidates have been qualified. Magic number 14, decent chance to get there before lunch.
Not sure if Rudy is relieved or offended none have expressed strong feelings about him so far.
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in reply to Laffy • • •9/ Cheney contd:
A man has engaged Giuliani in the hall to describe some videos on Rumble that appear to relate to Giuliani’s false claims about Freeman/Moss. Giuliani didn’t appear to have any notable reaction
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Tofu Golem
in reply to Laffy • • •If there were any justice in this world, he would be charged with stochastic terrorism.
At the very least as an accessory to insurrection.
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in reply to Tofu Golem • • •Rudy getting hanged wouldn't even be enough justice for the crimes he's committed imo, but in relation to court, I expect he's so drugged up that he wouldn't react to a naked young girl in front of him today.
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in reply to Lee Fife • • •I imagine it's how these guilty people manage to keep straight faces in situations like this.
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in reply to Laffy • • •10/ Via Reilly:
A jury has been seated in Rudy Giuliani's defamation trial. They'll be instructed at 1:30 p.m. and then they'll get to it.
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Giuliani is liable not just for the harm caused by his own actions, but also for the actions of his co-conspirators, the judge tells jurors. Jurors will be required to assume certain facts in calculating damages.
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The trial of Ruby Freeman v. Rudy Giuliani is underway.
It begins with the plaintiffs airing for jurors a long string of graphic threats and racist voice mails Freeman and Moss received.
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Zen Zero ☯️ ◯
in reply to Laffy • • •"Howell emphasized that the panel must assume that Giuliani failed to cooperate with his discovery requirements in the case in an effort to "artificially deflate" his net worth, and that jurors must understand that Giuliani benefitted financially from his defamatory comments about Freeman and Moss."
ouch.
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Rudy Giuliani's neighbor enjoying the FBI raid on his house.
Laffy
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Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer just told a DC jury in his defamation trial that the Georgia election workers he defamed are asking for the “civil equivalent of the death penalty” and that if the jury imposes damages high enough, “It would be the end of Mr. Giuliani.”
Rudy's defamation caused #RubyFreeman & Moss great harm. They had to flee their homes because of the threats. Their lives were ruined. They deserve compensation.
This is NOT about what happens to Rudy next.
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Giuliani’s lawyers are saying he’ll kill himself? Because otherwise they are saying this is worse than if he were put in prison for the rest of his life.
Peter Butler
in reply to Spocko • • •The phrase "civil equivalent of the death penalty” here is beyond offensive. It’s repulsive and revolting, and those words aren’t strong enough either 😡
Steve Hersey
in reply to Laffy • • •Wow. He won't be merely toast, he'll be a cloud of superheated vapor and a pair of smoking boots.
Fine with me.
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in reply to Laffy • • •If I was I was in the pool of potential jurors and was asked if I had any strong feelings, I would have had to reply that I may in the past have forwarded memes about a certain press conference that the defendant held at a landscaping company.
I wonder if that would disqualify me. 🤔
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in reply to Laffy • • •Guess Guliani is going for the Vinnie, the Chin defense
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-dec-20-me-gigante20-story.html
Vincent 'The Chin' Gigante, 77; Mob Chief Faked Mental Illness in Bid to Avoid Prison
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in reply to Laffy • • •Nice to see something speedy. Can Rudy declare bankruptcy?
Will Endeavor
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in reply to Laffy • • •> Judge Beryl Howell, who was not amused that Giuliani was not in the courtroom at 9am when they were supposed to begin, is presiding
If the judge wanted him on time, all she had to do was put a pitcher of bloody marys on the defense table.
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