ATLANTA — Former President Donald Trump’s former attorney is now admitting he lied about two Fulton County election workers.
Election workers Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Shaye Moss sued Giuliani for defamation.
But Giuliani says he does not think those lies actually caused them any damage.
For nearly three years, Giuliani accused Freeman and Moss of committing massive voter fraud in the now-infamous video from State Farm Arena.
“All you have to do is look at that tape,” Giuliani said at the time. “You can see them count the ballots more than once. Two, three, four, five times. You would have to be a moron not to realize that was voter fraud.”
But it wasn’t.
Multiple federal and state investigations proved it and even the Georgia state elections board totally cleared Freeman and Moss of any wrongdoing.
But in her testimony before the Jan. 6 Committee, Freeman talked about Trump and Giuliani’s accusations and what they did to her life.
“I had to move out of my house because the FBI said it wasn’t safe,” Freeman testified.
Now, Freeman and Moss are in the middle of an ongoing lawsuit accusing Giuliani of defamation.
They’re seeking sanctions against him, accusing him of failing to preserve some electronic evidence.
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In his response, Giuliani finally admitted, he lied, specifically that he doesn’t contest that his “factual statements were false.”
But he added that he believes it was constitutionally protected speech so he’s not liable for damages and that’s why his legal teams say they’re trying to move past the fact-finding phase so they can argue those points before the judge.
Freeman says statements Giuliani made turned their lives upside down.
“There is nowhere I feel safe. Nowhere,” she testified. “All because a group of people starting with No. 45 and his ally Rudy Giuliani decided to scapegoat me and my daughter Shaye.
In June, the state closed the “ballot suitcase” investigation.
The state elections board found no evidence of fraud during the 2020 ballot counting site at the State Farm Arena.
Now, the board wants to send a letter of apology to Freeman and Moss.
In December 2020, Channel 2 investigative reporter Justin Gray worked with the Secretary of State to debunk the suitcase video from the very beginning.
It came after a lengthy two-year investigation by the Secretary of State, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the FBI.
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