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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrew Feinberg

Damning court documents reveal Rudy Giuliani knew claims about Georgia election workers were false

AP

A court filing from the mother-and-daughter pair of Georgia election workers who are suing ex-New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani for defaming them, shows that Mr Giuliani had no evidence that either woman was involved in any manner of election fraud when he passed surveillance footage of them to former president Donald Trump’s advisers as they scrambled to justify claiming the election had been stolen from the then-president.

According to documents made public as part of the defamation suit against the disgraced former mayor by Ruby Freeman and Wandrea Moss — the Georgia election workers who were forced to flee their homes after Mr Trump and his allies accused them of election fraud — Mr Giuliani flagged the now-infamous video of the pair to Trump aide Boris Epshteyn after he relayed a demand for “examples of ‘election fraud’” that were “super easy to explain”.

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