As I write, a federal jury in Washington, D.C., is deliberating how much Rudy Giuliani should pay two former Georgia election workers whom he falsely accused of smuggling and counting phony absentee ballots at Atlanta's State Farm Arena after the 2020 presidential election.* The former Trump campaign lawyer did not help his case by insisting that his wild claims about Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, who are mother and daughter, were actually true, contrary to what Giuliani's lawyer conceded during the trial and contrary to what Giuliani himself said in a "nolo contendre stipulation" he filed last July.
"When I testify," Giuliani said outside the courthouse on Monday, "you'll get the whole story, and it will be definitively clear what I said was true." He said he would show that Freeman and Moss were in fact "engaged in changing votes." Those comments were reminiscent of Giuliani's repeatedly broken promises to present "conclusive proof" that the 2020 election was rigged, something he never managed to do. True to form, Giuliani announced on Thursday that he would not testify after all.
