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Sam Levine in Washington

Jury in Rudy Giuliani defamation trial urged to send message: ‘Don’t do it’

Rudy Giuliani arrives at the federal courthouse in Washington on Wednesday.
Rudy Giuliani arrives at the federal courthouse in Washington on Wednesday. Photograph: José Luis Magaña/AP

A Washington DC jury should “send a message” to other powerful people by issuing substantial damages against Rudy Giuliani for spreading lies about two Georgia election workers, a lawyer for the pair said.

“The message is don’t do it,” Michael Gottlieb, a lawyer representing Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss, said in his closing statement to eight jurors on the fourth day of the defamation case. “They say when someone shows you who they are, believe them. Mr Giuliani has shown us over and over and over again that he will not take our clients names out of his mouth. Facts do not and will not stop him.

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