Giuliani caused ‘perpetual nightmare’ for 2020 election workers, jury told

Rudy Giuliani claimed the election workers were counting ballots after the tallying had ended on election night of 2020. Photograph: Bryan R Smith/AFP/Getty Images

Rudy Giuliani “disgraced” the names of two Atlanta election workers as part of a call to action, causing them to suffer a “perpetual nightmare” since December 2020, attorneys representing the two women said during opening statements in a closely watched defamation trial.

“It was vicious,” Von DuBose, a lawyer representing Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss, two Black election workers from Georgia, told an eight-person jury seated on Monday. “He used their names as a cornerstone of a call to action.”