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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Ed Pilkington

What price will Rudy Giuliani pay for smearing Georgia election workers?

From ‘America’s mayor’ to Trump election denials: Rudy Giuliani faces defamation case.
From ‘America’s mayor’ to Trump election denials: Rudy Giuliani faces defamation case. Photograph: Peter Foley/EPA-EFE

Rudy Giuliani, the politician who was once lauded as “America’s mayor” but descended into the rabbit hole of Donald Trump’s election denial lies, will face a Washington DC jury on Monday in a landmark case which could see him saddled with millions of dollars in damages.

For the first time at trial, Giuliani will be confronted in a federal district court with the consequences of the conspiracy theories he disseminated as Trump’s 2020 election lawyer. He will come eye-to-eye with the mother and daughter poll workers from Georgia who claim that he destroyed their lives and caused them ongoing emotional distress by maliciously accusing them of election fraud.

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