{"id":600755,"date":"2023-12-11T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/giuliani-to-face-georgia-poll-workers-as-defamation-case-heads-to-trial\/"},"modified":"2023-12-11T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T22:00:00","slug":"giuliani-to-face-georgia-poll-workers-as-defamation-case-heads-to-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/giuliani-to-face-georgia-poll-workers-as-defamation-case-heads-to-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"#Giuliani to face Georgia poll workers as defamation case heads to trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>While counting the results of Georgia\u2019s 2020 election, Fulton County poll worker Ruby Freeman passed her daughter, another poll worker named Shaye Moss, a ginger mint. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But longtime Trump ally Rudy Giuliani claimed a\u00a0video of that interaction showed evidence of election fraud against former President Trump \u2014 proof of the mother-daughter pair passing a USB drive between them to scan ballots hidden in suitcases under tables at Atlanta\u2019s State Farm Arena, according to a report by Georgia\u2019s State Election Board.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>In the months that followed, the poll workers were subjected to a barrage of threats stemming from Giuliani\u2019s baseless accusations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve lost my sense of security, all because a group of people \u2014 starting with Number 45 and his ally Rudy Giuliani \u2014 decided to scapegoat me and my daughter, Shaye, to push their own lies about how the presidential election was stolen,\u201d Freeman said in a deposition with the House Jan. 6 committee. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Freeman and Moss will come face-to-face in court with Giuliani, as a trial over his false claims against them gets underway in Washington, D.C., federal court. Giuliani and the two poll workers are required to attend the trial, which is expected to last about a week in full. A jury of eight Washington residents will decide the case.<\/p>\n<p>The two election workers sued Giuliani in December 2021 on claims of \u201cdefamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, civil conspiracy, and punitive damage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefendant Rudy Giuliani bears substantial and outsized responsibility for the campaign of partisan character assassination of Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss,\u201d the Georgia election workers wrote in a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/22336421-22-amended-complaint-1\">May 2022 amended complaint<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They further accused Giuliani of orchestrating a \u201csustained smear campaign\u201d against them by repeatedly accusing them of partaking in the purported \u201ccrime of the century.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of probes led by three law enforcement agencies found that the claims against Freeman and Moss \u201cwere false and unsubstantiated.\u201d Giuliani later wrote in court filings he will \u201cnot contest\u201d that his statements were \u201cfalse\u201d and \u201ccarry meaning that is defamatory,\u201d but he maintained that they were \u201cconstitutionally protected.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell already found the former New York City mayor civilly liable for those claims; the trial will determine how much money he owes them as a result.<\/p>\n<p>The trial is likely just the beginning of court battles between Giuliani and the poll workers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The mother and daughter are expected to serve as key witnesses in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis\u2019s racketeering case against Giuliani, Trump and more than a dozen others accused of joining a criminal conspiracy to keep Trump in power after he lost the 2020 election. A date for that trial has not yet been set, though state prosecutors have requested an August start.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Freeman\u2019s name, in particular, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ears some 40 times throughout the sprawling indictment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of Giuliani\u2019s 13 counts was linked to his claims that Freeman, Moss and an unidentified man were \u201cquite obviously surreptitiously passing around USB ports as if they\u2019re vials of heroin or cocaine\u201d to be used to \u201cinfiltrate the crooked Dominion voting machines,\u201d which state prosecutors say violated Georgia\u2019s law against making false statements and writings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>After Giuliani\u2019s false claims thrust Freeman and her daughter into the spotlight, a handful of Trump allies allegedly attempted to influence Freeman\u2019s statements about what happened at the arena, purporting to \u201coffer her help,\u201d according to the 98-page indictment.<\/p>\n<p>Illinois pastor Stephen Lee <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>ed to Freeman\u2019s home and spoke with her neighbor, intending to mislead Freeman and \u201cin\ufb02uence her testimony in an of\ufb01cial proceeding,\u201d prosecutors claim. Lee then enlisted Black Voices for Trump leader Harrison Floyd to help persuade Freeman, who feared talking to Lee \u201cbecause he was a white man.\u201d Both Freeman and Moss are Black. And a month later, Floyd recruited Trevian Kutti \u2014 a former publicist for rapper Ye, previously known as Kanye West \u2014 to join their efforts, the indictment says.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kutti met with Freeman at the behest of an unidentified \u201chigh-profile individual\u201d and urged Freeman to confess to Trump\u2019s election fraud claims or <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/media-telecom\/kanye-west-publicist-pressed-georgia-election-worker-confess-bogus-fraud-charges-2021-12-10\/\">go to jail within 48 hours<\/a>, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Lee, Floyd and Kutti are all charged alongside Giuliani in the Georgia case.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two other Georgia defendants, lawyers Jenna Ellis and Ray Smith III, were deposed as part of the poll workers\u2019 case. Ellis pleaded guilty to a lesser charge after agreeing to cooperate with Fulton County prosecutors, while Smith has pleaded not guilty.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, their testimony, which is expected to be played during the trial, is likely to provide little insight. Howell said last week that Ellis asserted her Fifth Amendment right more than 400 times during the deposition and Smith more than 300 times. \u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>A lawyer for Giuliani said Tuesday that the ex-mayor plans to testify during the defamation trial and does not intend to assert that right. Lawyers for Freeman and Moss told the judge that they plan to call four witnesses, in addition to playing video clips from several depositions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ted Goodman, a political adviser to Giuliani, told The Hill in an emailed statement that Giuliani is still the \u201csame man who took down the Mafia, cleaned up New York City and comforted the nation following September 11th.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the fullness of time, this will be looked at as a dark chapter in our nation\u2019s history, as those in power attempt to destroy their partisan political opposition in ways that cause great, irreparable harm to the U.S. justice system,\u201d Goodman said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. All rights reserved. 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