A court filing from the mother-and-daughter pair of Georgia election workers who are suing ex-New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani for defaming them, shows that Mr Giuliani had no evidence that either woman was involved in any manner of election fraud when he passed surveillance footage of them to former president Donald Trump’s advisers as they scrambled to justify claiming the election had been stolen from the then-president.
According to documents made public as part of the defamation suit against the disgraced former mayor by Ruby Freeman and Wandrea Moss — the Georgia election workers who were forced to flee their homes after Mr Trump and his allies accused them of election fraud — Mr Giuliani flagged the now-infamous video of the pair to Trump aide Boris Epshteyn after he relayed a demand for “examples of ‘election fraud’” that were “super easy to explain”.
The text message Mr Giuliani passed on added that the claims “[did not] necessarily have to be proven but does need to be easy to understand”.
Ms Freeman and Ms Moss included the message in question as part of a filing in which they demand that a judge levy severe sanctions on Mr Giuliani for failing to turn over that message and numerous others despite having been ordered to do so multiple times by a judge, who also told the ex-New York City mayor to preserve and make available his communications.
They have asked US District Judge Beryl Howell to punish Mr Giuliani for what the describe as a deliberate and...
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