WASHINGTON (CN) — Two former Georgia election workers sued Rudy Giuliani on Monday over his claims they committed election fraud during the 2020 election — even in the middle of a jury trial last week.
The suit comes after an eight-person jury found Friday that Giuliani owed Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss $148 million in damages for his baseless claims that the mother and daughter helped rig the state’s election for President Joe Biden, and the flood of racist death threats that followed.
Now Freeman and Moss want a federal judge to bar Giuliani from making further false claims against them.
Freeman and Moss brought their initial suit against Giuliani in December 2021 after he had posted security camera footage from the State Farm Arena in Atlanta which he claimed showed them smuggling suitcases of fraudulent ballots and forcing poll workers and journalists out of the building.
He first posted the video on his Common Sense podcast on Dec. 3, 2020, and continued making further claims until Jan. 6, 2021, to validate his and Donald Trump’s effort to spread doubt on the 2020 election results and maintain their grip on power.
The two Black women were then subjected to a relentless wave of hate from Trump’s supporters, who accused them of committing treason and threatened to lynch them.
According to the complaint filed in the U.S. District for the District of Columbia, Giuliani continued repeating his claims on right-wing media, including on Newsmax and Steve Bannon’s War...
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