Former Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani has admitted to making false statements regarding election workers the former president claimed had tampered with ballots in the 2020 presidential election count in Georgia.
In a court filing on Tuesday, the former mayor of New York conceded that he had made the statements and had published them to third parties, but said that such an admission would not change his argument that they were "constitutionally protected" and had not adversely affected the workers concerned.
Giuliani did not contest that "to the extent that the statements were statements of fact and otherwise actionable, such actionable factual statements were false."
The statement by the Republican lawyer came as part of a defamation lawsuit brought by Ruby Freeman and Wandrea "Shaye" Moss, who alleged that they had faced harassment after Giuliani and Trump claimed they had counted extra votes.
The two were said to have removed ballots from suitcases underneath tables after the count had ended in Fulton County, Georgia.
Officials in the state debunked the claims, stating that the absentee ballots had been removed from carrier cases while counting was still ongoing, the Augusta Chronicle reported at the time.
"Giuliani's stipulation concedes what we have always known to be true—Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss honorably performed their civic duties in the 2020 presidential election in full compliance with the law," Michael J. Gottlieb, partner...
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