Rudy Giuliani will concede that he made false and defamatory statements about two Georgia election workers who are suing him after becoming the targets of baseless conspiracy theories following the 2020 presidential campaign.
Giuliani’s concession, which came in a court filing shortly before midnight on Tuesday, marks a significant milestone in a case that the former New York City mayor has fought for more than a year. But it has limits — he states that although he’ll no longer contest claims brought by Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, he may still fight paying damages and could still argue the statements were constitutionally protected speech.
He wrote that he was making the concession “solely for the purposes of this litigation.”
Signaling fights ahead, Giuliani political adviser and spokesperson Ted Goodman said in a statement that Giuliani “did not acknowledge that the statements were false” but would no longer contest the claims “in order to move on to the portion of the case that will permit a motion to dismiss.”
The filing came in response to a request by Freeman and Moss for a federal judge in Washington to order “severe” sanctions against Giuliani for failing to comply with his obligations to preserve and turn over electronic evidence in the case. Giuliani has continued to dispute that he violated evidence rules, but said he was conceding the facts of the case to resolve that issue.
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