Now that a precedent has been established in the state of Georgia as a result of the massive $148 million defamation judgement handed down against Rudy Giuliani for his slagging of election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, it’s fair to ask if a similar fate awaits failed former president Donald Trump, who has also said horrible things about the two women.
As MSNBC’s Ali Velshi noted, “If Giuliani is guilty of defaming two innocent people, knowingly spreading lies at their expense, is the disgraced ex-president as well?”
Velshi explained why Trump should be worried.
“The January 6th Select Committee clearly illustrated the way Trump targeted Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss in the aftermath of the election. This was the crowd in Valdosta, Georgia, at a Trump rally on December the 5th, 2020. Remember, this was after the election. What they’re doing is watching the video incorrectly purporting to show Moss and Freeman engaged in election fraud, and after that, this is what Trump said.”
Velshi then played a video clip of Trump declaring, “So, if you just take the crime of what those Democrat workers were doing — by the way, there was no water main break,” said Trump in the clip. “You know, they said there was no water main break. That’s ten times more than I need to win this state, ten times more. It is ten times, maybe more than that, but it is ten times more because we lost by a very close number.”
“Beyond the scope of civil litigation, what sort of overlap exists between the Giuliani ruling and Trump’s criminal case in Fulton County, Georgia?” Velshi added. “Trump mentioned Ruby Freeman 18 times on that infamous ‘Find me 11,000 votes’ call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, after all. What is next?”
What is next? Probably a massive lawsuit filed by Freeman and Moss against Trump. As if he doesn’t already have enough legal headaches.
Here’s the video from MSNBC:
