In a court filing on Tuesday, Rudy Giuliani admitted that he made false statements about two Georgia election workers in a lawsuit related to baseless claims of fraud he made against them in 2020.
Giuliani stated that he does not dispute that the statements were false if they were factual and actionable. He signed a stipulation to avoid unnecessary expenses in litigation.
The workers, Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, claimed that their lives were turned upside down by conspiracy theorists and Giuliani. They were accused of election fraud by Trump and his allies based on a heavily edited clip of security footage that showed them passing around a ginger mint, not USB ports.
Freeman testified to the committee that she “lost my sense of security — all because a group of people, starting with Number 45 and his ally Rudy Giuliani, decided to scapegoat me and my daughter Shaye to push their own lies about how the presidential election was stolen.” The Jan. 6 committee called the duo’s treatment “callous, inhumane, and inexcusable.”