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- L.A. Times Book Prize winners named in a ceremony filled with support for USC valedictorian Asna Tabassum
- Day 3 trial highlights: Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer tries to undermine expert who said reputation repair could cost $47.8M
- 'Insane': Giuliani may have defamed Georgia election workers again
- Sign up for the Los Angeles Times Book Club
- Freeman will take the stand later, lawyer says
- Rudy Giuliani: Hair dye streams down sweating Trump lawyer's face in latest news conference embarrassment
- In video shown to jury, investigators said they found no evidence of fraud

Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack and is now a candidate in Arizona's 8th Congressional District; Greg Safsten, a former executive director of the Arizona Republican Party; energy industry executive James Lamon, who lost a 2022 Republican primary for a U.S. In Arizona, Mayes' predecessor, Republican Mark Brnovich, conducted an investigation of the 2020 election, but the fake elector allegations were not part of that examination, according to Mayes' office. Three fake electors also have been charged in Georgia alongside Trump and others in a sweeping indictment accusing them of participating in a wide-ranging scheme to illegally overturn the results. Five people, including a Capitol police officer, were killed in the violence that followed.
L.A. Times Book Prize winners named in a ceremony filled with support for USC valedictorian Asna Tabassum
Both Hoylman and the NYSBA referenced a comment made by Giuliani in a speech at a rally before rioters broke into the Capitol, in which Giuliani called for a "trial by combat" over the election results. Both also referenced Giuliani's promotion of false claims that the election was stolen by fraud and his role in a protracted, unsuccessful string of lawsuits seeking to overturn results of the 2020 election, which Trump's political rival President-elect Joe Biden won. Giuliani’s legal woes led to him reporting dire financial issues that have hampered his ability to pay his legal bills and fees—and ultimately resulted in him filing for bankruptcy in December after the $148 million fine was levied against him. The attorney pointed to his money troubles as his reason for not paying sanctions in the Georgia election workers’ defamation case before the lawsuit went to trial, and attorney Robert Costello sued Giuliani in September 2023 for $1.4 million in unpaid attorneys fees.
Day 3 trial highlights: Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer tries to undermine expert who said reputation repair could cost $47.8M
Giuliani's lawyer then cited the origin of the Covid virus and Hunter Biden as examples. Ruby Freeman said in her testimony this afternoon she she received threatening messages following Giuliani's allegations against her in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election. Amid widespread amusement on Twitter, one user said the Trump aide was "sweating black goo", while another speculated that he had a sponsorship deal with a hair dye manufacturer - which had just been cancelled.
'Insane': Giuliani may have defamed Georgia election workers again

Please bookmark nationalpost.com and sign up for our daily newsletter, Posted, here. She confirmed that observers were never kicked out of State Farm Arena in Atlanta, where the vote counting was taking place, and that fraudulent ballots weren’t brought in packed in suitcases and hidden under tables. The trial resumes at 9 a.m., with another deposition video from a poll observer present at State Farm Arena on election night.
Freeman testifies the FBI told her she couldn't go home due to threats
Expert witness Ashlee Humphreys, a professor at Northwestern University and an expert on social media, has taken the stand. She will testify about the amount of damages she believes Freeman and Moss should receive from Giuliani. Freeman testified that she went to the police to report these threats, and during her meeting with officers, her phone was ringing nonstop. She added that she had to get security cameras installed at her house, something she never considered until then. Afterward, however, she had to move once her address had been circulated online.
A source with knowledge of the trip said that Mr. Trump would meet with Michigan’s Senate majority leader, Mike Shirkey, and speaker of the House, Lee Chatfield, late Friday afternoon. Both lawmakers are Republicans who have said that whoever has the most votes in Michigan after the results are certified will get the state’s 16 electoral votes. Of the eight lawsuits that unsuccessfully challenged Biden’s victory in the state, one was filed by the 11 Republicans who would later sign the certificate declaring Trump as the winner.
Freeman will take the stand later, lawyer says
The 9/11 attacks occurred on the scheduled date of the mayoral primary to select the Democratic and Republican candidates to succeed Giuliani. The election proceeded as scheduled, and the winning candidate, the Giuliani-endorsed Republican convert Michael Bloomberg, took office on January 1, 2002, per normal custom. At one point in the news conference, Giuliani did an impression of Joe Pesci's character from "My Cousin Vinny" to back up the Trump campaign's claim that Republican election observers were not allowed to properly watch the ballot counting. The New York Times reached out to professional hairstylists to get their option on the matter.
Trump Lawyer Rudy Giuliani Melts Down in Press Conference - New York Magazine
Trump Lawyer Rudy Giuliani Melts Down in Press Conference.
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The plaintiffs' lawyer, Michael Gottlieb, led the questioning of Humphreys, in which she walked the jury through her report on the amount of damages Freeman and Moss should be granted based on the impact of Giuliani's defamatory statements. To give the parties time to discuss legal issues before the defense puts on their case. Another recent news conference was held opposite a crematorium and next to a sex shop. Anyway, as a reminder, Giuliani reportedly wants $20,000 a day for his legal services. Later, he claimed that more than 600,00 ballots in Pennsylvania weren’t inspected, rendering them “null and void,” which is false; that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito had said ballots coming in Pennsylvania after 8 p.m. Couldn’t be opened, which is also false; and that votes have not been certified in Wayne County, Michigan, which, you guessed it, is also false.
Rudy Giuliani D.C. Law-License Hearing: His 5 Worst Excuses - New York Magazine
Rudy Giuliani D.C. Law-License Hearing: His 5 Worst Excuses.
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In another election-related case brought by Mayes' office, two Republican officials in a rural Arizona county who delayed canvassing the 2022 general election results face felony charges. A grand jury indicted Cochise County Supervisors Peggy Judd and Tom Crosby in November on one count each of conspiracy and interference with an election officer. Former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani was reportedly indicted on criminal charges in Arizona for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election—the latest in a slew of legal troubles the former New York City mayor is facing, including criminal charges in Georgia. “Someone running the Trump campaign’s feed of this presser can be heard saying [can they hear us on the stream? ’ and talking about ‘Rudy’s hair dye dripping down his face’,” a Politico reporter pointed out. The YouTube video of the press conference was hastily removed by the Trump campaign.
In the first 30 minutes of the trial this morning, Judge Beryl Howell went over how they would ask the jury to determine how “reasonably foreseeable” it would have been for Giuliani’s false claims against Freeman and Moss to be republished and circulated. After yesterday’s trial proceedings, Giuliani referred to the case as a “political hit job” in comments to reporters outside the courtroom. Later that evening, Giuliani disparaged the plaintiffs in a livestream shared to the social media platform X.
Vice President Mike Pence and members of Congress were inside the chambers counting electoral college votes. People inside were forced to evacuate to safety from the rioters, some of whom threatened violence. The law-and-order mayor in fact lived and governed in a constant state of chaos. In 1999 and 2000, Giuliani stoked racial tensions after plainclothes cops killed a West African immigrant, battled prostate cancer, announced he was divorcing his second wife and then decided he wouldn’t run for the U.S. Our website is the place for the latest breaking news, exclusive scoops, longreads and provocative commentary.
It shows seven other defendants whose names were not immediately released because they had not yet been served with the charges. Mr Trump’s legal team led by former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani addressed the media for more than an hour with repeated and sweeping unsubstantiated claims of vote rigging and election fraud. But Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani seemingly managed just that on Thursday afternoon when he appeared to have a hair dye malfunction during another notable press briefing. Giuliani has had some legal wins in litigation and investigations against him, with federal prosecutors dropping an investigation in 2022 into whether Giuliani followed foreign lobbying laws without bringing any charges. A federal judge also dismissed two lawsuits against Giuliani that sought to hold him liable for the January 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol building, ruling Giuliani’s speech before the riot, in which he called for “trial by combat,” was protected speech.