Rudy Giuliani defends former President Trump after a jury orders him to pay $83.3 million for defaming columnist E. He called the district judge a “disgrace.”
“Well, that judge is an embarrassment to America's largest court. This is called the Mother Court, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York,” Giuliani said on Newsmax Friday after the ruling. Ta. Highlighted by Mediaite. “We had some of the greatest judges in American history. This judge is an absolute disgrace.”
Mr. Giuliani, a former New York City mayor turned Trump lawyer, criticized Mr. Kaplan for his conduct with lawyers at the trial.
In 2019, Trump was ordered to pay a large sum of money in defamation charges after Carroll denied accusations that he sexually assaulted her in the 1990s. This is the second time Carroll has won damages from Trump in court, the $5 million she received last year in a verdict that found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation over separate comments. This is also the second time.
Mr. Giuliani defended the former president, saying Mr. Trump had been found “not guilty or responsible for rape.”
“It was a sexual assault. It was not rape,” he said. “And secondly, even being guilty of rape can make a person a weirdo.”
He argued that Trump was able to protect himself from Carroll's accusations and her defamation.
President Trump has vowed to appeal the “ridiculous” defamation ruling. He disagreed with both rulings and said he planned to appeal the “Biden-led witch hunt” focused on him and the Republican Party.
Mr. Giuliani, a longtime ally of Mr. Trump, was ordered by a jury in December to pay $148 million in damages to two former Georgia election officials who he accused of fraud in the 2020 presidential election. .
After Trump lost the 2020 election, Giuliani led an unsuccessful legal effort to overturn President Biden's victory.
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