Rudy Giuliani faces having to pay Georgia election workers up to $43.5million for pushing false theories they were rigging the 2020 election – and left them too scared to leave their homes

Rudy Giuliani could be forced to pay $43.5 million in damages to two Georgia election workers he falsely accused of rigging the 2020 election in favor of President Joe Biden.

Giuliani arrived late Monday morning at the Elijah Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse in Washington, D.C., and did not speak to reporters as he entered the building.

Jury selection then began in a trial that will determine whether Giuliani will have to pay damages to Ruby Freeman and her daughter Vandrea “Shay” Moss, and how much money is at stake.

Two election officials are seeking between $15 million and $43.5 million in damages in a libel case.

Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, was one of former President Donald Trump’s election lawyers and has already been found guilty of defaming Freeman and Moss.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani arrived at the Elijah Barrett Prettyman Courthouse in Washington on Monday morning to determine whether he should pay damages to two Georgia election officials.

The court will determine whether Giuliani must pay Shay Moss (left) and her mother Ruby Freeman (right) after former President Donald Trump’s lawyer repeatedly made debunked claims that they tried to steal Joe’s election, and if so, how much money . Biden

He advanced a conspiracy theory that they were involved in election fraud during the counting of ballots at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia.

The lawsuit says Giuliani repeatedly made debunked claims that Freeman and Moss stole suitcases containing illegal ballots and committed other acts of fraud to try to change the outcome of the 2020 race.

Giuliani put forward the theory that the mother and daughter were passing the USB drive between each other as part of a scam.

On January 6, 2022, Moss gave tearful testimony before a House Select Committee, explaining that her mother had given her a “ginger mint.”

The two women received death threats and feared for their lives.

Moss detailed the racist comments she received online after Giuliani made her and her mother household names.

“There was just a lot of terrible stuff there,” Moss said. – Threats, many threats, wanting me dead. Telling me that I’ll be in prison with my mother and saying things like, “Be glad it’s 2020 and not 1920.”

Rudy Giuliani gets out of his car in front of the federal courthouse in Washington on Monday morning. He alleged that Ruby Freeman and Shay Moss pulled out suitcases of illegal ballots to help President Joe Biden win the swing state of Georgia.

“A lot of them were racist,” Moss said. “A lot of them were just hateful.”

Moss also testified that several people who believed Giuliani’s story went to her grandmother’s house to make a citizen’s arrest.

“I’ve never heard or seen her cry in my life,” Moss said. “She called me screaming at the top of her lungs… saying people were at her house. I just felt so helpless.”

Freeman testified before the committee on Jan. 6 but did not make his views public.

Instead, her video interviews with committee members were aired during public hearings.

“I don’t feel safe anywhere. Nowhere,” Freeman said in a pre-recorded video. “Do you know what it’s like to be harassed by the President of the United States? The President of the United States should represent every American, not target just one.”

“But he targeted me,” she added.