Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Sunday offered a justification after he was found liable for defaming two former Georgia election workers, Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman.
On his Sunday WABC radio program, Giuliani congratulated himself for a “brilliant legal move” because he recommended that then-President Donald Trump take his rigged election claims to state legislatures instead of the courts after the 2020 presidential vote.
“I went to Georgia, indicted, I went to Michigan, I went to Pennsylvania, I went to Arizona, and I went there, and I testified, and I brought my witnesses, and I said, among other things, if we lose, we’ll have a historical record, yet we’re going to prove this one day, Mr. President,” he recalled telling Trump. “I don’t even realize they’re going to try to put us in prison, arrest us, raid our apartments.”
It’s already been to trial and he was found guilty of defaming the two election workers (he didn’t even put in a valid defence).
That wasn’t the CRIMINAL trial though, that is still coming.
You don’t want to be admitting crimes ahead of potential jail time, especially when the bar raises from “preponderance of evidence” (civil trial) to “beyond reasonable doubt” (criminal trial).