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Via Zoe Tillman:
Hello from the DC federal courthouse, where #RudyGiuliani is waiting to get through security as jury selection is set to begin this a.m. to determine how much in damages he'll owe two #Georgia election workers who sued him for defamation.
And jury selection is just getting underway in Rudy Giuliani's damages trial -- Judge Beryl Howell, who was not amused that Giuliani was not in the courtroom at 9am when they were supposed to begin, is presiding #legal 1/…
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10/ Via Reilly:
A jury has been seated in Rudy Giuliani's defamation trial. They'll be instructed at 1:30 p.m. and then they'll get to it.
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11/ Via Reilly:
Giuliani is liable not just for the harm caused by his own actions, but also for the actions of his co-conspirators, the judge tells jurors. Jurors will be required to assume certain facts in calculating damages.
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8/ Via Kyle Cheney:
Minimal eye contact between Giuliani and anyone else in the courtroom, including Moss/Freeman and Judge Howell. Notably, Rudy remained seated when the courtroom deputy asked everyone to rise for the judge as they took break.
Process is moving briskly. At least 6 of 1st 8 jury candidates have been qualified. Magic number 14, decent chance to get there before lunch.
Not sure if Rudy is relieved or offended none have expressed strong feelings about him so far.
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9/ Cheney contd:
A man has engaged Giuliani in the hall to describe some videos on Rumble that appear to relate to Giuliani’s false claims about Freeman/Moss. Giuliani didn’t appear to have any notable reaction
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7/ Via Reilly:
Another potential juror is a journalist with Al Jazeera English who covered Giuliani's lies and followed him on this platform.
Says she has some "pretty strong feelings" about what happened on Jan. 6 and some of the characters involved, but she'd do her best.
She's excused
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6/ Via Ryan Reilly:
In the middle of his defamation trial, Rudy Giuliani’s X account just posted link to the far-right conspiracy website Gateway Pundit.
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4/ Like Trump was going to testify? 🙄 If he does, same potentially disastrous result.
Via Reilly:
Judge Howell tells potential jurors that Giuliani was already found to have defamed the election workers, and that the only question for jury members is how much he's going to have to fork over.
Rudy Giuliani's attorney just told potential jurors that he plans to testify.
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5/ Via Zoe Tillman:
Some of the case-specific questions that the prospective jurors are being asked ahead of individual questioning, incl. whether they believe Biden's 2020 election was illegitimate and if they've ever used the phrase "Let's Go Brandon"
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2/ 🤣HAHAHAHA! Oh man.😂
Via Ryan Reilly:
Giuliani finally got through security.
His belt was still undone, hanging at his waist.
Someone just told him.
He fixed it in the elevator.
He’s now entering court, late, after he failed to show up to a pretrial hearing last week that he was required to attend.
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3/ Via Andrew Weissmann:
The day of (civil) reckoning for Rudy for his actions against plaintiffs Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss. The sole issue for the jury is the amount of damages, including punitive damages
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