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On Thursday Mollie Hemingway at The Federalist confirmed our reporting from February last year. A new book from Mike Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman admits that a widely misunderstood phone call, on which Willis’ political prosecution rests, was illegally recorded. That means the entire prosecution could crumble with defendants having a new avenue to challenge Democrat lawfare.

A bankruptcy judge gave Rudy Giuliani the green light to seek a new trial to challenge the $148 million defamation verdict won by two Georgia election workers after Rudy got railroaded by an Obama judge and was unable to present any evidence at trial. Last month Rudy Giuliani filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection one day after Obama-appointed Judge Beryl Howell ordered immediate enforcement of Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss’s $148 million judgment against him. According to Bloomberg, Giuliani listed $500 million in debts and between $1 million and $10 million in assets. The bankruptcy filing put...

House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) appears to have misrepresented impeachment evidence that was used during the House Democrats’ impeachment investigation, according to a report from Tuesday evening. According to documents obtained by Politico, text messages between Lev Parnas and Rudy Giuliani were "mischaracterized" by Schiff in a letter sent to House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler last week. "In one section of the letter, Schiff claims that Parnas 'continued to try to arrange a meeting with President Zelensky,' citing a specific text message exchange where Parnas tells Giuliani: 'trying to get us mr Z.' The remainder of the exchange —...

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Thursday in the wake of a $148 million civil court ruling and a mountain of unpaid legal bills. Giuliani, 79, estimates he currently owes $153 million — an amount that will likely balloon due to several other pending lawsuits and when millions of dollars in pending legal bills are factored in, according to the Manhattan federal court filing. The $148 million settlement was the biggest financial blow to Giuliani, but he also owes the IRS more than $700,000 and more than $260,000 to New York State tax authorities,...

Rudy Giuliani has filed for bankruptcy, days after being ordered to pay $148 million in a defamation lawsuit brought by two former election workers in Georgia who said his targeting of them led to death threats that made them fear for their lives. In his filing Thursday, the former New York City mayor listed nearly $153 million in existing or potential debts, including close to a million dollars in tax liabilities, money he owes his lawyers and many millions of dollars in potential legal judgements in lawsuits against him. He estimated his assets to be between $1 million and $10...

@RudyGiuliani : A meeting is coming out in 1-2 days in State Dept. in which Hunter snuck in the back door ... That meeting took place with Tony Blinken."

As you may know, global warm-monger Michael E Mann's twelve-year defamation suit against me is going to trial at the District of Columbia Superior Court on January 16th - supposedly, that is: given the last-minute cancellation of the previously scheduled trial, I'm not taking anything for granted until jury selection has been underway for an hour or two. Mr Mann is the creator of the famous climate-change "hockey stick"; I have to make do with the SteynOnline Liberty Stick. Mine is not, however, the only defamation suit in America's depraved capital city. A Georgia mother and her daughter cannily chose...

Georgia elections workers Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss sued Rudy Giuliani again on Monday seeking to “permanently bar” him from making public statements about them related to their involvement in counting ballots in the 2020 presidential election. The defamation suit was related to Giuliani’s statements about the two Georgia election workers seen on surveillance video from the State Farm Arena tabulation center on election night in 2020. Video played at a Georgia Senate hearing in December 2020 allegedly showed the election workers scanning ballots without an independent state monitor present. "The two women asked the court to prevent Giuliani...

Joe Scarborough: self-hating Southerner? Scarborough -- originating from the "cracker counties" of the Florida panhandle -- sometimes likes to stress his Southern upbringing, and describe himself as a "simple country lawyer" who attended two southern state universities. But the Morning Joe host has developed an ugly habit of mocking southern Republicans by putting on their supposed accents. We've caught Scarborough doing that twice in the case of House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer of Kentucky, who at least sports an accent. Check out this instance of Scarborough fantasizing Comer saying [at 0:25], of his supposed lack of evidence against Joe...

On the Sunday edition of her MSNBC show, Katie Phang invited on for a victory lap the lawyer for the two plaintiffs who won a $148 million judgment from Rudy Giuliani in their defamation case against him. The mother-and-daughter plaintiffs had been election workers in Fulton County, Georgia in the 2020 election that Rudy had publicly accused of participating in election fraud in favor of Joe Biden. In the course of his comments, the lawyer, Von DuBose, managed to maintain a straight face while claiming: "No amount of money can bring back the sense of security that's been lost in...

BREAKING: Rudy Giuliani ordered to pay $148 million for defaming Georgia election workers

Former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Inside” that “everybody should vote for” President Joe Biden if they wanted democracy to survive. Partial transcript as follows: HUTCHINSON: Donald Trump isn’t a Republican. And, yes, maybe, by name, he considers himself a Republican, but Donald Trump cares more about authoritarian rule than he does our rule of law. He doesn’t care about preserving our Constitution. He cares about leveraging it for his own power and his own gain. So, when we look at this next election, we need to think about, if we want our democracy to...

The FBI report on the late night ballot fraud operation at the State Farm Center implicates Chris Wray and exonerates Rudy Giuliani. This is the second part to our series on the FBI report on illicit and illegal election night activities at the State Farm Center in Atlanta, Georgia on November 3, 2020. As reported on Monday – Chris Wray’s FBI, along with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office, released a report in June 2023 where they announced that they “did not uncover any violations” during their investigation of the late-night ballot counting...

WASHINGTON — Opening statements began Monday in a trial to determine how much Rudy Giuliani will have to pay two former Georgia election workers after he was found liable for defaming them with baseless claims that they committed fraud in the 2020 election. Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, sued Giuliani over the bogus claims, which they say upended their lives. Giuliani, the former New York City mayor and former federal prosecutor, was found to have defamed the two women, including by falsely claiming they were handing around what he alleged were USB drives "like they were vials...

From the report: [“Freeman was also questioned about her alleged social media posts; however, she wanted to speak with an attorney before proceeding any further on that issue. She stated the situation was bad due to the alleged posts, and that she had received over 500 emails, text messages, and was being harassed by having unsolicited pizza orders sent to her house. People were also calling her neighbors and questioning them about her. Freeman was asked to review some social media posts, but she declined to answer further questions until she retained an attorney,” the FBI report read.] Rudy Giuliani...

It seemed just a play on Kiev’s shadow civil war, but it turns out there are also Burisma corruption ties involved. The Ukrainian lawmaker charged with treason for ‘misinformation’ has been remanded in detention for 60 days – and, as the story unfolds and we get a better notion of who Oleksandr Dubinsky is, it turns out the story involves Joe and Hunter Biden, Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani. Initial information was that Dubinsky was in hot water for his recent comments on the chaotic situation in the country, the unchecked corruption in Volodymyr Zelensky’s circle. He wrote that the...

Rudy Giuliani may be the next one of Donald Trump's co-defendants to plead guilty in the Georgia 2020 election interference case, according to legal experts. Former Trump campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis took a plea deal on reduced charges Tuesday morning, making her the latest co-defendant to plead guilty to criminal charges in connection with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' investigation into Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia. Speculation has grown that Giuliani, the former New York mayor who was Trump's lawyer after the 2020 presidential election, could become the next co-defendant to plead guilty to...

The Georgia election interference case just had an interesting new development, and it’s not looking good for attorney Sidney Powell, one of the defendants facing various charges related to efforts to change the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. One of her former cohorts has seen fit to throw her under the bus, so to speak. An attorney representing former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik placed most of the blame for the debacle on Powell for making false claims about the election. A lawyer for an alleged co-conspirator in the Georgia 2020 election interference case has said that former...

Former Bonanno crime family boss Joseph “Big Joey” Massino — the first head of one of New York’s five mob families to ever turn rat — died earlier this month after battling a short illness, it was revealed Friday. He was 80. Massino, who ran the Bonanno family with an iron fist from 1991 to 2003, died at a rehab facility in the New York City area on Sept. 14, sources close to his family told Newsday. The ex-mob boss, who sent shockwaves through the organized crime world when he became a federal witness nearly two decades ago, had been...

Joe Scarborough frequently boasts about his Baptist upbringing, steeped in the Bible. Joe might like to refresh his memory of Proverbs 24:17-18: Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth. Lest the Lord see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him. Scarborough and his Morning Joe gang spent much of the opening segment of today's show rejoicing with gladdened hearts over the fall of Rudy Giuliani. Rudy Giuliani surely brought some of his troubles on himself, but Morning Joe's schadenfreude over his apparent downfall was no...