#fuck giuliani

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[thespaisclosed]

[reasonsforhope]

Donald Trump charged in Georgia for efforts to overturn the 2020 election

Link here, because WaPo's security measures stop Tumblr previews. Non-paywall link here.

"Former president Donald Trump and 18 others were criminally charged in Georgia on Monday in connection with efforts to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 victory in the state, according to an indictment made public late Monday night [on August 14, 2023].

Trump was charged with 13 counts, including violating the state’s racketeering act, soliciting a public officer to violate their oath, conspiring to impersonate a public officer, conspiring to commit forgery in the first degree and conspiring to file false documents.

The Recap

The historic indictment, the fourth to implicate the former president, follows a 2½-year investigation by Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis (D). The probe was launched after audio leaked from a January 2021 phone call during which Trump urged Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) to question the validity of thousands of ballots, especially in the heavily Democratic Atlanta area, and said he wanted to “find” the votes to erase his 2020 loss in the state.

Willis’s investigation quickly expanded to other alleged efforts by Trumpor his supporters, including trying to thwart the electoral college process, harassing election workers, spreading false information about the voting process in Georgia and compromising election equipment in a rural county. Trump has long decried the Georgia investigation as a “political witch hunt,” defending his calls to Raffensperger and others as “perfect.”

The Details

“Trump and the other Defendants charged in this Indictment refused to accept that Trump lost, and they knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of Trump,” the indictment states.

A total of 41 charges are brought against 19 defendants in the 98-page indictment. Not all face the same counts, but all have been charged with violating the Georgia Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. Willis said she has given those charged until Aug. 25 to surrender.

Among those charged are Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor who served as Trump’s personal attorney after the election; Trump’s former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows; and several Trump advisers, including attorneys John Eastman, Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro...

Prosecutors brought charges around five subject areas: false statements by Trump allies, including Giuliani, to the Georgia legislature; the breach of voting data in Coffee County; calls Trump made to state officials, including Raffensperger, seeking to overturn Biden’s victory; the harassment of election workers; and the creation of a slate of alternate electors to undermine the legitimate vote. Those charged in the case were implicated in certain parts of what prosecutors presented as a larger enterprise to undermine the election."

-via The Washington Post, August 14, 2023

[lookninjas]

The idea of both Trump and Rudy being denied bail, though.

I mean, that's something, isn't it? That's really something.

[vivalamusaine]

Does anybody ever just randomly remember the four seasons landscaping press conference? Like that happened and it was glorious and hilarious and absolutely absurd and we were allowed to see it in real time. #blessed

[epically-epic-epicosity]

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[cyarsk52-20]

Here’s the verdict in the Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss v. Rudy Giuliani trial:

Defamation Claim-

Moss: $16,998,000

Freeman: $16,171,000

Intentional Infliction Emotional Distress Claim-

Moss: $20 million

Freeman: $20 million

Punitive Damages-

Total: $75 million

Right now, an unrepentant Giuliani is telling the media he did nothing wrong. He assails the judge and complains about not being able to put forth a defense.

Giuliani is now shushing the reporters. 🙄

Shaye Moss is reading a prepared statement to the media. She says she hopes no one has to fight so hard to get their name back.

Now, Lady Ruby speaks. She says "today is a good day" because a jury has held Rudy Giuliani accountable. There is still work to do. Giuliani wasn't the only one who spread lies about us.

Freeman: "Money will never solve all of my problems. I can never move back into the house I called 'home.' I always have to be careful about where I go and who I choose to share my name with. I miss my home. I miss my neighbors. And I miss my name."

"God chose me to go through this. I am strong and my faith shall never waver. Faith is what carried us through the most difficult years of my life and faith will carry you through hardships you face in your life. The Devil is a liar and he is defeated."

"Right makes might. Because it does."

[bl00d-f3t15h]

my pronouns are never/forget

[yeahiwasintheshit]

only the best lol

[cyarskaren52]

[mrjinx87]

Donald Trump has always sucked. Rudy Giuliani has always sucked.

I’ve been looking forward to this moment for a long time.

[persephonyed]

✉molly/nora

[ unsent ] why'd you have to leave me all that time ago? what did i do that made you want me erased from your life completely? [ unsent ] my mom keeps asking about you [ unsent ] i think the hardest thing i ever had to do was adjust my entire life to one that didn't include you. i never imagined a life without you, molly. i still can't. [ unsent ] maybe it's just me maybe i'm crazy but seeing you the other night, talking to you, it felt like nothing had ever changed. did you feel that too? [ unsent ] i'm going to love you forever [ sent ] hey stranger. don't be one anymore. okay?

send me a '✉' for five times my muse didn't text yours, and one time they did.

[muddypolitics]

(via Rudy Giuliani Accuser Presents Stunning New Evidence Against Him: ‘Come Here, Big Tits’)

insurrectionist is crazier than you imagined

[cyarsk52-20]

The transcript of Ruby Freeman & Shaye Moss’ court testimony was released today and you really should hear this.

Ruby Freeman when asked what she was the most scared of, testified…

“I am most scared of my son finding me and/or my mom hanging in front of our house in a tree.”

Rudy Giuliani knows this and yet he was on cable news continuing to defame and lie about them today after the verdict. He is scum of the Earth.

I will never forget, never forgive, and never cease to express my outrage over what these women had to go through

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