Summary
Rudy Giuliani sought to attend a contempt hearing remotely, citing health issues and death threats, but later withdrew the request after being required to swear he couldn’t travel for 30 days, including to Trump’s inauguration.
Giuliani argued he “probably shouldn’t” travel due to medical and security risks but emphasized the inauguration’s importance.
The hearing stems from Giuliani’s alleged defamation of election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, despite prior court orders.
Giuliani faces mounting legal troubles, including contempt rulings and a $148 million defamation judgment.
He was just ruled to be in contempt of court this Monday. He should start to tread lightly already.
Edit: That was in the New York court of Judge Lewis Liman, this one is in the Washington D.C. court of Judge Beryl Howell. I didn’t notice this earlier. Those two contempts are therefore unconnected from a procedural point of view.
What consequences has he faced?
On the contempt specifically? All I remember for sure at the moment was that Judge Lewis Liman will now draw adverse inference from the missing information. For example from the incomplete list of doctors, i.e. he will assume none of them are in Florida, and therefore there is less proof that Giuliani lives in that big house down in Florida. If that big house is found not to be his primary residence it will be handed over to Freeman and Moss. (Any secondary residences are fair game. Giuliani would prefer to hand over his New York residence apparently. So I hope he loses the one in Florida instead.)
None of note, but he can’t count on Daddy Trump to bail him out if any actually do happen.
Didnt he already lose his home to those two women he falsely accused?
That’s one of the things he’s dragging out. They are arguing about which is his real primary residency at the moment, because he would lose any other than his prime residency. He was arguing it was in Florida, but refused to produce the documents to prove it. (Asked for a list of his doctors, to see their locations he only provided last names, for example) and now Judge Lewis Liman has said enough, you’re in contempt and that he will now assume none of those doctors are in Florida.
He’s also “lost” the signed Jersey he was supposed to hand over. He gave them the car keys, but still not the title to it. And has not handed over his gold watch yet.
He’s being maximum cunty about it.
If he did, good!
There you can see that he is a full-blown politician. Whenever he opens his mouth, he emits lies.
Funny how contempt is so poorly defined in law.
Or how unserious they seem about enforcing it and have it mean something.
Shit inside his mouth, let’s see him say stuff then.
nah, Trump did that for years, but he keeps talking just fine. In fact he usually begs for more
“Cited the inauguration’s importance” bruh you’re just a fucking audience member, you can watch that shit online. Now go to court.
“for the inauguration of President Trump, which will be a once-in-a-lifetime event”
He says for the event that is happening for the second time.
He’s not wrong, though. The first time Trump was getting sworn in as a President. This time he’s getting sworn in as a dictator.
You misspelled felon.
So exciting to witness this historic occasion.
Regarding the court appearance, does that mean he intends to not have it a once in a lifetime event and commit more crime?
Worked for Cena vs Rock in the 2010s. The first Wrestlemania match was billed as once in a lifetime.
They did it three times. And they planned for it to ALWAYS be three from the innitial stages of planning.
Which means they FULLY could have billed the first match as literally anything else.
Now, you may be wondering what this has to do with trump. Well keep in mind that vince mcmahon was trumps single highest donor by far. It’s been said that vince single handedly paid for trumps first presidency. And now his wife is head of small business under trumps cabinet.
My point here is that trump and his cronies are a bunch of carney scam artists. And he surrounds himself with carney scam artists.
So for rudy to say once in a lifetime, knowing damn sure well it isn’t? That’s par for the coarse.
Well, it’s the first and last time that it’s the second time it happens, duh!
“So, at last we meet for the first time for the last time.”
Correct me if I’m wrong, but unless you’re the president-elect or the person swearing them in, a presidential inauguration is just a meeting that could have been an email.
Throw his ass in prison already and quit rubbing the two-tier justice system in our faces
They won’t, he’s a wealthy Republican and therefore allowed to just ignore the law
he’s a
wealthyRepublicanFTFY
To be fair, even with zero net worth (i.e. assuming he eventually is successful in discharging his debt), he’s still wealthier than like 10% of Americans.
Contempt of the court?
I thought he was broke and they took his car, how’s he traveling?
It pays to have rich friends.
Or rather, to know where the assholes burried the bodies.
Lock him up!
Sick with what? Herpes?
Brain worm deficiency
He’s a ghoul, and deserves the worst.
That said, attending an inauguration is absolutely less stressful than being prosecuted.
