Rudy Giuliani, the former federal prosecutor and former New York City mayor, erupted in anger in a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday, complaining that the judge was unfairly “against him” by failing to evade a January trial date in his $148 million defamation case.
Giuliani has been another victim of harassment similar to that of Trump, precisely for being an ally of the former president in cases of electoral fraud or so-called irregularities during the 2020 presidential elections.
“All the insinuations you have made are against me!” Giuliani, the former federal prosecutor disqualified from practicing in the Southern District, told Judge Lewis Liman during a hearing in Manhattan federal court, cited by the New York newspaper. Post.
The 80-year-old former New York City mayor responded to Liman after he questioned why Giuliani had not yet given the title to his 1980 Mercedes convertible to two Georgia election workers he allegedly defamed.
“Your client is a competent person. He was the federal prosecutor in this district,” Liman said, addressing Giuliani’s lawyer. “The idea that you can’t apply for a certificate of title,” he continued, before Giuliani interrupted him.
“I requested it!” Giuliani snapped. “What am I supposed to do, make it up myself? “Your suggestion that I have not been diligent about this is completely incorrect and false.”
The former mayor accused the judge of unfairly characterizing his claim that he has limited access to assets as telling the court that he is “impoverished.”
“I am not impoverished… Everything I have is tied and subject to you precisely,” Giuliani stated.
Judicial harassment
Giuliani claimed that someone had placed a “stop order” on his Social Security account.
The judge then warned him not to speak again.
“Your client can represent himself through counsel or appear pro se,” Liman said, referring to the legal term for self-representation. “You can’t do both.”
The Jan. 16 trial will decide whether Giuliani will be able to keep his condo in Palm Beach, Florida, and whether he will have to hand over his Yankees World Series rings (which he claims were a gift for his son Andrew) to the workers. elections while appealing a ruling from the Washington DC trial against him in the defamation case.
Many of Trump’s allies have had to face incessant harassment from the Department of Justice in the midst of an unusual campaign with marked political interest.
Trump won the US presidency by a landslide, both with the Electoral College vote and the popular vote. The president-elect promised to end the politicization of the judicial system in the United States, which took a 180-degree turn since Barack Obama’s government and then with Trump’s arrival at the White House in 2016. The situation reached its climax during the government current with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
The political-judicial harassment against the former president and his close allies is unprecedented in the history of the country, much less the Department of Justice as a weapon of political persecution against adversaries, in the best style of Latin American regimes.
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