Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, was ordered to pay $148 million on Thursday. This corresponds to approximately NOK 1.5 billion. The money is to be paid as restitution to several election workers in the US state of Georgia, writes Reuters. The 79-year-old was also sentenced to pay 32 million dollars, approximately NOK 330 million, for defamation. Giuliani has already announced that he will appeal the case, and calls the sums “absurd”. He did not testify at the trial. The federal court had previously decided he was guilty of making false allegations against election workers. Today’s trial dealt with a civil lawsuit in which a jury had to decide the amount of damages Giuliani should pay. Wandrea Moss and Ruby Freeman. Photo: Jacquelyn Martin / AP Flooded with racist and sexist messages The plaintiffs are election workers Wandrea Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman. Both are black, and have testified in the trial that they have received a flood of racist and sexist messages after Trump and his allies spread false claims that election workers in Georgia cheated. Trump lost the election in Georgia in the 2020 presidential election. Among other things, Giuliani has claimed that a surveillance video showed Moss and Freeman hiding and counting several suitcases with illegal ballots. An investigation determined that the ballots were genuine and that Moss and Freeman did their jobs properly.
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