Damning court documents reveal Rudy Giuliani knew claims about Georgia election workers were false

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A court filing from the mother-and-daughter pair of Georgia election workers who are suing ex-New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani for defaming them, shows that Mr Giuliani had no evidence that either woman was involved in any manner of election fraud when he passed surveillance footage of them to former president Donald Trump’s advisers as they scrambled to justify claiming the election had been stolen from the then-president. According to documents made public as part of the defamation suit against the disgraced former mayor by Ruby Freeman and Wandrea Moss — the Georgia election workers who were forced to flee their homes after Mr Trump and his allies accused them of election fraud — Mr Giuliani flagged the now-infamous video of the pair to Trump aide Boris Epshteyn after he relayed a demand for “examples of ‘election fraud’” that were “super easy to explain”. Ms Freeman and Ms Moss included the message in question as part of a filing in which they demand that a judge levy severe sanctions on Mr Giuliani for failing to turn over that message and numerous others despite having been ordered to do so multiple times by a judge, who also told the ex-New York City mayor to preserve and make available his communications. Ted Goodman, an adviser to and spokesperson for Mr Giuliani, said in a statement that Ms Freeman’s and Ms Moss’ lawyers had made requests that were “deliberately overly burdensome, and sought information well beyond the scope of this case — including divorce records” with the aim to “harass, intimidate and embarrass” the former mayor.