Politico reports:
Amid Donald Trump’s desperate bid to subvert the 2020 election, a top adviser, Boris Epshteyn, sent out an “urgent POTUS request” to a small group of allies. “Need best examples of ‘election fraud’ that we’ve alleged that’s super easy to explain,” he wrote in a Dec. 7, 2020 text message. “Doesn’t necessarily have to be proven but does need to be easy to understand.”
In response, Rudy Giuliani — Trump’s lawyer who was leading the drive to amplify baseless allegations of election fraud — suggested he tell Trump about security camera footage of two Atlanta poll workers, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, moving thousands of ballots around.
“It will live in history as the theft of a state,” Giuliani wrote. Freeman and Moss — now in the midst of a long-running defamation lawsuit against Giuliani — say in new court filings that Giuliani failed to turn over evidence of this exchange despite multiple court orders to preserve and turn over his communications.
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Freeman and Moss want a default judgement against Giuliani in their defamation suit. Last week Giuliani was ordered to pay their lawyers $89,000.
Georgia election workers say Giuliani failed to turn over key evidence in defamation suit https://t.co/H0wc9SUn6C
— POLITICO (@politico) July 12, 2023
NEW: Georgia election workers suing Rudy for defamation say he should forfeit the suit for failing to preserve and produce key evidence.
They say a near-settlement collapsed in recent days. https://t.co/dPyZWc4euz
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) July 12, 2023