Giuliani concedes he made 'false' statements about 2 Georgia election workers 

(The Hill) — Two Fulton County, Georgia poll workers—Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss—sued Former Trump personal attorney Rudy Giuliani for defamation in December 2021 over his statements that they helped rig the 2020 election. Now, Giuliani has conceded that statements he made about the election workers were “false.”

In a two-page statement filed Tuesday, he said that he will “not contest” that those statements were “false” and “carry meaning that is defamatory.” Giuliani also said that he will not challenge the “factual elements of liability” regarding the election workers’ allegations of “intentional infliction of emotional distress and other related tort claims.”

However, his statement maintains that those concessions do not affect his argument that the statements and opinions he made were “constitutionally protected.” The statement also notes that he is conceding on these allegations "for the purposes of deciding this case on legal issues.”

This statement comes just days after former New York Police Department (NYPD) commissioner Bernard Kerik—who helped former President Donald Trump's campaign look into false claims of election fraud in 2020—committed to turning over documents to Freeman and Moss’s legal team. The Hill has reached out to Giuliani for further comment.

Freeman and Moss, a mother-daughter pair, began to receive backlash during the 2020 election after social media posts surfaced that falsely claimed to show them committing election fraud. These false allegations were perpetrated by Giuliani and Trump, according to a report investigating the matter.

A series of probes led by three law enforcement agencies—Georgia’s Secretary of State’s office and special agents within the FBI and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation—found those allegations against the poll workers “were false and unsubstantiated.” The election workers also filed a defamation lawsuit against One America News Network, which advanced the false claims during their broadcasts. The network ultimately paid a settlement and issued an on-air retraction of the allegations last year.