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Rudy Giuliani ordered to pay $148 million in defamation trial

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Thank you for a good and reasonable post. Concerning this case and this very biased judge, my biggest problem with the judgment is the very exorbitant amount of the award. $149 million is just flat out ridiculous.
 
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Thank you for a good and reasonable post. Concerning this case and this very biased judge, my biggest problem with the judgment is the very exorbitant amount of the award. $149 million is just flat out ridiculous.

I’d argue the amount wasn’t high enough because Giuliani has continued to defame them.
 
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Giuliani admitted he was guilty. He signed court papers to that affect. The judge simply accepted that admission. She had no decision to make. What could she have done? Tell Giuliani that he lied by pleading guilty? Charge him with perjury because he confessed?

Talk sense for heaven's sake.
 
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Thank you for a good and reasonable post. Concerning this case and this very biased judge, my biggest problem with the judgment is the very exorbitant amount of the award. $149 million is just flat out ridiculous.

As already noted, the judge DOES NOT SET THE AWARD. (Let me guess, you'd never heard of Beryl Howell before, had you?)
 
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Did I say she did?

I recall quoting someone's post saying that the federal jury set the award.
Then why say that the judge was biased? There was nothing on which to base that. The defendant pleaded guilty and the jury awarded the damages. The judge had nothing to do. Your response has all the appearance of a knee jerk reaction. It was someone working for Trump...therefore anything that goes against him is automatically biased.

Can't you see what you just did?
 
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I miss the days when left wing liberals weren't prosecuting their political opponents
Maybe they should stop committing crimes and doing things for which they are being held liable?
thereby causing election interference.
Just stop. It's embarrassing to read.
 
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Her biases are very obvious based upon her own words. I'm done with this thread because the discussion is just going around in circles.
But you accused her of being biased in this trial. That was simply not possible. There was no way for her bias to be exhibited. If you are basing it on what she said, then that is probably her warning Giuliani that he was on trial for making defamatory claims about the two women, he had pled guilty and he was repeating them outside the court.

On a scale of one to ten for idiotic behaviour, then Giuliani gets the perfect score. What's the judge to do? Ignore that? And hey, guess who would have read those comments. Yeah, the jury members. Who were due to award damages. And they see the guy, far from being contrite, actually doubling down on the accusations.

Way to go, Rudi!
 
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Wow,
if there is ANY verdict against a trump supporter many people will be convinced that
the verdict clearly proves the "deep state" has "weaponized" the justice system to punish Trump supporters

Unfortunately yes. Now that this idea has taken root, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Even when people in Trump's camp plead guilty, all that means is that the deep state 'got to them'.
 
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I miss the days when left wing liberals weren't prosecuting their political opponents thereby causing election interference.
I miss the days when Republicans didn't think they were above the law. Of course, that was when Lincoln was around, and I was barely crawling then.
 
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I miss the days when Republicans didn't think they were above the law. Of course, that was when Lincoln was around, and I was barely crawling then.
I miss the days when the DoJ wasn't weaponized against one's political opponents.
 
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I miss the days when the DoJ wasn't weaponized against one's political opponents.
Just you wait. If Trump gets back in office, you ain't seen nothin' yet.

-- A2SG, ooh baby....
 
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I miss the days when the DoJ wasn't weaponized against one's political opponents.

How can you miss those days when they are still here?
Or alternately, when exactly were those days? J Edgar Hoover took over what became the FBI in 1924 and wasn't exactly known for his fair and open-minded approach towards dissidents.
 
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I miss the days when the DoJ wasn't weaponized against one's political opponents.
The DOJ didn't sue Rudy Giulani. Two individuals who were harassed into near hiding because of Rudy did.
 
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The jury looks at facts, not the lies, by their news media.
 
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