‘I can’t pay my bills’: Rudy Giuliani loses his cool, lashes out in court

An aggravated Rudy Giuliani mislaid his chill successful the courtroom Tuesday, lashing retired astatine the justice overseeing his defamation payout, saying “I can’t wage my bills.”

The erstwhile New York politician and lawyer to Donald Trump was captured successful a now-viral courtroom sketch by Jane Rosenberg, pointing furiously astatine Judge Lewis Liman.

“The implications you are making against maine are wrong. I person nary car, nary recognition card, nary cash, everything I person is tied up, they person enactment halt orders connected my concern accounts, and I can’t wage my bills!” helium told Liman, arguing that the 2 Georgia predetermination workers he owes US$148 million to person tied up each his assets.

The $148-million judgment stems from Giuliani’s relation successful pushing Trump’s unfounded claims that the 2020 statesmanlike predetermination was stolen from him.

Giuliani, who has since been disbarred successful New York and Washington, falsely accused predetermination workers Ruby Freeman and Wandrea (Shaye) Moss of ballot fraud, saying they snuck successful ballots successful suitcases, counted ballots aggregate times and tampered with voting machines.

Freeman and Moss sued for defamation and said the mendacious allegations led to decease threats that made them fearfulness for their lives.

Liman antecedently threatened Giuliani with civilian contempt for failing to surrender assets, including a luxury Manhattan apartment, to partially screen what helium owes.

Giuliani’s lawyer Joseph Cammarata told Liman that his lawsuit had turned implicit 90 per cent of the assets.

But the justice questioned Giuliani’s alleged conflict to unafraid paperwork to manus implicit his 1980 Mercedes conveyance — the 1 helium drove to vote successful the statesmanlike predetermination 3 weeks agone — saying Giuliani’s anterior occupation arsenic the apical national authoritative successful Manhattan was a motion helium was afloat competent.

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After Giuliani’s outburst connected Tuesday, Liman warned him that helium could not talk again successful tribunal unless testifying nether oath due to the fact that his lawyer should bash the talking.

The justice said Giuliani could either take to correspond himself oregon fto lawyers bash so, but “you can’t person hybrid representation.”

“There should beryllium nary higher precedence for your lawsuit close present than complying with the court’s orders. Period,” Liman told Cammarata.

A scheduled Jan. 16, 2025 proceedings volition find whether Giuliani indispensable surrender sports memorabilia and spot successful Florida.

Liman separately rejected Giuliani’s petition to hold the proceedings truthful helium could be events connected to Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration. Cammarata said Giuliani inactive regularly consults with Trump.

“The defendant’s societal calendar does not represent owed cause,” Liman said.

Giuliani pleaded not blameworthy to transgression charges successful Georgia and Arizona that helium aided Trump’s unsuccessful effort to overturn the 2020 election.

— With files from Reuters and The Associated Press