Rudy Giuliani went on a rampage in a Manhattan courtroom Tuesday — saying the judge was unfairly “against him” — as he failed to budge from a January trial date. In his $148 million defamation case,
“Your every intention is against me!” Giuliani, the fired former US attorney for the Southern District, yelled at Judge Lewis Lyman during a hearing in Manhattan federal court.
The 80-year-old former New York City mayor expressed anger when Liman questioned why Giuliani had not yet handed over the title. For his 1980 Mercedes convertible Following the 2020 presidential election, he defamed two Georgia poll workers.
“Your client is a capable individual. He was the U.S. attorney for this district,” Liman said, addressing Giuliani’s lawyer. “The notion that he can’t apply for a certificate of title –” he continued, before Giuliani cut him off.
“I applied for it!” Giuliani pleaded. “What should I do, make it myself? Your implication that I am not diligent about this is completely wrong.
The embattled former mayor accused the judge of misrepresenting his claims that he has limited access to property and told the court he was “indigent”.
Giuliani claimed, “I’m not penniless… Everything I have is tied up.” He also said, without any evidence, that someone had placed a “stop order” on his Social Security account.
After this the judge warned him not to speak again.
“Your client can either represent himself by counsel or appear professionally,” Lyman said, referring to the legal term for self-representation. “He can’t do both.”
The Jan. 16 hearing will decide whether Giuliani will be able to stay on his Palm Beach, Florida, condo, and whether he must return his Yankees World Series rings — which he claims were a gift for his son Andrew. Were gifts. He appealed to election workers while appealing the verdict in a Washington, D.C., trial against him in a defamation case.
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