Trump’s former private legal professional, in an interview with Newsmax’s Rob Schmitt, declared that the authorized system has “gone to hell” earlier than calling U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who oversaw the defamation trial, a “pure disgrace.”
“First of all, he was found not guilty – or not liable for rape. It was sexual assault, not rape. And second, you can be – you can be guilty of rape and still, a person can be a wacko. That was a defamation,” mentioned Giuliani, who was ordered to pay $148 million to a pair of Georgia election staff he defamed after the 2020 election.
“You’re allowed to still defend yourself against defamation.”
Kaplan mentioned the jury’s determination stems from the “narrow, technical” that means of rape in New York penal legislation, the Associated Press famous. He wrote that the rape declare was “substantially true under common modern parlance.”