Today Rudy Giuliani finally got a taste of accountability.

Jurors in the defamation case against Giuliani awarded former Fulton County election workers Ruby Freeman and Shay Moss a staggering

148 million dollars in damages for the lies Mr. Giuliani spread about them. Giuliani has already said he will appeal the ruling and we will get some expert help on what that means for this case in just a second.

But throughout this trial we have learned so much more about what exactly happened here.

Most of what we understood about Ruby Freeman and Shaymoss a story before this trial

was about the lies Giuliani and Trump pushed about these two women and the threats

that followed.

And what we learned through the trial was how much those threats actually impacted their lives.

Here was Ruby Freeman outside the court

after today's verdict.

I want people to understand this. Money will never solve all of my problems. I can never move

back into the house that I called home. I will always have to be careful about where I go and who I

choose to share my name with. I miss my home, I miss my neighbors, and I miss my name.

Today we got the transcript of Shay Moss's testimony from this trial and it is filled with

previously untold and heartbreaking stories.

For one thing, Miss Moss claimed that Mr. Giuliani's lies ruined her career.

Moss had worked for Fulton County's election system for a decade.

When she got the job she had, when she got the job she had during the 2020 election, she said she was so

excited, she literally dropped to her knees and cried in front of everyone.

And when she was asked why she loved that job so much, Moss replied that she

knew it would make her grandmother proud. Growing up all her life hearing

stories about how as a black woman a lot of the women before her

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