Rudy Giuliani rolls up to Florida polling place in Mercedes he must surrender to defamed election workers
Rudy Giuliani pulled up to the Florida polling station where Donald Trump cast his ballot on Election Day in the Mercedes-Benz he has been ordered to turn over to a pair of election workers he defamed.The cash-strapped former New York City mayor — who told a bankruptcy court earlier this year that he does not have a driver’s license — sat in the passenger seat of the 1980 SL500 once owned by Lauren Bacall as reporters and cameras swarmed around him on Tuesday.
Hours earlier, a federal judge in New York ordered Trump’s now-disbarred former attorney to appear in person for a hearing on Thursday, after the election workers who have been trying to collect on a $150 million defamation verdict accused him of hiding his property from them.
Giuliani’s attorney told the court that he has a scheduling conflict: a “contractual obligation” to appear on conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell’s website Frank Speech.
The car is on a long list of Giuliani’s property — including a Manhattan penthouse, 26 watches, and money he claims he is owed by Trump’s campaign — that a judge ordered him to transfer as part of a judgment from a defamation case brought by the two election workers, who were subject to a wave of abuse and harassment after Giuliani’s false claims that they interfered in 2020 election results.
A jury found Giuliani guilty of defamation last year, and he promptly filed bankruptcy.
