But as we see this is an appendage of the 65 project that has gone after bannon navarro clark eastman

My guess is because Giuliani made his statements in DC.

You write: “A jury has now ruled that he did defame the plaintiffs, and its hard to argue the jury got that fact wrong.”

Please read the last half of my post. A jury found no such thing. The jury only ruled on damages. The judge had ruled that Giuliani defamed the plaintiffs, and he didn’t make that ruling on the merits. The judge made the ruling due to Giuliani’ failure to provide certain information, and Giuliani’s defense was the claim “that the FBI seizure of his electronic devices years ago had complicated his ability to access his records and that he had struggled under pricey legal fees.”

However, as I already wrote, Giuliani never should have made the statements against the poll workers without absolutely ironclad evidence. He didn’t have that evidence.

The man behaved badly. He made statements about the poll workers that he did not have the evidence to establish. It doesn’t appear to be the case that he was trying to establish the truth of his statements and failed. He didn’t even try. He stipulated that his statements were false.

That’s not to say that the damages were OK. They were not, to the level of being abusive. But don’t pretend that Rudy didn’t do anything wrong.