Rudy’s next targets

By BRUCE LOWITT

Rudy Giuliani, supposedly financially bankrupt, definitely morally bankrupt, and guilty of defaming two Georgia election workers, sued Donald Trump for $140-million Friday, blaming the former president for “making me ruin my reputation by suckering me into his disgraceful reelection campaign.”

A jury trial in Washington, D.C., set the full scope of damages and penalties at $148-million, the amount Giuliani must pay to Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, whom he accused committing election fraud while they counted votes on election day in Fulton County, Georgia.

The jury said in a statement Friday that it decided on the total based on “one million dollars for each drop of hair dye that dripped down his face three years ago” at his Four Seasons Total Landscaping news conference.

What the jury awarded the two women was more than $16-million apiece for defamation, $20-million apiece for emotional distress and $75-million for both in punitive damages.

“Wait,” Giuliani said. “That adds up to $148-million. I think I deserve $140-million from Trump to pay them. I could push for the entire $148-million but I’m not greedy, even though he made me tell all those lies about how great he is and how everybody else is lying about him.”

Giuliani’s leadership as the mayor of New York after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center made him a national hero. But a failed run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, and media scrutiny over allegations he engaged in profiteering and corruption, tarnished his reputation at the same time he became Trump’s attorney.

“Trump threatened to sue me if I didn’t take the job,” Giuliani said. “He told me he’d get my three ex-wives to testify about how I couldn’t get it … Uh, I’m not going to talk about that. And don’t ask me about me on The Masked Singer. It seemed like a good idea at the time.”

Giuliani said he’s also suing Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems “for withholding from me the evidence that they were accurate,” and the New York City Board of Elections “for running free and fair elections that put me – a Republican in a city totally controlled by Democrats – in office and gave me a false sense of power,” and the New York University School of Law “for giving me a Juris Doctor degree for which I was clearly unqualified,” and the Hair Club For Men “for rejecting me as a client,” and his dentist “for giving me a row of bottom teeth that look like Tootsie Rolls.”