Giuliani served as the mayor of New York from 1994 to 2001, guiding the city through the shock of the September 11 attacks, and was Trump's personal lawyer while he was in the White House. The defamation case is one of a number of legal challenges facing Giuliani, who has been indicted in Georgia along with Trump and others for conspiring to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in the southern state. 'This turned my life upside down,' Moss testified. Moss, who is Black, described people making 'hateful' and 'racist' threats of violence following the baseless accusations, including one message saying: 'Be glad it's 2020 and not 1920.' They are seeking up to $43 million in compensatory and punitive damages.įreeman and Moss testified before the congressional committee that investigated the Januattack on the Capitol by supporters of former president Donald Trump that the false accusations had upended their lives. The outbreak of extremism Howell entered what is known as a default judgment against Giuliani for his failure to comply with court demands that he turn over evidence in the case.Īn eight-person jury in Washington is to decide how much the 79-year-old Giuliani should pay for falsely accusing Freeman and Moss of engaging in election fraud. See her short segment below or at the link here: Others are literally trying to make it happen all over again.' We got some folks on the right trying to ban books about the rise of nazism and anti-Semitism in 1930. 'You know what his solution was? Again, these guys are out in numbers and enforce screaming at Ohio kids this weekend. 'They are talking about Hitler overthrowing the republic,' Maddow explained. These are the people that Republicans and conservatives are allying themselves. She ran a video of them chanting 'Sieg Heil' and giving the Nazi salute. 'Many of them were armed and a lot of them were carrying swastika flags and shouting,' described Maddow. In Ohio, during a drag queen story hour, a hoard of Nazis shows up to protest the event. In Jacksonville, Florida, individuals were seen projecting a five-story tall swastika linked with a cross on a building. Hundreds of anti-Semitic flyers have been dumped all over West Palm Beach, where a group with Eric Trump and his Hitler-loving pal are headed. Meanwhile, she pointed to Donald Trump's son Eric, who is traveling the country with an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist who says 'the Jews did 9/11' and that 'Hitler was fighting 'the same people that we are trying to take down today.'' They headed to one of the Trump properties in Florida for a weekend soon.

That was the expert they brought in on the science of COVID,' said Maddow. 'He is famous for writing a book claiming that Jewish people are genetically evolved and biologically programmed to love money. The New Republic wrote a review describing it as 'a book which argues, among other things, that Jews possess a genetic 'adaptation to capitalism.'' He was a witness welcomed by the Oversight Committee chair, Republican Rep. She went on to cite a recent hearing about the COVID-19 crisis and how it was handled that welcomed a witness named Nicholas Wade’s who penned a book called A Troublesome Inheritance.

That feeling and stuff we thought we left behind is rearing its head again and that feeling is happening a lot these days.' It was a strange irony that they wanted this particular book removed because it was like history repeating itself. The Storyteller is a novel about the Holocaust, anti-semitism, and fascism in Germany. Ron DeSantis' broad, vague, new laws about what kids can and cannot read. Maddow explained, 'it is about a county in Florida, and they have banded from their school libraries under Republican Gov. In one case, author Jodi Picoult had one of her best-selling books banned from a Florida library because a parent objected to the telling of a story involving the Holocaust. MSNBC's Rachel Maddow explained that over the last several years, there has been a rise of extremism in the U.S., and added that it isn't just about the far-right and their cozy relationship with conservatives.

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