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- Rudy Giuliani was ordered to pay $148 million to two Georgia election workers following a defamation trial.
- He remained defiant and said he does not regret "a damn thing."
- Giuliani has stood by his baseless election fraud claims and said he plans to appeal the verdict.
A defiant Rudy Giuliani said that he had no regrets after he was ordered to pay $148 million for false accusations against election workers on Friday.
"I don't regret a damn thing," the former Trump lawyer and ex-New York mayor told reporters following the verdict.
A federal jury found that Giuliani had caused devastating damage to the lives of two Georgia election workers after he promoted false claims that they had produced "suitcases" full of fake ballots.
Giuliani criticized the hefty penalty, and said he would appeal the verdict.
"The absurdity of the number merely underscores the absurdity of the entire proceeding," Giuliani said.
"I am quite confident when this case gets before a fair tribunal, it'll be reversed so quickly, it'll make your head spin," he added.
Following the verdict, Giuliani also doubled down on the baseless conspiracy theory that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election.
"I know that my country had a president imposed on it by fraud," he told reporters. "These are not conspiracy theories, these are proven facts."
He also claimed that his allegations against the two election workers were "supportable" but that he did not have the opportunity to present the evidence at trial.
Giuliani — who was once considered one of the top prosecutors in the country — has faced a series of criminal and civil charges for his attempts to help Trump overturn the 2020 election.
Giuliani's is the first jury verdict in a defamation trial linked to Trump election fraud claims.