Rudy Giuliani admits to making false statements about 2 Georgia election workers who later faced death threats

• After the 2020 election, Rudy Giuliani baselessly claimed two Georgia election workers manipulated ballots.
• One of the workers, Ruby Freeman, said she lost her "name" and "reputation" as a result.

Former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani is admitting he made false statements about two Georgia election workers who allege he defamed them in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election.

The election workers, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, filed a defamation lawsuit against Giuliani in December 2021, accusing the former mayor of New York City of sharing a video alleging the two manipulated ballots during the 2020 election.

In a two-page filing on Tuesday, Giuliani said he "does not contest" he made statements following the election about Moss and Freeman that "carry meaning that is defamatory per se."

The filing says Giuliani is only conceding to making false statements for the purposes of litigation strategy so that he can save some money. He still plans to keep arguing that his statements about Freeman and Moss were protected by the First Amendment and didn't cause them any damage.

"Defendant Giuliani is desirous to avoid unnecessary expenses in litigating what he believes to be unnecessary disputes," the filing says.

Freeman, one of the two election workers, previously said in a video testimony to the House Select Committee on January 6 that attacks from former President Donald Trump and Giuliani changed how she lives her life.

"I've lost my name and I've lost my reputation. I've lost my sense of security all because a group of people starting with Number 45 and his ally Rudy Giuliani decided to scapegoat me and my daughter, Shaye, to push their own lies about how the presidential election was stolen," Freeman said.

Giuliani's spokesperson Ted Goodman told Insider that, despite conceding that he made false statements in the filing, the former mayor still plans to further contest the defamation suit.

"Giuliani did not acknowledge that the statements were false but did not contest it in order to move on to the portion of the case that will permit a motion to dismiss," Goodman said. "This is a legal issue, not a factual issue. Those out to smear the mayor are ignoring the fact that this stipulation is designed to get to the legal issues of the case."