'Racist overtones and complete lies': CNN panel writes Rudy Giuliani's political obituary

Rudy Giuliani, the man once known as "America's mayor," is facing a potentially ruinous financial penalty for defaming Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman, two Georgia election workers whom he falsely accused to helping to steal the 2020 election from former President Donald Trump.

In discussing Giuliani's plight on CNN Wednesday, host Phil Mattingly noted that Giuliani's attacks on Moss and Freeman were "completely lies" and filled with "racist overtones," such as when he falsely accused the two Black election workers of "passing around USB ports as if they’re vials of heroin or cocaine."

Panelist John Avlon, who used to work for Giuliani as a speechwriter during his tenure as mayor of New York, said his one-time boss had become a "very different" man than he once was.

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"You see the persistent presence of no filter, no judgement, the impulse to dig himself in the hole he's already dug himself into," Avlon said. "And the tragedy is this is a man who was once a respected federal prosecutor, somebody who believed that the law was a search for truth. He is in deep personal and financial trouble at the behest of Donald Trump because he pursued the law not in advancing the truth."

Panelist David Sanger, meanwhile, was simply stunned by Giuliani's downfall.

"It is the most vivid public self-immolation of a respected figure we've ever seen," he said. "The question is, what happened to him, at what point, and was it simply he felt that his own way to relevance was to get so close to Donald Trump that he would give him whatever he wanted?"

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