Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said the fix was in during his contempt hearing in New York earlier this week, telling Newsmax on Tuesday that the judge wrote his opinion long before Giuliani testified.
Giuliani was found in contempt of court Monday for failing to properly respond to requests for information as he turned over assets to satisfy a $148 million defamation judgment granted to two Georgia election workers.
Judge Lewis J. Liman issued his contempt-of-court ruling after hearing Giuliani testify for a second day at a hearing called after lawyers for the election workers said the former mayor had failed to properly comply with requests for evidence over the last few months.
"I testified for six hours, had to come back on Monday to testify. The judge took a recess and read his 20-page or so opinion about 10 minutes later. What does that tell you? He wrote it before I testified," Giuliani said on "The Chris Salcedo Show."
"He let me finish. He let the two lawyers argue. He said, 'I'm going to take a few minutes.' He went back into his room. He came out and then he read a very long opinion with about 20 legal citations.
"Now, I was a law clerk to a federal judge on that very court. I'm sorry. I know what he did. He wrote the opinion over the weekend, and then he put me through the charade of — like you would in a Soviet trial — of testifying. And then he rendered the approved Democratic conclusion," he said.
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