Asked just now if he regrets defaming Ruby Freeman and Wandrea Shaye Moss, Rudy Giuliani emphatically said, “No!” His lawyer then jumped in front of the mic.

Giuliani tells a group of reporters, “Someday your rights may be taken away from you if you continue to let this go on,” and derides the Manhattan judges who presided over Trump’s “stupid trials” — calling Judge Engoron “Enga whatever his name is”

“Mr. Trump doesn’t have to help me get out of it. All Mr. Trump has to do is straighten out the legal system.”

Update

Judge Lewis Liman has granted Ken Caruso and his colleague’s application to withdraw as Giuliani’s lawyers. “You may remain in the gallery or you may leave, it’s up to you,” Liman said. “Thank you. I’m sorry it came to this,” Caruso said.

New atty asks trial be delayed until after the inauguration, saying Giuliani “regularly consults and deals directly with President-elect Trump on issues that are taking place” wrt the new admin “My client wants to exercise his political right to be there,” Joseph Cammarata said

The trial set for Jan 16 in Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss’s enforcement action will deal with Giuliani's continued possession of his Florida condo, which he has claimed is his “homestead,” and his World Series rings, which he claims he gifted his son, Andrew

Judge Liman denies the request for an adjournment for lack of good cause, saying Giuliani cannot fire his lawyer and “restart the clock” by hiring another, has sought many extensions, missed many deadlines, and has “not shown anything close to ‘due diligence’” wrt to discovery

Giuliani cut the judge off and started yelling "Your client is a competent person. He was the (US) attorney for this district. The notion that he can't apply for a title certificate for the car is--" "Your implication that I've been not diligent about it is totally incorrect…

Giuliani cont: “I'm not impoverished. Everything I have is tied up. I don't have a car. I don't have a credit card. I don't have cash. I can't get to bank accounts that truly would be mine because they have put...stop orders on, for example, my social security account..."

" … I can't pay my bill [inaudible]" "I permitted Mr. Giuliani to speak. Next time, he's not going to be permitted to speak, and the court will have to take action…He's either represented by counsel, or he's permitted to proceed pro se. He can't have hybrid representation”

After accusing Hunter Biden of possessing child pornography, Giuliani doubles down on his statements from a couple of weeks back about not regretting his defamation of Freeman and Moss “I do not regret it for a minute”