ballots were then counted in the election. This factual statement regarding the number
of ballots mailed out before the election was simply untrue. The true facts are that 3.08
million absentee ballots were mailed out before the general election, which more than
accounted for the over 2.5 million mail-in ballots that were actually tallied.
Notwithstanding the true facts, respondent repeatedly advanced false statements that
there were 600,000 to 700,000 fabricated mail-in ballots, which were never sent to
voters in advance of the election.5 Respondent made these false claims during his
November 8, 2020 radio program, Uncovering the Truth with Rudy Giuliani & Dr.
Maria Ryan, during a November 25, 2020 meeting of the Republican State Senate
Majority Policy Committee in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, during a December 2, 2020
meeting of the Michigan House Oversight Committee, during his December 17, 2020
broadcast of the radio show Chat with the Mayor, and he repeated it during an episode
of Steve Bannon's the War Room: Pandemic podcast on December 24, 2020.
Respondent does not deny that his factual statement, that only 1.8 million mail-in
ballots were requested, was untrue. His defense is that he did not make this
misstatement knowingly. Respondent claims that he relied on some unidentified
member of his “team” who “inadvertently” took the information from the Pennsylvania
website, which had the information mistakenly listed (Giuliani affidavit ¶49). There is
simply no proof to support this explanation. For instance, there is no affidavit from this
supposed team member who is not identified by name or otherwise, nor is there any
copy of the web page that purportedly listed the allegedly incorrect data. In fact, the only
These numbers roughly correlate to mail-in ballots received, less the false amount of
mail-in ballots respondent claims were sent out, as adjusted for the overall percentage of
mail-in votes that were cast for Biden.
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