'Yikes': Critics Clown Rudy Giuliani For Doing Trump No 'Favors' In Ridiculous Defense

Rudy Giuliani defended Donald Trump with wild on-air remarks after a jury ordered the former president to pay $83.3 million  in damages to writer E. Jean Carroll  on Friday.

Trumps onetime personal attorney, in an interview with Newsmax s Rob Schmitt, declared that the legal system has gone to hell before calling U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who oversaw the Carroll defamation trial, a pure disgrace.

Last year, Kaplan presided over a separate trial in which a jury found the former president liable for sexually abusing Carroll , who has maintained that Trump raped her in the 1990s, and awarded her $5 million in damages.

First of all, he was found not guilty or not liable for rape, Giuliani told Schmitt.

It was sexual assault, not rape. And second, you can be guilty of rape and still a person can be a wacko, added Giuliani, who himself was recently ordered to pay millions in an unrelated defamation case.

Although the jury in last years Carroll trial did not find Trump liable for rape, Kaplan has said that this does not mean that she failed to prove that Mr. Trump raped her as many people commonly understand the word rape.

Kaplan said  that the jurys decision stemmed from the narrow, technical meaning of rape in New York penal law. He added  that the rape claim was substantially true under common modern parlance.

Critics on social media mocked the on-air defense from Trumps former personal attorney, saying  that he cant tell the difference between a hotel and a garden center.

Rudy sure isnt doing Trump any favors, one person said , while another simply wrote , Yikes.

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