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Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, the two Georgia election workers who were defamed by former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani in the wake of the 2020 presidential election, have taken a bold step to collect the damages that jurors awarded them last year.

Politico's Kyle Cheney flags a new filing from Freeman and Moss's attorneys in which they ask the United States Court for the Southern District of New York to give their clients control over Giuliani's assets.

In their filing, the attorneys argue that Giuliani has tried to evade accountability for months by using assorted stall tactics, and that it's now time for the court to put its foot down.

"Mr. Giuliani has spent years evading accountability for his actions -- first in litigation in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (the 'D.C. District Court'), and then in chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings that Mr. Giuliani commenced in this District," they write. "In this motion, Plaintiffs seek two remedies to which they are entitled under New York law: an order requiring Mr. Giuliani to turn over personal property in his possession in satisfaction of the judgment, and an order appointing Plaintiffs as receivers with the power to take possession of, and sell, both real and personal property that Mr. Giuliani does not turn over."

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The attorneys went on to describe these measures as "overwhelmingly justified under New York law," especially since Giuliani "has proven time and again that he will never voluntarily comply with court orders."

They then cite Giuliani's decision to "willfully ignore" the discovery process during their defamation lawsuit.

"At every step, Mr. Giuliani has chosen evasion, obstruction, and outright disobedience," the filing emphasizes. "That strategy reached the end of the line here."

After the 2020 election, Giuliani falsely accused Freeman and Moss of working to steal the election from former President Donald Trump on behalf of President Joe Biden.

After an investigation was conducted, it was determined that Giuliani's allegations were completely false and a jury determined that he defamed Freeman and Moss.

A Gold Star mother condemned Donald Trump for staging a campaign event just feet away from where her son is buried.

Karen Meredith's son, First Lieutenant Kenneth Ballard, was laid to rest in Section 60 – known as the saddest acre in America – after he was killed in Najaf, Iraq, in 2004, and the California resident is angry that the former president and current Republican nominee recorded a video nearby to use for his re-election campaign, reported The Atlantic.

“It’s not a number, not a headstone,” Meredith said. “He was my only child.”

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Trump took part in a wreath-laying ceremony honoring 13 American soldiers killed three years ago in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan, posed for a thumbs-up photo with two Gold Star families who spoke at the Republican National Convention and then shared video of the occasion on TikTok.

“We didn’t lose one person in 18 months," Trump says in the video's narration, "and then [the Biden administration] took over, that disaster of leaving Afghanistan.”

A cemetery employee attempted to remind the campaign staff that campaign activities, especially photos and videos, are expressly forbidden under federal law, but two Trump staffers shoved her aside and a spokesman later suggested she was suffering from mental illness and his campaign manager called her "despicable" and asked for her dismissal.

“Partisan activities are inappropriate in Arlington National Cemetery," the regulations state, "due to its role as a shrine to all the honored dead of the Armed Forces of the United States and out of respect for the men and women buried there and for their families.”

Meredith said the area where her son is buried has hosted family get-togethers that are not exactly solemn, because children are often present, but she's shocked and disgusted by the former president's blithe indifference to the sanctified setting.

“We laugh, we pop champagne," Meredith said. "I have met men who served under him and they speak of him with such respect, and to think that this man came here and put his thumb up—”

“I’m trying not to cry," she added, taking a gulp of air.

Far-right firebrand Tomi Lahren caused laughter by questioning businessman Mark Cuban's knowledge of international trade and taxes.

Cuban took to X, commenting on Trump's recent rally in Michigan, where he claimed, "We're going to bring back the car industry."

According to The Detroit News, Trump said, "We're not going to let it disappear. We're going to bring back jobs, we're going to bring back factories, and make Michigan very successful again. And we can do that very easily through the taxation of foreign nations."

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Cuban asked how Trump intends to tax another nation.

Lahren replied, "Do you not know what a tariff is?"

It's similar to another question from a MAGA follower, in which Cuban explained how a tariff doesn't tax foreign businesses but passes the cost on to consumers. Some have even predicted such a move would destroy the economy.

"A tariff is a tax imposed on foreign-made goods, paid by the IMPORTING BUSINESS (Walmart would be an example) to its home country's government," wrote Cuban. "(USA) As an example, Walmart imports billions and billions of goods. If there is a 10 percent tariff, Walmart pays the US government 10 percent on those billions, and guess who they pass that cost on to?"

Trump continues to promote the idea that high tariffs would help American jobs and pay down the deficit. According to experts, it would increase the prices of purchases, and there wouldn't be any penalty to the country of origin.

The Libertarian Pary of Tennessee replied, telling Lahren, "That will make the price of cars skyrocket."

Producer and filmmaker Esé Morrison asked, "Who pays a tariff Tomi? I'll wait."

Chuck Thomas from the Truth Barker podcast posted a laughing emoji saying, "Tomi, you don't."

Conservative author Tom Nichols also chimed in:

"Kind of a nice Death of Expertise moment: Youtuber asks globally known entrepreneur if he understands what a tariff is I'm gonna guess that yes, he does."

Donald Trump amplified another Truth Social user taking potshots at the former president after he was indicted again in the federal election interference case.

Special counsel Jack Smith filed a superseding indictment Tuesday that trims some of the allegations to get around the U.S. Supreme Court's immunity ruling but keeps all four charges initially brought against the ex-president, and Trump reposted a supportive message posted on X by new ally Nicole Shanahan.

“I'll admit I used to kind of roll my eyes when people claimed that President Trump was being 'persecuted,'" said Shanahan, who had been Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s running mate. "I was looking at it through the distorted filter of the media. Well, I just completed my first cross-examination in our second New York Ballot Access case, where the DNC-aligned PAC attorneys questioned me like a criminal. OK, I get it now. Our justice system is clearly being co-opted and abused by nefarious people with malevolent political agendas.”

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The former president posted Shanahan's remarks Tuesday evening, shortly after the indictment was filed, and then for some reason before 9 a.m. Wednesday he reposted a mocking reply on his Truth Social feed by a low-follower user who calls themselves "Dingus."

Truth Social post by 'Dingus'

"Youre a convited felon. You shouldnt be any where near a campaign trail," said that person, whose user name is @davedog876. "Youre going to prison."

"Dingus," whose bio reads simply "Human" and uses a Spongebob Squarepants meme as an avatar, has only two followers and follows just 18 other accounts, and Trump's repost remained live on his feed for at least an hour after he shared it for unclear reasons.

During an appearance on "Morning Joe" MSNBC legal analyst Danny Cevallos applauded the effort special counsel Jack Smith put into going before a grand jury and getting a superseding indictment against Donald Trump related to the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Speaking with fill-in hosts Jonathan Lemire and Katty Kay, Cevallos explained that Smith trimmed down his charges against the former president which will make it harder for the conservative Supreme Court to intercede on his behalf.

Asked to "walk us through what happens next," Cevallos explained, "Normally a superseding indictment is something that strikes fear into the heart of a criminal attorney like me. It usually means that government has found more defendants or they've found more bad evidence and are charging more crimes. It's rare that you have a superseding indictment that reduces information."

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"Ultimately the only thing I care about is the counts, and all four counts remain," he pointed out. "That means if the defendant is convicted the sentencing guidelines will be exactly the same. All Jack Smith's team has done is taken a look at the indictment and said 'What should we remove that insulates us?' And, yes, they removed references to Trump's attempts to subvert the DOJ and maybe install a new acting attorney general, but they keep in language about vice president Pence, which signals to me that Jack Smith's team is feeling very confident."

"They've kept all four counts and they're keeping in conduct and the Mike Pence conduct is significant because the Supreme Court suggested that this at least was entitled to the presumption of immunity," he added. "So Jack Smith is signaling that even conduct that may be entitled to a presumption of immunity, it is full steam ahead. They are not afraid of the district court and any possible hearing; they are going forward with these counts."

"So as much as, yes, this indictment has been, I guess, reduced in length, everything that matters is still in it," he continued. "This is a strategic, I think a very brilliant move to keep this indictment alive, to head off any problems at the pass before Judge Tanya Chutkan has to hold a hearing making, I think, her job even easier."

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CNN's Alayna Treene fact-checked Donald Trump's suggestion that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were to blame for his apparent assassination attempt.

The former president sat down for an interview that aired Tuesday night with "Dr. Phil" McGraw, saying that the president and vice president, who has since become the Democratic nominee, were partially responsible for failures that allowed a 20-year-old registered Republican to climb atop a roof at a Butler, Pennsylvania, campaign rally and fire off shots that may have struck his ear, killed a supporter and seriously wounded two others.

“When this happened, people would ask, whose fault is it?” Trump told the talk show host. “I think to a certain extent it’s Biden’s fault and Harris’s fault, and I’m the opponent. Look, they were weaponizing government against me, they brought in the whole [Department of Justice] to try and get me, they weren’t too interested in my health and safety. They were making it very difficult to have proper staffing in terms of Secret Service."

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Multiple officials from the Secret Service have been put on lead for their actions leading up to and responding to the shooting, and director Kimberly Cheatle stepped down, and lawmakers are investigating why warnings from multiple witnesses were not passed on to the GOP nominee's security detail.

"So first of all, I just want to be clear that there's no evidence whatsoever that president Joe Biden or vice president Kamala Harris have tried to purposefully make it more difficult as it relates to Secret Service staffing for Donald Trump," said Treene, the network's congressional and presidential politics reporter who previously covered the Trump White House. "But the point about the rhetoric is something we actually have heard Donald Trump and many republicans argue, that it was the rhetoric and the language that Democrats used against him that contributed to this person attempting to shoot Donald Trump, and so a lot to unpack there."

The gunman's father, who owned the rifle used in the shooting, was previously identified by the Trump campaign in a database of swing state voters as a strong Republican and likely gun owner, and neighbors say the family displayed "Make America Great Again" signs outside their Pittsburgh-area home.

"I think you're going to probably continue to hear some of this," Treene said, "and, as we know, as we move closer to November, a lot of these attacks are getting more personal, more nasty and that's kind of where Donald Trump laid this yesterday."

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