'Buh-bye, Rudy': Internet explodes over Giuliani's $148 million court loss

After a dramatic defamation trial over his false election claims about Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, Rudy Giuliani was found liable for $148 million in compensatory and punitive damages by a jury on Friday.

The reaction from social media, and particularly on X, was swift and mocking.

"Buh-bye, Rudy," posted attorney and legal commentator Bradley Moss, a security expert.

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"I had to do those calculations twice to make sure I hadn’t made a massive error."

Other, more anonymous commenters also had a field day.

"Couldn’t happen to a more deserving individual! Those poor women," wrote one. "Rudy ordered to pay roughly 10 Mar-a-Lagos in damages," wrote another. "That’s going to put a little hitch in Giuliani’s giddy up," a third said. And a fourth wrote, "That was one expensive gingermint" — a reference to the fact that Giuliani claimed Freeman and Moss were passing a USB drive loaded with illegal votes, that turned out to just be a ginger mint.

And a Never Trump conservative account known as "The Values Voter" had a blunter take.

"Rudy Giuliani is soulless, doesn’t have a functioning conscience and shows zero remorse for destroying and endangering these two innocent women’s lives," they wrote. "But on top of that, he’s also become a bit stupid. Because he repeated the slander THIS WEEK. They could sue him for that too."