The trial to determine what damages former President Donald Trump's personal attorney will have to pay the two women is set to start Monday.

A federal judge chastised Rudy Giuliani Tuesday for failing to attend a hearing to prepare for his defamation damages trial next week.

But Giuliani was a no-show at a federal court hearing in the duo’s defamation lawsuit, prompting a lashing for his attorney by U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell, who had ordered Giuliani to be present. “How could you have missed that?” Howell asked Giuliani’s attorney, Joe Sibley, incredulously, when he took the blame for Giuliani’s absence.

Rudy Giuliani blew off his scheduled court appearance Tuesday in Washington, D.C., his latest dismissive action toward the defamation case brought by two Georgia election workers. Giuliani, 79, and his attorney Joseph Sibley were ripped by U.

Rudy Giuliani failed to appear at a Tuesday hearing ahead of his defamation trial, resulting in his lawyer receiving a tongue-lashing from the Washington, D.C., federal judge overseeing the case. U.S.

A federal judge in Washington, D.C. bristled at an attorney for Rudy Giuliani when the former New York City mayor was absent from a hearing in the defamation case against him by two election workers.

The judge demanded to know whether Giuliani’s lawyer was “falling on his sword” for his client by taking the blame for his truancy.