Here’s something that might make your day: According to Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer, he’s on the brink of financial ruin. If he’s forced to pay the full amount currently requested by the lawyers for two Georgia election workers he was found civilly liable for defaming. It just couldn’t happen to a nicer guy, now could it? Well, maybe his buddy Donald Trump, but that’s perhaps for another day.

Giuliani, who served as the mayor of New York from 1994, became Trump’s attorney and rose to national prominence. That was never clearer than when his boss tried to contest or overturn the results of his loss to Joe Biden in 2020’s presidential election. During this time Giuliani made harassing comments about the two Georgia-based election workers — Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea “Shaye” Moss — claiming the women had committed election fraud in the state, where Trump lost to Biden by a slim margin, Newsweek reports.

Ruby and Shaye brought a civil defamation lawsuit against Giuliani, asserting that his accusations against them were false and baseless, turning their lives upside down and making them afraid for their own safety. The two said they were targeted by an overwhelming number of “vile, racist, hateful comments,” that were spurred on by Giuliani.

A federal judge has ruled that the ex-mayor is liable for defamation in the case, and a jury will decide how much he’ll be forced to pay Freeman and Moss. Attorneys for the women are requesting a payment of up to $43 million, and Giuliani’s attorney, Joseph Sibley has told the jury that this would be a financial disaster for his client.

“It would be the end of Mr. Giuliani,” Sibley said, noting the full amount being requested would be the “civil equivalent of the death penalty.”

Gee. He says that like it’s a bad thing.

The amount attorneys are seeking for Freeman and Moss ranges “from $15.5 million to $43 million, inclusive of special damages.” in their filing, attorneys Michael Gotlieb and Meryl Governski have requested “the jury to award compensatory damages for the severe emotional distress caused by Defendant Giuliani and his co-conspirators between 2020 through the present in an amount to be determined by the jury, including based on Plaintiffs’ mental pain and suffering, fear, inconvenience, nervousness, indignity, insult, humiliation, or embarrassment that Plaintiffs suffered directly because of Defendant Giuliani and his co-conspirators’ conduct.”

You’d think Giuliani would understand that Freeman and Moss would be targeted by vile racists but he was so eager to save his boss’s bacon that he took huge risks. For which he is now, most laudably, paying the price.

U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell found Giuliani liable because he failed to furnish evidence to Freeman and Moss’ attorneys during the discovery phase. Howell, in her ruling, stressed that “bypassing the discovery process carries serious sanctions.” As it is, Giuliani has already been sanctioned nearly $90,000 for the poll workers’ attorneys’ fees in the case.

That’s not the only financial fun Giuliani’s had. He’s spent millions of dollars defending himself in a merry-go-round of criminal cases where he continually protests his innocence. He’s listed his Manhattan Upper East Side home on the market for $6.5 million. An invitation-only $100,000 per person event meant to raise money on his behalf, as part of the Rudy Giuliani Freedom Fund, was held in September at Trump’s Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club. The former president headlined the event.

He put these two poor women through hell just to brown-nose his boss, so I hope he has to pay the full amount. Like I said, it couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.