Trump adviser Giuliani asks judge to throw out $1.3 billion lawsuit over his 'big lie' election claims | Reuters
Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani asked a judge on Wednesday to throw out a voting machine company's $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit relating to his false claims about the November 2020 presidential election being rigged.
Hard to imagine how Giuliani is going to defend himself. If he did not defame Dominion then what could possibly count as defamation?
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani asked a judge on Wednesday to throw out a voting machine company's $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit relating to his false claims about the November 2020 presidential election being rigged.
Giuliani's lawyer said in a court filing that Dominion Voting Systems' lawsuit should be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction, and because the company has not adequately justified its request for money damages.
The filing said Giuliani denies defaming Dominion, adding that the former New York City mayor would present a more forceful defense on the merits if his jurisdictional arguments are rejected by the federal judge in the District of Columbia who is assigned to the case.
"Should this matter reach legal or factual adjudication on the merits, Giuliani will provide a vigorous and complete response," the court filing stated.
Megan Meier, a lawyer for Dominion, said in a statement that
"Giuliani said he wanted to present the 'evidence' for his defamatory statements about Dominion, but now he's trying to avoid a trial and still offering no evidence at all."
Trump and his allies spent two months denying his election defeat, and claiming without evidence that it was the result of widespread voter fraud, before the then-president's supporters launched a deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
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Don't worry Rudy, Trump has your back.
Rudy ! Rudy! ... Er ... wait...nevermind.
*Snort*
for me that's one of the more entertaining aspects of trump's one term presidency. all the nut jobs that were convinced and bet their own futures that he would be re-elected and they would have nothing to worry about for any of their activities in the past. any slight or legal issue would all disappear with the stroke of a pen or a nocturnal tweet. naturally when trump lost in 2020, the sure thing went straight into the cesspool and now it's every moron for themself. the bad seeds are beginning to bear bitter fruit.
All the morons who "Stormed the Capitol' 'It's a Revolution" are realizing that now. LOL! I think they truly believed there would be no consequences.
Also, that moron Lindell is whining and wondering why Fox 'news' is not allowing him to continue to promote his lies any longer while they're being sued for the same thing! He's hiring private investigators to look into it. Idiot!
He better be selling a bunch of pillows to cover his legal bills.....
They played and now they must pay.
I think what rudy did was the definition of slander.
Or libel (which would be worse for Rudy):
Slander is defamation made verbally.
Yes.
And I would hope that this rises to the level of libel.
Rudy, here's the chance you've been begging for for months. And you're throwing it away?
Evidence? We don't need no stinkin' evidence.
He even admitted in court that he had no proof.
It's not my fault, the dog ate my evidence!!!
Wait! I found it. The evidence is down here somewhere...
Why in the Hell is trump not being sued?
Who started this big lie and why ?
This is Bull shit, trump should pay. Instead it's always just trump's minions who pay for that megalomaniac's ways and means of "achievement"
There is always a trail of tears that follows trump. But never seems to catch up to him personally.
I pity anyone who comes in contact with this man.
Exactly!
One thing Trump does exceptionally well is to place his soldiers in the line of fire and then find safe cover.
He has gotten away with it his whole life.
The weird thing is that, even knowing this, he can still find people willing to take the fall for him. They line up for the privilege.
Like I have said before, never underestimate the stupidity of the American people. Case in point, there are those who still follow & praise Trump, believe the election was stolen, think Trump will make a comeback in 2024, ect..
Trump didn't attack Dominion. He let his pawns do it on his behalf. He knew it was lies but that is how he rolls. They poked the hornet's nest and Trump sat back to watch the show while eating Big Mac flavored popcorn.
True Paula, trump is like a drug king pin who directs the operations from a distance away from the real action and waits to claim the prize his minions worked to gain for him.
Over and over. Always leaving a trail of tears behind.
Yes IMO: mr trump is quite the skilled but a very dangerious megalomaniac manipulator for our Constitutional federal republic.
Honestly I wouldn't say skilled. He's got some evil skilled scumbag whispering in his ear though.
But dangerous megalomaniac, YES!
That's what mobsters do and whatshisface has always been a mobster, gangster, thief, thug, grifter
Tressylo, I included "skilled" because of the success trump has had at building his cult following. Some of his followers were/are ready, willing and able to die for this dangerious megalomania now.
Yeah, trump knew what he was doing.
Thankfully in the end trump underestimated the level of destruction his followers were prepared to dish out. So trump didn't get to pull the lever on Martial law and extend his power.