Former New York City mayor and streaky Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani now faces a staggering $1.3 billion lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems. The voting firm has filed defamation charges against Giuliani related to false information he’s spread about the 2020 election.
The suit, filed in the Federal District Court in Washington, alleges that Giuliani knowingly spread false charges related to the system on a variety of platforms. The New York Times reports the suit claims Giuliani engaged in “a viral disinformation campaign about Dominion” citing “50 statements Mr. Giuliani made at legislative hearings, on Twitter, on his podcast and in the conservative news media, where he spun a fictitious narrative of a plot by one of the biggest voting machine manufacturers in the country to flip votes to President Biden.” The suit also ties Giuliani’s statements to the Capitol insurrection of January 6, alleging that his words helped incite the violence.
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Giuliani, for his part, denies the charges. “Dominion’s defamation lawsuit for $1.3B will allow me to investigate their history, finances, and practices fully and completely,” Giuliani said in a statement. “The amount being asked for is, quite obviously, intended to frighten people of faint heart. It is another act of intimidation by the hate-filled left-wing to wipe out and censor the exercise of free speech, as well as the ability of lawyers to defend their clients vigorously. As such, we will investigate a countersuit against them for violating these Constitutional rights.”
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Dominion Voting Systems, founded in 2002, manufactures voter hardware and software used in a number of countries around the world including the US and Canada. The lawsuit against Giuliani follows another filed by the company against Trump lawyer Sydney Powell over similar lies he promoted following the 2020 election. Lawyers for Dominion have also said more lawsuits will follow, as the company is currently exploring legal action against a number of disinformation sources, including Lou Dobbs, Fox News, Fox Business, Newsmax, One America News Network and My Pillow CEO Mike Liddell. Already the conservative magazine American Thinker, which had also published disinformation about the election, printed a retraction stating its conspiracy theories “had no basis in fact” after a threat of litigation by Dominion.
Mack
I don’t normally root for the big guys but in this case I’m hoping Dominion wins bigly.
G-Man
That makes two of us I hope Dominion go after everyone of them.
AxelDC
GARY COLEMAN
That’s…
GARY AND NICKY
Schadenfreude!
GARY COLEMAN
People taking pleasure in your pain!
NICKY
Oh, schadenfreude, huh? What’s that, some kinda Nazi word?
GARY COLEMAN
Yup! It’s German for “happiness at the misfortune of others!”
NICKY
“Happiness at the misfortune of others.” That IS German!
Liquid Silver
Well, Rudy, it’s easy. If any of your allegations are true, you should be able to prove them…
missvamp
& so it begins! i am giddy!!
GayEGO
Hey Rudy! How d’ya like dem apples! Have fun at your lawsuit! Maybe you will learn that truth is truth, the opposite of what you touted – truth isn’t truth!
Cam
This is what should have been happening for years.
Since the FCC isn’t going to enforce the truth, then it’s up to the courts.
And notice that the SECOND the letters from Dominion’s lawyers went out, FOX, Newsmax, and OAN all recanted their stories. In other words, they ALL knew they were lying. They just didn’t care.
Harvey Pooka
Just to clarify….SIDNEY Katherine Powell is a woman. Possibly marginally adjusted, but a woman none-the-less.
LumpyPillows
Seems like a pretty open and shut case to me. Can’t wait to see Rudy bankrupted for his lies.
scotty
Rudely Ghouliani.
The big sky
In that picture he looks like a vein opener at a vampire blood piss up.
The big sky
Someone stole nosferatus oven mitts
mailliw110
You would think a lawyer would understand what free speech means.