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Rudy Giuliani Sued By Dominion Voting Systems For Aggravated Libelslander

Nice of Rudy to post all the evidence on YouTube!

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This morning Dominion Voting Systems made good on its threat to sue Rudy Giuliani for defamation in light of his many false claims about the company’s role in the election. Naturally the president’s lawyer was delighted.

“Dominion’s defamation lawsuit for $1.3B will allow me to investigate their history, finances, and practices fully and completely,” he texted every reporter in DC, thrilled at the prospect of actually learning something about the company he’s accused of rigging a presidential election.

Maybe he’ll finally work out that Dominion is not “originally a company from Venezuela that was put together in order to help Chávez win in Venezuela,” but was created in Toronto to make it easier for blind people to vote. Or that Smartmatic isn’t “the company that owns Dominion” but is a direct competitor. Or that it is physically impossible for voting machines which are not connected to the internet to be secretly hacked to change the vote tally, particularly when the original inputs are preserved on paper ballots which confirm the count.

Or maybe he won’t. It can be a hard thing for a man to understand something when his grift depends on him not understanding it. And neither the two cease and desist letters from Dominion pointing all that out nor the hand recounts in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Georgia confirming the machine tallies stopped him spouting nonsense as he touted joint supplements and supplemental title insurance on YouTube.

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But, as Dominion points out, there was one place where Giuliani failed to allege that the company committed fraud. In federal court, where he would be subject to Rule 11 sanctions, Giuliani said “this is not a fraud case,” and he carefully distanced himself from Sidney Powell’s Kraken filings alleging improprieties by Dominion.

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When it came to the media however, Giuliani was perfectly willing to shoot his mouth off while shilling for “gold coins, supplements, cigars, and protection from ‘cyberthieves.’” That’s in addition to the $20,000 daily rate his “assistant” (read: ladyfriend) Maria Ryan demanded from the campaign for Rudy’s legal services.

The company alleges defamation per se, and demands $1.3 billion in compensatory and punitive damages. Which, well, good luck collecting that. The guy has a $230,000/month burn rate, and he had to borrow $100,000 from fellow Trumpland lawyer Michael Mukasey in 2019 just to pay his taxes.

But if the purpose of the suit is to publicly litigate the allegations against Dominion in an attempt to redeem the company’s reputation after Trump and his allies dragged it through the mud, it just might work. Unless, of course, Rudy manages to turn this entire thing into a three-ring circus…

“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,” Giuliani said this morning. “As such, we will investigate a countersuit against them for violating these Constitutional rights.”

What are the odds that Rudy goes the Sidney Powell route and hires Lin Wood to defend him? But who will defend Lin Wood? Will it be Rudy Giuliani?

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US DOMINION, INC. v. GIULIANI (1:21-cv-00213) [Docket at Court Listener]

Elizabeth Dye lives in Baltimore where she writes about law and politics.

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