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January 26, 2021, 2:19 pm*
Rudy Giuliani—acting as President Donald Trump’s lawyer—was at the heart of the allegations about election fraud, and Dominion Voting Systems has since slapped him with a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit.
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But he scoffed at that lawsuit on Monday in an interview, revealing what once might call a confident mindset.
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Media Matters for America released a segment of the interview, part of Monday’s edition of the Giuliani-hosted radio show Chat With the Mayor on New York’s WABC-AM.
“What do you think I am, some kind of jackass?” Giuliani asked rhetorically of Dominion’s lawsuit. “That’s intended to frighten me. You want to frighten me. You want to scare me, like you have some of these companies and stations that have gone ahead and kissed your you-know-what. Because they’re afraid of you.”
He went on to say, surely causing his legal team some alarm, “Well I tell you I’m a crazy guy, I really am, I’m just really crazy. So not only haven’t you scared me, you’ve actually given me something that I couldn’t get through the censorship that’s been set up so nobody can see your machines.”
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According to Newsweek, Giuliani asserted that the lawsuit would allow his “independent experts” to examine the voting machines and delve deeply into Dominion’s investors and business connections.
Dominion CEO John Paulos said Giuliani’s continued allegations that the company was implicit in voter fraud had “undermined trust in American democratic institutions.” Paulos also remarked that Giuliani “continues to make demonstrable false claims, and we intend to hold him, and others who spread disinformation, to account.”
“You got the wrong guy here,” Giuliani went on to say Monday in his railing against Dominion. “I think a couple of the others you sued are the wrong people too. I just don’t think they’re able to be frightened.”
Newsweek notes that Dominion also filed a $1.3 billion lawsuit against attorney Sidney Powell in January. Powell, who worked alongside Trump’s legal team, alleged that Dominion got its start in Venezuela and that its voting machines were used in that country to ensure the election of late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. Dominion has denied the allegations.
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“Dominion has never participated in any elections in Venezuela and has no connection or relationship with the now-deceased former Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez,” Dominion clarified back in November. “Other companies have serviced elections in Venezuela, but Dominion is not one of them.”
The Washington Post, digging deeper into the Dominion lawsuit, notes that they’re arguing Giuliani may have been motivated by money to keep the election fraud story going.
The article characterized Dominion’s lawsuit as contending that Giuliani “knowingly spread falsehoods about the company to bolster Trump’s failing attempts to overturn the reality of his election loss. But Giuliani had another incentive for doing so, the lawyers wrote: He ‘cashed in’ by hosting a podcast where he exploited election falsehoods to market gold coins, supplements, cigars, and protection from ‘cyber thieves.’”
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That article went on to say, “The lawsuit frames Giuliani not as an ideological crusader but as a shrewd marketer eager to monetize his growing fan base, using the kinds of social-media-influencer techniques popular across YouTube, Facebook and Instagram, including infomercial-style endorsements and promotional discount codes.”
*First Published: January 26, 2021, 2:08 pm
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