It took months and a $1.3 billion lawsuit for Donald Trump’s close friend and former attorney, Rudy Giuliani, to admit that Joe Biden had won the 2020 presidential election.
Giuliani finally acknowledged that fact during an interview on WABC-AM, saying, “As far as this election is concerned, it’s over. Biden’s the president, she’s the vice president.”
Oddly enough, until that very day, Giuliani had stuck to the ridiculous idea that Trump was the winner. What prompted that change of heart? Perhaps the $1.3 billion lawsuit slapped on him by Dominion Voting Systems had something to do with that. Dominion accuses Giuliani of defamation.
Giuliani spent the months after the election spreading the debunked conspiracy theory that Dominion’s voting machines were fraudulent and turned Trump votes into votes for Biden. He spread this theory across social media, during radio and television interviews, on his podcast, and he even made a speech about it at the “Stop the Steal” rally held at the Capitol on January 6th, just prior to the fatal siege.
Just after being served with the lawsuit, Giuliani said the action would allow him “to investigate their history, finances, and practices fully and completely.”
His statement said, “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…”
He added, “We’ll have a nice fight” and then said, “I fight in the courtroom.”
Thanks to Trump, Giuliani faces a plethora of legal issues. He is the subject of a criminal investigation by the Manhattan US attorney’s office for possible violation of foreign-lobbying laws and there have been multiple attempts to get him disbarred.
Giuliani also said that another voting-tech company, Smartmatic, joined Dominion in switching votes in several battleground states to FAVOR Joe Biden.
Dominion CEO, John Poulos, accused Giuliani of having “actively propagated disinformation to purposefully mislead voters.”
He also said: “Because Giuliani and others incessantly repeated the false claims about my company on a range of media platforms, some of our own family and friends are among the Americans who were duped.”
The lawsuit focused on Giuliani’s repeated accusations that Dominion had engaged in fraud. The lawsuit went so far as to list individuals that believed Giuliani’s claims, too. Giuliani’s speech at the “Stop the Steal” rally is believed to incited the insurrection that day.
Giuliani called for “trial by combat” during the speech and encouraged people to stop Congress from certifying the Electoral College votes that day.
During that rally, Trump also encouraged his supporters to physically march to the Capitol to stop the process and they took his advice, heading to the Capitol where they vandalized property, committed theft, and tried to hunt down lawmakers who were at work.
The riot took the lives of five people that day, including one officer who was reportedly beaten with a fire extinguisher.
Giuliani had tried, and ultimately failed, to obtain a pardon from Trump before he left office.
