Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who now serves as the personal attorney for Donald Trump, is being sued for $1.3 billion for continuously spreading false information about the voting machines used in the 2020 general election. Giuliani has also made fraudulent claims that the election was “stolen” from former President Trump.
According to BuzzFeed News, Dominion Voting Systems
ampforwp-incontent-custom-banner ampforwp-incontent-ad1">“By the night of the election, Giuliani had devised a plan to simply assert, without evidence, the Big Lie that the election had been stolen,” the lawsuit states. “While some lies — little lies — flare up on social media and die with the next news cycle, the Big Lie was different. The harm to Dominion’s business and reputation is unprecedented and irreparable because of how fervently millions of people believe it. Indeed, hundreds of people believed the Big Lie about Dominion with such devotion that they took the fight from social media to the United States Capitol to #StopTheSteal.”
CNN also reports that Giuliani also spread falsehoods about Dominion being owned by Venezuelan communists and thereby, corrupting the election.