Dominion Voting Systems filed a defamation lawsuitagainst Rudy Giuliani on Monday seeking $1.3 billion in damages for his “demonstrably false” allegations about the company’s voting machines.
Why it matters: Giuliani led former President Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the election and spread the baseless conspiracy theory that Dominion’s voting machines flipped votes from Trump to Joe Biden.
- Another one of Trump’s allies, Sidney Powell, is also facing a defamation lawsuit for falsely claiming that Dominion was part of an international communist plot to rig the election. Continue reading.