Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is no longer serving as the personal lawyer for former President Donald Trump, according to a Trump spokesman.
Giuliani was recently targeted by Dominion Voting Systems in a $ 1.3 billion lawsuit over his allegations that the company’s voting machines helped ‘steal’ Trump’s 2020 presidential election.
Recently, Giuliani was the public face of the Trump campaign to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in courts and state legislatures. As part of his efforts, Giuliani and other Trump supporters claim that Dominion voting machines are programmed to turn votes from Trump to President Joe Biden.
Dominion has repeatedly denied the allegations and in January filed a $ 1.3 billion defamation suit against Giuliani and Trump-backed lawyer Sidney Powell, another former member of the Trump campaign’s legal team.
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On January 25, Dominion CEO John Paulos said in a statement that Giuliani’s continued allegations of Dominion’s participation in voter fraud “undermined confidence in US democratic institutions.”[Giuliani] continues to make demonstrable false allegations, and we intend to hold him and others who disseminate disinformation accountable. ‘
The same day, Giuliani said Dominion’s lawsuit was ‘intended to deter people with a weak heart’. Giuliani calls it “another intimidation by the hate-filled left to erase and censor the exercise of freedom of speech, as well as the ability of lawyers to vigorously defend their clients.” He also promised to file a counterclaim against the voting machine company.
Giuliani has said he wants to investigate the technology behind Dominion’s voting machines, as well as the company’s history, finances and business transactions to detect possible corruption. There is no evidence that Dominion committed any voter fraud or voting in the 2020 national election.
At the same time, Giuliani is also facing possible legal problems due to his alleged role in inciting the January 6 uprising at the US Capitol.
At Trump’s ‘Stop the Steal’ rally before the uprising, Giuliani continued to push his theory on rigid voting machines, as Trump repeatedly told the crowd that the election had been stolen from him. Giuliani also told the crowd: ‘Let’s we go through a fight’, rather than continue to sue the outcome of the election in court; an attempt that has already failed in more than 60 court cases filed by Trump and the Republican Party.
At the end of January, Middlebury College in Vermont revoked an honorary degree he had awarded to Giuliani in recognition of his response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York Mayor. Laurie Patton, president of the private liberal arts college, accused Giuliani of fueling the violent uprising on January 6 at the Capitol.
Giuliani is also being expelled from the New York State Bar Association for his role in the January 6 uprising.
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