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From Plaintiffs to Defendants: Trump’s legal team faces multimillion-dollar defamation lawsuits. There are already two lawyers accused of profiting from a disinformation campaign that sold the theory of an alleged non-existent electoral fraud.
Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, Faces a billionaire was sued for defamation after participating in the disinformation campaign about an alleged electoral fraud in the last US election, which was never proven in the country courts.
The plaintiff is Dominion Voting Systems, one of the election equipment makers that became the main target of Trump’s legal team’s conspiracy theories. Giualiani and company claimed Dominion had fixed the machines to favor Democratic candidate Joe Biden.
The more than 60 lawsuits filed by the Trump team in the courts of the disputed states resulted in embarrassing defeats for the former president, as the theory of an alleged electoral fraud for lack of evidence was never proven. . Dominion now demands $ 1.3 billion in compensation for damage to its image.
“As a result of defamatory falsehoods sold by Weather in Giuliani, Dominion’s founder and employees have been harassed and threatened with death, and Dominion has suffered unprecedented and irreparable damage, “the company said.” Dominion is taking this action to clarify things, to claim the rights of companies, recover compensatory and punitive damages and defend themselves, their employees and the electoral process, ”Dominion added in filing the lawsuit.
Giuliani thus becomes the second member of Trump’s legal team to be sued for “profiting from a disinformation campaign.” Just two weeks ago, attorney Sidney Powell, who fueled the election fraud theory and sought to overturn election results in favor of the former president, was also sued by Dominion for a sum of US $ 1.3 billion.
“Powell falsely claimed that Dominion had manipulated the election, that Dominion was created in Venezuela to manipulate Hugo Chávez’s election, and that Dominion bribed Georgia officials for a contract without a tender,” the lawsuit against Powell notes.
These two lawsuits could lead to Giuliani and Powell recanting their baseless attacks on Dominion and the transparency of the electoral system. Already some media outlets have begun to apologize for participating in this disinformation campaign, fearing multimillion-dollar lawsuits like the ones that fell on the former president’s legal team.
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