Ten years ago this would have been laughed out of court. But last spring e jean carroll won a defamation suit against trump for calling her a liar after she called him a rapist despite having zero evidence for her claim!
https://news.yahoo.com/rudy-giuliani-sues-biden-faces-154911682.html
oct 4 2023 In what his spokesperson called a case with “far-reaching implications for justice and the rule of law,” Rudy Giuliani has filed a 16-page complaint alleging President Joe Biden defamed the former New York City mayor, who faces a mountain
of his own legal challenges.
Mr Giuliani, in a brief and rambling press conference in New Hampshire on 4 October, raged at the president for using the phrase “Russian pawn” during a presidential debate in 2020, a statement that Mr Giuliani claims has cost him “millions and
millions of dollars” from lost clients and consulting business.
“Joe Biden has spent his life telling lies” and “getting away with it,” said Mr Giuliani, who called the Democratic president a “pathological liar” and baselessly asserted that “people have died” because of his statements.
“He called me a Russian operative … That is a lie, that is false,” he added. “He owes me a lot of money in a lot of states.”
Mr Giuliani’s attorney William O’Brien said they filed the complaint in state court in New Hampshire because of the state’s statute of limitations “allows the recovery of damages … wherever and in whatever jurisdiction the statements were
distributed or published.”
During a presidential debate between Mr Biden and Donald Trump three years ago, Mr Biden appeared to reference reporting in The Washington Post that intelligence agencies had warned the White House that Mr Giuliani was a target of an influence operation
used to feed Russian misinformation to then-President Trump.
“[Mr Trump’s] own national security adviser told him that what is happening with his buddy, Rudy Giuliani, he’s being used as a Russian pawn, he’s being fed information that is Russian, that is not true. And then what happens? Nothing happens,”
Mr Biden said during the debate. “And then you find out that everything that’s going on here about Russia is wanting to make sure that I do not get elected the next President of the United States, because they know I know them and they know me.”
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