Company sues Giuliani
WASHINGTON: A US voting machine company has filed a $US1.3 billion ($NZ1.8 billion) lawsuit against former President Donald Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, accusing him of defamation in what it called his ‘‘big lie’’ campaign about widespread fraud in the presidential election, court documents showed.
The company, Dominion Voting Systems Inc, filed an earlier lawsuit against proTrump lawyer Sidney Powell, whom the company also accused of spreading false conspiracy theories about the election.
A senior Dominion employee, Eric Coomer, also filed a defamation lawsuit against the Trump campaign, saying he had been driven into hiding because of death threats from Trump supporters.
Giuliani said in a statement that Dominion’s lawsuit was intended to intimidate others from exercising their free speech rights and he may file a countersuit against the company for violating his rights.
Dominion said it filed the lawsuit ‘‘to set the record straight’’ and to ‘‘stand up for itself, its employees and the electoral process’’. — Reuters