Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani sued President Biden for defamation on Wednesday over his comments calling the former New York mayor a “Russian pawn” during a 2020 presidential debate.
The 16-page lawsuit, filed in New Hampshire state court, names Biden, his campaign, and several fundraising committees as defendants, citing two statements Biden made during the final presidential debate against former President Trump on Oct. 22, 2020.
In the first statement, Biden was answering a question about combating foreign election interference when, after some hesitation, he mentioned Giuliani.
“Well I won't get — I shouldn't — well, I will,” Biden said.
“His buddy, Rudy Giuliani,” Biden continued, referring to the close Trump ally. “He's being used as a Russian pawn. He is being fed information that is Russian – that is not true.”
Giuliani's lawsuit alleges that the statement “falsely claimed and depicted the Plaintiff to our nation as a liar.”
Later in the debate, after Trump mentioned the “laptop from hell,” referring to the infamous Hunter Biden laptop story that had surfaced days earlier, then-candidate Biden insisted to the moderator that he needed to respond to a reference about his son.
“Look, there are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what this, he's accusing me of is a Russian plan,” Biden said at the debate.
“They have said that this has all the characteristics — four– five former heads of the CIA, both parties, say what he's saying is a bunch of garbage. Nobody believes it except him and his good friend Rudy Giuliani,” Biden added.
Giuliani's lawsuit comes hours after a damning report by The New York Times that shed details on the former Trump attorney's drinking problems.
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I hope rudy gets the degenerate in chief for a billion!
True and it’s sick that Biden accuses Rudy when in fact he’s beholden to multiple countries such as China, Ukraine, and Russia himself.
You go Rudy, go after the demented leader in chief.
Glad to see it but sad that Rudy who doesn’t deserve to be treated this way has to go thru all this hurt. I hope he breaks Biden’s bank.
What goes around comes around, as it should.
If the allegations of Bribery and Money Laundering by Joe Biden and his family turns out to be true…..Rudy has a very strong case.