Newsweek: “Rudy Giuliani, attorney for former President Donald Trump, responded Monday to a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit filed against him by Dominion Voting Systems. Giuliani had publicly supported Trump’s baseless claims that widespread voter fraud had been a factor in President Joe Biden’s victory. Among the conspiracy theories peddled by Giuliani was an allegation that tabulation machines manufactured by Dominion Voting Systems had been programmed to flip votes from Trump to Biden. Many of the lawsuits filed by Giuliani and other members of Trump’s legal team, attempting to overturn the results of the election, failed. In its Monday filing, Dominion said that Giuliani’s allegations had damaged the company’s reputation.”

“During Monday’s edition of Giuliani’s Chat with the Mayor program on WABC, Giuliani scoffed at the billion-dollar lawsuit. ‘What do you think I am, some kind of jackass?’ Giuliani asked. ‘That’s intended to frighten me, you want to frighten me. You want to scare me, like you have some of these companies and stations that have gone ahead and kissed your you-know-what. Because they’re afraid of you.’ ‘Well, I tell you I’m a crazy guy, I really am, I’m just really crazy,’ Giuliani continued. ‘So not only haven’t you scared me, you’ve actually given me something that I couldn’t get through the censorship that’s been set up so nobody can see your machines.'”