With Smartmatic’s $2.7 billion lawsuit against Fox cable propaganda network and other MAGA henchmen still pending, Rudy Giuliani filed a countersuit in New York to recoup his legal fees if Smartmatic loses its case, Reuters reports.
Giuliani follows the path of of Business anchor Maria Bartiromo and former anchor Lou Dobbs who also follow anti-SLAPP suits in New York to get back their legal costs. “Smartmatic’s litigation tactics, including its facially implausible damages claims, are a naked attempt to attack a well-known public figure” and amount to censorship, Giuliani says in his lawsuit.
To convince people that the November 2020 election was stolen, Giuliani and others claimed that Smartmatic software was designed to allow foreign operators who own the company to flip votes nationwide, handing the election to Joe Biden when, they claim, Donald Trump won by millions of votes. However, the election software sold by Smartmatic, which is based in Boca Raton, Florida, not Venezuela, was only used by one jurisdiction in the 2020 election: Los Angeles County.