Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani sued President Joe Biden on Wednesday, saying he defamed him during the 2020 presidential campaign after Giuliani played a role in exposing the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop.
“I’m suing Joe Biden,” Giuliani posted on X.
“What he did to me is intolerable. He called me a Russian operative. That is a lie. That is false,” Giuliani said, according to WMUR-TV.
I’m suing Joe Biden. https://t.co/wtZnlx9Hgt
— Rudy W. Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) October 4, 2023
The lawsuit, filed in New Hampshire, comes a week after Hunter Biden sued Giuliani, claiming he violated his privacy when he shared the laptop’s contents.
Giuliani is suing over comments made during the presidential debate that took place on Oct. 22, 2020, as Biden was criticizing former President Donald Trump, according to The Hill.
“His buddy, Rudy Giuliani — he’s being used as a Russian pawn. He is being fed information that is Russian, that is not true,” Biden said, referring to since-discredited claims that the laptop’s contents were Russian disinformation.
Biden embellished that false notion later in the debate.
“Look, there are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what … [Trump is] accusing me of is a Russian plan,” Biden said.
“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.”
The lawsuit said Biden’s comments that night came in the context of his “established pattern and practice of stating fantastic falsehoods throughout his public career.”
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