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(129,692 posts) Sat Mar 2, 2024, 07:23 PM Mar 2

Giuliani appears to give up on his much-hyped 'Russian pawn' defamation suit against Biden

Source: Law & Crime

Mar 2nd, 2024, 12:41 pm

Despite Rudy Giuliani last year touting his defamation lawsuit against President Joe Biden as having “far-reaching implications for justice and the rule of law,” it now appears the embattled former New York City mayor has given up the fight by not responding to a motion seeking to have the suit dismissed for procedural and substantive deficiencies.

Attorneys representing Biden last week filed a “Notice of Non-Opposition” in the U.S. District Court for New Hampshire, stating that Giuliani had failed to file a response to the president’s Jan. 25 motion to have the lawsuit dismissed. “Giuliani’s response to this motion would have been due on February 8, 2024, or 14 days after the motion to dismiss was filed,” Biden’s Feb. 21 filing states. “Giuliani has filed no response.”

The lawsuit, filed in New Hampshire’s Merrimack County Superior Court on December 2023, stemmed from Biden referring to him as a “Russian pawn” during a 2020 debate with Donald Trump. “His own national security adviser told him that what is happening with his buddy — I shouldn’t — actually, I will,” Biden said in October 2020, in response to Giuliani’s claims about the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop and foreign corruption. “His buddy Rudy Giuliani. He’s being used as a Russian pawn. He’s being fed information that is Russian — that is not true.”

Giuliani, while announcing the lawsuit, said Biden falsely branded him as “a Russian pawn” and a “facilitator of Russian disinformation,” damaging his law practice and consulting business. “He called me a Russian operative. That is a lie, that is false,” the former NYC mayor said. “That’s what’s called libel, defamation per se.” Biden later successfully had the suit removed from state court to the federal district court in New Hampshire. Biden responded by seeking to have the suit dismissed as defective on various grounds.

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Giuliani appears to give up on his much-hyped 'Russian pawn' defamation suit against Biden (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Mar 2 OP

Both sides should be all over Giuliani about the dirt he claimed to have on the Bidens. How does he get brewens Mar 2 #1

Meaning that Giuliani can't afford legal representation to continue. no_hypocrisy Mar 2 #2

I think so too. Plus, he's really busytrying to figure out how he can hide his assets. OAITW r.2.0 Mar 2 #3

That's my assumption as well. ShazzieB Mar 2 #5

Either Ghoulyani has run out of money SouthernDem4ever Mar 2 #4

Or, you know, both! ShazzieB Mar 2 #6

brewens

(13,633 posts)

1. Both sides should be all over Giuliani about the dirt he claimed to have on the Bidens. How does he get

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sat Mar 2, 2024, 07:37 PM

Mar 2

away with that? They were promised a bombshell documentary that would sink Biden's campaign when Giuliani came back from Ukraine in 2020.

I thought that might come out when the Russian witness blew up in their faces. I thought Giuliani did come back with something and it ended up being used to gin up the laptop.

no_hypocrisy

(46,243 posts)

2. Meaning that Giuliani can't afford legal representation to continue.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sat Mar 2, 2024, 07:39 PM

Mar 2

OAITW r.2.0

(24,679 posts)

3. I think so too. Plus, he's really busytrying to figure out how he can hide his assets.

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Reply #2)

Sat Mar 2, 2024, 07:49 PM

Mar 2

ShazzieB

(16,564 posts)

5. That's my assumption as well.

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Reply #2)

Sat Mar 2, 2024, 10:27 PM

Mar 2

Plus he's too busy these days dealing with his bankruptcy situation.

He's like a venomous snake with no fangs: still toxic but unable to inflict his poison on others.