Rudy Giuliani and One America News sued by Georgia poll workers falsely accused of electoral fraud

[Zorro]

Source: Washington Post

Two election workers who counted votes for the 2020 presidential election filed a defamation lawsuit Thursday against the parent company of One America News, senior staff at the far-right TV network and Rudolph W. Giuliani, who served as a personal lawyer to former president Donald Trump.

Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, who worked in Fulton County, Ga., allege that One America News and Giuliani, who frequently appears on the network, knowingly spread misinformation about them, including falsehoods that they logged illegal ballots for Joe Biden in the election.

The two women “have become objects of vitriol, threats, and harassment … because of a campaign of malicious lies,” their attorneys wrote in the suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. “Deliberate efforts to spread disinformation about America’s election workers undermine the integrity of American elections … and accordingly, threaten democracy.”

The legal action seeks to force the defendants to delete false statements about the two women from their platforms. It also asks for compensatory and punitive damages.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/24/trump-giuliani-oann-election-fraud/

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Merry Christmas, Rudy!

[tblue37]

1. Good!

[Alexander Of Assyria]

2. Lawsuits work both ways, fascists. The court system treasures evidence over

Big Lies, or any lies, facts over fiction, so these lawsuits have traction.

The Big Lie lawsuits all rested on well, lies. The courts mocked them.

Time to pay up for attempting to purposely destroy democracy with malice afore sight and armed only with a Big Lie.

Remember Four Seasons Landscaping? The Kraken ink dripping down the forehead in another dark episode of this dark okay?

A judge and jury is going to have a field day looking over that and other videos.

Truth coming for them all…

The two women “have become objects of vitriol, threats, and harassment … because of a campaign of malicious lies,” their attorneys wrote in the suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. “Deliberate efforts to spread disinformation about America’s election workers undermine the integrity of American elections … and accordingly, threaten democracy.”

[azureblue]

3. They lied

and they knew they were lying. Time to pay for those lies and the damage those lies did.

[Hiawatha Pete]

4. K&R

[ck4829]

5. K&R

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[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. This will be a fun lawsuit to watch

Link to tweet

[OldBaldy1701E]

8. You are damned right I want them to bankrupt him!

That is all those vultures care about. Hit him where it will hurthim!

[William Seger]

7. I hope she's just getting started

ALL the people who did this to her should suffer serious enough consequences to think twice before doing it again. A slap on the wrist here or there won't do.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

9. They should also sue the Trump Campaign (nt)

[Ford_Prefect]

11. Along with the entire slimy Trump family & Entourage. Every single one of them!

All of the RAGA members, the RGA, as well as the GOP legislators who have echoed these falsehoods and implicit accusations!

The should go after all that Pillow Man money too!

[certainot]

17. they should sue cumulus and iheart too - 100s of their RW stations, esp in Georgia, likely attacke

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attacked them

the law firm could hire plenty of IT pros that could use AI to transcribe and analyze/search huge amts of rw radio recordings and podcasts and youtubes.

at the very least the Ga rw radio station local blowhards would have piled on, including the 14 that Georgia 7, Georgia Tech 5, Georgia Southern 2 broadcast sports on/support

[Talitha]

10. K&R

[wryter2000]

12. I hope they win millions

Who knows how much money Rudy has. But OANN must be insured.

[CaptainTruth]

13. I wish them luck, defamation can be hard to prove.

The tricky part always seems to be proving "the person knowingly or recklessly made a false statement."

It's the "knowingly or recklessly" part that's difficult. If someone says something they honestly believe to be true, that condition is not met.

Also, if Rudy made false accusations & supplied a misleading video & then OAN reported on it saying "Rudy Giuliani said this..." & "Rudy Giuliani provided this video..." then OAN did not make false statements, those statements are true because Rudy did in fact say those things & supplied the video. Now, if someone at the network went beyond reporting & began editorializing, making their own statements instead of just reporting on the statements of others, a case could be made against that person, but a case against the entire company is much more difficult.

For example, consider the Dominion case against Fox. A week ago the judge denied Fox's motion to dismiss, & noted "Whether Dominion ultimately will prove Fox’s actual malice by clear and convincing evidence is irrelevant on a motion to dismiss."

There we see the difficulty the plaintiffs face, proving "actual malice by clear and convincing evidence." Proving actual malice by an entire company is not easy.

[OMGWTF]

14. OAN wouldn't exist without AT&T's money.

[blueinredohio]

15. Good for them.

I hope they get everything they're asking g for. More people should sue these assholes when they tell lies.

[oldsoftie]

16. Good. Go after them. Their names have been tossed around here in GA for a YEAR.

They were supposedly the ones who brought in all the "fake ballots" that were counted after they shut down for the night.

[Bengus81]

18. HELL YES!!!!

Get TOUGH and start dishing it out to those Trump thugs

[SKKY]

19. I know schadenfreude is never a good look, but I'm not gonna lie...

...I would not be upset if OANN is sued out of existence.

[ShazzieB]

20. I hope these women clean up.

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Mop the floor with Giuliani, ladies. Then wring him out and mop some more.

[SouthernDem4ever]

21. Every poll worker in areas mentioned by these charlatans should sue

those disgusting buffoons until they are broke.