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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Richard Luscombe

Rudy Giuliani and Dominion settle $1.3bn defamation suit over election lies

man in suit speaks as a person behind him holds up sign saying 'big lie'
Rudy Giuliani speaks to the media after leaving federal court in Washington DC on 19 May 2023. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor and personal lawyer to Donald Trump, has settled a long-running defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems over lies he told about the result of the 2020 presidential election.

Details of the settlement, revealed in federal court in Washington DC in a filing late on Friday, are confidential. The Colorado-based voting machine manufacturer sued Giuliani for $1.3bn in 2021, citing more than 50 instances in which he made false or defamatory statements insisting the election was rigged against Trump, with the integrity of Dominion’s machinery at the heart of the conspiracy theory.

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