Former personal attorney for Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani admitted under oath that he did not believe that it was his job to verify claims of election fraud before spreading it in public.
The admission came from a video of Giuliani’s deposition, obtained exclusively by CNN, in the defamation case brought against him by former Dominion Voting Systems executive Eric Coomer.
Giuliani and other right wing figures have falsely accuse the voting machines company of being at the center of a conspiracy to steal the 2020 presidential election from Donald Trump by flipping his votes to Joe Biden.
In court, Giuliani said he “had a report that the heads of Dominion and Smartmatic, somewhere in the mid-teens, you know 2013, 2014, whatever, went down to Venezuela for a get-to-know meeting with (President Nicolás) Maduro so they could demonstrate to Maduro the kind of vote fixing they did for (former President Hugo) Chavez.”
Giuliani and other Trump election fraud lawyers, who called themselves an “elite strike force team” later repeated that conspiracy theory at a news conference even though he testified that he “did not have the time” to check the veracity of the claim.
“It’s not my job, in a fast-moving case, to go out and investigate every piece of evidence that was given to me. Otherwise, you’re never going to write a story. You’ll never come to a conclusion,” Giuliani said.
