Among many significant revelations coming out of the hearings of the January 6 select committee is information concerning Dominion Voting Systems. Former senior U.S. officials testified that they privately informed former President Donald Trump that allegations against Dominion had no merit and so did an internal Trump campaign report, yet Trump continued to make such statements against Dominion in public.
Dominion has brought defamation lawsuits totaling well over a billion dollars against Trump associates – but not Donald Trump himself, or at least not yet.
I asked leading legal experts about the potential strength of Dominion bringing a defamation suit against the former president. I asked each of them independently. Their responses are below in full.
Almost every expert said a defamation suit brought by Dominion against Trump would be very strong, but one expert raised concerns about the practicality of such a lawsuit and another raised issues of presidential immunity. As shown below, I wrote the prompt to allow respondents to bracket the immunity question or address it if they preferred. We may revisit that issue in future. In the meantime, readers may be interested in the recent DC district court ruling that Trump did not have immunity from civil suits involving his rally speeches and other political activities to secure incumbency between Nov. 2020 and Jan. 2021. Trump has also continued to make public statements since leaving office — repeating some of the same...
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