Former President Donald Trump suggested Wednesday he intends to push false claims about voter fraud during his trial if he’s indicted by the Justice Department for trying to overturn the 2020 election—but those claims have a history of falling apart under legal scrutiny, as ex-attorney Rudy Giuliani’s court filing in a defamation case Tuesday marked the latest instance of Trump lawyers backtracking on claims about election fraud in court.
Trump, who may imminently be indicted on federal charges stemming from his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, said on Truth Social Wednesday it will be the “TRIAL OF THE CENTURY” and his team will “have fun on the stand with all of these people that say the Presidential Election wasn’t Rigged and Stollen [sic].”
There is no credible evidence of widespread fraud during the 2020 election, and lawsuits alleging fraud after the election overwhelmingly failed, with many attorneys involved in the efforts to overturn the election now facing professional consequences and defamation suits for pushing the fraud claims.
In a court filing Tuesday in a defamation case brought by Georgia election workers who Giuliani tied to election fraud, Giuliani conceded the fraud claims he made involving the workers were “false” and “carry meaning that is defamatory per se,” backing down from the fraud claims at least for the purposes of this litigation.
Giuliani previously backed down from fraud claims when he represented the Trump campaign...
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