Topic: Newsmax
We're reported that Newsmax has started, and is managing, a legal defense fund for frequent guest Rudy Giuliani, who is facing numerous legal actions in regard to his attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. On Sept. 28, Newsmax sent out an email to subscribers containing "A Letter from Rudy Giuliani to You" thanking readers for their support -- and of course, begging for more money (boldface in original):
But the far left was not finished with President Trump or me.
Since President Trump left office, they have launched wide-ranging legal attacks against him with four indictments in four jurisdictions, including 91 counts!
At the same time he has faced multiple criminal and civil charges in New York State.
I have been indicted – along with President Trump and others -- in Georgia after simply exercising my constitutional right to challenge an election result.
I am facing other legal cases across the United States. The left uses this “lawfare” to stop conservatives like me from speaking out.
Well, I can assure you, they will never stop me from speaking out.
America is too important to give up.
I want to thank you for your support – it means so much to me and my family.
President Trump has also thanked Americans for supporting my Legal Defense Fund.
Just this past week, I was sued again.
This time by Hunter Biden!
He is actually claiming I misused his laptop. The very same laptop he denied owning.
Yes, the same laptop his father said was not his son’s, but a product of Russian disinformation.
As I said, I will continue to fight against the forces of darkness in this country.
But I need your help.
Consider again a donation to my Legal Defense Fund.
There was no disclosure of the fact that Newsmax is running the legal fund.
Newsmax did a basic article on Hunter Biden's lawsuit against Giuliani. It defoted more attention, however, to Giuliani suing President Biden over being called a "Russian pawn" during the 2020 campaign. First up was an Oct. 4 article by Nicole Wells:
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani sued President Joe Biden for defamation on Wednesday, taking aim at two comments from 2020 that branded Giuliani a "Russian pawn."
Filed in New Hampshire state court, the 16-page lawsuit names Biden, his campaign, and four fundraising committees as defendants. According to the complaint, Biden made the statements on Oct. 22, 2020, during the final presidential debate against former President Donald Trump.
Biden initially linked Giuliani to Russia while answering a question about foreign election interference, the lawsuit claims.
Then, of course, came the inevitable Newsmax TV hit, summarized in an Oct. 5 article by Sandy Fitzgerald:
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, calling President Joe Biden the "biggest liar we've ever had in the White House" insisted on Newsmax that he must pay damages for referring to him as a "Russian pawn" during remarks made in the final 2020 presidential debate against then-President Donald Trump.
"I can calculate, honestly, millions of dollars in damage," Giuliani told Newsmax's Greg Kelly on Wednesday night about the lawsuit he filed against the president earlier in the day.
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"What he just said was that I was a Russian spy, a Russian operative, a dishonest person supplying dishonest information ... many, many things," Giuliani told Kelly. "You could go as far as to say a traitor, right? A Russian pawn."
And that, Giuliani claimed, "Did great damage to my law practice and my consulting business. My podcast was canceled in certain places. I can calculate millions of dollars in damage as a result of that."
Giuliani added that "roughly half the people" believed Biden, and "those half of the people turned out to be a lot of the corporate captains and leaders in the country. I was doing security work for many of them, and I had a beginning podcast that was up to a million people on YouTube. So it was not insubstantial, and I lost a lot of that."
Newsmax didn't ask why Giuliani filed his defamation lawsuit in New Hampshire though Biden's comments were made in Tennessee. (New Hampshire has a longer statute of limitations on defamation, it turns out.)
Surprisingly, Newsmax published an article on another of Giuliani's legal woes. An Aug. 30 wire article noted that Giuliani "is liable for defaming two Georgia election workers who were the target of vote-rigging conspiracy accusations following the 2020 U.S. presidential election," adding that the federal judge overseeing the trial "found Giuliani refused to comply with a process for producing records, known as discovery, and rejected the former New York mayor's argument that the election workers used the lawsuit to harass him. Giuliani will have to pay legal fees and interest of $89,172.50 and $43,684 for a total of $132,856.50." A few days later, Giuliani appeared on Newsmax to reframe the judgment as a desire to "to move on to the legal aspects of the case. I'm not stupid enough to think I'm going to get a fair trial in front of her in the District of Columbia."
In between all this, Newsmax continued to repeatedly host Giuliani and promote his other legal efforts:- Giuliani to Newsmax: Impeachment Is 'Inevitable' Outcome
- Giuliani Files to Get Georgia Charges Against Him Tossed
- Rudy Giuliani to Newsmax: Dems Destroyed US Justice System
- Rudy Giuliani to Newsmax: 'We Have a Disaster, Tragedy in the White House'
- Giuliani to Newsmax: US in 'More Danger' Now Than Before 9/11
- Giuliani to Newsmax: Biden Admin Saying 'No More Fair Trial'
- Giuliani to Newsmax: AG Garland 'Dishonored' the DOJ
- Giuliani to Newsmax: No Justice in Two-Tier Justice System
- Giuliani to Newsmax: Raskin Wants to Call 'Liar' Parnas
Newsmax did publish a wire article on Giuliani pleading not guilty to the Georgia charges he faces, but it also published an article featuring sleazy Republican operative Roger Stone denouncing the charges -- not exactly the kind of character witness the guy needs. But it was silent about Giuliani's other legal foibles , among them a New York Times piece detailing his apparent drinking problem and a former lawyer suing him for $1.4 million in unpaid legal bills. It has also been silent about the judge in the defamation suit by the Georgia election workers ruling that jurors can be told that Giuliani intentionally hid his financial records (after lying about the two workers again).
