Dominion unleashes the Kraken—subpoenaing Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani, and Mike Lindell
Sometimes, one lawsuit just isn’t enough. Early this year, Dominion Voting Systems filed individual $1.3 billion lawsuits against Trump conspiracy boosters Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani, and Mike Lindell, but the voting machine company followed up in March with a $1.6 billion suit targeting Fox News for allegedly featuring election fraud conspiracies in an effort to boost its ratings.
Now Dominion has used the Fox suit to subpoena Powell, Giuliani, and Lindell for their correspondence with the outlet, according to Business Insider. The news was first broken by Bloomberg. Business Insider writes, “The subpoena asks Giuliani, a former New York mayor who also served as Trump’s personal lawyer, to hand over all documents related to his appearances on Fox since 2016, alongside all communications with the network related to both the 2020 presidential election and Dominion.”
Well, that correspondence is bound to unearth some doozies. Given what Giuliani serves up on air, it’s pretty hard to even imagine what he relayed off-air.
Dominion is also seeking to understand Giuliani’s relationship with the network, how formal it was, and whether he was paid or unpaid.
Powell, who was originally part of Trump’s “Elite Strike Force” legal team, and Lindell, the conspiracy peddling CEO of MyPillow, have both been served with similar subpoenas.
In its lawsuit, Dominion claims the Fox network “sold a false story of election fraud in order to serve its own commercial purposes, severely injuring Dominion in the process.” The voting machine company Smartmatic is also suing Fox for $2.7 billion in a lawsuit filed in February.
Fox has maintained that it is “proud of our 2020 election coverage.”
To be fair, the outlet did have one good moment on election night when it correctly called Arizona for Joe Biden. Heh.