Rudy Giuliani, just like your misguided boomer family and estranged relatives, gleaned his alleged evidence of voter fraud during the 2020 presidential elections from posts unvetted on Facebook.
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MSNBC reported that Eric Coomer took the following deposition on Aug. 14 in a lawsuit alleging defamation against Trump's campaign. The deposition was taken by Coomer, a former employee of Dominion Voting Systems. This is one of many lawsuits Coomer has filed against prominent conservatives that peddled conspiracy theories about his involvement with antifa in rigging the election for President Joe Biden.
Giuliani, a former personal attorney for Donald Trump, has filed the paperwork and admits that some of his claims regarding Coomers' alleged role in The Big Steal were based on social media posts. He is most likely referring to Facebook, though he was not entirely certain because I see all those posts.
He continued to state that he had never reached out at Dominion or Coomer to fact-check the information he found online before sharing it with a Nov. 19 press conference, where he, along with other conservative figures including Sidney Powell (a Trump lawyer in the middle of several election-related lawsuits), made a series of unfounded claims regarding widespread election fraud.
Giuliani responded to lawyers' questions about whether he had other sources to support his claims against Coomer.
Coomer was made the unwitting victim of a wave indignant Trump supporters and voting conspiracists following the election. The conspiracy theory was started by Joseph Oltmann, right-wing podcast host. He claimed that Coomer had entered an antifa conference call. There, Coomer, then director of product strategy, and security at the Denver-based voter machine manufacturer, boasted about his involvement in the election. It is not clear why Oltmann named Coomer, but it is believed that he was targeted due to his job title and antiTrump posts he made via his personal Facebook account.
According to court papers filed by Coomers lawyers, Giuliani claimed that he spent almost no time investigating the allegations before he and Powell repeated them at their November press conference. This is a great read, especially if you have time to spare.
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Coomer was named by Trump's lawyers and then he was attacked by conspiracy theorists who demanded his death. Fearing for his safety, he went into hiding one week following the election. He later filed multiple defamation suits in Colorado state court against Trump's campaign, Trumps lawyers and Newsmax.
