Defamation Lawsuits Against Republicans

Secretly settled a defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems for falsely claiming their machines rigged the 2020 election and spreading other conspiracy theories that severely damaged the company’s reputation

Settled a lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems for $67 million for spreading false 2020 election conspiracy theories about their voting machines which caused significant defamatory damage to their company brand

Falsely accused someone he barely knew of sexual assault by distributing flyers in their neighborhood with his name and photo, inundated him and members of his family with a torrent of messages, traveled to his county the week he got married apparently to harass him and created a fake account on a gay website in their name simply because he didn't respond to text messages fast enough

Defamed a top employee at Dominion Voting Systems following the 2020 election by baselessly accusing him of being a traitor and was ordered to pay him $2.3 million in damages

Defamed AZ County Recorder Stephen Richer (R) by baselessly accusing him of adding over 300,000 fraudulent ballots to Maricopa County's vote count in order to steal the election from her and then later admitted in court that she had no defense against his lawsuit and forfeited her right to a trial

Smeared the "Central Park Five" who spent years in prison for a crime they didn't commit by falsely asserting they pled guilty to killing someone when they did no such thing and in fact had their sentences overturned after DNA evidence emerged proving their innocence

Smeared two "drag queen" performers by baselessly accusing them of being sex offenders who behave inappropriately with children when neither allegation was remotely true and later agreed to pay them $100k each to settle a defamation lawsuit they filed against him

Defamed voting technology company Smartmatic with bogus claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election and later secretly settled a lawsuit the firm brought against them for an undisclosed amount in order to avoid going to trial

Lost a defamation lawsuit by Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and her daughter for spreading a conspiracy theory that they cast thousands of fraudulent votes for Biden after which despicable zealots made their lives a "living nightmare" with racist and sexist threats, MAGA thugs pushed their way into a family home looking for them and Ruby was forced to vacate her home for 2 months under advice from the FBI which left them both traumatized and fearful for their lives

Baselessly accused a Trump supporter on the Capitol grounds during 1/6 of being a covert government agent who was "the central figure" in inciting the insurrection which led to him receiving numerous death threats and being forced to sell his home and business and relocate to a secluded place to protect himself and his wife

Slandered Russian disinformation expert Nina Jankowicz's by repeatedly airing lies about her and the work she does on a number of shows over multiple days which resulted in her receiving numerous threats and having her personal information released online

Was found liable to pay writer E. Jean Carroll $5 million in damages for defamation and battery for "sexual abuse" at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in New York City in 1996

Filed a false police report that claimed she witnessed her ex-business partner's teenage son molesting his younger sibling from her home next door which police investigated and quickly determined was a lie

Unmasked the identity of a 19-year-old victim who was raped by a legislative ally and shared a picture of the victim when she was a minor on her Facebook page that resulted in a sustained torrent of harassment against her online and in public

Unmasked the identity of a 19-year-old victim who accused him of rape by including her name in a formal response to an ethics investigation against him

Retaliated against four staffers who reported his alleged corruption to the FBI by maligning them as "rogue employees" and fired or forced them out through other means and later spent $3.3 million in taxpayer dollars to settle a wrongful termination lawsuit which also forced him to apologize for disparaging them

Smeared a Boise, Idaho, hospital by falsely accusing them of kidnapping a severely malnourished baby which spurred him to put a call out to his zealot followers to protest outside the hospital and force a lockdown that resulted in hospital staff barricading the exit doors and ambulances being rerouted to other hospitals

Was sued for defamation by voting machine company Smartmatic for spreading false 2020 election conspiracy theories about their voting machines and for having had falsely accused the company of conspiring to "rig" the election in Joe Biden's favor

Was sued for defamation by rightwing activist Lawyer Larry Klayman after he called him a child molester

Maliciously smeared his GOP primary opponent as being a racist child molester through defamatory posts from fake social media accounts he created

Pinned down and raped a political consultant in her bed after she made it unambiguously clear to him that she was not interested in being intimate that evening and then smeared her by publicly outing her on social media