Rudy Giuliani (left) on Oct. 4, 2023 announcing a lawsuit in New Hampshire, (right) Joe Biden (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY / AFP) (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)
On a day when it was reported that Rudy Giuliani, in throes of unpaid legal bill woes, lost another attorney, the former New York City mayor and lawyer for former President Donald Trump touted a "major announcement" with "far-reaching implications for justice and the rule of law" outside of the Merrimack County Superior Court in Concord, New Hampshire.
What was that announcement? Rudy Giuliani plans to sue President Joe Biden for calling him a "Russian pawn" during a 2020 debate.
"His own national security adviser told him that what is happening with his buddy — I shouldn't — actually, I will," Biden said in October 2020, in response Giuliani's claims about the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop and foreign corruption. "His buddy Rudy Giuliani. He's being used as a Russian pawn. He's being fed information that is Russian — that is not true."
Giuliani, who faces serious criminal exposure and civil liability on multiple fronts, now says he is initiating a legal action against the president of the United States for those remarks.
"As a result of Joe Biden's lies people have died," Giuliani said, before calling the president a "pathological liar."
During the press conference, Giuliani claimed that he was falsely branded as "a Russian pawn" and a "facilitator of Russian disinformation," damaging his law practice and consulting business.
"He called me a Russian operative. That is a lie, that is false," Giuliani said, before adding: "That's what's called libel, defamation per se."
Giuliani bristled that Biden called him a "Russian pawn" in the "middle of the debate, on national television" with some 63 million people watching.
Thereafter, Rudy Giuliani called Hunter Biden a "pawn" and said "the head of the mafia family, the head of the crime family is Joe Biden."
Why bring the case in New Hampshire? The live feed on Giuliani's X account cut out when a lawyer he called "Bill" started explaining there were "a lot of reasons" why the jurisdiction made sense.
The New Hampshire Journal clarified that Giuliani's lawyer is former state GOP House Speaker Bill O'Brien and that the legal team views suing in New Hampshire as helpful to their efforts to seek damages.
Notably, Giuliani at one point during the presser referred to Robert Costello as his lawyer, even though Costello is currently suing him for unpaid legal bills.
After the presser was over, Giuliani posted on X, saying, "I'm suing Joe Biden."