Giuliani admits he spent only 'minutes' reviewing false election fraud claims before making them public: report

Donald Trump's attorneys spent little or no time reviewing false allegations of election fraud involving Dominion Voting Systems before making them public on a national stage, according to their depositions in a lawsuit filed against them by company executive Eric Coomer.

"While the bogus fraud claims have long been debunked, these latest revelations are being made in sworn depositions and highlight how little vetting was done by certain Trump allies seeking to spread doubt about the integrity of the presidential election results," CNN reported Thursday. "The more than 2,000 pages of documents reviewed by CNN provide the most significant look yet at evidence collected in several defamation cases brought against top Trump mouthpieces. "

Coomer is alleging that he was defamed by the Trump campaign, Giuliani, Sidney Powell, One American News Network commentator Michelle Malkin and other prominent conservatives.

"According to the account that Giuliani gave in the case, he spent less than an hour reviewing allegations that Coomer was part of a plot to rig the election before publicly making those claims at a November press conference," CNN reported.

During the press conference at the Republican National Committee in Washington, Giuliani called Coomer "a vicious, vicious man" with antifa ties, who "specifically" said "that they're gonna fix this election."

Meanwhile, Powell falsely claimed that Coomer had been "recorded in a conversation with antifa members, saying that he had the election rigged for Mr. Biden."

"In an August deposition that was filed in court last month, Giuliani estimated that he spent less than an hour reviewing the claims against Coomer before repeating the allegations, saying he may have spent as little as a few minutes here and there," CNN reported.

Last month, the New York Times reported that Giuliani, Powell and others knew their claims about Dominion were false, based on a Trump campaign internal memo debunking the allegations prior to the Nov. 19 news conference.

In his deposition in Coomer's lawsuit, Giuliani reportedly said that "he wouldn't have paid attention to the campaign's research memo debunking Dominion's claims even if it had been shared with him."

"He said he believed that within the campaign there was 'a major effort to undercut what we were doing' and he called the memo a 'useless piece of information,'" according to CNN.

"I thought the majority of them were working for [Trump] to concede as soon as possible so they could move on to another job and so they wouldn't be criticized too heavily in The Washington Post," Giuliani said in the deposition.

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