Rudy Giuliani sues Biden as he faces mountain of his own legal issues

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} In what his spokesperson called a case with “far-reaching implications for justice and the rule of law,” Rudy Giuliani has filed a 16-page complaint alleging President Joe Biden defamed the former New York City mayor, who faces a mountain of his own legal challenges. “He owes me a lot of money in a lot of states.” Mr Giuliani’s attorney William O’Brien said they filed the complaint in state court in New Hampshire because of the state’s statute of limitations “allows the recovery of damages … wherever and in whatever jurisdiction the statements were distributed or published.” During a presidential debate between Mr Biden and Donald Trump three years ago, Mr Biden appeared to reference reporting in The Washington Post that intelligence agencies had warned the White House that Mr Giuliani was a target of an influence operation used to feed Russian misinformation to then-President Trump. “And then you find out that everything that’s going on here about Russia is wanting to make sure that I do not get elected the next President of the United States, because they know I know them and they know me.” Mr Giuliani’s announcement follows a chaotic few weeks for Donald Trump’s former attorney, after two of his lawyers dropped out of his criminal case in Georgia, the women suing him for defamation have asked a judge to punish him for his failure to comply with court orders, and The New York Times published a story about his drinking habits coming under the scrutiny of federal prosecutors investigating the former president’s attempts to upend the results of the 2020 presidential election. In August, US District Judge Beryl Howell in Washington DC determined that Mr Giuliani is liable for defamation for his baseless, inflammatory statements about a mother and daughter pair of election workers – claims that are also central to two sprawling criminal indictments surrounding Mr Trump’s alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.