CNN on Thursday night aired a new video that shows sworn testimony from Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell about their election lies in an effort to keep former President Donald Trump in power.
During their depositions, both Giuliani and Powell testified under oath that they had done little to verify debunked claims of fraud in the 2020 election before spreading them to the public.
The new footage, obtained by CNN, shows Giuliani and Powell detailing the behind-the-scenes movements of the two in their effort to sow doubt about the integrity of the presidential election results.
“We had a report that the heads of Dominion and Smartmatic, somewhere in the mid-tweens, you know 2013, 2014, whatever, went down to Venezuela for a get-to-know meeting with (President Nicolás) Maduro so they could demonstrate to Maduro the kind of vote fixing they did for (former President Hugo) Chavez,” Giuliani said in the video, according to CNN.
“You say the heads of Dominion and Smartmatic,” a lawyer representing former Dominion Voting Systems executive Eric Coomer begins, before Giuliani interjects.
“Yes, that’s what I was told. … Before the press conference I was told about it,” he said. “Sometimes I go and look myself — when stuff comes up. This time I didn’t have the time to do it. It’s not my job, in a fast-moving case, to go out and investigate every piece of evidence that was given to me. Otherwise, you’re never going to write a story. You’ll never come to a conclusion,” he added.
The video also shows Powell admitting that getting to the truth was not one of her objectives.
“You had the ear of a number of conservative media outlets. Why did you not ask to provide a statement correcting the misstatements that you had reported?” Coomer’s attorney asks.
“That didn’t seem to be the material part of the inquiry,” Powell replied.
Watch the video below, via CNN (Deposition starts at the 1:32 mark):
