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Rudy Giuliani says he intends to sue Tucker Carlson for defamation, accusing the conservative commentator of falsely implicating him during a recent interview with Hunter Biden about the controversy surrounding Biden’s laptop.

Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, announced his intentions during a Sunday appearance on Newsmax, where he lashed out at both Carlson and Biden over their discussion of how material linked to the Hunter Biden laptop first reached the public.

“He personally defamed me, Hunter Biden did,” Giuliani said. “And so did Tucker.”

Giuliani said he was especially incensed by a portion of Carlson’s interview that addressed whether individuals connected to Israel had played a role in circulating material purportedly obtained from Biden’s computer.

Carlson said during the interview that while he was working at Fox News, individuals with connections to Israel approached him and attempted to interest him in allegations involving purported material from Biden’s computer.

Speaking on Newsmax, Giuliani said he understood Carlson’s exchange with Biden as effectively agreeing with the suggestion that Giuliani and President Donald Trump had been acting on behalf of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“In other words, he agrees that I was and Trump was an agent for Bibi,” Giuliani said.

“He can go to hell!” Giuliani added.

Giuliani emphatically rejected that characterization and insisted that he had never acted on behalf of Netanyahu or any other foreign figure.

“I wasn’t an agent for anybody but myself and the United States of America and the man I was representing.”

Giuliani then made clear that he was considering legal action against Carlson.

“I’m gonna sue him!” Giuliani said.

When asked whether he was serious about pursuing the lawsuit, Giuliani responded, “Absolutely.”

The confrontation stems from the explosive controversy that erupted shortly before the 2020 presidential election over material recovered from a computer associated with Hunter Biden and subsequently reported by The New York Post.

Giuliani played a major role in bringing the material into public view, providing the Post with a copy of the computer’s hard drive, which became the source for a series of reports about its contents.

Biden has challenged portions of the conventional account surrounding the laptop. During his conversation with Carlson, he claimed that material ultimately attributed to the computer actually originated from multiple sources, including cloud accounts that had been hacked.

Any lawsuit filed by Giuliani would likely hinge on whether Carlson’s statements concerning Giuliani’s alleged involvement in the laptop episode meet the legal standard for defamation.

{Matzav.com}

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said Monday that a personal diary kept by Dr. Anthony Fauci during the COVID-19 pandemic may contain some of the strongest evidence yet that Fauci misled Americans and concealed critical information about the origins of the virus.

The Kentucky Republican alleged that the Department of Health and Human Services under then-Secretary Xavier Becerra deliberately failed to provide Congress with the diary despite a sweeping subpoena seeking Fauci-related records.

“When we first began the investigation of Dr. Fauci, we subpoenaed all documentation from Becerra, 100% of everything that they had on Dr. Fauci,” Comer said to “National Report.”

“Now, we know they intentionally withheld the diary,” he added.

Comer’s committee has accused Becerra’s HHS of withholding both Fauci’s diary and his government-issued cellphone after Congress requested records in 2023 concerning COVID-19, gain-of-function research and the origins of the virus in Wuhan, China.

Earlier this month, Comer sent a letter to Becerra, who is now running as a Democrat for governor of California, demanding that he provide answers about the matter by Sept. 2.

According to Comer, investigators also uncovered evidence that Fauci instructed people working under him to avoid documenting certain communications in email.

“Dr. Fauci told his subordinates not to put anything in email because he didn’t want a paper chain,” Comer said, calling it a deliberate effort to avoid a paper trail during “one of the most significant times in the history of our nation.”

Comer accused Fauci of presenting himself publicly as an indispensable figure in the nation’s pandemic response while privately withholding information involving the possibility of a Wuhan laboratory connection and the use of taxpayer money for gain-of-function research.

He said Fauci “portrayed himself as the one American hero” while “he intentionally covered up things” related to the Wuhan lab’s role in the pandemic’s origin and taxpayer funding of gain-of-function research.

During Senate testimony in July, Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment rights more than 100 times. Senate Republicans subsequently referred a contempt of Congress charge to the Justice Department. A pardon granted by then-President Joe Biden before leaving office protects Fauci from federal prosecution for covered conduct but does not prevent potential state-level action.

“There are a number of attorneys general in various states that are also now investigating Dr. Fauci,” Comer said.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is examining whether Fauci personally benefited financially from the COVID-19 guidance he issued, while West Virginia Attorney General John McCuskey and Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill have launched related investigations.

Fauci’s attorneys have recently created a legal defense fund to help cover the mounting costs of responding to the various investigations. Attorney David Schertler said Fauci is “facing an unprecedented legal barrage for a retired civil servant.”

{Matzav.com}