Donald Trumps personal attorney Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday responded to a scathing letter from the Lincoln Projects lawyersin, perhaps, the most amusing way imaginable: with a letter saying he will not respond to their letter.

The Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump group that madenational headlines over the last few days because its co-founder John Weaver was accused of serially harassing young men online, recently demanded through attorneys that Giuliani preserve all relevant documents regarding alleged false and defamatory statements made against the organization. Giuliani, it turns out, was on the receiving end of at least one other demand letter recently. A billion-dollar lawsuit against him soon followed.

During an appearance on pardoned former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannons War Room podcast, Giuliani explained that he would respond to the Lincoln Project by saying he will not respond.

Well, heres what Im doingIm writing them a letter back telling them that I will not respond to their letter because they make this one rather sketchy, defamatory allegation about a tort that I committedI counted four that they committed in their letter, Giuliani said.

He then ostensibly confirmed that he had already responded to the groups attorneys in writing.

So I wrote back to him, You know son, Ive represented Dow Jones, Barrons, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Daily NewsI did this for a livingand youve made a classic mistake. At the very end of the letter you claimed that I defamed the Lincoln Project, except in the first seven paragraphs of the letter you defamed me at least four or five times, Giuliani went on.

Law&Crime asked the Lincoln Project whether they had received a letter from Giuliani, but the group has not responded.

The Lincoln Projects demand letter was prompted by the former New York City mayors previous appearance on Bannons podcast last week, during which Giuliani baselessly claimed that the anti-Trump group helped plan the Jan. 6 Capitol riots that led to the former presidents second impeachment.

Asked about the impending Senate trial, Giuliani laid out what he thought was Trumps best legal strategy.

If the case is mainly that he caused thishe caused the insurrectionthen the defense is going to have to show that this thing was planned and that a lot of the people involved in the planningAntifa, and then even some right wing groups who are enemies of hisand that they were doing it in order to hurt him. Including some right-wing groups that operate for the Lincoln Project or have been working with the Lincoln Project at various times, Giuliani said.

Bannon then interjected, asking what groups Giuliani was suggesting were working with the group.

One of the people who organized this is well known to have worked with the Lincoln Project in the past. One of the people involved brought in right-wing groups that opposed Trump, and he brought them in specifically to blow this thing up, Giuliani responded.He had the same motivation the Antifa people had. So it isnt as if all these right-wing groups were all pro-Trump. And the biggest problemsviolent problemswere caused by Antifa. Thats where the shooting took place.

The shooting Giuliani mentioned was of Ashli Babbitt. Babbitt, aTrump supporter, QAnon believerand Air Force veteran, was shot and killed by police while trying to vault through a broken window inside the Capitol. Giuliani claimed Babbitt was surrounded by all Antifa people. That claim about all Antifa peopleis easily debunked.

David Charles Mish, Jr, was also an avid supporter of the former president. Court documents show that Mish wasamong those standing next to Babbittwhen she was killed. Several other Trump supporters wereidentifiedas being within several feet of Babbitt when she was shot, includingChristopher Ray GriderandChad Barrett Jones. Just the other day,Zachary Alam was added to the list.

There he is in a fur hat next to Babbitt just moments before she was fatally shot:

Image via Washington Post screengrab

And here he is, MAGA hat in his hand, smashing a Speakers Lobby window with a helmet.

Giulianis claims regarding the Lincoln Project or Antifa being responsible for orchestrating the Capitol riots is undercut daily by copious amounts of mounting evidence showingthat Trump and Giulianis supporters, believing the lie that the election was stolen, stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6. The Justice Department has charged at least 150 people for their involvement in the insurrection, nearly all of whom were unapologetic supporters of the president.The FBI has said publicly that there is no evidenceto support the Antifa just tried to make Trump supporters look bad conspiracy theory.

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