New York — Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani asked a judge to throw out a $1.3bn defamation lawsuit by a voting machine company he accused of helping to steal the presidential election from his client.

Giuliani’s motion to dismiss the suit by Dominion Voting Systems was filed Wednesday in federal court in Washington. The former New York mayor is accused of exploiting false election-fraud claims to hawk gold coins, cigars and supplements on a podcast...

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