Abigail Spanberger, the Democrat nominee for Virginia governor, has been called as a witness in a defamation lawsuit after Democrat operatives said her congressional reelection campaign drafted a 2022 Democrat party of Virginia press release that claimed a Republican “bloodied and beat law enforcement officers” on Jan. 6, 2021.
Thomas Speciale, a retired Army intelligence officer and former Republican U.S. Senate candidate, appeared in court Friday, defending a list of 350 written questions he submitted for Spanberger to answer under oath. The questions grew out of a suit he has filed against the Democratic Party of Virginia alleging that the charge he engaged in violence defamed him. The attorney representing the Democratic Party of Virginia, Jeffery Breit, defended objections to the questions on the grounds of irrelevance.
Breit cited a press release Speciale had published about the case, warning that if Spanberger’s answers to certain questions became public, she would face harassment.
Speciale defended his list of wide-ranging questions, saying they may be relevant to show that Spanberger’s campaign, from which he says the press release originated, knowingly defamed him.
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