It was only a matter of time before those two companies (Smartmatic and Dominion) fight back with defamation lawsuits against the election fraud idiots. ------- Facing the threat of lawsuits for defamation, Fox News and the upstart right-wing network Newsmax have begun broadcasting segments walking back wild election fraud allegations against voting-machine and software manufacturers Smartmatic and Dominion. “Newsmax would like to clarify its news coverage and note that it has not reported as true certain claims made about these companies,” host John Tabacco said Monday, attributing the “opinions and claims” to “various guests, attorneys and elected officials” who appeared on the network. The charges, which the companies say are baseless and have been widely mocked as ridiculous, originated with former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, who accused the two companies of conspiring with Democrats and the Venezuelan government to tip the election to Joe Biden. Newsmax just aired this note to "clarify" its coverage of Smartmatic and Dominion. pic.twitter.com/I5XZ7CQpAk — John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) December 21, 2020 “Newsmax has found no evidence that either Dominion or Smartmatic owns the other or has any business association with each other,” Tabacco said. “We have no evidence that Dominion uses Smartmatic’s software or vice versa. No evidence has been offered that Dominion or Smartmatic use software or reprogram software that manipulated votes in the 2020 election.” Tabacco also noted that Smartmatic’s software was only used in Los Angeles during the 2020 election, and not in the battleground states where the Trump campaign has alleged that fraud propelled Biden to victory. On Friday, Fox News began airing a pretaped retraction of many of the claims made in recent weeks on the network. It took the form of an interview with Open Source Election Technology Institute director Eddie Perez and first aired on “Lou Dobbs Tonight.” This is very bizarre. Lou Dobbs ran a segment tonight basically debunking his own lies about Smartmatic voting machines pic.twitter.com/FDM91SPtT1 — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 19, 2020 Perez answered a series of questions that seemed expressly written to try to mollify Smartmatic and Dominion, both of which had threatened to sue Fox News. Perez later told CNN that he had not been told what the focus of the interview would be. In a widely derided news conference on Nov. 19, Powell took aim at Smartmatic and Dominion. “The Dominion voting systems, the Smartmatic technology software and the software that goes in other computerized voting systems here as well, not just Dominion, were created in Venezuela at the direction of Hugo Chávez to make sure he never lost an election after one constitutional referendum came out the way he did not want it to come out,” Powell said, without presenting any evidence to back up her assertions. Thanks in part to that news conference, Dominion and Smartmatic became regular topics of conversation on Newsmax, Fox News and One America News Network (OANN), all of which have backed President Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud. In its retraction, Newsmax made clear that assertions made by Powell and others who had appeared on the network claiming that Dominion was owned or influenced by Democrats or foreign governments were not based in fact. “Dominion has stated that the company has no ownership, relationship with the Pelosi family, the Feinstein family, the Clinton family, Hugo Chávez or the government of Venezuela,” Tabacco said. “Neither Dominion or Smartmatic has any relationship with George Soros. Smartmatic is a U.S. company and not owned by the Venezuelan government, Hugo Chávez or any foreign official or entity.” Last week, Smartmatic demanded retractions by the three networks for “false and defamatory statements.” A lawyer representing Dominion sent a letter to Powell demanding that she immediately retract the claims she made against the company, which resulted in death threats to a number of the company’s employees. Powell is being represented in the matter by high-profile attorney Lin Wood, who sent a terse response to Dominion’s lawyers. “I have carefully reviewed your letter of December 15, 2020. I am not impressed. Ms. Powell retracts nothing. File your lawsuit,” the letter stated. OANN has yet to respond to the requests for a retraction from Dominion and Smartmatic. https://news.yahoo.com/fox-news-and...-about-votingmachine-companies-215728233.html https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemima...turer-threatens-legal-action/?sh=5550fe93cfd2 https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/19/business/fox-smartmatic-news-package/index.html https://www.salon.com/2020/12/21/fo...rced-to-debunk-its-own-false-election-claims/ ------- wrbtrader
Can't wait for everyday clowns in chat rooms to also start getting sued for spreading bullshit. It's about time for clowns to be held accountable.
When will some posters on here issue an apology for their posts on this subject ? But will they ever understand they were severely misguided and totally manipulated by Trump and his gang of misfits ?
It's a cult following of Trump. Yes, they're no different than those that drank the cyanide kool-aid for Jim Jones because it wasn't just the U.S. elections that they were manipulated...they were manipulated into the downplaying of Covid-19...turning a health crisis into a political fiasco and now the same idiots are running to get vaccinated. Pure Madness Personally, I would rather see every one of them stick to their guns and not get vaccinated and never wear a face mask or wear it around their necks like a scarf. wrbtrader
"... Lawyer for Sidney Powell to Smartmatic: 'File Your Lawsuit' "Trust but Verify" dept. If Dominator / Smartmatic Voting Systems weren't transparent and above board, why else would our esteemed public servants have used them for all these years? I hope Dominator files their suit. Discovery will be interesting. "... Lawyer for Sidney Powell to Smartmatic: 'File Your Lawsuit' 2 days ago ... Lawyer Lin Wood announced he will represent fellow attorney Sidney Powell after voting machine manufacturer Smartmatic demanded that she ... https://m.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app...tracts-nothing-file-your-lawsuit_3626265.html