Dominion Voting Systems hits conservative networks, Trump ally with $1.6 billion defamation suits - ABC News
By: ABC News
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Dominion Voting Systems on Tuesday morning filed three $1.6 billion defamation lawsuits against two pro-Trump media networks and an outspoken Trump ally, the latest in a string of suits from the company against those it says pushed false accusations that the company helped rig the 2020 election.
The complaints were filed against Newsmax and One America News Network, as well as against former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne, who is an outspoken supporter of the former president.
Newsmax and OAN "helped create and cultivate an alternate reality where up is down, pigs have wings, and Dominion engaged in a colossal fraud to steal the presidency from Donald Trump by rigging the vote," Dominion wrote in each of its complaints against the two networks.
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Specifically, Dominion alleges that two networks "manufactured, endorsed, repeated, and broadcast a series of verifiably false yet devastating lies about Dominion." OAN, they allege, was motivated by a "quest for profits and viewers" in competition with leading conservative network Fox News. They say both outlets helped spread these lies by promoting other figures such as Byrne, who they say "pushed lies" in collaboration with "other Trump-connected individuals.
"Byrne continues to stick to his manufactured, inherently improbable, profitable, and demonstrable lies," the complaint against him says.
The complaints include dozens of statements by the networks and Byrne repeating conspiracy theories about the company, and claiming "evidence" to back them up.
A Newsmax spokesperson said in a statement, "While Newsmax has not reviewed the Dominion filing, in its coverage of the 2020 Presidential elections, Newsmax simply reported on allegations made by well-known public figures, including the President, his advisors and members of Congress -- Dominion's action today is a clear attempt to squelch such reporting and undermine a free press."
Earlier this year, however, Newsmax retracted some its reporting surrounding the 2020 election as part of a settlement after it was sued by a Dominion employee last year. Referring to allegations that Dominion had schemed to rig the election in favor of President Joe Biden, the network reported that it "subsequently found no evidence that such allegations were true."
OAN and Byrne did not immediately respond to ABC News' request for comment.
Dominion's latest complaints were filed in Delaware by the Denver-based voting company, which became the subject of false far-reaching conspiracy theories fueled largely by right-wing figures close to then-President Donald Trump as part of efforts to overturn the results of the election
Dominion has in recent months filed similar billion-dollar defamation suits against other Trump allies for what the company said was their role in pushing the false allegations, including Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal attorney; Sidney Powell, a member of the Trump's legal team who was later removed; and Mike Lindell, the Trump-aligned pillow magnate.
All of those parties have denied the allegations against them and have asked a judge to dismiss the lawsuits. Those motions are still pending.
The litigation comes amid a wave of renewed scrutiny of the 2020 election results, as Democrats in Congress have ramped up their investigation into the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6 by Trump supporters who believed the election was tainted by fraud, while Republicans in some states have renewed calls for additional audits of the 2020 returns.
After pushing baseless allegations of election fraud, Byrne was one of the key figures who helped fund a partisan audit of the 2020 election in Arizona's Maricopa County, ABC News has previously reported.
Byrne, who previously said he'd been funding his own team of "hackers and cybersleuths and other people with odd skills" to search for voter fraud, has so far raised over $1.5 million to support the audit, according to the website created by his new nonprofit organization, The America Project. The former CEO also claims to have donated at least $500,000 of his own money to fund the audit.
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prepare to step up to the pump maga-media. will republicans ever grasp the concept of recorded audio and video as conclusive evidence?
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''Sue the Bastards'' I love it.
plus they get to buy back their decertified voting machines at state auctions for pennies on the dollar...
Hopefully they will prevail. That would not only help restore their brand (tarnished by the Trump lie campaign) but would dissuade others from continuing with these incredible bizarre attempts to shape an alternate reality (i.e. Trump really won) by repeating a bald-faced demonstrable lie with no supporting evidence.
Side note: I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that we have too many stupid people in our nation. This goes against my life-long view that most everyone is intelligent but that we all make mistakes. Anyone who believes and/or repeats the claim that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump has had plenty of time (and data) now to see how utterly brain-dead stupid it is to make such a claim.
throw in a few psychosis' and you've just described the far right side of most political forums...
TiG, I've always said to never underestimate the stupidity of the American people. Never has that been better demonstrated than by the claims and actual belief that Trump won or the election was stolen. Then there's the animosity towards science and Dr. Fauci regarding Covid and the vaccine. It boggles the mind.
Just think about how long it took for many Americans to accept the fact that smoking cigarettes can cause lung cancer. If you have a large wealthy group whose financial strength is dependent on keeping people stupid and confused their propaganda machine will work tirelessly to convince the gullible that they can't trust the doctors or the facts or even their own eyes. Right wing conservatives entire platform is dependent on keeping their base not only ignorant of facts but suspicious of them and the doctors and highly educated experts who provide them.
The problem is, most people don't seem to be willing to educate themselves or do proper research on issues. They simply accept what some authority tells them or if an authority appeals to their emotion and narrative/bias. This is exemplified in partisan politics. Basically, they get misinformed and then stay misinformed, and possibly continue the spread of misinformation like a virus.
We are truly in the midst of two pandemics...
I'd say the rampant stupidity is the worse of the two. And it's been around longer too.
Dominion says OAN's 'expert mathematician' who claimed to prove election fraud actually had a job 'setting up swing sets'
LMAO, too funny. I say we confiscate his abacus.
just omg...
that's like when the news broke a couple weeks ago that a rwnj intelligence expert was a motor pool mechanic.
has anyone seeded this?
I'm waiting for the HBO or Netflix mini series about all this.