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Dominion Voting Systems settles defamation lawsuit with Newsmax over 2020 election claims

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by G8tas, Aug 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM.

  1. Aug 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM #1
    G8tas

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    Voting machine company Dominion Voting Systems has settled its defamation lawsuit against conservative media outlet Newsmax for $67 million, according to an SEC filing from the outlet.

    The settlement, which came on Friday, marks the latest settlement paid to a voting machine company by conservative news outlets over falsehoods they pushed alleging fraud in the 2020 election, in which former President Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump.

    The settlement is set to be paid out in three installments, per the filing, with $27 million to be paid on Aug. 15, $20 million to be paid on or before Jan. 15, 2026, and $20 million to be paid or before Jan. 15, 2027.

    Dominion Voting Systems settles defamation lawsuit with Newsmax over 2020 election claims

    Let's be honest. No one actually believes that the 2020 election was stolen now and no one believed it then. It's a shame that these right wing news stations are going to end up paying close to $1 billion to perpetuate a line that they knew wasn't true. did they do it just to satisfy cult members?
     
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  2. Aug 19, 2025 at 12:25 AM #2
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    Yeah... so the machines do NOT reprogram themselves, but they are made to help facilitate cheating? Therefore... defamation?

    Trump has been settling for chump-change. I think he needs to up his defamation game.
     
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  3. Aug 19, 2025 at 7:59 AM #3
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    He has upped his defamation game against the Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch with a $10 billion lawsuit and the chances are that Trump will drop it to avoid being deposed. Unlike ABC and CBS/Paramount Rupert and the WSJ will not be intimidated into settling a frivolous lawsuit.
    Trump sues Wall Street Journal over Epstein report, seeks $10 billion
     
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  4. Aug 19, 2025 at 8:03 AM #4
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    That settlement along with the $787 million settlement agreed to by Fox News demonstrates which media outlets actually perpetuate "fake news". Note that neither CNN nor MSNBC have agreed to settle defamation lawsuits for sums even remotely close to the sums agreed to by those media outlets.

    Edit: There were also these other defamation lawsuits settled by right-wing media outlets over the false narrative that voting machine companies were complicit in widespread fraud in the 2020 election.
    Far-right network OAN settles 2020 election defamation suit brought by ex-Dominion executive
    Voting machine company Smartmatic and OANN settle defamation suit
     
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  5. Aug 19, 2025 at 8:55 AM #5
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    Bill, why did all of these right wing networks lie about the election being stolen?
     
  6. Aug 19, 2025 at 8:59 AM #6
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    Lots of people believe it was stolen, no matter how much documentary evidence (including from Trump’s internal White House memos) establishes the claims were just made up. Heck, Putin—completely understanding how Trump works—placated him in Alaska by telling him the mail-in votes cost him the election in 2020, leading Trump to go off a Twitter-tantrum screaming about the the “rigged election.”
     
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  7. Aug 19, 2025 at 8:59 AM #7
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    Because they all needed to kiss Orange TACO's a$$!
     
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