Conservative network Newsmax According to the documents filed on Monday, President will pay $ 67 million to prosecute a voting equipment by lying about Trump’s 2020 electoral loss. The case against Newsmax was brought by the Dominion Voting System, alleging that the network published false and defamation statements, claiming that the company rigged the election. A Delaware Judge in a judgment earlier this year in favor of Dominion partially ruled, showing additional court filing.
Fox News Channel reached an agreement after paying $ 787.5 million To settle a similar case in 2023 And Newsmax paid what court papers have described as $ 40 million To settle a complaint suit From a separate voting machine manufacturer, Smartmatic, which was also aiming for the principles of Trump Pro-Plain Conspiracy on the network.
Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis had earlier ruled that Newsmax had actually discredit the Denver-based Dominion voting system by getting incorrect information about the company and its equipment. But Davis left it in a jury to eventually be decided if it was done with maliciousness, and, if yes, how much dominion was from NewsMax in disadvantage. Newsmax and Dominion became an agreement before the trial.
In a statement by CBS News on Monday, a Dominion spokesperson said the company was “happy to settle the matter.”
According to the document, originally an American securities and exchange commission came to light in an American securities and exchange commission filing, which was made on Friday, August 15, a deal. Newsmax has agreed to pay settlement in three installments of $ 27 million, $ 20 million and $ 20 million with the final installment to be paid in January 2027.
Newsmax continues to deny allegations that suggest dominion coverage in terms of 2020 elections, was defamation.
The company said, “Newsmax believed that listening to both sides of election disputes for American people was seriously important.” In a statement Published on your website. “We are held as fair, balanced and within the professional standards of journalism as our coverage.”
Basti came in the form of Mr. Trump, who lost his 2020 repetition bid for former President who Biden, vowed to eliminate mail-in ballots and voting machines in social media posts on Monday, such as supplied by Dominion and other companies, 2026 before the election. It was not clear how the Republican President could get it.
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“I am going to lead a movement to get rid of mail-in ballot, and also, while we are on it, excessive, ‘wrong,’ very expensive, and seriously controversial voting machines, which are priced ten times more than the right and sophisticated watermark paper, which is sharp, and no doubt, which was chosen, which was chosen, and that was chosen,”. wrote In the post.
The same judge also took over the Dominion-Fox News case and a similar decision that the network repeated several lies about its 2020 loss by Mr. Trump’s colleagues, despite internal communication, Fox officials knew that the claims were fake. At that time, Davis found that this “crystal was clear” that no allegation was true.
Internal correspondence with Newsmax authorities shows similarly that they knew that the claims were baseless.
“How long are we going to play with electoral fraud?” Newsmax host Bob Sellers said Biden was called two days after the 2020 election, according to internal documents as part of the case.
Newsmax was proud that he was not saying election for Biden, and internal documents suggest that it was seen by the audience a business opportunity in catering, who believed that Mr. Trump won. Personal communication, which came out as part of Dominion’s first defamation case against Fox News, also explained how the business interests of the network interacted with the decisions related to the coverage of Shri Trump’s 2020 election claims.
In Newsmax, employees repeatedly warned against false allegations of Trump Pro-Trump guests such as Attorney Sydney Powell, according to documents in the trial. In a lesson, even the owner of Newsmax Chris Rudy, a Trump Associate, said he found it “scary” that Mr. Trump was meeting with Powell.
Dominion was in the heart of several wild claims broadcast by the guests in Newsmax and other places, who promoted a conspiracy theory involving the deceased Venezuela President Hugo Chavez to rigar the machines for the biden. The network withdrew some more bombing charges in December 2020.
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Although Mr. Trump has insisted that his fraud claims are real, there is no evidence, and in the cases of Fox and Newsmax, the lawsuits showed that some of the biggest supporters of the President knew they were false at that time. The then Attorney General of Shri Trump, William Barr, said that there was no evidence of widespread fraud.
Mr. Trump and his supporters accused dozens of cases of cheating, some before the judges appointed by Trump. Many memories of election results, including some runs, did not indicate any indication of the election results, including some runs run by Republican, and confirmed Biden’s victory.
After returning to the office, Mr. Trump forgives those who tried to stop the transfer of power during January 6, 2021, attacked the US Capital and directed his justice department to investigate the Chris Krebs, who were Trump Cybercity appointments, who pledged for the 2020 election safety and accurate.
Earlier this year, as an initial test date in the Dominion case, Mr. Trump released one. executive Order Attacking the law firm who sued it and Fox Case, Suzman Godfrey. Order, part of the series targeting law firms There is a fight with Mr. TrumpCited the work of Suzmann Godfrey on the elections and said that the government would not do business with any of its customers or allow any of its employees in federal buildings.
A federal judge caught that action, saying that Frammers would see it as a “shocking misuse of power”.
