Over the last couple of days we’ve seen Fox News, NewsMax, and OANN retracting or otherwise whitewashing claims aired on their networks of corruption of voting machines, under threat of lawsuit from SmartMatic.
And today there’s a new lawsuit in the wings:
An executive for a voting machine company that has been the target of conspiracy theories in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss and been baselessly accused of swinging the results against the President is suing his campaign and conservative media figures for defamation.
Trump has called Dominion Voting Systems “a disaster,” and his supporters have pushed the conspiracy theory that the company deleted votes for Trump on its voting equipment and that Dominion’s director of product strategy and security, Eric Coomer, helped subvert the election. …
The lawsuit names as defendants the Trump campaign, Rudy Giuliani, Trump adviser Sidney Powell, conservative media outlets One America News Network and Newsmax Media, the right-wing website Gateway Pundit, and Colorado businessman and activist Joseph Oltmann, among others. CNN has reached out to those named in the lawsuit. [CNN/Politics]
And I’m left wondering:
Is the lawsuit the point?
Or is the legal process of discovery the point?
Will there be some interesting information that comes popping out if these lawsuits are not settled prior to reaching court?
On this snowy night here in Minnesota, that’s what is coming to mind.
