On Tuesday morning, Dominion Voting Systems filed three $ 1.6 billion defamation suits against two Trump-backed media networks and a supporter of the ex-president. This is the latest in a series of lawsuits by the company against those it says falsely accused it of rigging the 2020 elections.
Complaints were filed against Newsmax and One America News Network, as well as former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne, who openly supports the former president.
Newsmax and OAN “helped create and cultivate an alternate reality where the top is the bottom , pigs have wings, and Dominion was involved in a colossal fraud to steal the presidency from Donald Trump by rigging the vote, ”Dominion wrote in each of her complaints to the networks.
Specifically, Dominion claims that they «created, encouraged and disseminated» «knowingly false but destructive lies about Dominion.» They also believe that OAN was motivated by «the pursuit of profit and viewers» in competition with the leading conservative network Fox News.
According to Dominion, both media outlets contributed to the spread of false information by promoting people like Byrne, who, according to they said, «spread lies» in cooperation with «others associated with Trump.»
A Newsmax spokesman said in a statement that the network only » Councilors and Members of Congress. ”
“ Today's actions by Dominion are a clear attempt to suppress & lt; … & gt; free press. ”
However, earlier this year, Newsmax already pulled back on some of its 2020 election reporting as part of a dispute settlement after a Dominion employee filed a lawsuit. The network admitted that it found no evidence to support claims that Dominion conspired to rig the election in favor of President Joe Biden.
