Where you AT, you gutless turd???? Crawled down your RAT hole to whimper and lick yer balls in frustration? Here's a list of all the nitwits in the process of taking it with no butter for stupidly pushing The Big Lie. It's "biblical" alright, you stupid twat. Hey, I'd already forgotten about Lou Dobbs, long time Faux News nitwit, but, they canned his dumb ass as soon as word broke, faster than Gas Bag leaving the kiddie park when the cops roll up.
From Mike Lindell to OAN, here's everyone Dominion and Smartmatic are suing over election conspiracy theories so far
Grace Dean,Jacob Shamsian
Sat, August 14, 2021, 8:27 AM
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, Sidney Powell, and Rudy Giuliani are being sued by Dominion. Drew Angerer/Getty Images; Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call Inc. via Getty Images; Joshua Roberts/Getty Images
- Conspiracy theorists claim Dominion and Smartmatic "flipped" votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden.
- The election technology companies are now suing the people who spread those claims.
- Here's who's being sued so far.
- Visit the Business section of Insider for more stories.
Dominion and Smartmatic have launched a series of defamation lawsuits against individuals and groups who spread election fraud conspiracy theories related to their voting machines during the 2020 presidential election.
Dominion filed three $1.6 billion defamation suits against One America News, Newsmax, and Patrick Byrne Tuesday, and
more could be on their way. Dominion has sent cease-and-desist notices and warnings to preserve documents to
more than 150 people, and its CEO previously told CNBC that the company was "not ruling anyone out."
Because of the coronavirus pandemic, people turned to alternative ways to vote in the election, and voter fraud conspiracy theories quickly sprung up.
One posited that Dominion and Smartmatic developed technology that "flipped" votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden through a method developed with the regime of the late Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez.
The theory has been thoroughly debunked. That didn't stop pro-Trump attorney Sidney Powell and Trump's former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani from
pushing elements of the theory while filing a series of failed lawsuits seeking to overturn the results of the election.
Lindell has also spread misinformation about the machines, saying Dominion "built them to cheat."
As well as making the brand "radioactive" and putting its multiyear contracts in jeopardy, according to its attorney Tom Clare,
the allegations about Dominion also put its employees in danger, the company wrote in a lawsuit.
Its customer support number received a voicemail message saying "we're bringing back the firing squad," it wrote
in the suit in January. The need for heightened personal security cost Dominion
$565,000, according to the lawsuit, bringing its total costs attributed to the vote fraud claims to almost $1.2 million.
Here's a list of everyone is being sued so far.
Sidney Powell by Dominion and Smartmatic
Attorney Sidney Powell at a Trump Campaign press conference. MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images
Dominion was the first to snap.
On January 8,
it filed a defamation suit against pro-Trump attorney Sidney Powell, seeking $1.3 billion in damages.
Powell was one of the faces of the Trump campaign's legal team in November, but
Trump kicked her off the team after she floated her conspiracy theory at a press conference.
Despite being purged from Trump's "Elite Strike Force" legal team Powell used her false theories as the premise of four federal lawsuits seeking to overturn the election result.
All of them failed, and some have
resulted in motions for her to be disbarred.
Dominion's lawsuit alleges that Powell's claims caused the company business losses after she baselessly accused the company of fraud, election rigging, and bribery.
"Powell's statements were calculated to — and did in fact — provoke outrage and cause Dominion enormous harm," Tom Clare, the attorney representing Dominion, wrote in the lawsuit.
The 124-page defamation lawsuit also outlines how Powell raised money from her media tour peddling her conspiracy theory through a corporate vehicle called "Defending the Republic," also named as a party in the lawsuit.
Powell responded by tweeting that the lawsuit "is baseless & filed to harass, intimidate, & to drain our resources as we seek the truth of
#DominionVotingSystems' role in this fraudulent election."
Smartmatic
filed a defamation lawsuit against Powell a month later, suing her at the same time it sued Rudy Giuliani, a fellow conspiracy theorist, and Fox News.
The company claimed that Powell and Giuliani used right-wing media outlets like Fox News to make their conspiracy theories go viral.
"These defendants are primary sources of much of the false information,"
the company said. "Their unfounded accusations were repeated by other media outlets, journalists, bloggers and influencers the world over."
A federal judge Wednesday
denied Powell's motion to dismiss the lawsuit.
Rudy Giuliani by Dominion and Smartmatic
Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani at a Trump Campaign press conference. Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photos
On January 26,
Dominion filed a defamation suit against Rudy Giuliani, Trump's now-former personal lawyer, again seeking $1.3 billion in damages.
In
the lawsuit, Dominion accused Giuliani of creating "a viral disinformation campaign about Dominion," referring to more than 50 of his statements.
Through hearings, television appearances, Twitter, and his own YouTube show, it said, Giuliani repeatedly accused Dominion of election fraud and misrepresented the company's security measures while doing so.
He "cashed in by hosting a podcast where he exploited election falsehoods to market gold coins, supplements, cigars and protection from 'cyberthieves,'" Dominion wrote in the lawsuit.
The 107-page document also cited numerous other people who said they believed Giuliani's claims, which it argued demonstrated the scope of the damage.
"Rudy Giuliani actively propagated disinformation to purposefully mislead voters," Dominion CEO John Poulos said in a statement. "Because Giuliani and others incessantly repeated the false claims about my company on a range of media platforms, some of our own family and friends are among the Americans who were duped."
In
a statement, Giuliani said he welcomed the lawsuit and suggested he had not previously done a thorough investigation of Dominion's practices.
A federal judge Wednesday
denied Giuliani's motion to dismiss the lawsuit.
Smartmatic also
included Giuliani as a defendant in its lawsuit filed in February.
The company said Giuliani used the conspiracy theories to enrich himself.
"He reportedly would seek thousands of dollars ($20,000/day) in fees from President Trump to spread the story and file frivolous lawsuits," Smartmatic wrote in its lawsuit.
"He would also use the attention brought to him as one of the primary storytellers to sell various products – from coins to supplements to title fraud protection."
Mike Lindell by Dominion
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell. MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images
On February 22,
Dominion filed a defamation suit against MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, also seeking $1.3 billion in damages.
Lindell is a
staunch ally of former president Donald Trump and
a major GOP donor, who has repeatedly supported Trump's claims challenging the integrity of the election.
Dominion's lawsuit accused Lindell of repeatedly making false allegations while knowing there was no credible evidence to support his claims. As well as rallies, interviews, and a
two-hour movie, Lindell used his social-media profiles to spread his baseless claims of voter fraud.
In the lawsuit, Dominion claimed Lindell used the claims as
a way to ramp up his pillow sales, advertising on far-right media outlets that parroted his claims and sponsoring a bus tour that sought to overturn the election results.
Lindell told Insider that retailer boycotts of MyPillow following the insurrection have cost him tens of millions of dollars in business.
He "knowingly lied about Dominion to sell more pillows to people who continued tuning in to hear what they wanted to hear about the election," Dominion wrote.
Lindell told Insider Dominion had "zero, zero, zero" chance of winning. The lawsuits were part of cancel culture's attempts at silencing voices, he said.
"I looked at it as a great day for America when they sued me," Lindell added. "I can put the evidence for the whole world to see, and it'll be public record, and the media will quit trying to suppress it."
A federal judge Wednesday
denied Lindell's motion to dismiss the lawsuit.
Fox News by Smartmatic and Dominion
A close-up of the Fox News Channel website with a picture of President Donald Trump displayed on a smartphone. Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
On February 4,
Smartmatic filed a $2.7 billion lawsuit against Fox News, accusing it of waging disinformation campaigns about the company's role in the 2020 election.
"In November and December 2020, Fox News broadcast multiple reports stating and implying that Smartmatic had fixed and rigged the 2020 election," the company said.
"They repeated the false claims and accusations on air and in articles and social media postings that were together seen by millions in the US and even more around the world."
Fox called the lawsuit "meritless" and
asked a judge to dismiss the case.
On March 26,
Dominion also filed a lawsuit against Fox News. The $1.6 billion suit – its biggest yet – claimed that the network gave prominence to the election-fraud claims as a tactic to revive viewership as ratings dropped after President Donald Trump's loss.
The voting-technology company said that Fox News "sold a false story of election fraud in order to serve its own commercial purposes, severely injuring Dominion in the process."
In a statement, Fox News said: "Fox News Media is proud of our 2020 election coverage, which stands in the highest tradition of American journalism, and will vigorously defend against this baseless lawsuit in court." It moved to dismiss the suit in May.
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Fox News representative told Insider in February that the network ran several "fact-check" segments "prior to any lawsuit chatter."
While several of its news shows reported that there was no evidence of Dominion's systems changing votes, Fox News, in particular its opinion hosts, "questioned the results of the election or pushed conspiracy theories about it at least 774 times" in the two weeks after the network called the race, according to
Media Matters.
Jeanine Pirro, Maria Bartiromo, and Lou Dobbs by Smartmatic
Fox News hosts Jeanine Pirro, Maria Bartiromo, and Lou Dobbs. Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images, Roy Rochlin/Getty Images, Steven Ferdman/Getty Images
Smartmatic's 285-page lawsuit against Fox News also named the hosts Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo, and Jeanine Pirro as defendants.
Smartmatic said the hosts had offered Powell and Giuliani a platform and endorsed their falsehoods.
Bartiromo, Pirro, and Dobbs all filed separate motions to dismiss the lawsuit.
Fox News
canceled Dobbs' show days after the lawsuit was filed and said he would no longer have a relationship with the network. It added that the move had been planned.
Newsmax by Dominion
Newsmax hosted Powell and Giuliani on its shows.
Newsmax
Dominion filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Newsmax, the right-wing outlet owned and run by Trump's friend Chris Ruddy, on Tuesday.
Newsmax was slow to acknowledge the reality of Biden's victory in the November 2020 election. Dominion accused Newsmax of promoting falsehoods about the company in order to compete with Fox News, which had correctly recognized Biden's victory in November.
"Newsmax chose to prioritize its profits over the truth," the lawsuit said. "For Ruddy and Newsmax, the facts did not matter. What mattered was feeding the audience what it wanted — even if it was spreading false information. And the race to the bottom began in earnest, dragging Dominion down with it."
After the election, the network also hosted Powell and Giuliani. By allowing them to spout their false theories unchallenged on Newsmax's programs, this amounted to defamation, Dominion said.
Newsmax representative Brian Peterson told Insider that the media organization was simply reporting on what notable figures said.
"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," Peterson said.
One America News by Dominion
A One America News reported. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Dominion filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against One America News (OAN) Tuesday, accusing it of engaging "in a race to the bottom with Fox and other outlets such as Newsmax to spread false and manufactured stories about election fraud."
OAN refused to acknowledge Biden's victory in the 2020 election even as
Fox News and Newsmax pulled back on far-fetched election claims and aired videos attesting to the legitimacy of the results.
Dominion said that OAN's falsehoods contributed toward the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6 and that
it defamed Dominion by broadcasting "Absolute Proof," Lindell's conspiracy theory-filled documentary about voter fraud.
Dominion also accused OAN hosts Chanel Rion and Christina Bobb of amplifying and spreading false claims about Dominion.
After Dominion threatened to sue OAN for defamation in December,
OAN warned Dominion of a countersuit.
Patrick Byrne by Dominion
Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne.
Steven Ferdman/Getty Images
Dominion filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne Tuesday.
The lawsuit accuses Byrne, a staunch Trump ally, of waging "a defamatory disinformation campaign against Dominion" in collaboration with Powell, Giuliani, Lindell, and others. This includes pushing election conspiracy theories in television appearances, a blog series, a book, and a film, Dominion said.
"Byrne continues to stick to his manufactured, inherently improbable, profitable, and demonstrable lies," the lawsuit said.
Dominion is 'still exploring' whether to sue Trump over election lies
Former President Donald Trump. AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin
More lawsuits could be on their way, with Dominion's CEO telling CNBC in February that the company was "not ruling anyone out" after sending cease-and-desist notices and warnings to preserve documents to
more than 150 people.
Asked directly if Dominion would sue Trump, Shackelford, an attorney at Susman Godfrey LLP,
told Insider's Jacob Shamsian Tuesday that the company has not ruled it out.
"We are still exploring options as to how to hold other participants in the campaign of lies against Dominion to account," Shackelford said.
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