In blow to Newsmax, judge rules Smartmatic’s case over 2020 election lies will go to trial this month

https://www.cnn.com/smartmatic-newsmax-trial-2020-election-fox/index.html

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  1. The number of people who lost money or went to jail simping for Trump is amazing. I wonder how many we will get at the next election.

  2. Hopefully Smartmatic doesn’t settle and actually goes to trial.

  3. If Newsmax is found liable, can we remove it from the approved list?

  4. Good all these guys need to get sued again in a class action lawsuit because clearly they’re not learning

  8. Should have been a year ago. And shut down by now.

  10. I want one of these companies to go to trial and end up with ownership of the offender’s assets. Total dissolution, not “settlement payout as a cost of doing business” again.

  11. This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.cnn.com/smartmatic-newsmax-trial-2020-election-fox/index.html) reduced by 85%. (I’m a bot)
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    > A major defamation case against Newsmax will proceed to trial later this month, a judge ruled Thursday, dealing a blow to the right-wing network and setting the stage for the 2020 election to be relitigated during the final stretch of the 2024 race.

    > Related article LinkedIn billionaire bankrolls voting firm Smartmatic as it fights Fox News in 2020 election defamation case.

    > "Newsmax's own people knew they had no proof that Smartmatic was involved in any type of fraud involving the 2020 election, and yet they continued to peddle that false narrative," Smartmatic lawyer Erik Connolly said in statement.

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  12. How’s Newsmax’s proposed US$75M IPO smelling right about now?

  15. Love it. Scumbags just filed for an IPO. Im sure investors want to jump at the chance to blow their investment on a pending judgement.

  16. Would be great if they can put Newsmax under, but they probably have some billionaire backers that will pay the almost certain huge fines from this upcoming trial.

  18. I want to watch Smartmatic stand over the smoldering ashes of Newsmax’s corpse and piss on the last few glowing embers.

  19. Hopefully they win enough to put Newsmax and the backers behind that propaganda channel out of business permanently.

  21. Oh I am so looking forward to seeing what they found during discovery.

  22. I assume that, unlike Fox “News,” Newsmax doesn’t have $1.3B.

  23. Hey, remember when DonOLD finally admitted he lost the election (by a “whisker”) a few weeks ago, then was asked about that during the debate and he said he was using sarcasm? Pepperidge Farms remembers…

  25. Crippling settlement coming.

    Hopefully the media actually reports on it. Everyone needs to be reminded about the Big Lie and who perpetrated it as we approach this year’s election.

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