The CEO of Dominion Voting Systems does not rule out legal action against Trump


CEO John Paulus confirmed on CNN’s “New Day” that the company would take legal action against many people “from election day on various media platforms” to promote lies and promote those lies. “

Asked when Dominion expects to take legal action against Trump, Paul said the company would “fully present, and repeat, and make extended false statements” defamatory and damaging to our company and our election. “

Re-pressing whether it would include the president, Paul replied, “We will not ignore anyone.”

CNN has reached out to the White House for comment.

After the 2020 election, the president, his lawyers and his supporters have made baseless allegations that Dominion’s voting machines were manipulated to change the vote from Trump to Biden or to de-vote for Trump.
A defamation law firm representing Dominion wrote a letter to White House adviser Pat Sipolon and Trump campaign lawyer Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday instructing Giuliani to keep all records relating to the company, warning that legal action was “imminent.”
Last week, CNN reported that Trump’s campaign legal team released a memo to dozens of staff asking them to preserve all documents relating to Dominion and pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell in anticipation of a possible lawsuit by the company against them.
During a free-wheeling and factless Trump campaign press conference last month, Powell claimed that “software” was created in Dominion’s voting machines in the direction of former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez – who died in 2013 – to change his election results, and that The company has relationships with the Clinton Foundation and Democratic donor George Soros.

Paul said Thursday that it is a “complete lie” and that the company is “forward to show and prove it in court.”

On Tuesday, Eric Kumar, a top Dominion employee, sued separately for the presidential campaign, Giuliani, Powell and a handful of money-laundering media outlets and individuals for defamation.
Dominion’s director of product strategy and security, Kumar, told CNN’s Kate Bolduan on Wednesday that allegations that he had rigged the election had led to “a complete upheaval in my life.”

“I am hiding because I have received many death threats and it is on a constant basis. My whole family, their private information has been published online which is known as docking. All my private information has been released online. People have photos. “People in my house threatened me that they would come to me, behead me. They called me a traitor. It is not safe for me to go about my daily life,” Kumar said. He is on leave due to security concerns.

Kumar said he “wants to set the record straight and try to reclaim my reputation” and that “people need to be held accountable.”

Dominion himself is not in favor of suing Kumar, but Paul told CNN on Thursday that he was “angry” to hear of Kumar’s condition and that the allegations against Dominion had affected all his employees.

“Since election day, all our employees have been forced to remove as much public information as they can for fear of their own safety. This is really unprecedented. And that’s something that makes us very angry,” he said. .

Paul said the allegations “caused damage indefinitely” and that U.S. Is raising “serious doubts” among Americans about the electoral system.

Georgia is one of the states that uses Dominion machines for voting, including the U.S. Will determine Senate control and, with it, the next U.S. decision on Biden’s agenda.

Paul told CNN that Dominion’s technology has been running successful elections for years and years and that Georgian voters should “trust the system”, which can use a paper ballot of machines, which can be used in risk-limited audit dit.

There is no evidence that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, and his administration and election officials have called it the “safest” election in U.S. history. Biden received more than 7 million votes and popular votes from 306 to 232 on the election map.

CNN’s Caitlin Collins and Nikki Carvajal contributed to this report.

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