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Dominion Voting Systems, one of two companies that have been accused by President Donald Trump and his lawyers of stealing the election in favor of Joe Biden, has warned several Fox News anchors and other right-wing media outlets that lawsuits are coming. for defamation. .
Dominion, which provided vote counting equipment to several states during the November elections, sent 21 letters this week threatening Fox News and presenters Sean Hannity, Lou Dobbs and Maria Bartiromo with imminent legal action.
“ We write about patently untrue allegations that Dominion in any way improperly manipulated or influenced the recent US presidential election, allegations that you have been featured on their programming and that you have also echoed. ‘ ‘says the letter to Hannity, a staunch Trump ally, as reported by Business Insider.
Sean Hannity (left) of Fox News and Lou Dobbs (right) of Fox Business have received letters from Dominion Voting Systems, notifying them that defamation suits are pending.
Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo has been warned to ‘cease and desist’ from making defamatory claims accusing Dominion of stealing President Donald Trump’s election
Right-wing talk radio host Rush Limbaugh received a similar letter from Dominion, advising him to keep documents related to the voting systems company.
Recipients of the letters, including right-wing talk radio veteran Rush Limbaugh and pro-Trump Newsmax and One American News Network, were told to ‘stop and desist’ from making defamatory claims about Dominion, and They were advised to keep any documents related to the company for the purposes of future litigation.
“We are writing to provide formal notice that litigation on these matters is imminent,” Dominion’s attorneys wrote to Fox News’ general counsel, CNBC reported.
Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal attorney who has spearheaded the charge to overturn the election results in the courts, was said to have received a similar notice announcing an imminent lawsuit, along with Sydney Powell, a former member of the legal team who claimed That Dominion’s software was created under the direction of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, who died in 2013.
Other people who have received letters from Dominion demanding retractions of his statements propagating unfounded conspiracy theories include Giuliani’s possible star witness, Mellissa Carone, whose daring testimony during a Michigan hearing was later parodied on Saturday Night Live.
Dominion’s CEO has not ruled out the possibility of suing Trump, who has been propagating unfounded conspiracy theories accusing the company of embezzlement.
Trump’s personal attorney Giuliani on the right, ‘Kraken’ Powell’s attorney on the left. They both face trials
Dominion’s attorneys asked Giuliani and White House attorney Pat Cipollone to keep documents related to the company.
Dominion has denied allegations that it changed Trump’s votes in favor of Biden, and no evidence has emerged to support those conspiracy theories, which Trump and his legal team have backed for more than a month.
During a recent interview on CNN, Dominion CEO John Poulos confirmed that his company was prepared to file lawsuits against various people who had been “promoting lies and amplifying those lies.”
Poulos has not ruled out suing Trump personally, saying Dominion’s attorneys will not “overlook anyone.”
Trump has been spreading and crediting unsubstantiated claims of massive voter fraud in interviews and on Twitter since Election Day last month.
On Tuesday, Eric Coomer, Dominion’s director of security, filed a defamation lawsuit against the Trump campaign, saying the death threats forced him into hiding.
On November 12, he tweeted a message in capital letters referring to OANN reports: ‘REPORT: DOMINION ELIMINATED 2.7 MILLION VOTERS FROM TRUMP NATIONAL LEVEL, DATA ANALYSIS FINDS 221,000 VOTES IN PENNSYLVANIA CHANGED FROM CHAIRMAN TRUMP TO BIDEN. 941,000 TRUMP VOTES DELETED. THE STATES THAT USED THE DOMINION VOTING SYSTEMS CHANGED 435,000 VOTES FROM TRUMP TO BIDEN.
According to a fact check from the Associated Press, there is no evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election, or of major problems with Dominion’s systems. Election officials from both political parties have publicly stated that the elections went well and international observers confirmed that there were no serious irregularities.
Dominion said in a statement that it “denies the claims about any voting changes or alleged software problems with our voting systems.”
Eric Coomer, the director of security for the Colorado-based Dominion, filed a defamation lawsuit earlier this week against the Trump campaign, saying death threats forced him into hiding.
Coomer said he wants his life back after being named to bogus charges as a key player in ‘rigging’ Biden’s election.
Their lawsuit, filed Tuesday in district court in Denver County, Colorado, names the Trump campaign, Giuliani and Powell, conservative columnist Michelle Malkin, the Gateway Pundit website, Newsmax, OANN and others.
Dominion and another voting technology company, Smartmatic, have started fighting against being named in unfounded conspiracy theories. After legal threats were made, Fox News Channel and Newsmax have in recent days broadcast retractions of some claims made on their networks.
On Fox News and Fox Business, the retraction took the form of a nearly two-minute prerecorded segment, which aired on shows hosted by Dobbs, Bartiromo and Jeanine Pirro.
The video consisted of a question and answer session between an off-screen voice and Eddie Perez, a voting technology expert at the nonpartisan Open Source Electoral Institute of Technology.
“I have not seen any evidence that the Smartmatic software was used to remove, change or alter anything related to the vote tabulations,” said Pérez.
