Newsmax Issues Retraction And Apology To Dominion Employee Over Election Stories

[Nevilledog]

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JUST IN: Newsmax apologized for falsely accusing Dominion Voting Systems and one of its engineers of manipulating 2020 election results.

The employee has been in hiding for nearly 6 months after facing death threats.

Newsmax Issues Retraction And Apology To Dominion Employee Over Election Stories
Voting machine engineer Eric Coomer was falsely accused of rigging the 2020 election against former President Trump by the conservative cable network. He received death threats and has been in hiding.
npr.org
2:59 PM · Apr 30, 2021

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/30/992534968/newsmax-issues-retraction-and-apology-to-dominion-employee-over-election-stories


The far-right media outlet Newsmax, which amplified former President Trump's false allegations of election rigging and widespread voter fraud, said on Friday that there is no evidence that Dominion Voting Systems and one of its top employees, Eric Coomer, manipulated election results in 2020.

"Newsmax subsequently found no evidence that such allegations were true. Many of the states whose results were contested by the Trump campaign after the November 2020 election have conducted extensive recounts and audits, and each of these states certified the results as legal and final," the company said in a statement published online that will also be broadcast.

Coomer filed a lawsuit against Newsmax for defamation in Colorado state court on December 22, 2020. He withdrew that suit earlier on Friday, ahead of Newmax's apology. Coomer's attorneys say he has reached a financial settlement, but terms of the arrangement were not disclosed.

Shortly after the election, Coomer became the subject of conspiracy theories that he had used his position at Dominion to manipulate votes for Biden. He strongly denies those allegations. Coomer has been living in hiding for nearly six months after facing death threats. While he has dropped his suit against Newsmax, Coomer is still suing the Trump campaign and a number of campaign surrogates and pro-Trump media outlets, alleging defamation.

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[Corgigal]

1. I think,

they rather have a check. I don’t know for sure, but I’m thinking I’m correct.

[Shrike47]

2. Looks like he got one in addition to the apology.

[sdfernando]

3. I hope it was a big fat check...one that causes NEW(MIN) some pain. /NT

[Indykatie]

4. Best Outcome for An Individual. I Hope He Got Many Millions to Restart His New Life Even Identity.

[Nevilledog]

7. More

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NEWS: "Newsmax Disavows List of Election Conspiracy Claims While Settling Defamation Lawsuit by Dominion Employee Originally Tagged as ‘Antifa’" https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/newsmax-disavows-list-of-election-conspiracy-claims-while-settling-defamation-lawsuit-by-dominion-employee-originally-tagged-as-antifa/… via @lawcrimenews

Newsmax Disavows List of Election Conspiracy Claims While Settling Defamation Lawsuit by Dominion...
Newsmax reached a confidential settlement with and apologized to a Dominion employee who sued the outlet for defamation in December for amplifying a pro-Trump conspiracy theory.
lawandcrime.com
2:21 PM · Apr 30, 2021

https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/newsmax-disavows-list-of-election-conspiracy-claims-while-settling-defamation-lawsuit-by-dominion-employee-originally-tagged-as-antifa/

Newsmax reached a confidential settlement with and apologized to a Dominion employee who sued the outlet for defamation in December for amplifying a pro-Trump conspiracy theory scapegoating him for the 45th president’s defeat.

Dr. Eric Coomer, the director of product strategy and security for Dominion, filed the lawsuit against more than a dozen entities and people late last year in the Denver County district court.

Branded by certain corners of the political right as in cahoots with antifascist activists to put President Joe Biden into the Oval Office, Coomer said that Donald Trump supporters called him a “traitor” and subjected him to “multiple credible death threats.” The rumors were circulated by Colorado businessman Joseph Oltmann, who claimed to have infiltrated an “Antifa Conference Call.”

Oltmann, whose claims about this purported call were amplified by pro-Trump media, was also named in the lawsuit along with the Trump campaign, Rudy Giuliani, One America News Network, its staffer Chanel Rion, the hard-right blog Gateway Pundit, its owner Jim Hoft, and others.

On Nov. 17, the conspiracy theory reached the Twitter account of Donald Trump Jr., who tweeted out the Gateway Pundit story attributing the statement to Coomer: “Don’t worry about the election, Trump’s not gonna win. I made f*cking sure of that!”

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[FlyingPiggy]

5. GOOD. I hope Dominion is setting an example. There are consequences to slander/libel.

[crickets]

12. +1

[exboyfil]

6. I hope he gets enough along the way

that he refuses to settle with the top of the food chain. I would like to see Trump giving a deposition.

[Buns_of_Fire]

8. Being sued into oblivion clears the mind quite nicely, it seems. nt

[stillcool]

9. Friday night news...

so the lie can stay alive in the minds of the faithful.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

10. The rest of the defendants in the lawsuit

need to take note of this and maybe settle before they get an ass kicking in court.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. K&R