Smartmatic subpoenas Trump campaign in $2.7B lawsuit against Fox News

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Source: raw story



Gideon Rubin May 10, 2023, 5:25 PM ET



Smartmatic, the voting technology company that filed a $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News on allegations it spread falsehoods about its actions during the 2020 election, has subpoenaed Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign, CNN’s Oliver Darcy reports.

Smartmatic is seeking a “wide array” of documents from the former president’s campaign, according to the report.
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The subpoena requires the Trump campaign to share with Smartmatic documents related to Fox News and fraudulent allegations the campaign made about the 2020 elections.

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Smartmatic has also subpoenaed former Attorney General Bill Barr........

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Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/smartmatic-subpoenas-trump-campaign-in-2-7b-lawsuit-against-fox-news/

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[Novara]

1. And the hits just keep coming!

[thenelm1]

2. After yesterday and now this?

Himself should be in fine form at his forum tonight. Incoming!!

[Deuxcents]

3. That was my exact comment when I read this!

And the hits keep coming.

[clouds]

4. The Butt Hunter's

Got nothin.

Butt Bengaziz, had nothing

Butt Emails, Nothing

Distractions and lies don’t work anymore.

This is what you get

kär′mə 👮🏽‍♂️

[BumRushDaShow]

5. HUGE K&R for this next boulder that is rolling down the hill right at Faux

[Warpy]

6. Yeah, I have to wonder who's going to get canned after the next settlement

because it should be even bigger than the Dominion payout.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. Smartmatic has subpoenaed the TFG campaign

This will be fun to watch

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[BOSSHOG]

8. Good Lord is there no end to the hoaxes?

Too bad trump is a hoax magnet

[niyad]

9. To what hoaxes are you referring?

[BOSSHOG]

12. Smartmatic, Dominion, MS Carroll, classified documents, January 6th, etc

All hoaxes to trump and supporters. Apparently my attempts at sarcasm are hoaxes as well.

[niyad]

13. No. Just, after reading some of the material I have today, my humour meter

is a bit off. I know your posts better than that, so was a bit surprised, thought I would ask.

[BOSSHOG]

14. Yeah lots of humor meters

At the breaking point. We are dealing with arrogant people fueled by ignorance, With zero love of country nor compassion for fellow humans. And trump, to date Is the ring leader. Their actions are taken for no apparent good reason with benefit to nobody. Just ask a billionaire.

I’ll strive to be on target. I like a dash of humor in my quiver.

[niyad]

16. And we all so desperately need that humour!

[Cha]

10. TY & Smartatic!

[Bev54]

11. I am not surprised they would subpoena the campaign but I was happy to see

they also subpoenaed Bill Barr. Finally we need to start seeing him brought into a lot of these lawsuits.

[ancianita]

15. I didn't read about the Barr subpoena in the article or in the tweets. Can you link it?

TIA

[Bev54]

17. It is in the article and it is also in the OP above.

[ancianita]

18. Ah, thanks. My eyes flew right over the OP's reference to Barr. Sorry for the error.

[Bev54]

19. NP, happens to us all

[GB_RN]

20. Smartmatic Has A Better Case Than Dominion Did...

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It can build on Dominion’s own case, but it also has its own evidence. Then, there’s also the fact that Smartmatic’s machines were only used in ONE county in the US in 2020, and that was LA County. Ergo, even IF the company’s machines did flip votes (they didn’t), there is no way they could have affected the outcome of the presidential election as alleged by Faux Nuz, et al. Smartmatic can also easily prove reputational damage through lost sales and cancelled orders (they have the receipts). Smartmatic has all of these assholes by the short and curlies.

Basically, Smartmatic has NO incentive to settle this case. If Faux, Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch want this one to go away, they will have to do far, far better than what they did for Dominion and Smartmatic already indicated after the Dominion settlement that it’s not interested in letting the bad guys bury this.

[MissMillie]

21. I agree with just about everything you're saying here, except...

There is ALWAYS a risk in going to court.

I will agree that as of today, any incentive to settle is very, very small.

FNC may decide to make a huge settlement offer just to avoid any further humiliation. This article says they intend to fight. What's interesting is that this time discovery includes materials from the 2020 TFG campaign AND former AG Barr. There may be materials we haven't seen yet that will affect the decision-making at Fox.

If FNC offers a settlement that is big enough, and includes an admission of wrong-doing, then Smartmatic may indeed have a bigger incentive to settle than they have at this time.