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'I'm in ruins,' teary Mike Lindell tells judge in Smartmatic sanctions hearing
ABC News ^ | April 16. 2025 | Soo Rin Kim

Posted on 04/17/2025 12:04:39 PM PDT by Miami Rebel

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To: cnsmom

Stocking up on sheets. His bed topper is on the mail already.

I hope Mike will overcome this injustice.


21 posted on 04/17/2025 12:42:26 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. Psalm 33:12)
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To: Miami Rebel

Think it is time for me to reorder!!!!!


22 posted on 04/17/2025 12:44:45 PM PDT by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: JewishRighter

The difference would be that for yours, Gofundme Money Laundering, Inc. would label yours as disinformation and supporting hate speech and close down your page.


23 posted on 04/17/2025 12:46:52 PM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: Miami Rebel

Election denier? ABC sucks.


24 posted on 04/17/2025 12:46:57 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: Miami Rebel

Mike Lindell is a Patriot!!


25 posted on 04/17/2025 12:47:11 PM PDT by XEHRpa
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To: stars & stripes forever

You will love the sheets, I send a new set to my daughters annually.


26 posted on 04/17/2025 12:49:12 PM PDT by cnsmom
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To: Fido969

Some of those claims were so outlandish that anyone with an IQ over 70 would have verified them before making public statements and putting their reputation on the line.


27 posted on 04/17/2025 12:50:08 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("The gallows wait for martyrs whose papers are in order.")
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To: Miami Rebel

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article290982400.html

Smartmatic founder, ex-VP surrender in Miami bribery case tied to Filipino voting machines By Jay Weaver and Antonio Maria Delgado Updated August 13, 2024 6:16 AM

Roger Piñate, the Venezuelan-American founder of the voting-machine company Smartmatic, surrendered to authorities and faced charges Monday in Miami federal court of committing foreign corruption and money laundering to secure elections contracts in the Philippines. Piñate, 49, president of Boca Raton-based Smartmartic, was charged along with Jorge Miguel Vasquez, 62, of Davie, the company’s former vice president of hardware development, who also surrendered on Monday. . .

Court records, including a Homeland Security Investigations criminal complaint, indicate that Smartmatic’s contracts with the Philippines were worth $199 million for providing voting machines and other services for the May 2016 election for president, vice president and other official positions. Federal authorities said the alleged co-conspirators financed the bribes by overbilling the cost per voting machine for the elections. To conceal the operation, the co-conspirators used coded language in referring to a slush fund that was used to make the illicit payments, and they created fraudulent contracts and sham loan agreements to justify the transfers, the Justice Department said, citing the indictment filed by prosecutor Robert Emery.

The co-conspirators then allegedly laundered bribery payments through bank accounts located in Asia, Europe, and the United States, including in the Southern District of Florida, according to the indictment. Piñate, Vasquez, Bautista and Elie Moreno, 44, a dual citizen of Venezuela and Israel who oversaw Smartmatic’s contracts in the Philippines, are each charged with one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering and three counts of international laundering of monetary instruments. . .


28 posted on 04/17/2025 12:52:52 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Alberta's Child

Everyone knows that election results from machine totals are suspect in many cases. This lawsuit is all about limiting criticizm.


29 posted on 04/17/2025 12:54:04 PM PDT by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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To: Miami Rebel
Election denier

Presstitutes.

30 posted on 04/17/2025 12:56:12 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Fido969

It’s a tragic situation for Mike Lindell, I agree with you after the 2020 election, a number of people on the Trump team made some really ridiculous accusations, what that purpose was, I don’t really know for sure, I think they made the accusations because they wanted to desperately believe Trump won and basically went off the rails.

I think Mike Lindell fell into that category, he wanted to believe Trump won the 2020 election and was a prime target for fraudsters and con artists who sold him a pack of lies and he believed it.

Remember the Cyber Symposium Mike Lindell put on after the 2020 election, where he claimed to show packet captures of data that would prove the voting machines were hacked and Trump actually won, he offered 5 million dollars to anyone who could prove the data was false.

According to a court ordered arbitration panel, one person did prove the data was false, Lindell has all along refused to pay up, the case as far as I know is still in litigation.

Here is an article on the situation.

https://minnesotareformer.com/2023/12/12/the-cyber-expert-who-took-mike-lindells-5-million-challenge-and-won/

Personally, I believe the election in 2020 was stolen from Trump but not thru hacked election machines.

The election was rigged thru bad laws and a faulty process, IMO.

Take Arizona, they have identified 50,000 voters who are non-citizens who should not be allowed to vote.

In North Carolina approximately 65,000 votes in a Supreme Court election are being validated which could result in the votes being thrown out.

This is how the Democrats steal elections, they don’t update voter rolls to throw out fraudulent voters who have died, moved or for some other reason should not be allowed to vote.

Democrats get laws passed to which throw out voter ID to vote, enact universal mail in voting and ballot harvesting.

Once a vote is printed, Democrat NGOs using taxpayer funding, ballot harvest the fraudulent ballots, fill out the ballots and drop them in mail drop boxes.

Once a fraudulent ballot is printed, there is almost no chance a judge will invalidate the ballot.


31 posted on 04/17/2025 12:56:19 PM PDT by srmanuel
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To: Fedora

https://www.newsweek.com/fox-news-smartmatic-lawsuit-bribery-roger-pinate-1996306

Judge Decides Fox News Won’t Receive Records Related to Bribery Case
Published Dec 05, 2024 at 3:37 PM EST

A New York judge on Thursday denied Fox News’ request to receive records related to a bribery case that the news network claims would help them in a defamation lawsuit that the voting technology company Smartmatic filed against them.

Judge David B. Cohen said the bribery indictment against some of Smartmatic’s executives didn’t change his mind on two similar requests from Fox.

“It’s a mere accusation. It raises no presumption of guilt,” Cohen said.

Why Is Smartmatic Suing Fox News?

Smartmatic is suing Fox News and its parent company Fox Corp. for $2.7 billion after the news network aired false claims that Smartmatic helped rig the 2020 election. The company is also suing multiple current or former on-air hosts from the network.

In the wake of then-President Donald Trump’s loss to now-President Joe Biden, he and his lawyers claimed the election was stolen from him via widespread voter fraud. Despite there being no evidence to back up such claims, Fox News broadcasted them—which Smartmartic says gutted their business. Fox News did ultimately air an interview with an election technology expert who refuted allegations of election fraud against Smartmatic.

Fox says it was simply reporting on newsworthy allegations made by Trump and his allies.

Fox is countersuing Smartmatic as it claims the defamation lawsuit violates a New York law against baseless suits aimed at surpressing reporting or criticism of public issues.

Meanwhile, Fox News already settled a $787 million lawsuit last year after another voting technology company, Dominion Voting Systems, accused the news network of damaging the company’s reputation with their coverage of the 2020 election fraud claims.

What Are the Facts of the Bribery Case?

The August 8 indictment of Smartmatic co-founder Roger Piñate and two other executives relates to Smartmatic’s efforts to get work in the Phillippines between 2015 and 2018.

Piñate and the two Smartmatic executives have been accused of scheming to pay more than $1 million in bribes to a Filipino election official to deploy Smartmatic voting machines and pay promptly for them, the indictment says. The payments were made through sham loan agreements and a slush fund created by overcharging for the machines, federal prosecutors allege.

Piñate, who has served as Smartmatic’s president, pleaded not guilty to conspiring to violate the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and to money laundering. It’s unclear whether the two company executives charged have entered pleas.

The company itself isn’t charged in the case, and Piñate and the two executives were placed on leave. Smartmatic sought to reassure voters that elections are “conducted with the utmost integrity and transparency.”

Why Does Fox Need the Case Records?

Fox says that the bribery case is relevant to Smartmartic’s business prospects, and therefore to the voting technology company’s claims about what it lost and stands to lose because of Fox’s coverage of the 2020 election fraud claims.

“As of Aug 8, governments will have to take into account the risks of doing business with a company [where some executives have been] accused of serious corruption by the U.S. Department of Justice [DOJ],” Fox lawyer Brad Masters told a New York court Thursday.

Masters asked the court to order Smartmatic to provide any documents that it gave the DOJ for the bribery investigation, any customer inquiries about the charges and any staff communications about the matter and its impact on the voting-technology company.

Meanwhile, Smartmatic’s lawyers argued that the indictment is irrelevant to their lawsuit.

“There’s merely an allegation, which is probative of nothing,” Smartmatic attorney Caitlin Kovacs said Thursday. She suggested Fox wanted to “stand up here and play prosecutor to the jury” and “accuse Smartmatic of a crime that they didn’t commit.”


32 posted on 04/17/2025 12:57:03 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Salamander

Matt 19
29 And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife[e] or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.

Last night we men discussed what losing these things might be like. We see it in Mulsim countries and China, etc., but not explicitly in the US (yet).

Mike looks like a direct application.


33 posted on 04/17/2025 12:58:06 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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To: Rurudyne

They were indeed frivolous. Smartmatic did what he accused them of. Tina Peters was locked in a Colorado prison for saving evidence of the crime.


34 posted on 04/17/2025 1:00:15 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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To: Rurudyne

Oh, I’m with you now. The charges Lindell leveled against Smartmatic were not frivolous! I’ll try to keep up!


35 posted on 04/17/2025 1:03:06 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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To: srmanuel
Personally, I believe the election in 2020 was stolen from Trump but not thru hacked election machines

Trump's team was pushed into making disprovable outlandish claims to distract from the ballot box stuffing issues.

Remember the Arizona "audit"? The auditors were allowed to do everything EXCEPT signature verification and canvassing. So, they were checking the paper on ballots to see if it was rice paper. The multi-millions dollar "audit" was designed NOT to show the fraud.

36 posted on 04/17/2025 1:03:21 PM PDT by Fido969
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To: Miami Rebel

I have to buy some more pillows and sheets and stuff from him.


37 posted on 04/17/2025 1:03:31 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: Jane Long

I believe you got RuRuDyne’s comments bassakwards.


38 posted on 04/17/2025 1:08:33 PM PDT by FreedomNotSafety
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To: Miami Rebel

“Election denier”. No bias there by ABC.

Plus, he was right about everything re the machines.


39 posted on 04/17/2025 1:09:52 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: Alberta's Child

There was proof everywhere, including with ML. “They” forbade him to present it.


40 posted on 04/17/2025 1:12:52 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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