Posted on 12/24/2020 2:58:49 AM PST by USA Conservative
A top employee of Dominion Voting Systems, who has gone into hiding after becoming the subject of conspiracy theories on the right since the election, is suing the Trump campaign, a number of campaign surrogates and pro-Trump media outlets, alleging defamation.
Eric Coomer, director of product strategy and security for the Denver-based company, has been baselessly accused of using his position to mastermind a high-tech plot to steal the election for President-elect Joe Biden. Biden's victory has been certified in the states by officials of both parties with no evidence of widespread fraud or irregularities.
Coomer's suit, filed Tuesday in Colorado state district court in Denver, accuses those responsible of spreading the falsehoods of intentional infliction of emotional distress and civil conspiracy.
The lawsuit says the claims made about Coomer have led to death threats, constant harassment and "untold damage to his reputation as a national expert on voting systems." Coomer was forced to leave his home one week after the presidential election ended and move to a safe undisclosed location where he remains.
Among those being sued, along with the president's campaign, are his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and outside lawyer Sidney Powell, who has been spotted at the White House in recent days as the president has continued to look for ways of overturning the election, including a meeting with conservative lawmakers who are planning an ill-fated push to challenge state electors when Congress certifies their votes on Jan. 6
Coomer is also suing figures in right-wing media, including the networks Newsmax and One America News Network, OANN reporter Chanel Rion, blogger Michelle Malkin and others.
"Today I have filed a lawsuit in Colorado in an effort to unwind as much of the damage as possible done to me, my family, my life, and my livelihood as a result of the numerous false public statements that I was somehow responsible for 'rigging' the 2020 presidential election," Coomer said in a statement announcing the lawsuit.
"The widespread dissemination of false conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election has had devastating consequences both for me personally and for many of the thousands of American election workers and officials, both Republican and Democratic, who put aside their political beliefs to run free, fair, and transparent elections. Elections are not about politics; they are about accurately tabulating legally cast votes," Coomer said.
Dominion Voting Systems provides election equipment and software to 28 states, including the majority of the equipment used in the swing states on which President Trump has focused most of his post-election ire. The company has also started to take legal action against its detractors; it recently demanded that Powell retract baseless claims about the company and its voting systems.
Coomer said the allegations against him began with a conservative Colorado activist and podcaster, Joe Oltmann, who is also named in the suit. Several days after the election Oltmann said that he'd infiltrated an earlier call with Denver-area antifa members and heard a man identified as "Eric from Dominion" say he would make sure Trump wouldn't win the election. According to Oltmann, the man said, "Don't worry about the election. Trump is not going to win. I made effing sure of that."
Oltmann has never provided a recording of that call, but the allegation spread rapidly through right-wing social media, making its way to pro-Trump media outlets now included in the lawsuit.
On Wednesday, Oltmann defended himself against the lawsuit on a podcast. "I don't write stuff on my social media that, that frankly, that I wouldn't be able to defend. I don't," he said.
Coomer said that conversation never took place and that he has no association with left-wing groups.
"I have a personal political opinion. I may share that with friends and family, but I have never participated, or belonged to, any political groups, political action groups, social justice groups. I do not donate to political campaigns. I don't donate to any PACs or anything like that," he told CPR News.
In addition to his own information, Coomer said the personal addresses of everyone from his parents and siblings to his ex-girlfriends have been posted online. Some have also received threatening letters.
He said he's hopeful this lawsuit will help him reclaim his personal and professional reputation, "While I intend to do everything I can to recapture my prior lifestyle, I have few illusions in this regard."
Even if everything coomer said true I doubt he’d win the suit (if we had a fair legal system m)
The foes of Democracy are attacking those uncovering the fraud. Typical tactics:
Michigan AG Dana Nessel Threatens Lawyer Who Released Results Of Forensic Exam of 16 Dominion Voting Machines In Antrim Co.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3918410/posts
A lawsuit will just drag it on longer and cause discovery. He doesn’t want discovery. This is just a media stunt
Big talk until the voting machines are impounded as evidence
This could be a problem, there will be discovery. and the courts may need to allow evidence to be presented.
>> Coomer said the personal addresses of everyone from his parents and siblings to his ex-girlfriends have been posted online.
Coomer said... don’t trust the jackass.
Nonetheless, doxxing is BS — something the Rats do, and the Right shouldn’t.
WHO is PAYING for him to file all these LAWSUITS???? SOROS???
Coomer allegedly said this:
“Don’t worry about the election, Trump’s not gonna win. I made ******* sure of that!”
Well, it didn’t show up until the 2nd paragraph, but here it is...
” no evidence of widespread fraud or irregularities.”
How many does it take?
Coomer said... don’t trust the jackass.
Nonetheless, doxxing is BS — something the Rats do, and the Right shouldn’t.
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Right! Never play by the rules your enemy uses. Why the horrors! That’s why when our beloved President Obama set the Rules of Engagement in Afghanistan and Iraq, he made sure no one fired on the enemy until at least one GI was wounded. He stood on principle, even at the cost of hundreds of GI’s lives. We should too!
I’m on record for criticizing the RoE bullshit. And to conflate actual combat with doxxing is pointless.
We’re not yet knife to throat, so we’re still playing by civilian rules.
Doxxing invites harm to those at the homestead. It’s a coward’s game. I’m assuming you’re not the cowardly Antifa type.
Uhh this is War.
Sorros Soviet move
NPR/PBS — Birthed of socialist blood (Ford Foundation), raised in a socialist enclave (Ann Arbor, MI, U of M’s cultural Marxists of Frankfurt School lineage), strengthened by Federal funding (why the fu**?) and now a leader (model) in socialist propaganda.
Defund NPR/PBS.
Defamation only exists if the facts as stated were delivered with malice intent, and do not reflect reality. Then they would not be facts, but such a distortion of the truth that they become lies. If the Dominion Voting System really does any of the manipulation of of the tabulated results, then it is no longer a valid and reliable system.
I like how they keep throwing that word “baselessly” around as if they know everything.
It’s nice how they conveniently tell the sheeple what to think.
Defamation:
To prove prima facie defamation, a plaintiff must show four things: 1) a false statement purporting to be fact; 2) publication or communication of that statement to a third person; 3) fault amounting to at least negligence; and 4) damages, or some harm caused to the person or entity who is the subject of the statement.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/defamation
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