Posted on 09/26/2024 1:33:01 PM PDT by JSM_Liberty
The pro-Trump cable channel Newsmax has settled a major 2020 election defamation lawsuit with Smartmatic in a last-minute agreement to avoid a high-stakes trial that posed a significant risk to the small outlet.
“Newsmax is pleased to announce it has resolved the litigation brought by Smartmatic through a confidential settlement,” the network said in a statement Thursday.
CNN has reached out to Smartmatic for comment. The terms of the settlement were not immediately known. The deal comes hours after jury selection got underway in a Wilmington, Delaware, courtroom ahead of opening statements scheduled for Monday. A loss at trial could have put Newsmax on the hook to pay tens of millions of dollars to Smartmatic, putting the small cable channel in financial peril.
“This is a case that is a bet-your-company case for Newsmax,” Howard Cooper, an attorney for the network, said at a recent pretrial hearing.
The settlement is the latest in a string of 2020 election defamation cases to reach an out-of-court agreement before trial. Fox News famously settled with Dominion Voting Systems last year for $787 million, and the far-right channel One America News settled with Smartmatic earlier this year. Both cases were also about the same 2020 election smears.
Newsmax still faces a separate defamation lawsuit over similar claims that was filed by Dominion. Newsmax denies all wrongdoing.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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Watch Newsmax swing left now. Controlled opposition.
I expect Newsmax to say the word “alleged” about 20 times per segment now.
Well they have to make business decisions but I wish one of them would go to trial.
Forget it, Jake. It's Delaware.
That’s the interesting thing about the discovery phase of a lawsuit. Once the defendant sees the array of evidence that will be presented about their or their company’s actions, settling the lawsuit if much more desirable than throwing the dice and losing the company entirely.
Dominion isn’t likely to settle as easily.
If you deny wrongdoing, make them go to the MAT to prove you wrong.
Open the discovery process and expose the corruption for everything it’s worth.
They gave a million to the Clinton Foundation, that is all I ever needed to know.
Wham-O!
Jovan Pulitzer did a podcast (Rosanne Barr’s) and he went into specific detail on how companies like dominion are able to thwart such cases by use of language and splitting hairs on like NOT having a modem (its integrated) the software is the culprit ...not the manufacturer.
Someone should file a lawsuit everyday against CNN and other leftwing outlets because they lie 24/7/365.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/newsmax-smartmatic-damages/2024/09/25/id/1181657/
Snip..."On Aug. 8 of this year, the U.S. Department of Justice indicted three top Smartmatic executives, including its then president and co-founder Roger A. Piñate, on multiple federal criminal charges including money laundering and bribery in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
Previous court filings alleged the executives conspired to bribe a Philippines election official approximately $4 million to obtain voting machine and service contracts totaling nearly $200 million." ...snip.
more at link
Purple finger and paper ballot systems in the 3rd world are more reliable than the American election systems.
You’re just asking for trouble when you use computers to count votes. No one trusts the and why should they. Count votes using old school methods. Everyone will sleep better at night when the results come in.
That's all you need to know. Any trial held in Delaware they would have lost and it doesn't matter what the facts are.
We all like to think that there is justice in our system, but the reality is that prejudices are the primary means by which people decide issues.
A trial in Texas they likely would have won, but Delaware? No way.
Exactly. No way they win in Delaware. Delaware is dumb enough to elect Biden, so they aren't all playing with a full deck anyway.
The nation should push Delaware, Rhode Island, Connecticut and a bunch of other little states together and call them a single state. That collection of leftist enclaves should not have so many Senators.
I heard about this. Smartmatic Took a Billion less in order to avoid discovery. And they are guilty.
newsmax settles with smartmatic.
newsmax is working on a public stock offering and prolly needed to clean this up in order to go forward.
Note - this trial was scheduled for delaware, biden’s home state.!! Same thing happened with the Fox lawsuit.
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