The voting technology company Smartmatic has subpoenaed Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign for a wide array of documents as part of its $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News over its airing of election lies. The subpoena, which was issued in April and made public in a court filing on Tuesday, requires the Trump campaign to turn over documents related to Smartmatic, Fox News, and the allegations of fraud the campaign falsely made about the 2020 election.
Smartmatic, like Dominion Voting Systems, was swept up in baseless conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. In early 2021, it filed a monster lawsuit against Fox News, alleging that the right-wing network worked in concert with Trump’s attorneys to wage a “disinformation campaign” that jeopardized its survival. A New York judge in 2022 rejected Fox News’ motion to dismiss Smartmatic’s defamation lawsuit, allowing the case to move forward to discovery.