WASHINGTON — A voting technology company targeted by bogus fraud claims related to the 2020 presidential election settled a defamation lawsuit Tuesday against a conservative news outlet.and One America News Network is the latest development in a larger legal pushback by voting equipment companies that became ensnared in wild conspiracy theories falsely claiming they had flipped votes and cost
Getty ImagesDonald Trump’s first day of trial in New York City started with the judge refusing to bow down to the former president’s numerous legal demands that he recuse himself, with Judge Juan Merchan finding that his request stretched the boundaries of the imagination.“To say that these claims are attenuated is an understatement,” Merchan said in Manhattan Criminal Court, maintaining a near monotone delivery of his explanations for why he simply wouldn’t step aside.
Photo by Jabin Botsford-Pool/Getty ImagesThe Manhattan District Attorney’s Office wants the judge overseeing the first trial against a former American president to start it off with a lunging attack, asking the court to personally sanction Donald Trump for his verbal onslaught against witnesses in the case.