MIAMI -- A voting technology company is suing Fox News, three of its hosts and two former lawyers for former U.S. President Donald Trump -- Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell -- for $2.7 billion, charging that the defendants conspired to spread false claims that the company helped "steal" the U.S. presidential election.
Smartmatic's limited role notwithstanding, Fox aired at least 13 reports falsely stating or implying the company had stolen the 2020 vote in cahoots with Venezuela's socialist government, according to the complaint. This alleged "disinformation campaign" continued even after then-Attorney General William Barr said the Department of Justice could find no evidence of widespread voter fraud.
"This is a perfect example of why we have the law of defamation in first place," said Gutterman, a former reporter. With several client contracts in jeopardy, the company estimates that it will lose as much as $690 million in profits over the next five years. It also expects it will have to boost spending by $4.7 million to fend off what it called a "meteoric rise" in cyberattacks.
No evidence has emerged that the company rigged votes in favour of the anti-American firebrand, and for a while the Carter Center and other observers held out Venezuela as a model of electronic voting. Meanwhile, the company has expanded globally. Fox, after receiving a demand for retraction from Smartmatic's lawyers in December, aired what it called a "fact-checking segment" with an election technology expert. In the segment, the expert said there was no evidence of tampering -- something the defendants knew from the start and reported elsewhere on the network, the complaint alleges.
Who KNEW this is what DJT meant when he claimed he was going to drain the swamp?
Clean them out....
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Add anyone that said their machines was compromised