DENVER (AP) – Conservative network Newsmax pays $67 million to settle a lawsuit accusing voting equipment companies of slandering voting equipment companies by spreading lies about the president. Donald Trump’s According to documents filed Monday, election losses in 2020.
The settlement comes after the Fox News channel Paying $787.5 million To resolve a similar lawsuit in 2023, Newsmax paid what the court documents described as $40 million. Resolves honourable lib loss lawsuits From another voting machine manufacturer, SmartMatic target Pro Trump conspiracy theory on the network.
Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis had previously ruled that Newsmax actually removed the Denver-based Dominion voting system by airing misinformation about the company and its equipment. But Davis left it to the ju-deciding apprentice and ultimately decided whether it was done maliciously and, if so, how much value Newsmax would be in damages. Newsmax and Dominion reached a settlement before trial took place.
The settlement was disclosed by Newsmax on Monday in a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The deal said it reached Friday. A Dominion spokesman said he was pleased that the company has settled its lawsuit.
The disclosure came to Trump pledged in a social media post Monday to eliminate email-in voting and voting machines like Dominion and other companies offered. It was unclear how a Republican president could achieve that.
Trump Lost my re-elect bid for 2020 To Joe Biden, a Democrat.
The same judge also handled Dominion-Fox news cases and issued a similar ruling that the network was repeated Many lies Nevertheless, by Trump’s allies on 2020 defeat Internal communication I knew this claim to a Fox official. It was a fake. At the time, Davis found it “transparent” that none of the allegations were true.
