Newsmax, OAN, Trump campaign sued by voting systems worker who says false claims led to death threat

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Source: usatoday.com

An election systems worker driven into hiding by death threats has filed a defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump's campaign, two of its lawyers and some conservative media figures and outlets.

Eric Coomer, security director at the Colorado-based Dominion Voting Systems, said he wants his life back after being named in false charges as a key actor in “rigging” the election for President-elect Joe Biden. There has been no evidence that the election was rigged.

His lawsuit, filed Tuesday in district court in Denver County, Colorado, names the Trump campaign, lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, conservative columnist Michelle Malkin, the website Gateway Pundit, Colorado conservative activist Joseph Oltmann, and conservative media Newsmax and One America News Network.

“I have been thrust into the public spotlight by people with political and financial agendas but, at heart, I am a private person,” Coomer said in a statement.


Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2020/12/22/president-trump-campaign-newsmax-oan-face-defamation-lawsuit/4019954001/

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I am glad someone is demanding accountability for the misinformation.

[DFW]

1. Good for him

These people want a free ticket to invite stalking and murder, and when it happens, they throw up their hands in mock horror, saying of COURSE they didn‘t mean THAT, like with Dr. Tiller. It‘s time they stood for the consequences of their actions. They know perfectly well what they‘re doing. Hiding behind the First Amendment should no longer be a get-out-of-jail-free card when people‘s lives are credibly threatened.

[Mopar151]

24. Tired of "The Party of Threat".

Tired. Tired: TIRED!

[Roy Rolling]

2. Important Distinction

He is not a public figure subject to public speculation, he is an employee of a corporation—the same legal structure Republicans hide behind when seeking immunity.

Not only was he defamed, but they pierced the “corporate veil” to get at him. So Republicans have to argue corporations give no protection first, and then argue he is not maligned.

Good luck proving the impossible, Tr**p is an o-fer on legal cases.

[catrose]

3. Yes!

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

4. Release the hounds....nt

[3Hotdogs]

5. Yeah? Well Coomer can kiss his sorry ass "Good-bye, "

when Sidney releases the Kraken on him.

[orwell]

6. Another "frivolous lawsuit"...

...a RepubliCon would never tie up the courts with such weak claims!

Uh...oh wait...never mind.

Please proceed...

[gab13by13]

7. Rumor has it,

Hugo Chavez is also suing.

[Escurumbele]

9. LOL

When I heard the lawyer say she had brought a witness who spoke to Hugo Chavez I started laughing, because Maduro said that Chavez presented himself as a bird after his death, he got on his shoulder and spoke to him...Maduro is one crazy SOB! So I figured this witness can also talk to birds.

[Escurumbele]

8. Poetic justice if Michelle Malkin's mouth is shut from spewing so much BS

What a piece of work she is...well, they all are a piece of work.

[marble falls]

10. Where's the pop corn! Discovery will be a gas.

[certainot]

11. they need to sue limbaugh too

guiliani and limbaugh go way back, like trump

the press conference started at 12:09 EST or so, minutes after limbaugh show starts (a common pattern the last 30 yrs when republicans want to make a splash because he reaches 15 mil/day and all the others follow his eg). then he spends much of that show reinforcing the crap from the ‘conference’. he basically already knows the details of what they’re saying in accusing smartmatic and dominion.

i got this from the nov 19 youtube transcript. he started the show following the ‘conference’ and this part starts toward the end of the hour but he spends much of the first hour and more talking like he’s been prepping for this — maybe he wants it to sound like he’s listening and commenting on what they’re saying but he doesn’t stop talking, as usual

limbaugh, nov 19:

oh wait wait wait here's sidney powell
back at the microphone i have gotten
multiple emails from people in other
countries (like russia?)
who watch the same pattern happen there
we have witness testimony
that the same things were done in those
countries as this was exported from
venezuela and
by maduro and by mr chavez
and by cuba and of course we know china
also has a substantial presence in
venezuela and substantial
interest in making sure that president
trump does not continue in office
this is the consummate foreign
interference in our election in the most
criminal way
you can possibly imagine it must be shut
down
we know for example that one of the
dominion's highest
level employees or officers went to
detroit himself
to man the detroit operations center
where he could watch the votes coming in
real time
and decide what file folder in the
system to put those votes into
that's why you see massive spikes after
hours when people were told
that all the votes were in and all the
votes were counted many dominion
employees have already reached out to us
to tell us the truth
they are americans who want to ensure
election integrity like we do
i would encourage every dominion or
smartmatic employee
who is fed up with the corruption in
this country to come forward as soon as
possible
because these are serious federal
offenses that i am confident the
department of justice
will be in pursuit of in very short
order if they are not already

and

Sidney Powell also said that Dominion executives are now MIA. Their offices are being abandoned and moved.

She detailed evidence of communist money from China, from Russia.

She made the point that if you want to talk about foreign interference in our elections, then this is where it happened. Not in 2016. This is where it happened. And they have a witness who has explained it all, how it works, the influence of communist money from China, from Russia, to rig the elections. And I think one of the key things I heard, the Democrats and the people running the cheating software, the Dominion software with Smartmatic,

It’s gonna go to a trial and they’re gonna take their time, they’re gonna do it right because this is about the integrity of the American electoral system. It’s not just per se getting Donald Trump elected. It’s about the Constitution and the integrity of our system. So why are these executives from Dominion software and Smartmatic, why are they fleeing the jurisdiction? Why are they now MIA? Why aren’t they there defending what they did? They sold their machines to Democrats and voter registration places all over Pennsylvania, all over Michigan, all over Wisconsin.

Why aren’t they there standing up for their machines? Why aren’t they there defending their system? Why aren’t they there explaining? “No, you guys got us all wrong.” Why are their offices being abandoned? Why are people grabbing things from their offices and throwing them in the back of cars and splitting the parking lot, leaving the city? Dominion executives are now MIA. Their offices are being abandoned and moved. And Sidney Powell said that President Trump won this by a landslide and that they are gonna prove it.

[beachbumbob]

12. any and all workers, public officials, etc should all sue these same entities, let them feel the

real heat. We need a real effort on this

[VladmireTrumpkins]

13. They will probably claim..

They will whine that once again conservatives are being censored..Poor abused things!

They hide behind the protections of the very democracy they are trying to destroy!

I hope they are all bankrupted and jailed!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. Decency doesn't stop the corrupt cons, but maybe paying money will. . . . nt

[oldsoftie]

15. I wish Dominion would also sue all of them.

[CaptainTruth]

18. Let's hope they do!

[MrModerate]

16. Here's hoping that Newsmax and OAN are sued into oblivion, a la Gawker, and that...

Fox, the Trump campaign, and DJT himself are required to transfer a substantial portion of their wealth to the aggrieved parties — of which there are potentially thousands.

[cab67]

17. Make an example of them.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

19. K&R

[Maeve]

20. I'm running out of popcorn!

[TeamPooka]

21. Sue them all and destroy them

[BComplex]

22. Good gawd! I hope he wins big.

I'm glad he's doing this, too.

[Blue Owl]

23. Add a few more zeroes to the lawsuit if there are any pushbacks