Newsmax, OAN, Trump campaign sued by voting systems worker who says false claims led to death threat [View all]
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/
I am glad someone is demanding accountability for the misinformation.
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