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Judge’s Ruling Sets Stage For Trial In Smartmatic’s Defamation Case Against Newsmax Over 2020 Election Rigging Claims
A Delaware judge said that a jury will have to decide whether Newsmax engaged in actual malice against Smartmatic as the conservative news outlet amplified claims made by allies of Donald Trump that the voting machine company helped rig the 2020 presidential election. The ruling from Judge Eric M. Davis is just the latest in […]
A Delaware judge said that a jury will have to decide whether Newsmax engaged in actual malice against Smartmatic as the conservative news outlet amplified claims made by allies of Donald Trump that the voting machine company helped rig the 2020 presidential election. The judge added, “The statements regarding Smartmatic and its ties to Venezuelan are substantially true or present a triable issue of fact; and there has been reporting on the same in the United States as early as 2006 when Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney first raised concerns.” He cited, among other things, a clip in which Newsmax personality Greg Kelly is interviewing Sidney Powell, one of the leading purveyors of the claim that the election was rigged.
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