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  1. Though #Smartmatic machines were used in only one #US county during the #2020election — Los Angeles, which #Trump lost by more than 1.8 million — the company has remained a target for Trump & his allies, who have claimed without any evidence that the election was rigged.

    #law #Trump #BigLie #ElectionInterference

  2. Though #Smartmatic machines were used in only one #US county during the #2020election — Los Angeles, which #Trump lost by more than 1.8 million — the company has remained a target for Trump & his allies, who have claimed without any evidence that the election was rigged.

    #law #Trump #BigLie #ElectionInterference

  3. Though #Smartmatic machines were used in only one #US county during the #2020election — Los Angeles, which #Trump lost by more than 1.8 million — the company has remained a target for Trump & his allies, who have claimed without any evidence that the election was rigged.

    #law #Trump #BigLie #ElectionInterference

  4. Though #Smartmatic machines were used in only one #US county during the #2020election — Los Angeles, which #Trump lost by more than 1.8 million — the company has remained a target for Trump & his allies, who have claimed without any evidence that the election was rigged.

    #law #Trump #BigLie #ElectionInterference

  5. Though #Smartmatic machines were used in only one #US county during the #2020election — Los Angeles, which #Trump lost by more than 1.8 million — the company has remained a target for Trump & his allies, who have claimed without any evidence that the election was rigged.

    #law #Trump #BigLie #ElectionInterference

  6. The company also contends that #FoxNews & others #Smartmatic has sued for #defamation for statements about the firm’s voting machines are exploiting the criminal case in their defense.

    While such defense claims are notoriously difficult to win in court, they have gained traction with federal judges as the #DOJ under #Trump has increasingly used its authority to target the president’s political foes.

    #law #Trump #BigLie #ElectionInterference

  7. A voting machine company at the heart of #ConspiracyTheories about the #2020election accused the #DOJ Tuesday of bringing a criminal case against it to further Trump’s baseless claims about that vote.

    The parent company of London-based #Smartmatic asked a federal judge to dismiss foreign bribery charges filed against it last year, alleging they amounted to little more than a vindictive & selective prosecution.

    #law #Trump #BigLie #ElectionInterference

  8. A voting machine company at the heart of #ConspiracyTheories about the #2020election accused the #DOJ Tuesday of bringing a criminal case against it to further Trump’s baseless claims about that vote.

    The parent company of London-based #Smartmatic asked a federal judge to dismiss foreign bribery charges filed against it last year, alleging they amounted to little more than a vindictive & selective prosecution.

    #law #Trump #BigLie #ElectionInterference

  9. A voting machine company at the heart of #ConspiracyTheories about the #2020election accused the #DOJ Tuesday of bringing a criminal case against it to further Trump’s baseless claims about that vote.

    The parent company of London-based #Smartmatic asked a federal judge to dismiss foreign bribery charges filed against it last year, alleging they amounted to little more than a vindictive & selective prosecution.

    #law #Trump #BigLie #ElectionInterference

  10. #Smartmatic says it’s being targeted by #DOJ to bolster false 2020 claims

    The voting machine company asked a judge to dismiss foreign bribery charges filed against it last year, alleging a vindictive & selective prosecution.

    #law #Trump #BigLie #ElectionInterference
    washingtonpost.com/national-se

  11. Behind the DOJ’s Politicized Indictment of Maduro
    consortiumnews.com/2026/01/06/
    Max Blumenthal says the 25-page political rant could help make more Americans aware of the C.I.A.’s own history of drug trafficking. By Max Blumenthal The Grayzone The Jan. 3 U.S. military raid on Venezuela to kidnap President Nicolas Maduro and…
    #Politics #Commentary #Legal #TrumpAdministration #U.s. #U.s.JusticeDept. #Venezuela #CartelOfTheSuns #CocaineTrafficking #DiosdadoCabello #DrugEnforcementAgency(dea) #EmilBove #Fentanyl #Hector“niño”Guerrero #Hugo“pollo”Carvajal #MaxBlumenthal #NicolasitoMaduro #RamonChacin #Smartmatic #TrenDeAragua #U.s.DefenseIntelligenceAgency #VenezuelanPresidentNicolásMaduro

  12. Behind the DOJ’s Politicized Indictment of Maduro
    consortiumnews.com/2026/01/06/
    Max Blumenthal says the 25-page political rant could help make more Americans aware of the C.I.A.’s own history of drug trafficking. By Max Blumenthal The Grayzone The Jan. 3 U.S. military raid on Venezuela to kidnap President Nicolas Maduro and…
    #Politics #Commentary #Legal #TrumpAdministration #U.s. #U.s.JusticeDept. #Venezuela #CartelOfTheSuns #CocaineTrafficking #DiosdadoCabello #DrugEnforcementAgency(dea) #EmilBove #Fentanyl #Hector“niño”Guerrero #Hugo“pollo”Carvajal #MaxBlumenthal #NicolasitoMaduro #RamonChacin #Smartmatic #TrenDeAragua #U.s.DefenseIntelligenceAgency #VenezuelanPresidentNicolásMaduro

  13. Behind the DOJ’s Politicized Indictment of Maduro
    consortiumnews.com/2026/01/06/
    Max Blumenthal says the 25-page political rant could help make more Americans aware of the C.I.A.’s own history of drug trafficking. By Max Blumenthal The Grayzone The Jan. 3 U.S. military raid on Venezuela to kidnap President Nicolas Maduro and…
    #Politics #Commentary #Legal #TrumpAdministration #U.s. #U.s.JusticeDept. #Venezuela #CartelOfTheSuns #CocaineTrafficking #DiosdadoCabello #DrugEnforcementAgency(dea) #EmilBove #Fentanyl #Hector“niño”Guerrero #Hugo“pollo”Carvajal #MaxBlumenthal #NicolasitoMaduro #RamonChacin #Smartmatic #TrenDeAragua #U.s.DefenseIntelligenceAgency #VenezuelanPresidentNicolásMaduro

  14. Behind the DOJ’s Politicized Indictment of Maduro
    consortiumnews.com/2026/01/06/
    Max Blumenthal says the 25-page political rant could help make more Americans aware of the C.I.A.’s own history of drug trafficking. By Max Blumenthal The Grayzone The Jan. 3 U.S. military raid on Venezuela to kidnap President Nicolas Maduro and…
    #Politics #Commentary #Legal #TrumpAdministration #U.s. #U.s.JusticeDept. #Venezuela #CartelOfTheSuns #CocaineTrafficking #DiosdadoCabello #DrugEnforcementAgency(dea) #EmilBove #Fentanyl #Hector“niño”Guerrero #Hugo“pollo”Carvajal #MaxBlumenthal #NicolasitoMaduro #RamonChacin #Smartmatic #TrenDeAragua #U.s.DefenseIntelligenceAgency #VenezuelanPresidentNicolásMaduro

  15. Behind the DOJ’s Politicized Indictment of Maduro
    consortiumnews.com/2026/01/06/
    Max Blumenthal says the 25-page political rant could help make more Americans aware of the C.I.A.’s own history of drug trafficking. By Max Blumenthal The Grayzone The Jan. 3 U.S. military raid on Venezuela to kidnap President Nicolas Maduro and…
    #Politics #Commentary #Legal #TrumpAdministration #U.s. #U.s.JusticeDept. #Venezuela #CartelOfTheSuns #CocaineTrafficking #DiosdadoCabello #DrugEnforcementAgency(dea) #EmilBove #Fentanyl #Hector“niño”Guerrero #Hugo“pollo”Carvajal #MaxBlumenthal #NicolasitoMaduro #RamonChacin #Smartmatic #TrenDeAragua #U.s.DefenseIntelligenceAgency #VenezuelanPresidentNicolásMaduro

  16. #Trumpaganda

    #DOJ says #Smartmatic execs bribed officials for $1M

    #Federal prosecutors have charged #voting tech firm Smartmatic with money laundering & other crimes arising from >$1M in bribes that several execs allegedly paid to #election officials in the Philippines.

    The 2015–2018 payments were made to obtain a contract with the Philippines govt to help run that country’s 2016 presidential election & secure the timely payment for its work….

    #law #propaganda
    apnews.com/article/smartmatic-

  17. With a brand new Federal Court order, Trump enabler, #MyPillow Guy #MikeLindell moves to the 1 yard line of having to pay #Smartmatic-- the election technology company-- BILLIONS of dollars in defamation damages for having defamed Smartmatic 51 times PUBLICLY! youtu.be/uPbCi0O0kyc?...

    Trump Pillow Guy’s Entire Life...

  18. With a brand new Federal Court order, Trump enabler, #MyPillow Guy #MikeLindell moves to the 1 yard line of having to pay #Smartmatic-- the election technology company-- BILLIONS of dollars in defamation damages for having defamed Smartmatic 51 times PUBLICLY! youtu.be/uPbCi0O0kyc?...

    Trump Pillow Guy’s Entire Life...

  19. …The judge in the case, New York Supreme Court Judge David B. Cohen, is likely to issue his ruling on both parties’ motions for summary judgment in the coming months. A trial could begin in early 2026.

    #law #Trump #propaganda #BigLie #JeaninePirro #QuidProQuo #bribery #USattorney #FoxNews #StateMedia #Smartmatic #journalism #FourthEstate #dictatorship #authoritarianism

  20. The filing also includes newly public comments made by other #Fox hosts….

    In a Dec 2020 message w/ #FoxNews host #GregGutfeld, #JesseWatters nodded to the potential upside of aligning w/ those claiming the election was stolen. “Think about how incredible our ratings would be if Fox went ALL in on STOP THE STEAL.”But he #testified in a #deposition that he saw “no evidence that #Smartmatic Technology switched votes in the 2020 Election in the United States.”

    #law #Trump #BigLie #propaganda

  21. “I believe that there’s been no showing that Smartmatic engaged in any problems,” #JeaninePirro said, acc/to filing, which also cited her as answering “I do” when asked by Smartmatic’s lawyers whether she believed #Biden was “legitimately elected.” (An email sent to a press account for Pirro’s office seeking comment was not returned)
    #Fox NEVER corrected its coverage of #Smartmatic or acknowledged particular mistakes, Smartmatic noted.

    #law #Trump #propaganda #BigLie #bribery #USattorney #media

  22. …despite some internal concerns about Pirro’s commentary about the election, #FoxNews CEO #SuzanneScott told a network executive “we don’t want to censor” her show, acc/to the filing.
    
Still, acc/to #Smartmatic, #JeaninePirro acknowledged in a #deposition that the 2020 election WAS NOT STOLEN. She agreed that the election was “fair & free” & that Smartmatic, which provided #election #technology to Los Angeles County, did nothing wrong.

    #law #Trump #propaganda #BigLie #bribery #USattorney #media

  23. #Smartmatic argues in the suit that #JeaninePirro served as a conduit to #Trump associates who said the election was stolen, including the lawyer #SidneyPowell.
    
“It’s Jeanine P. Got a former CIA chief of station who knows [about] development of Dominion,” she wrote in a Nov. 10, 2020, text message to Powell, referring to another #voting #technology company that some #Fox hosts claimed was involved in a voting fraud scheme.

    #law #propaganda #BigLie #QuidProQuo #bribery #USattorney

  24. #Smartmatic included many of the conversations in 468 pages of filings to bolster its contention that #JeaninePirro & other #Fox hosts were determined to stay on Trump’s good side for a variety of motives. It said Pirro, a longtime friend of #Trump, sought to secure a #pardon for her ex-husband, Albert Pirro. Convicted earlier of #TaxEvasion & #conspiracy, Albert Pirro was the last person Trump pardoned during his first term.

    #law #propaganda #BigLie #journalism #QuidProQuo #bribery

  25. #Smartmatic is arguing that hosts & executives at #Fox knew claims that the #voting #technology company had rigged the election in Joe #Biden’s favor were false, but allowed them to air to maintain the network’s support with pro-#Trump viewers.

    #FoxNews, which filed its own motion for summary judgment, has denied that it defamed Smartmatic & said its hosts were merely covering, without endorsing, newsworthy claims of election fraud made by #Trump’s associates.

    #law #propaganda #BigLie #media

  26. #Smartmatic compiled previously unreported text messages & emails between #Fox employees, along with comments made in sworn #depositions, in an effort to persuade the judge in the long-running case to rule in its favor. Smartmatic’s motion was originally filed in late April, but a judicial hearing officer decided only recently that many of the redactions obscuring parts of the original filings should be removed.

    #law #Trump #propaganda #StateMedia #FourthEstate #dictatorship #authoritarianism

  27. “I work so hard for the party across the country,” #JeaninePirro now the #USattorney for #DC, told #RonnaMcDaniel in the message, acc/to newly #unredacted #court documents made public Tues in filings by the voting technology company #Smartmatic, which in 2021 filed a $2.7B #defamation lawsuit against #Fox over its #2020election #lies. “I’m the Number 1 watched show on all news cable all weekend. I work so hard for the President & party.”

    #law #Trump #propaganda #StateMedia #dictatorship

  28. “I work so hard for the party across the country,” #JeaninePirro now the #USattorney for #DC, told #RonnaMcDaniel in the message, acc/to newly #unredacted #court documents made public Tues in filings by the voting technology company #Smartmatic, which in 2021 filed a $2.7B #defamation lawsuit against #Fox over its #2020election #lies. “I’m the Number 1 watched show on all news cable all weekend. I work so hard for the President & party.”

    #law #Trump #propaganda #StateMedia #dictatorship

  29. “I work so hard for the party across the country,” #JeaninePirro now the #USattorney for #DC, told #RonnaMcDaniel in the message, acc/to newly #unredacted #court documents made public Tues in filings by the voting technology company #Smartmatic, which in 2021 filed a $2.7B #defamation lawsuit against #Fox over its #2020election #lies. “I’m the Number 1 watched show on all news cable all weekend. I work so hard for the President & party.”

    #law #Trump #propaganda #StateMedia #dictatorship

  30. “I work so hard for the party across the country,” #JeaninePirro now the #USattorney for #DC, told #RonnaMcDaniel in the message, acc/to newly #unredacted #court documents made public Tues in filings by the voting technology company #Smartmatic, which in 2021 filed a $2.7B #defamation lawsuit against #Fox over its #2020election #lies. “I’m the Number 1 watched show on all news cable all weekend. I work so hard for the President & party.”

    #law #Trump #propaganda #StateMedia #dictatorship

  31. “I work so hard for the party across the country,” #JeaninePirro now the #USattorney for #DC, told #RonnaMcDaniel in the message, acc/to newly #unredacted #court documents made public Tues in filings by the voting technology company #Smartmatic, which in 2021 filed a $2.7B #defamation lawsuit against #Fox over its #2020election #lies. “I’m the Number 1 watched show on all news cable all weekend. I work so hard for the President & party.”

    #law #Trump #propaganda #StateMedia #dictatorship

  32. The settlement comes after #FoxNews paid $787.5M to settle a similar #defamation lawsuit in 2023 & #Newsmax paid what court papers describe as $40M to settle a #libel lawsuit from a different voting machine manufacturer, #Smartmatic, which also was a target of pro-Trump #ConspiracyTheories on the network.

    #law #BigLie #Trump #FactCheck #TrumpLies

  33. Attorneys #BrianKabateck and #ShantKarnikian expose the SPECTACULAR legal meltdown of #MikeLindell the #MyPillow guy, They examine Lindell's mounting legal disasters, including pending $1.3 billion lawsuits from #Dominion and #Smartmatic that could bankrupt his pillow empire youtu.be/l_dBUQsBKso?...

    Trump Pillow Guy’s Entire Life...

  34. David Seide, senior counsel for the #GovernmentAccountabilityProject, which is representing plaintiffs in litigation against the #Trump admin, called the announcement “shocking & illegal” & said it will be challenged in court.

    Last year, #OAN settled a #defamation lawsuit w/ #Smartmatic, the #voting tech company, over its coverage of the #2020election & promotion of the #BigLie.

    #law #VoiceOfAmerica #VOA #FreePress #propaganda #ExecutiveOverreach #AbuseOfPower

  35. David Seide, senior counsel for the #GovernmentAccountabilityProject, which is representing plaintiffs in litigation against the #Trump admin, called the announcement “shocking & illegal” & said it will be challenged in court.

    Last year, #OAN settled a #defamation lawsuit w/ #Smartmatic, the #voting tech company, over its coverage of the #2020election & promotion of the #BigLie.

    #law #VoiceOfAmerica #VOA #FreePress #propaganda #ExecutiveOverreach #AbuseOfPower

  36. David Seide, senior counsel for the #GovernmentAccountabilityProject, which is representing plaintiffs in litigation against the #Trump admin, called the announcement “shocking & illegal” & said it will be challenged in court.

    Last year, #OAN settled a #defamation lawsuit w/ #Smartmatic, the #voting tech company, over its coverage of the #2020election & promotion of the #BigLie.

    #law #VoiceOfAmerica #VOA #FreePress #propaganda #ExecutiveOverreach #AbuseOfPower

  37. David Seide, senior counsel for the #GovernmentAccountabilityProject, which is representing plaintiffs in litigation against the #Trump admin, called the announcement “shocking & illegal” & said it will be challenged in court.

    Last year, #OAN settled a #defamation lawsuit w/ #Smartmatic, the #voting tech company, over its coverage of the #2020election & promotion of the #BigLie.

    #law #VoiceOfAmerica #VOA #FreePress #propaganda #ExecutiveOverreach #AbuseOfPower

  38. David Seide, senior counsel for the #GovernmentAccountabilityProject, which is representing plaintiffs in litigation against the #Trump admin, called the announcement “shocking & illegal” & said it will be challenged in court.

    Last year, #OAN settled a #defamation lawsuit w/ #Smartmatic, the #voting tech company, over its coverage of the #2020election & promotion of the #BigLie.

    #law #VoiceOfAmerica #VOA #FreePress #propaganda #ExecutiveOverreach #AbuseOfPower