According to an announcement from an attorney for One American News Network (OANN), the right-wing news outlet has settled a defamation suit brought by the voting tech giant Smartmatic over false claims about rigged voting machines in the 2020 election. OANN attorney Chip Babcock told CNN that the suit, "Has been resolved pursuant to a confidential agreement." Also releasing a statement was Smartmatic’s lead attorney Erik Connolly, who said the company, "Has resolved its litigation against OANN...
The U.S. has 50 states, but that didn't stop Republican Party co-chair Lara Trump from telling Newsmax that they have "litigation in 81 states." Lara Trump made this declaration in a Newsmax interview that the Democratic National Committee shared on X Wednesday afternoon in a post that almost immediately drew ridicule. "We have lawsuits in 81 states right now," Lara Trump declares. "We're going to have lawyers in all the major polling locations."Replied the group Republicans Against Trump, "Who...
Former President Donald Trump's daughter-in-law Lara Trump, the newly-minted co-chair of the Republican National Committee, vowed that the party will be getting its hands on ballots directly in order to ensure no funny business in the 2024 election."We now have the ability at the RNC not just to have poll watchers — people standing in polling locations — but people who can physically handle the ballots," she said in an interview on the far-right Newsmax cable network on Tuesday.Asked if her paid...
Last year, on the eve of a trial, Fox News agreed to pay $787 million to settle a defamation lawsuit filed by a much larger voting technology company, Dominion Voting Systems.
Pearl Jam front man Eddie Vedder explained the meaning behind the band's politically-themed song off their album "Dark Matter."The song titled "Wreckage" is purportedly about Donald Trump, Vedder told the Times, calling the former president and candidate "desperate to win" and only looking to avoid imprisonment."There is a guy in the United States who is still saying he didn’t lose an election," he told the British outlet. "And people are reverberating and amplifying that message as if it is...
Lara Trump, former President Donald Trump's daughter-in-law, said on Tuesday the Republican National Committee (RNC) wants to "physically handle the ballots" amid the 2024 election.Donald Trump and President Joe Biden are the presumptive 2024 presidential nominees for the Republican and Democratic parties, respectively, but criticisms from Republicans over numerous voting measures have ramped up since Trump was indicted on four counts in August by the Department of Justice, accused in attempts...
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has refused a request by three sitting lawmakers to renew a criminal investigation of Dominion Voting Systems CEO John Poulos' testimony before a Michigan Senate Oversight Committee in December 2020.
Now that Lara Trump is helping lead the Republican National Committee, the former president’s daughter-in-law appears to have made election denialism a priority for the party. But as it turns out, that’s not the RNC co-chair’s only focus. Consider the message Lara Trump recently shared with an audience about her father-in-law: A video of the comments suggests she wasn’t kidding. So, as Lara Trump sees it, powerful forces are working to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office, not because they...
An Arizona grand jury has indicted Mark Meadows, who served as former President Trump's chief of staff, and former Trump lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, along with 16 others in an election interference case. The indictment released Wednesday names 11 Republicans who submitted a document to Congress falsely declaring that Trump had beaten Joe Biden in Arizona in the 2020 presidential election. The names of seven other defendants were not immediately released because they had not yet been served with...
The indictments cap a year-long investigation by Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) into how the 2020 pro-Trump elector strategy played out in Arizona, which Biden won by 10,457 votes.
NEW YORK — Opening statements in the first-ever criminal trial of a former President kicked off Monday morning with prosecutors accusing Trump of "election fraud" as the defense asked jurors to take a
April 25 (UPI) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday heard oral arguments on former President Donald Trump‘s claims of presidential immunity from the election interference case against him. Much of the three-hour hearing focused on whether there is a distinction between official presidential acts and private conduct regarding Trump’s alleged attempts to overturn the […] The post Supreme Court weighs Trump’s immunity claims in election interference case first appeared on Gephardt Daily.