Newsmax Apologizes for False Claims of Vote-Rigging by a Dominion Employee
The right-wing news site said it had found “no evidence” for pro-Trump conspiracy theories about Eric Coomer, who was Dominion’s director of product strategy and security.
A Dominion Voting Systems ballot scanner at a polling location in Gwinnett County, Ga.Credit.Ben Gray/Associated Press
May 1, 2021Updated 8:35 p.m. ET
The conservative news outlet Newsmax formally apologized on Friday for spreading baseless allegations that an employee of Dominion Voting Systems had rigged voting machines in an effort to sink President Donald J. Trump’s bid for re-election last year.
Newsmax apologizes to Dominion head for saying he manipulated voting system in 2020 election
The conservative news outlet says they regret accusing the voting machines company of fraudulent activity
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Eric Coomer and his family were doxxed and getting death threats, all because of his job. The director of security for Dominion Voting Systems was targeted by right-wing activists who said the company was manipulating votes to ensure the election of President Joe Biden. The conservative cable news outlet
Newsmax was one of the company’s main accusers.
As reported by
NBC News, the company is now saying sorry after Coomer and Dominion countered with numerous defamation lawsuits.
Published May 01. 2021 6:37PM
Amy B Wang, The Washington Post
The conservative news network Newsmax has apologized to an employee of Dominion Voting Systems for baselessly alleging he had rigged the company s voting machines and vote counts against former president Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election.
In a statement Friday, Newsmax said it wanted to clarify its coverage of Eric Coomer, the director of product strategy and security at Dominion, who filed a defamation lawsuit against the right-wing network in December. After the election, conspiracy theories about Coomer s supposed role in manipulating the vote proliferated on right-wing sites, including Newsmax. Coomer said he had been forced into hiding after receiving death threats from Trump supporters, who believed Trump s false assertion that the election had been stolen from him and that Coomer had played a role.
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1 May 2021
May 1 (UPI) Newsmax has apologized to Dominion Voting Systems executive Eric Commer for unverified claims he manipulated vote count in 2020 presidential election.
The conservative television outlet apologized to Coomer, a security director for the Denver-based company that sells voting hardware and software, including voting machines Friday, leading him to drop the conservative television outlet from defamation suit, NBC News reported.
Coomer filed the suit in December against NewsMax, the Trump campaign, former Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, conservative outlet One America Network, businessman Joseph Oltmann, and others. The suit says unfounded claims of voter fraud and death threats forced him into hiding.