Says they ‘assume facts not in evidence’ that Donald Trump caused riot at Capitol.
(Jim Watson | Pool via AP) Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, participates in hearing on Jan. 27, 2021, on Capitol Hill.
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Utah Sen. Mike Lee on Thursday attacked the House-passed articles of impeachment against former President Donald Trump, saying they are irresponsible and assume facts not in evidence.
Lee said the impeachment uses “words like unmistakably and directly responsible” to describe Trump’s role in inciting the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol that killed five people, so “it sets up a really high bar” of proof.
Smartmatic files $2.7B lawsuit against Fox News, Giuliani, and Powell over election fraud claims | Print this article
Smartmatic is suing Fox News and pro-Trump attorneys over 2020 election fraud allegations directed at the voting technology company.
The firm filed the lawsuit in New York State Court in Manhattan on Thursday, seeking $2.7 billion for defamation and disparagement. Smartmatic accused Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, as well as Fox hosts Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo, and Jeanine Pirro, of waging a widespread disinformation campaign against the company.
Fox News said it plans to fight the lawsuit, calling it meritless.
In the lawsuit, Smartmatic argues the defendants “invented” new facts because the real ones “would not do for the defendants. In their story, Smartmatic was a Venezuelan company under the control of corrupt dictators from socialist countries. In their story, Smartmatic’s election technology and software were used in many of t
A voting technology company is suing Fox News, three of its hosts and two former lawyers for former President Donald Trump Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell for $2.7bn, charging that the defendants conspired to spread false claims that the company helped “steal” the United States presidential election.
The 285-page complaint filed Thursday in New York state court by Florida-based Smartmatic USA is one of the largest libel suits ever undertaken. On January 25, a rival election-technology company Dominion Voting Systems, which was also ensnared in Trump’s baseless effort to overturn the election sued Giuliani and Powell for $1.3 billion.
Unlike Dominion, whose technology was used in 24 states, Smartmatic’s participation in the 2020 election was restricted to Los Angeles County, which votes heavily Democratic.
In a newly surfaced video, Marjorie Taylor Greene, the new Georgia congresswoman, goes on at length disparaging David Hogg, the student who became a gun control activist after the massacre at his school, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. “He does not talk. He only talks when scripted,” Greene said in the video, adding: “He is very trained. He’s like a dog. He’s completely trained. His demeanor, his reaction. Everything.”
TV Network Ratings Drop During Biden’s First Full Week in Office
Major news networks’ ratings plummeted during the first full week of President Joe Biden’s administration.
“Variety Intelligence Platform’s analysis of the viewership data across two key metrics the target news demographic for people ages 25-54, and the total audience watching shows that CNN ended the final week of January with ratings dropping roughly 44 percent for total audience versus the prior week across all three hours of primetime,” according to Variety magazine.
Other than CNN, Fox News and MSNBC saw lower ratings overall as well in their 8 p.m., 9 p.m., and 10 p.m. slots during the week of Jan. 25 to Jan. 29. Biden took office on Jan. 20.