Fox News and Newsmax, facing lawsuits, walk back wild fraud claims about voting-machine companies David Knowles
Facing the threat of lawsuits for defamation, Fox News and the upstart right-wing network Newsmax have begun broadcasting segments walking back wild election fraud allegations against voting-machine and software manufacturers Smartmatic and Dominion.
“Newsmax would like to clarify its news coverage and note that it has not reported as true certain claims made about these companies,” host John Tabacco said Monday, attributing the “opinions and claims” to “various guests, attorneys and elected officials” who appeared on the network. The charges, which the companies say are baseless and have been widely mocked as ridiculous, originated with former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, who accused the two companies of conspiring with Democrats and the Venezuelan government to tip the election to Joe Biden.
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Newsmax aired a fact-check of a handful of election-related conspiracy theories after one company subject to the unsubstantiated claims threatened to sue the network for promoting the claims.
During a segment on John Bachman Now Monday, John Tabacco offered the fact-check, focusing on the theories surrounding two companies that participated in the election Dominion Voting and Smartmatic. Both have demanded a handful of conservative outlets to retract claims made about their respective companies. Since Election Day, various guests, attorneys, and election officials have appeared on Newsmax and offered opinions and claims about Smartmatic and Dominion Systems, he said. Both companies offer voting software in the U.S., and Newsmax would like to clarify its news coverage and note that it has not reported as true certain claims made about these companies.
For Trump disease, there’s no vaccine By Frank Robinson on December 20, 2020 at 9:16 AM
WAMC, the local NPR station, has a morning “roundtable” of journalists and others discussing the news. In 2015 it became the Trump roundtable; even while his candidacy was still seen as a joke, he was sucking up attention like no other personage ever had. Of course it intensified during his chaotic presidency.
That would cease, columnist David Brooks once predicted, with Trump’s 2020 defeat. Republicans would abjure him as that most despised of beings,
a loser. But Trump seems to be pulling off his biggest con of all convincing them (and probably himself) he actually won the election. Being cheated by a massive conspiracy of fraud.
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Robyn PennacchiaDecember 20, 2020 03:12 PM File:Vice President Joe Biden walks in 57th Presidential Inaugural .
In one month, to the day, Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States of America. I believe this, you believe this, but Donald Trump does not believe it and neither do a fair amount of his supporters. They still think he s got a shot, that there is some kind of special kraken that can be released, some kind of sovereign citizen magic math that can be done, to keep him in office another four years (or forever!).
And over 300,000 of them are