$2.7 billion Suit Filed Against Giuliani, Powell, and Fox News and 3 of its Talking Heads

[Sonny Tufts]

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/04/media/smartmatic-fox-news-giuliani-powell-lawsuit/index.html

 

[luctor-et-emergo]

That's quite hefty.

 

[acptulsa]

Does CNN really need the clicks?

A voting technology company swept up in baseless conspiracy theories about the 2020 election filed a monster $2.7 billion lawsuit on Thursday against Fox News, some of the network's star hosts, and pro-Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, alleging the parties worked in concert to wage a "disinformation campaign" that has jeopardized its very survival.

"We have no choice," Antonio Mugica, the chief executive and founder of Smartmatic, told CNN Business in an interview about the company's decision to file the lawsuit. "The disinformation campaign that was launched against us is an obliterating one. For us, this is existential, and we have to take action."
The lawsuit, filed in New York state court, accused Fox, Giuliani, Powell and hosts Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo, and Jeanine Pirro of intentionally lying about Smartmatic in an effort to mislead the public into the false belief that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from former President Donald Trump.
"They needed a villain," the lawsuit said. "They needed someone to blame. They needed someone whom they could get others to hate. A story of good versus evil, the type that would incite an angry mob, only works if the storyteller provides the audience with someone who personifies evil."
"Without any true villain, defendants invented one," the lawsuit added. "Defendants decided to make Smartmatic the villain in their story."
In a statement on behalf of the network and the named hosts issued after the lawsuit was filed, a Fox News spokesperson said, "FOX News Media is committed to providing the full context of every story with in-depth reporting and clear opinion. We are proud of our 2020 election coverage and will vigorously defend this meritless lawsuit in court."
Asked for comment, Powell said in a statement, "I have not received notice or a copy of this alleged lawsuit. However, your characterization of the claims shows that this is just another political maneuver motivated by the radical left that has no basis in fact or law."
CNN Business is reaching out to Giuliani for comment.
Giuliani and Powell have also been sued by another voting technology company, Dominion Voting Systems, for promoting their voter fraud conspiracies. Giuliani called Dominion's lawsuit against him an "act of intimidation" to "censor the exercise of free speech" and Powell called Dominion's lawsuit against her "baseless."

 

[Swordsmyth]

Discovery should be fun.

 

[acptulsa]

Discovery should be fun.

If you consider chasing electrons that were long since scrubbed fun.

If they hadn't destroyed the evidence while your boy 9iu11iani was posturing and drinking himself insensate, they'd never have filed.

 

[Swordsmyth]

If you consider chasing electrons that were long since scrubbed fun.

If they hadn't destroyed the evidence while your boy 9iu11iani was posturing and drinking himself insensate, they'd never have filed.

Not everything can be destroyed, and destroyed things can be recovered.
There is already more than enough evidence without discovery, discovery will just be even better.

 

[jmdrake]

Not everything can be destroyed, and destroyed things can be recovered.
There is already more than enough evidence without discovery, discovery will just be even better.

Do they have evidence to back up their specific claim about Smartmatic owning Dominion?

 

[Occam's Banana]

Fox Files Anti-SLAPP Motion to Dismiss Against Smartmatic - Viva Frei Vlawg
Fox News and other have been sued for $2.7 billion for defamation. They are slapping back - literally and legally - with an Anti-SLAPP Motion to Dismiss. Here's the breakdown.

Link to motion (PDF): https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Fox-Smartmatic-MTD-Brief-2021-02-08.pdf

https://rumble.com/vdpna1-fox-files...smiss-against-smartmatic-viva-frei-vlawg.html

 

[ClaytonB]

Not everything can be destroyed, and destroyed things can be recovered.
There is already more than enough evidence without discovery, discovery will just be even better.

Not to mention, this assumes that MI has been asleep at the wheel all along. We may never see the evidence and it may never be entered into the public record, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist, and that it isn't going to come to bear on all of these matters.

 

[ClaytonB]

Do they have evidence to back up their specific claim about Smartmatic owning Dominion?

The claim was never that Smartmatic owned Dominion (if anyone said that, it was a verbal mistake). Rather, Dominion licenses and incorporates Smartmatic IP into its machines. Colonel Waldron explained all of this in detail during the various state legislative hearings.

 

[PRB]

Powell now admits she's a liar

 

[asurfaholic]

Powell now admits she's a liar

Source?

 

[PRB]

Source?

https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.225699/gov.uscourts.dcd.225699.22.2_3.pdf

"Analyzed under these factors, and even assuming, arguendo, that each of thestatements alleged in the Complaint could be proved true or false, no reasonable person would conclude that the statements were truly statements of fact"

 

[dannno]

https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.225699/gov.uscourts.dcd.225699.22.2_3.pdf

"Analyzed under these factors, and even assuming, arguendo, that each of thestatements alleged in the Complaint could be proved true or false, no reasonable person would conclude that the statements were truly statements of fact"

She didn't say she lied, she said that she made accusations, and as such people took them as accusations which would require investigations (which haven't happened yet) as opposed to statements of fact.

It's a shame that the left is so bad at the english language.

 

[PRB]

She didn't say she lied, she said that she made accusations, and as such people took them as accusations which would require investigations (which haven't happened yet) as opposed to statements of fact.

It's a shame that the left is so bad at the english language.

She made accusations which cannot be proven and are not, to her own admission, expected to be believed by any reasonable person. That's what we call a "lie".

 

[TheCount]

The claim was never that Smartmatic owned Dominion (if anyone said that, it was a verbal mistake). Rather, Dominion licenses and incorporates Smartmatic IP into its machines. Colonel Waldron explained all of this in detail during the various state legislative hearings.

By "explained" I presume that you mean that he said words out loud which made those claims.

Smartmatic says none of that is true, of course.

So...

 

[dannno]

She made accusations which cannot be proven and are not, to her own admission, expected to be believed by any reasonable person. That's what we call a "lie".

That is incorrect. She did not expect people to believe them 100% until they were proven, the accusations themselves have not been proven nor disproven.

I believe that her accusations were accurate, but not with 100% certainty.. certainty is pretty high though, and yours is clearly non-existent. That doesn't make you right.

 

[ClaytonB]

By "explained" I presume that you mean that he said words out loud which made those claims.

Smartmatic says none of that is true, of course.

So...

Yes, a claimant is always the most reliable source in what they themselves are doing or are not doing. Look, I'm not going to die on the Sidney Powell hill. I don't know what the plan is, or if there ever was one. I hope there is one, and I hope it works out and these demonic liars are exposed and expunged. But whether Powell has anything to do with it or not, you can be absolutely certain that, "There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs." (Luke 12:2,3) Absolutely.

 

[TheCount]

Yes, a claimant is always the most reliable source in what they themselves are doing or are not doing. Look, I'm not going to die on the Sidney Powell hill. I don't know what the plan is, or if there ever was one.

Well, given that she's not claiming that what she said was actually true, nor is she attempting to use discovery to prove that it's true........ well, draw your own conclusions. Or confusions, likely.

I hope there is one, and I hope it works out and these demonic liars are exposed and expunged.

Sorry, which demonic liars are you referring to? There's more than one option here.

 

[ClaytonB]

Well, given that she's not claiming that what she said was actually true, nor is she attempting to use discovery to prove that it's true........ well, draw your own conclusions. Or confusions, likely.

Sorry, which demonic liars are you referring to? There's more than one option here.

When it comes to picking sides between Red and Blue in the US, I cannot certainly say. The most likely scenario is that both parties are completely infused with and controlled by demonic liars. Whatever the ratio of distribution of red versus blue demonic liars, they all need to go...