{"id":59874,"date":"2024-01-29T15:39:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T23:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=59874"},"modified":"2024-01-29T15:39:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T23:39:29","slug":"smartmatic-oan-engaged-in-potentially-criminal-activities-with-trump-attorney-sidney-powell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=59874","title":{"rendered":"Smartmatic: OAN Engaged in Potentially Criminal Activities with Trump Attorney Sidney Powell"},"content":{"rendered":"

The MAGA media confederation has suffered monumental losses lately. Particularly harsh was the 3\/4 of a billion dollar judgment against Fox News<\/a><\/strong> for defaming Dominion Voting Systems. But that was just the beginning. Fox News, Newsmax, and One America News (OAN) remain at risk in several other pending lawsuits related to their promulgation of Donald Trump’s “Big Lie”<\/em> that the 2020 presidential election was “rigged and stolen”<\/em> from him.<\/p>\n

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Among the pending lawsuits is one by the voting software company, Smartmatic, against OAN. The Trump-fluffing propaganda outlet virulently attacked the company, charging falsely that they deliberately developed their software so that it could be hacked by nefarious Democratic operatives to switch votes from Trump to Joe Biden. Even though they knew that it wasn’t true.<\/p>\n

SEE THIS: WATCH: OAN Concedes that \u2018There Was No Widespread Voter Fraud\u2019 to Settle Defamation Lawsuit<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Now there is further evidence of the conspiracy concocted by OAN and the Trump legal team. A new court filing by Smartmatic reveals that its president, Charles Herring, engaged in a suspicious email exchange with Trump attorney, Sidney Powell. As reported by CNN<\/a><\/strong>…<\/p>\n

“In the wake of the 2020 election, the president of the far-right network One America News sent a potentially explosive email to former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell, with a spreadsheet claiming to contain passwords of employees from the voting technology company Smartmatic, according to court filings. […]<\/p>\n

“Lawyers from Smartmatic told a federal judge that the email, and the attached spreadsheet, suggest OAN executives ‘may have engaged in criminal activities’ because they ‘appear to have violated state and federal laws regarding data privacy.'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This allegation appears to affirm the unsavory relationship between OAN and the Trump campaign clan. It’s a relationship that also includes, Christina Bobb, an attorney who worked for both Trump and as a correspondent for OAN. As part of her duties for Trump she signed off on the confirmation to the FBI that all of the materials, including classified documents, that Trump had improperly taken to Mar-a-Lago had been accounted for and returned. That was not true<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

SEE ALSO: Trump\u2019s TV Lawyer Keeps Contradicting His (Variable) Excuses for Hoarding Classified Materials<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Now the bonds between Trump and OAN have been drawn even tighter. If the president of the company was conspiring with the Trump legal team to gain access to Smartmatic machines, or the accounts of their employees, or to disseminate the means of that access, they are potentially liable for criminal charges.<\/p>\n

That will eventually come out when this case goes to trial, if it goes to trial. OAN has already settled with two poll workers who sued them for defamation. And they have tried to distance themselves from the flagrant lies perpetrated by obsessive election denier, Mike Lindell of MyPillow fame<\/a><\/strong>. But any settlement is likely to bankrupt them.<\/p>\n

OAN has far fewer resources than Fox News. Who, by the way, are also facing a lawsuit by Smartmatic. So with the upcoming litigation involving Smartmatic, and Trump’s multiple indictments, there are some interesting times ahead for Trump and his purveyors of propaganda. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n

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