A Dominion Voting Systems executive who claims he was forced into hiding by death threats has filed a defamation lawsuit against President Trump‘s campaign, two of his lawyers and several conservative media figures and organizations, according to an Associated Press report published in Politico.
Eric Coomer, head of security for Colorado-based Dominion Voting Systems, said he wants his life back after being falsely accused of being a key player in Joe Biden’s “rigged” election.
He filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Denver County District Court in Colorado, naming the Trump campaign, lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, conservative columnist Michelle Malkin, the website Gateway Pundit, Colorado conservative activist and self-publisher Joseph Oltmann, and conservative media outlets Newsmax and One America News.
Dominion and Smartmatic, another voting technology company, have begun to fight back. After being threatened with legal action, Fox News Channel and Newsmax have aired retractions of some of the claims made on their networks in recent days. Those named in the lawsuit were not immediately available for comment.
Autoblogger Altman is the lead defendant in the defamation lawsuit, as Cuomo, whose name first came to light publicly on Altman’s podcast, claims to have heard antifa discussions in which a man identified as “Eric from Dominion” said, “Don’t worry about the election, Trump is not going to win. I made …… sure of that.”
According to the Denver Post, Altman said of Cuomo’s lawsuit, “I welcome him to sue me. Everything I said is absolutely true, no exceptions. Does he think I’m going to back down? I won’t.”
In an opinion piece for the Denver Post, Cuomo wrote that he has no ties to Antifa, has never participated in any calls and that the claim that he has some recordings is “a complete fabrication.”
Altman also claimed that Cuomo made anti-Trump statements on Facebook. The suit acknowledges that Cuomo posted comments critical of the president on his private Facebook page, but says his page is no longer active.
Altman’s allegations went viral after his interview with Malkin and Gateway Pundit. Trump’s second son, Eric Trump, tweeted the same. OANN and its White House correspondent Chanel Lyon reported the news. Powell misidentified Cuomo as working for Smartmatic, saying at a news conference that Cuomo’s “social media was full of hate for Trump,” an allegation she later repeated in a Newsmax interview.
According to the complaint, Giuliani called Cuomo “a vicious, vicious person” during the press conference. He wrote horrible things about the president. …… He’s completely twisted.
The Fox News Channel was not sued, and Cuomo actually used Fox personality Tucker Carlson to bolster his case. The lawsuit notes that Powell was to appear on Carlson’s show and the interview fell through after she was unable to provide evidence of the allegations.
Cuomo also told The Associated Press earlier this month that right-wing websites posted his photo, home address and details about his family. The death threats began almost immediately.
He said his father, a veteran, received a letter asking him, “What it’s like to have a traitor’s son.”
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