Election 2020

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Feds Charge Smartmatic With Money Laundering

Prosecutors say the voting technology firm greased election officials' palms in Philippines to tune of $1M

(Newser) - Federal prosecutors have charged voting technology firm Smartmatic with money laundering and other crimes arising from more than $1 million in bribes that several executives allegedly paid to election officials in the Philippines. The payments, between 2015 and 2018, were made to obtain a contract with the Philippines government to...

Trump Nemesis Is Running for Georgia Governor

Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger defied Trump in 2020 election

(Newser) - Georgia's Brad Raffensperger, the Republican secretary of state who rejected Donald Trump's call to help overturn the state's 2020 election results, said Wednesday that he's running for governor. The wealthy engineering entrepreneur might appeal most to business-oriented Republicans who once dominated GOP primaries in Georgia, but...

Newsmax Agrees to Pay $67M Over 2020 Election Claims

Conservative network was sued by Dominion Voting Systems for defamation

(Newser) - The conservative network Newsmax will pay $67 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it of defaming a voting equipment company by spreading lies about President Trump's 2020 election loss, according to documents filed Monday. The settlement comes after Fox News Channel paid $787.5 million to settle a similar...

Ex-Trump Lawyer Loses Law License in NY

Ruling comes after Kenneth Chesebro pleaded guilty in Georgia election interference case

(Newser) - Kenneth Chesebro, a key architect behind President Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has been disbarred in New York over those efforts. On Thursday, a state appeals court ruled the 64-year-old should lose his law license, citing a criminal racketeering case in Georgia involving bogus electors,...

Trump: I Want Special Prosecutor for 2020 Vote

President insists again that he won

(Newser) - President Trump said earlier this year that missing out on the chance to serve consecutive terms has worked out OK in the end for him. But he's still not about to let the 2020 election results rest. In a Truth Social post on Friday, the president called for a...

Jury Orders Lindell to Pay $2.3M for Defamation

Trump ally had called voting equipment employee a traitor

(Newser) - A federal jury in Colorado on Monday found that MyPillow founder Mike Lindell, one of the nation's most prominent election conspiracy theorists, defamed a former employee for a leading voting equipment company after the 2020 presidential election. Eric Coomer was awarded $2.3 million in damages. He had sued...

MyPillow CEO on Trial: Battle 'of Evil and Good'

Mike Lindell says he'll take the stand in his defense of 2020 election rigging claims

(Newser) - MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell's defamation trial got underway Monday in Colorado with jury selection, reports the BBC . At issue are the Trump loyalist's claims that the 2020 election was rigged, and he faces off against a former employee of Dominion Voting Systems, Eric Coomer, who claims that Lindell...

Trump: Imprisoned County Clerk Must Go Free

Demands Tina Peters be freed in Colorado after her conviction on tampering with voting machines

(Newser) - President Trump is calling for the release from prison of a former county clerk in Colorado who breached voting machine protocols back in 2020. Trump can't pardon Tina Peters because she was convicted of state crimes, explains 9NEWS . But he can ramp up pressure on state officials, which is...

Oklahoma Curriculum May Add Trump's 2020 Vote Claims

Proposal would have students identify 'discrepancies' in presidential election

(Newser) - A proposal by the Oklahoma Department of Education would have high school history students learn about "discrepancies" in the 2020 presidential election, starting with a series of possibilities that reflect President Trump's debunked claims about the vote. Students would be instructed to identify factors including "the sudden...

Congress Gets Jack Smith's Trump Report

Special counsel report focused on alleged efforts to overturn 2020 election

(Newser) - Special counsel Jack Smith says in a new report that his team "stood up for the rule of law" as it investigated President-elect Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election, the AP reports. Smith submitted to Congress early Tuesday a report detailing his team's findings about Trump'...

Appeals Court Dumps Willis From Trump's Georgia Case

Finds she had a conflict of interest in a ruling that throws case into upheaval

(Newser) - Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is off of Donald Trump's election tampering case, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution , after the Georgia Court of Appeals ruled that her relationship with a special prosecutor was a conflict of interest. In a 2-1 ruling by Republican-appointed judges, the appeals court found that...

Victims: Giuliani Surrendered Apartment—but It Was Empty

Now the former Trump lawyer has to go back to court in his 2020 election defamation case

(Newser) - It's Election Day 2024, but the 2020 election continues to live on for Rudy Giuliani: As CNN reports, the former New York City mayor must now report to federal court on Thursday in the defamation case brought against him by two Georgia election workers. As ordered by a judge...

Judge Orders Giuliani to Turn Over Apartment, Car, TV

Assets will be transferred to Georgia election workers he defamed

(Newser) - The 2024 election is almost upon us but Rudy Giuliani is still paying for 2020. A federal judge has ordered the former New York City mayor to turn many of his assets, including his Manhattan penthouse apartment, over to two Georgia election workers he defamed after the 2020 election, CNN...

Vance Offers Most Direct Response to 2020 Question

Did Trump lose the election? 'No,' he replies, 'not by the words I would use'

(Newser) - JD Vance has been accused lately of dodging the question of whether he believes Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, and on Wednesday he offered a direct "no" in his answer, reports the Washington Post . The exchange:
  • Reporter: "What message do you think it sends to independent voters
...

Far-Right Site Admits Innocence of Georgia Election Workers

Gateway Pundit publishes admission after settling lawsuit with Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss

(Newser) - The Gateway Pundit published an admission Saturday that Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss did not commit voter fraud when counting votes in the 2020 presidential election, a false accusation the far-right site gave life to by being the first to name the Georgia election workers. The allegations led to intimidation...

Melania on 2020 Election: 'It Was a Mess'

Former first lady dishes on that, her first encounter with husband, son Barron, and more in new book

(Newser) - Melania Trump's new memoir, Melania , dropped on Tuesday, and the reviews range from describing it as one of "graceful grievance" to calling it "truly bad" and "deeply weird." The former first lady's remarks about her stance on abortion rights earned attention before the 256-page...

'One-Time Hero to Election Deniers' Is Going to Jail

Ex-county clerk Tina Peters gets 9 years

(Newser) - The former clerk of a Colorado county who tampered with voting machines was on Thursday sentenced to nine years behind bars. Tina Peters, who messed with the machines in an unsuccessful attempt to show the 2020 presidential election had been rigged against Donald Trump, was at the time a hero...

Newsmax, Smartmatic Settle Defamation Suit Over 2020 Vote

Voting technology company has similar case against Fox after reaching deal with One America News

(Newser) - Newsmax has settled a defamation lawsuit filed by Smartmatic over the cable channel's false claims that the voting technology company rigged the 2020 presidential election to favor Joe Biden. Terms of the deal, reached as jury selection was underway, were not announced, NBC News reports. The trial was to...

Another Place Just Yanked Giuliani's Law License

Ex-NYC mayor is now disbarred in Washington, DC, as well as in New York

(Newser) - Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was disbarred in Washington, DC, on Thursday, months after he lost his law license in New York for pursuing false claims that then-President Donald Trump made about his 2020 presidential election loss. The brief ruling from Washington DC's appeals court said Giuliani...

Jury Clears 5 Out of 6 'Trump Train' Drivers

They surrounded Biden-Harris campaign bus on Texas highway days before 2020 election

(Newser) - A federal jury in Texas on Monday cleared a group of Donald Trump supporters and found one driver liable in a civil trial over a so-called "Trump Train" that surrounded a Biden-Harris campaign bus days before the 2020 election. The two-week trial in a federal courthouse in Austin centered...

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