Election Deniers Battered in Court

  

April 12, 2025: WELL, TRUMP FANS, what did we learn this week and has what we learned made any patriots want to jump off a very high bridge?  

If you binge on right-wing news, which most MAGA’s do, one story you almost certainly did not see would be #1, below.

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1. A judge in Delaware has ruled that Newsmax defamed Dominion Voting Systems in days and weeks after the 2020 election – when reporters and hosts insisted Dominion helped rig the vote. 

The Newsmax case now goes to a jury, with Dominion asking for $1.6 billion in damages. That makes this another possible loss to add to a lengthy string of definite losses, for right-wing “news” organizations, when the “news” they peddled was propaganda, offered up to unwitting viewers as righteousness indignation, and spewed at intense and angry decibel levels.

 

PREVIOUSLY, WE HAD LEARNED: 

2. Newsmax lost a defamation case filed by Smartmatic, a computer software company, after the same reporters and hosts who allegedly lied about Dominion, definitely lied about Smartmatic. Newsmax insisted that the company was central to the 2020 election fix. In that case, Newsmax was ordered to hand over $40 million.

 

3. If you have not been paying strict attention, we should remind you that Fox News, the Big Kahuna of right-wing bullshit, was destroyed – also by Dominion – also for massive, sustained lying about how the 2020 vote was rigged. 

Those lies cost Fox $787.5 million, if you’d enjoy keeping track.

 

4. Fox is also being sued for defamation by Smartmatic, which I had forgotten myself. No decision yet. 

At this point, a rational human being would start to notice a pronounced trend, but that would assume the rational human was not gobbling up a massive dose of daily, right-wing nonsense. 

Consider the case of Rudy Giuliani. 

5. Rudy insisted, repeatedly, that two Georgia poll workers, Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss, stole at least 54,000 votes during the 2020 election.

 

6. Two statewide recounts in Georgia, including one recount of all five million paper ballots, showed that 54,000 votes were not stolen – including zero by Freeman and Moss. The Republican secretary of state, and the Republican governor (both of whom had worked to help Donald Trump win in 2020), assured everyone the voting in Georgia had not been rigged. 

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation cleared Freeman and Moss. 

7. So did the F.B.I. 

8. Not to mention the Georgia State Election Board. The final tally in Georgia showed a gain for President Trump of 1,779 votes, with more than 800 of that gain coming in Floyd County, where Republican officials were in total control of counting.

 

9. Still not seeing the pattern? Mr. Giuliani couldn’t stop lying and insisting that the poll workers were crooks. On at least one occasion, he upped the tally and said Ruby and Shaye stole 192,000 votes. 

(See #8, above, if you need help with the math.)

 

The poor poll workers were inundated with death threats, and Freeman’s home was invaded, and both mother and daughter went into hiding. They, too, eventually sued for defamation. Rudy couldn’t stop himself – possibly because he was too busy drinking – and refused to turn over documents demanded by the court. A jury found for the plaintiffs, and ordered Giuliani to pay $148.2 million  in damages, which I think we can all agree is a high price indeed for lying.

 

10. Who else lied repeatedly about those two women and nearly got them killed? We hate to break the news, loyal MAGA fans, even if it is more than four years old, but it was Donald! In a bonkers call to Georgia election officials he claimed that hundreds of thousands of votes had been stolen, and insisted that the Georgia folks “find” 11,790 votes, just enough for him to “win” Georgia’s electoral votes.

(You can still listen to that call yourself.)

 

11. Trump 45 caught a break when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that asking state officials to “find” magical votes might be seen as part of his duties as president, and so he might be covered by presidential immunity, in the matter of this call. Trump 47 still lies constantly about being cheated out of the win in 2020, but he is careful never to say exactly who did the cheating. 

(See, by way of warning: His $5 million loss for defaming E. Jean Carroll.) 

((And his second loss, for $83.3 million, for defaming her again.)

 

12. Even Rudy caught a break of sorts, when a judge reduced his damage settlement to $145,969,000, reflecting the fact that Freeman and Moss had already collected more than $2.2 million in damages from One American News Network. Because OANN also peddled malicious lies.

 

13. You would think by now that the point would be impossible to miss, even for people who own multiple MAGA-style baseball caps to wear to weddings, and funerals, and while engaging in sex. The two women also won a defamation suit filed against Gateway Pundit, although lawyers for the right-wing website managed to craft a deal which kept details of the settlement secret. 

You could tell who won, however, when Gateway removed twenty articles in its feed related to the alleged misdeeds of Freeman and Moss.

 

14. And we’re still not done. Smartmatic has also sued MyPillow guru Mike Lindell for spreading “Stolen Election” lies. Recently, a federal judge ruled that Mr. Pillow was in contempt of court after refusing to provide documents plaintiffs demanded, which they said would prove their case. 

If you love Donald Dumpling, we should politely mention, that you are not “winning” in court, if a judge holds you in contempt.

Did you know Lindell urged Trump to declare martial law and overturn the 2020 vote?
Now you do.
Not funny.

 

15. Mike is also famous for losing his cool during a different court hearing, this one regarding his alleged defamation of Eric Coomer, the Dominion official in charge of company cybersecurity. 

Mike called him a “scumbag” for daring to sue.

 

16. Here, I should note that all this right-wing lying about the “Stolen Election” of 2020, might be funny, save for the fact that the poor dopes who fell for all the lies marched on Congress on January 6, 2021, and attacked. So: let’s remember that Mike Lindell said he had mathematical proof to show that millions of votes were stolen – and promised to pay anyone who could disprove his evidence $5 million. 

It didn’t take long – because a computer expert quickly showed that Mike’s evidence was computer gibberish – mostly random code – and demanded his reward. Lindell balked. So a judge ruled he owed the expert the dough.

 

17. Adding insult to injury, Lindell must also pay the expert, Robert Zeidman, $4,508 in attorney fees.

 

18. Then you might have noticed that the courts ordered poor Mike to pay $56,369 in legal fees to Smartmatic, after a judge ruled he had filed a “frivolous” counter suit.

 

19. Even Lindell’s lawyers are afraid they’re going to get stiffed, saying he owes them millions in unpaid defense costs.

 

20. And we should go ahead and mention that Smartmatic is suing Mr. Pillow for defamation, as well. 

(Just for fun, we should note that Trump paid $6 million for an Arizona recount in 2020.) 

(Biden gained 361 votes.) 

(Then Trump paid $3 million for a Wisconsin recount – and Biden gained votes.)

 

So, there you have it, MAGA fans. Defeat after defeat in court, for those claiming the 2020 election was rigged. 

 

FUN FACT: As of today, April 12, 2025, 1,621 days have passed since the 2020 election was held. 

(So far, NO COURT has found evidence of any significant voter fraud.)

 

That means, barring new revelations, Donald J. Trump has been lying ever since, and he’s likely to go to his grave, with a lie on his dying lips.

January 6: Trump fan, Edward Jacob Lang, acting on the basis if lies.

 

FUN FACT #2: The president also faces a defamation suit filed by the Central Park Five. In 1989, five young black men were accused of raping and beating a white jogger in that New York City park. Donald took out a full-page ad, calling for them to receive the death penalty.

The five “animals,” as he called them, spent years in prison. 

Then DNA evidence proved all five were innocent. Donald has refused to admit he was wrong, even claiming during a debate with Kamala Harris, that the five men had admitted their crimes (they had not) and insisting their victim had been killed (fortunately, she survived).