Voting machine company Smartmatic has alleged that Newsmax deleted evidence in a lawsuit related to their false claims about the 2020 election being rigged. NBC News' Sarah Fitzpatrick has details on the claim and lawsuit against the conservative media outlet.
Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News settled their historic defamation case just before trial last year, with Fox shelling out a whopping $787.5 million for the network’s lies about the voting machine company and the 2020 presidential election. Now, as Election Day nears in the 2024 contest, another defamation case stemming from the 2020 election — likewise brought by a voting technology company against a Republican-friendly outlet — could go to a jury, with trial set for Sept. 30.
Newsmax has argued, among other things, that it was protected by the First Amendment and simply was reporting on issues of public importance raised by Trump and others. In a pretrial ruling Thursday, Judge Eric Davis — the same judge who presided over Dominion’s case against Fox News — said that it will be up to a jury to decide whether Newsmax purposefully avoided the truth and defamed Smartmatic. Davis noted that the jury will be allowed to award punitive damages if it finds against Newsmax.
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