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nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
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Newsmax reached a confidential settlement with and apologized to a Dominion employee who sued the outlet for defamation in December for amplifying a pro-Trump conspiracy theory scapegoating him for the 45th president’s defeat.
Dr. Eric Coomer, the director of product strategy and security for Dominion, filed the lawsuit against more than a dozen entities and people late last year in the Denver County district court.
Branded by certain corners of the political right as in cahoots with antifascist activists to put President Joe Biden into the Oval Office, Coomer said that Donald Trump supporters called him a “traitor” and subjected him to “multiple credible death threats.” The rumors were circulated by Colorado businessman Joseph Oltmann, who claimed to have infiltrated an “Antifa Conference Call.”
Oltmann, whose claims about this purported call were amplified by pro-Trump media, was also named in the lawsuit along with the Trump campaign, Rudy Giuliani, One America News Network, its staffer Chanel Rion, the hard-right blog Gateway Pundit, its owner Jim Hoft, and others.
On Nov. 17, the conspiracy theory reached the Twitter account of Donald Trump Jr., who tweeted out the Gateway Pundit story attributing the statement to Coomer: “Don’t worry about the election, Trump’s not gonna win. I made f*cking sure of that!”
Roughly three days later, Newsmax joined the fray by inviting pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell—another defendant in the case—on The Howie Carr Show. Powell claimed to have a copy of the conference call and asserted that Oltmann’s assertions about Coomer’s supposed statements were “true,” according to the lawsuit.
Newsmax reached a confidential settlement with and apologized to a Dominion employee who sued the outlet for defamation in December for amplifying a pro-Trump conspiracy theory scapegoating him for the 45th president’s defeat.
Dr. Eric Coomer, the director of product strategy and security for Dominion, filed the lawsuit against more than a dozen entities and people late last year in the Denver County district court.
Branded by certain corners of the political right as in cahoots with antifascist activists to put President Joe Biden into the Oval Office, Coomer said that Donald Trump supporters called him a “traitor” and subjected him to “multiple credible death threats.” The rumors were circulated by Colorado businessman Joseph Oltmann, who claimed to have infiltrated an “Antifa Conference Call.”
Oltmann, whose claims about this purported call were amplified by pro-Trump media, was also named in the lawsuit along with the Trump campaign, Rudy Giuliani, One America News Network, its staffer Chanel Rion, the hard-right blog Gateway Pundit, its owner Jim Hoft, and others.
On Nov. 17, the conspiracy theory reached the Twitter account of Donald Trump Jr., who tweeted out the Gateway Pundit story attributing the statement to Coomer: “Don’t worry about the election, Trump’s not gonna win. I made f*cking sure of that!”
Roughly three days later, Newsmax joined the fray by inviting pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell—another defendant in the case—on The Howie Carr Show. Powell claimed to have a copy of the conference call and asserted that Oltmann’s assertions about Coomer’s supposed statements were “true,” according to the lawsuit.
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nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
Well...WaPo with some egg on its face...hard to believe it went with this story without nailing it down
Correction: An earlier version of this story, published Thursday, incorrectly reported that One America News was warned by the FBI that it was the target of a Russian influence operation. That version also said the FBI had provided a similar warning to Rudolph W. Giuliani, which he has since disputed. This version has been corrected to remove assertions that OAN and Giuliani received the warnings.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...b90f96-a84e-11eb-bca5-048b2759a489_story.html
Correction: An earlier version of this story, published Thursday, incorrectly reported that One America News was warned by the FBI that it was the target of a Russian influence operation. That version also said the FBI had provided a similar warning to Rudolph W. Giuliani, which he has since disputed. This version has been corrected to remove assertions that OAN and Giuliani received the warnings.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...b90f96-a84e-11eb-bca5-048b2759a489_story.html
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goldfly
<B>if my thought dreams could be seen</B>
You used the term soyboy lol
I only know of one person in real life that has ever used that term and he was/is an absolute loser. Lost the bar he bought when he got an underage girl drunk in it and then raped her. So, you’re in good company lol
I only know of one person in real life that has ever used that term and he was/is an absolute loser. Lost the bar he bought when he got an underage girl drunk in it and then raped her. So, you’re in good company lol
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goldfly
<B>if my thought dreams could be seen</B>
sturg33
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Oh wait I thought you were gonna beat me up
(For being right)
That one was a fun meltdown. So scary!!
goldfly
<B>if my thought dreams could be seen</B>
what's the joke here?
this post doesn't seem to help "conservatives aren't good at comedy" belief but i'm walking into a restaurant and really only thinking what cuban dish i want to order
goldfly
<B>if my thought dreams could be seen</B>
i'd still beat your ass if you said what you said about my mom to my face
luckily you know it's the internet
you are trying to hard though
good use your time on a saturday happy/good life boy lol
soy boy. holy **** lol
Someone should pay somebody to aggregate all the retractions made in the past five years and see the weighting of which political ideology it negatively impacted most.
Usual suspects here ran with it as usual.
Just remember what the media is telling us about the election.