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Smartmatic suddenly drops 2020 "election lies" lawsuit against OAN and coughs up hush money to avoid discovery
(lawandcrime.com)
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Narrative Collapse.
Can't keep up with the lies now that we have exposed the truth.
They would never quit if they thought they could win, so they know they would lose.
This is a MAJOR WIN for the Good Guys!!!!!
When you are right, you don't settle. OAN should have said we are countersuing for damages.
Pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 41(a)(1)(A)(ii), Plaintiffs, Smartmatic USA Corp., Smartmatic International Holding B.V., and SGO Corporation Limited, and Defendant Herring Networks, Inc. d/b/a One America News Network, by and through undersigned counsel, hereby stipulate that this action and all claims asserted therein be dismissed with prejudice, with each party bearing its own attorneys’ fees, costs, and expenses. The parties also withdraw and terminate all pending motions submitted in this action.
This is part and parcel of using the Legal System as a weapon.
This is just not true, a ridiculous amount of civil lawsuits are settled out of court. Fox News settled with Dominion for over 3/4 of a billion dollars because Dominion claimed Fox lied about their voter fraud coverage. Everyone here knows how much voter fraud there was in 2020, but Fox settled anyway. Even when you know you're right, with the courts this rigged do you really want to risk going to trial?
Fox is controlled opposition.
They settled as a way to pay hush money to Dominion so they have a larger war chest to defend against real lawsuits that are coming against them.
"Fall back, fall back!"
“Run away, run awayyyyy”
Rabbit stew coming up
This makes no logical sense. Why would a plaintiff pay a defense to drop their own case?
The article does not say Smartmatic paid anything.
In fact, the hints are that they did not.
https://twitter.com/jeremymbarr/status/1780274908309622867
Inferring "hush money" from "confidential settlement" is reasonable.
How do you infer who paid who from that?
Look at the details.
So Smartmatic sued OAN for defamation. That is civil. You pay money if you lose. Then Smartmatic starts alleging federal crimes.
Seems like the messiness was in one direction. If this true OAN had a motive to stop discovery.
Allegations are only allegations until proven - so the messiness you speak of does not mean anything on either direction. When you are defending yourself against these allegations, you can force the plaintiff to produce material thats pertinent. That material, coming from the plaintiff's side, can easily be damning and something they were trying to hide while lobbing false accusations.
This kind of thing happens all the time. Take an extreme example - Jeffrey Archer's libel case.
He not only lobbed accusations of libel but also won the lawsuit. But later it came out that he had fabricated false evidence and HE went to prison.
Maybe we will learn more later, but the article does not support OP's claim.
They both paid their own attorneys!
Stupid is as stupid does.
Reading the story and then the comments there and now more confused. Did Smartmatic payoff OAN or OAN payoff Smartmatic?
I didn't see anything about Smartmatic paying. Just details about OAN previously apologizing to the Dominion exec Coomer and stating that there was no election fraud in Georgia. Both because of lawsuits that were settled.
Afaik that news was a few weeks ago. This is brand new. So I dont think the events are related.
If OAN settled there will be no need for "confidentialtiy". In fact Smartmatic would want to capitalize on this, and make sure its broadcast on MSM constantly. The fact that this was after discover adds credence that Smartmatic did the pay off.
Either way, I am not happy with OAN for agreeing to a confidential settlement.
I think this is assumption.
Every thing has a price
Exactly. It will likely be some time before we get a leak and find out.
Can’t stand the leftist comments over there. They believe OAN had to pay up. St,least that’s how I understood their vicious gobbledegook.
Yea, poorly written story and I still don't understand it.
hhhmmmmm.....
Why did OAN agree to a NDA ....
... something smells here ...
if OAN accepts a penny for an NDA they are absolute dogshit
OAN shouldn't settle
Wow the comments on that site are cancer.
Wow. This is huge.
Hmm where did the Hush Money come from? perhaps a taxpayer funded "election security bill"???
OAN accepted a bribe to be silent?- doesn't seem realistic to me. I think I'm going to invoke the 24 hr rule for the rest of the story.
My NEWS comes from numerous directions from all kinds of sources. I come up with my own conclusions. If you’re using one new source for your knowledge I would say to myself “ok” I get it, “they’re retarded”…
"Smartmatic"...akin to "PC matic" - total double digit IQ name for double digit IQ NPCs...
Seems like this is like what a newspaper would do. Print a crazy story, make it a headline, then put in a little retraction a few days later so no-one sees it. I am getting a vibe of suing for headlines and talk, then settling later as a retraction.
Guliani to sue the smart fuckit
Holy fkn notable panic Batman!
I got eye cancer reading this crap. Innocent Smartmatic got tired of fighting the crazy election deniers. end
Hi,
The article does not say Smartmatic paid any money.
What are you basing the "coughs up hush money" from?
Your reading comprehension is weak.
They are the ones who filed the lawsuit. They clearly state they settled.
If you saw all the other lawsuits against them and Dominion they came out and BRAGGED they settled and they won.
Silence is golden.
There is dropping a lawsuit and settling a lawsuit. They did not drop their lawsuit. They settled their lawsuit.
Settlement usually usually involves both sides
AGAIN. They would be bragging if OAN was paying them.
That silence is often a negotiated part of the settlement. As in they offer you more money to be silent. Or they won't settle if you get to disclose the terms of the settlement.
Here's an example. Virginia Giuffre settled with Epstein in 2009. But we only found out the terms in 2022 after he died
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/03/us/virginia-giuffre-jeffrey-epstein-settlement/index.html
I guess you haven't heard the news. They settled when it went to discovery. I guess Smartmatic saw something they didn't want the public to know.
This is why it was settled. If it had in their favor as I said before they would be bragging.
I hate the fact that OAN signed anything so this evidence will not be released.
This case has been going on for years.
Lots of discovery has been produced.
In February a couple of things happened.
The judge warned she might sanction the parties if discovery disputes dragged on.
The other was Smartmatic alleged in court papers that OAN
https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/smartmatic-discovery-response-oan-case.pdf This was based on 2001 email that OAN turned over in discovery in 2023. Someone sent a bunchn of info to OAN including a list of passwords. OAN says this was hacked material
Specifically Smartmatic accuses Robert Herring, the head of OAN of emailing the passwords to others.
Smartmatic was asking the judge for more discovery about this.
So this is not as cut and dried as you imply.
Yeah right you keep believing that.
What a schmuck.
Wrong thirty nine day old account.
https://twitter.com/jeremymbarr/status/1780274908309622867
That tweet does not say Smartmatic paid any money.
AP was in cover up mode this morning. They were calling it a "settlement" with OAN!
Which is why I assumed Fox was in on it to get rid of Tucker. They tucked tail and dropped nearly a Billion.
Fox was also the first to call AZ for Ole Sleepy. The words charade and facade come to mind with the Dominion/Fox lawsuit.