The CEO of Dominion Voting Systems has said the company is contemplating legal action and plans to sue President Donald Trump and his former attorney Sidney Powell for defamation.
Dominion Voting Systems is the company behind the voting machines which had been used during the presidential election in Georgia and elsewhere.
The company has been subjected to a number of baseless accusations since the results were revealed.
Company CEO John Poulos told Axios on Monday that his company plans on suing Powell, a former Trump campaign lawyer imminently for defamation over her claims about its voting machines.
'Our focus right now is on Sidney Powell, and there's very good reason for that. She is by far in our opinion the most egregious and prolific purveyor of the falsities against Dominion. Her statements have caused real damage. They're demonstrably false,' Poulos said.
'We were originally quiet and we sat back as a company because our hope was that all of these claims would be filed in a process in court where procedure and evidence is important. And it's become clear to us that there is absolutely no interest to reveal this evidence because we know it doesn't exist. And there's no effort to actually put it in front of the court proceedings so that these allegations and all of the evidence can follow a proper process and be litigated right to the end.'
During his leaked call with Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, President Trump called the American company 'corrupt'.
“Do you think it’s possible that they shredded ballots in Fulton County? Because that’s what the rumor is. And also that Dominion took out machines. That Dominion is really moving fast to get rid of their, uh, machinery. Do you know anything about that? Because that’s illegal, right?" Trump asked Raffensperger.
Raffensperger attempted to correct the president after he claimed the machines had recently removed or altered by Dominion employees.
Dominion has said that the allegations have even led to death threats against some of it workers including one who is unable to return home.
Eric Coomer, security director at the Colorado-based firm, said he wants his life back after being named in false charges as a key actor in 'rigging' the election for President-elect Joe Biden. There has been no evidence that the election was rigged.
His defamation lawsuit, filed Tuesday in district court in Denver County, Colorado, names the Trump campaign, lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, conservative columnist Michelle Malkin, the website Gateway Pundit, Colorado conservative activist Joseph Oltmann, and conservative media Newsmax and One America News Network. 'I have been thrust into the public spotlight by people with political and financial agendas but, at heart, I am a private person,' Coomer said in a statement.
'While I intend to do everything I can to recapture my prior lifestyle, I have few illusions in this regard,' he said. 'And so, today, I put my trust in the legal process, which has already exposed the truth of the 2020 presidential election.'
Dominion, which provided vote-counting equipment to several states, has denied accusations that it switched Trump votes in Biden's favor, and no evidence has emerged to back those charges up. Dominion and another voting technology company, Smartmatic, have begun to fight back against being named in baseless conspiracy theories.
After legal threats were made, Fox News Channel and Newsmax in recent days have aired segments that challenge false allegations made about the companies on those networks.
Coomer's lawyer say his client has become 'the face of the false claims.' Coomer's name first got public exposure in a podcast by Oltmann, who claimed to have heard a strategy call of Antifa activists. When the prospect of a Trump victory was brought up, Oltmann said a man identified as 'Eric from Dominion' supposedly said 'don´t worry about the election, Trump is not going to win. I made ... sure of that,' adding an expletive.
In an opinion piece written for the Denver Post, Coomer wrote that he has no connections to Antifa, was never on any call and the idea that there is some recording of him is 'wholly fabricated.'
The fact-checking website Snopes said Oltmann hasn't cooperated in any attempts to verify his claims. Oltmann also claimed that Coomer made anti-Trump comments on Facebook. The lawsuit acknowledged that Coomer made comments critical of the president on his private Facebook page; he now says his page is inactive.
Oltmann's charges spread after he was interviewed by Malkin and Gateway Pundit. Eric Trump tweeted about them. OANN, and its White House correspondent Chanel Rion, reported on them.
Powell, misidentifying Coomer as working for Smartmatic, said at a news conference that Coomer's 'social media is filled with hatred' for Trump, and she later repeated her charges in a Newsmax interview. Giuliani, at a news conference, called Coomer 'a vicious, vicious man. He wrote horrible things about the president ... He is completely warped,' according to the lawsuit.
Fox News Channel, another network popular with Trump supporters, is not being sued and Coomer actually uses Fox's Tucker Carlson to buttress his case. The lawsuit notes a scheduled Powell appearance on Carlson's show did not happen after she could not provide evidence for her charges.
Coomer said that right-wing websites posted his photo, home address and details about his family. Death threats began almost immediately. He added his father, an Army veteran, received a handwritten letter asking, 'How does it feel to have a traitor for a son.'
'It's terrifying,' Coomer said. 'I've worked in international elections in all sorts of post-conflict countries where election violence is real and people are getting killed over it. And I feel that we're on the verge of that.'
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