Vote machine biz Smartmatic sues Fox News and Trump chums for $2.7bn over bogus claims of rigged 2020 election

Electronic voting device manufacturer Smartmatic has sued Fox News, three of its hosts, and two of Donald Trump’s loyal pals – Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell – for an eye-popping $2.7bn in defamation damages over the false claims it stole the 2020 presidential election for Joe Biden. The lawsuit, filed Thursday with the Supreme Court in New York, accused Trump’s personal lawyer Giuliani and ex-federal prosecutor Powell of spreading lies by wrongly claiming that the manufacturer rigged its voting machines in favor of the Democrat contender.

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