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A settlement has been reached between Newsmax, crazy Newsmax, and Smartmatic.

And this is regarding the 2020 election claims.

Smartmatic is a voting machine company that their voting machines are used all over the country.

And what Newsmax did is publicly, consistently, without stopping, accused Smartmatic of creating, accused SmartMatics of basically rigging the election in favor of Joe Biden.

That the election was stolen. Big surprise. That argument is being made.

And SmartMatic was part of it that the voting was stolen, big surprise, that argument is being made. And Smartmatic was part of it that the voting machines themselves were rigged and programmed to give Joe Biden either an advantage or the vote or to take away Donald Trump's vote.

And the election was Smart Maddox's fault, as well as Dominion and a few other

organizations. Well, now you have a defamation suit, right? Defamation suit where Smartmatic

accuses Newsmax of spreading multiple false claims surrounding the election and accusing Newsmax of publishing dozens of false reports,

claiming that Smartmatic helped the election of Joe Biden.

Now, defamation suit hits, and here's what Newsmax argued, that they were simply reporting on newsworthy claims of fraud,

even though there was no fraud, just the allegation, and you keep on repeating it, as fact.

And that was the lawsuit for defamation. And guess what? They literally were in the jury selection process and a settlement

happened. Now, we don't know what the amount of the settlement was, but it would have been far,

far higher had the judge not ruled that Smartmatic was not able to get punitive damages at the trial they asked for

punitive damages which then turbos the award but there were going to be damages no question

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