Newsmax agrees to pay $67M settlement in defamation case over 2020 election claims

by Rod Williams, Aug. 18, 2025- If you are not familiar with Newsmax, it is a news outlet pro-Trump propaganda organization that makes Fox News look like a pansy-ass progressive network of journalistic integrity. The conservative network Newsmax will pay $67 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it of defaming Dominion Voting Systems, a voting equipment company, by spreading lies about President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss. This is the second such suit Newsmax has had to settle.  Previously, Newsmax paid $40 million to settle a libel lawsuit from a different voting machine manufacturer, Smartmatic, which was also a target of pro-Trump conspiracy theories on the network.

Fox News, back in April, had to pay Dominion Voting Systems nearly $800 million to avert a trial in the voting machine company’s lawsuit that would have exposed how the network promoted lies about the 2020 presidential election.

Will it matter? I'm afraid not. Trump cultists will continue to believe the lie that voting machines were manipulated to change votes in the 2020 election. Time and time again, those alleging voter fraud have lost in court. There is no credible evidence of 2020 election fraud, and despite multiple court rulings and losses in defamation cases, Trumpinistas will believe the lies. Trumpinistas are immune to the truth. 

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