Court papers show that the Trump campaign had debunked election conspiracy theories before Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell accused Dominion Voting Systems of conspiring to steal the presidency.
The accusation by Giuliani and Powell came in a bizarre press conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters on November 19. (The New York Times)
The court papers, which were initially filed late last week as a motion in a defamation lawsuit brought against the campaign and others by a former Dominion employee, Eric Coomer, contain evidence that officials in the Trump campaign were aware early on that many of the claims against the companies were baseless.
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The documents also suggest that the campaign sat on its findings about Dominion even as Sidney Powell and other lawyers attacked the company in the conservative media and ultimately filed four federal lawsuits accusing it of a vast conspiracy to rig the election against Mr. Trump.
According to emails contained in the documents, Zach Parkinson, then the campaign's deputy director of communications, reached out to subordinates on Nov. 13 asking them to “substantiate or debunk” several matters concerning Dominion. The next day, the emails show, Mr. Parkinson received a copy of a memo cobbled together by his staff from what largely appear to be news articles and public fact-checking services.
The memo concluded that Dominion did not use Smartmatic's software in the 2020 election nor have ties to Soros, Venezuela or Antifa.
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