Patrick Byrne, Mike Lindell and other Trump supporters who made baseless assertions that Dominion Voting Systems rigged the 2020 election are using court cases to keep spreading lies about the company.
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Voting machines at a polling site in Atlanta in 2020. Such machines were a focus of conspiracy theorists who claimed the 2020 presidential election was rigged in favor of Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Nearly four years later, zealous supporters of former President Donald J. Trump who promoted the conspiracy theory that Dominion Voting Systems had rigged its machines to rob him of the 2020 election are still at it.
Even though Dominion has aggressively defended itself in court, a network of pro-Trump activists has continued to push false claims against the company, often by seeking to use information gleaned from the very defamation lawsuits the firm has filed against them.
The network includes wealthy business executives like Patrick Byrne, who once ran Overstock.com, and Mike Lindell, the founder of the bedding company MyPillow. Both have sought without credible evidence to put Dominion at the heart of a vast conspiracy to deny Mr. Trump a victory.
It also includes a pro-Trump sheriff from southwest Michigan, a former election official from Colorado and Mr. Byrne’s own lawyer, who is facing charges of tampering with Dominion machines and who once worked alongside Mr. Trump’s legal team in claiming that the company was part of a plot to subvert the last election.
Some of their hands were evident in a recent confrontation, the company’s lawyers say.
ImagePatrick Byrne, founder of Overstock.com, is among the pro-Trump activists pushing false claims against Dominion Voting Systems, which in turn is suing him and others for defamation.Credit…Rebecca Noble for The New York Times
Late last month, John Poulos, Dominion’s chief executive, showed up for a private deposition in a lawsuit the company is pursuing against Mr. Byrne. He was unexpectedly met by a process server who slapped him with a subpoena to give evidence in a separate case involving Dominion.
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