Joe Oltmann, who’s a top election conspiracist in Colorado and nationally, is now a two-time defamation suit defendant. Journalist Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, of the online news magazine LGBTQ Nation, filed a lawsuit against Oltmann in Denver District Court on Friday.
The blistering, 15-page complaint accuses Oltmann, who’s twice been an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year nominee, of defamation for claiming on the April 21 episode of his podcast, Conservative Daily, that, “[Ashton-Cirillo] is actually a secret Nazi operative; (2) [Ashton-Cirillo]’s presence in Ukraine is not as an author or columnist on assignment, but instead, to allegedly benefit her Nazi overseers; (3) that she intentionally searched out, found, and reported a ‘journalist’ named Gonzolo Lira, to purported Nazis in the Ukrainian government, for the purpose of having him killed, apparently through a beheading; and (4) that her actions, intentionally carried out, satisfied the criminal elements under American law for committing the offense of being an accessory to murder.”
During the April 21 episode of Conservative Daily, Oltmann based his claims on a post from Gab and Telegram personality Kanekoa the Great, who regularly shares COVID-19 and election conspiracy content. “The problem that I have, Todd [Wood],” said Oltmann while displaying a screenshot from Kanekoa’s Substack newsletter, “is the Daily Beast and other evil, evil, evil publications literally outed him, made a huge piece on him and decided...
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