CLAIM: A Dominion Voting Systems employee named Eric Coomer said on an “antifa conference call” prior to the 2020 election, “Don’t worry about the election, Trump’s not gonna win. I made f-----g sure of that!”
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. There is no evidence of Coomer saying this, and he has denied it in a sworn declaration. Joseph Oltmann, a conservative podcaster, first made the claim six days after the 2020 election on his show, but also said at the time he couldn’t be certain it was Coomer who made the statement. He has not presented credible evidence to corroborate the claim. Coomer has since filed five defamation lawsuits related to these allegations.
THE FACTS: The erroneous claim, which has been shared in the past by major political figures and media personalities, cropped up again this week on Instagram.
A post shows a picture of Coomer, identified as the director of strategy and security at Dominion, next to his supposed quote. Text below the quote specifies that Coomer made the statement while “talking on an antifa conference call.”
But there is no credible proof that Coomer said this or that such a conference call ever happened. Oltmann has even expressed doubt about his own assumptions.
The claim originated on the Nov. 9, 2020, episode of Oltmann’s podcast Conservative Daily. Oltmann said he infiltrated an “Antifa call” before the election, where he heard a man identified as “Eric” and “the Dominion guy” bragging that he had ensured Trump would lose.
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