Bloomberg
A voting-machine company falsely accused of rigging the 2020 election against Donald Trump is seeking to question two former administration officials and Georgia’s elections chief as part of its $1.6 billion defamation suit against Fox News.
Dominion Voting Systems Inc. on Wednesday subpoenaed Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who was pressured by Trump to flip the state’s election results after Joe Biden was declared the winner. The company is also seeking to question Christopher Krebs, the former top cybersecurity official at the Department of Homeland Security whom Trump fired for refusing to question the integrity of the election.
Dominion’s subpoena of Raffensperger comes as Atlanta prosecutors appear to be stepping up a probe into a phone call in which Trump asked the state official to “find” votes for him. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s office on Tuesday subpoenaed Rudy Giuliani, Senator Lindsey Graham and five others to testify before a special grand jury.
According to Dominion’s suit in Delaware state court, Fox News knowingly broadcast false claims that voting machines were rigged in order to win back viewers upset that the conservative network had called the election for Biden. The voting machine maker’s suit notes that ratings for one Fox News show spiked when Giuliani and former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell appeared on-air to claim that Dominion gave “kickbacks” to Raffensperger “for its contract to provide voting...
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