Newsmax Runs Awkward Chyron During Trump’s Lies

June 26, 2024 Trump cultists, Trump Lies

The Huffington Post reports:

Conservative network Newsmax appeared to pre-empt Donald Trump’s possible repetition of his baseless 2020 election fraud claims during the former president’s live telephone interview on Tuesday.

“Please Note: Newsmax accepts the 2020 election results as legal and final,” read a chyron that appeared on screen during the presumptive GOP presidential nominee’s conversation with guest host Corey Lewandowski, his 2016 campaign manager.

Voting software companies Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems have both brought defamation lawsuits against Newsmax for promoting baseless claims that the companies had somehow been responsible for rigging the election in favor of Biden.

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get a load of the chyron Newsmax is displaying while Corey Lewandowski interviews Trump pic.twitter.com/HYQjC4OQBu

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 26, 2024

That chyron! Newsmax is still terrified of being sued again. They are on thin ice. The network’s lawyers are in a panic and the executives have caught fright. https://t.co/dr1BXGYIqC

— Russell Drew (@RussOnPolitics) June 26, 2024