{"id":49745,"date":"2020-12-23T00:15:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T07:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dominion-voting-systems-employee-files-defamation-suit-against-trump-campaign\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:48:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:48:31","slug":"dominion-voting-systems-employee-files-defamation-suit-against-trump-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dominion-voting-systems-employee-files-defamation-suit-against-trump-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominion Voting Systems employee files defamation suit against Trump campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"Denver
Denver voters cast ballots on Nov. 8, 2018.<\/span>Jesse Paul\/The Colorado Sun<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Eric Coomer, a top employee at Denver-based<\/p>\n

The legal action alleges Coomer, who lives in Colorado and serves as Dominion\u2019s director of product strategy and security, has been the target of a false conspiracy that has harmed his reputation and left him facing threats. The lawsuit also accuses the defendants of intentionally inflicting emotional distress against him and seeks unspecified damages and an order barring them from continuing to spread erroneous information.<\/p>\n

\u201cCoomer has suffered significant actual and special damages including, without limitation, harm to his reputation, emotional distress, stress, anxiety, lost earnings and other pecuniary loss,\u201d the lawsuit says.<\/p>\n

A message left with a spokeswoman for Coomer\u2019s Salida-based law firm was not immediately returned on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n

Coomer has been baselessly accused of corruption that led to Trump\u2019s 2020 reelection loss. Supporters of the president have falsely claimed that Dominion Voting Systems machines manipulated votes for Democrat Joe Biden.<\/p>\n

In recent days Coomer has said that he fears his entire life has been permanently upended. \u201cI am seeing a crisis counselor,\u201d he told the Ark Valley Voice. \u201cMy name is toxic because of all these baseless allegations. I don\u2019t know how I recover.\u201d<\/p>\n

Coomer said he\u2019s worked in elections for 15 years and never experienced anything like he has surrounding the 2020 election.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I certainly never expected for a sitting U.S. president to call into question my loyalty to this country, and his children doing the same thing, and his surrogates doing the same thing,\u201d Coomer told the Ark Valley Voice. \u201cI certainly never expected to see the former New York mayor to say my name in conjunction with widespread election fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Eric
Eric Coomer<\/span>du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Also listed as defendants in the lawsuit are Sidney Powell, an attorney who has represented Trump, and Michelle Malkin,<\/a> a conservative commentator from Colorado Springs. One America News Network and its correspondent, Chanel Rion, as well as the conservative website Gateway Pundit are also targeted by the legal action.<\/p>\n

Joseph Oltmann, a Coloradan who owns Shuffling Madness Media, is also named as a defendant in Coomer\u2019s lawsuit. The legal action claims Oltmann\u2019s false remarks about Coomer have driven much of the alleged conspiracy.<\/p>\n

\u201cDefendants knowingly circulated and amplified a baseless conspiracy<\/p>\n

theory to challenge the integrity of the presidential election,\u201d the lawsuit says. \u201cWhile this theory has been thoroughly rejected, its immediate and life-threatening effects remain very real. The deluge of misinformation has caused immense injury to Dr. Coomer\u2019s reputation, professional standing, safety, and privacy. Once an esteemed private election technology expert, Dr. Coomer has been vilified and subjected to an onslaught of offensive messages and harassment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Coomer is referred to as a doctor in the lawsuit because he holds a Ph. D.<\/p>\n

The 52-page lawsuit was filed in Denver District Court. Colorado Public Radio was first to report on the legal action.<\/p>\n

This is a developing story that will be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n

Read more at The Colorado Sun<\/em><\/p>\n

The Colorado Sun is a reader-supported, journalist-owned news outlet exploring issues of statewide interest. Sign up for a newsletter and read more at coloradosun.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Read more at The Colorado Sun<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Coomer, a Coloradan, alleges he has been the target of a false conspiracy and faces threats<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[233,1137,266,28,29,1621],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-49745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-coloradosun-com","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-voting"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87632,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49745\/revisions\/87632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49745"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=49745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}