The right US broadcaster Newsmax wanted to interview an ardent Trump supporter. When he spread his conspiracy theories, it became too much for a moderator. The interruption of the interview has a history.
Newsmax is one of the TV channels that Donald Trump recommends to his followers because he has become too critical of his former bull market channel Fox News. The conspiracy theories that a Trump supporter there now unleashed in an interview were too much even for a moderator.
Newsmax spokesman Bob Sellers unceremoniously broke off an interview with businessman Mike Lindell. “Can we get out of here, please,” he asked the producers of the show, and then just walked off the set himself. A video clip of the out-of-hand interview received millions of clicks on Twitter.
Newsmax was already having trouble with Dominion
Actually, Lindell was supposed to be talking about blocking his Twitter accounts. There he had previously posted conspiracy theories about the US election. Lindell also appeared repeatedly at rallies for the president who left office around two weeks ago.
At Newsmax, the connected Lindell now also took Trump’s side and started – barely having a word – on allegations against the voting machine manufacturer Dominion. Then the moderator cut him off. “We at Newsmax have not been able to confirm this type of allegation,” he said with regard to the election fraud allegations that Trump himself had spread after his defeat by Joe Biden.
When that didn’t stop the Trump supporter, Sellers read a statement in which the broadcaster distanced itself from allegations of fraud against the US election. Meanwhile, Lindell kept talking to the moderator in the background – until he went out of the picture angrily. He did not want to deal with it any further, Sellers said before leaving his co-host alone with the guest.
The voting machine manufacturer Dominion had threatened Newsmax with lawsuits over unsubstantiated fraud allegations. The broadcaster therefore had to read out a clarification in December stating that the broadcaster had found no evidence of the allegations.
Trump had repeatedly referred to conspiracy theories on Twitter that software from the Dominion company attributed votes cast for him in several states to Biden. Not only the company, but also the electoral authorities have repeatedly dismissed the claims as false – which didn’t stop Trump and his team from spreading them
Dominion had therefore recently sued Trump’s lawyers in its fight against the election, Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, for $ 1.3 billion each in damages.
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