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Newsmax and Smartmatic settle 2020 election defamation case on eve of trial | CNN Business

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The pro-Trump cable channel Newsmax has settled a major 2020 election defamation lawsuit with Smartmatic .

The terms of the settlement were not immediately known.

A loss at trial could have put Newsmax on the hook to pay tens of millions of dollars to Smartmatic , putting the small cable channel in financial peril.

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