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American Thinker Issues Groveling Apology to Dominion Voting Systems For ‘Completely False’ Election-Stealing Stories With ‘No Basis in Fact’


A right-wing political blog that consistently pushed erroneous
conspiracy theories which claimed that Dominion Voting Systems helped
Democrats rig the 2020 election issued an apology to the voting system
company on Friday. The apology conceded that the stories the blog
published had no basis in reality.

American Thinker, an online magazine founded in 2003, posted a statement
to its website declaring that four of its contributors—Andrea Widburg,
R.D. Wedge, Brian Tomlinson, and Peggy Ryan—authored pieces that
“falsely accuse [Dominion] of conspiring to steal the November 2020
election from Donald Trump.”

“These pieces rely on discredited sources who have peddled debunked
theories about Dominion’s supposed ties to Venezuela, fraud on
Dominion’s machines that resulted in massive vote switching or weighted votes, and other claims falsely stating that there is credible evidence
that Dominion acted fraudulently,” read the statement from American Thinker’s Editor and Publisher Thomas Lifson. “These statements are completely false and have no basis in fact. Industry experts and public officials alike have confirmed that Dominion conducted itself
appropriately and that there is simply no evidence to support these claims.”

The Thinker‘s abrupt and groveling about-face fell exactly one week
after Dominion sued right-wing lawyer Sidney Powell for $1.3 billion in
what the company characterized as only the “first step” toward accountability.

There was good reason for the Thinker to fear another shoe dropping on
them. Dominion had sent the blog a cease and desist letter, one of
dozens sent to far-right media purveyors in a clampdown on false
allegations against the voting hardware and software company.

In cataloguing possible defamatory statements, Dominion pointed to a
Dec. 17 piece by George Witkowski titled, “The ‘Tell’ Missed Round the World,” which declared that there was “concrete evidence of fraud on the Dominion machines in Antrim County.” The article was updated to include Lifson’s apology at the top of the page.

But a Nov. 25 piece titled “Dominion in Georgia: What Happened?” by Anne-Christine Hoff remains unchanged, despite the fact that it falsely
claims Georgia was “delivered” to Biden “thanks to Dominion’s presence in every single county.”

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