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[00:00.000 --> 00:07.160]  I'm Dave Champion. You have almost certainly heard of the following two news outlets, Newsmax
[00:07.160 --> 00:22.460]  and The American Thinker. Today, I would like to share content from each of those with you.
[00:22.460 --> 00:28.840]  Let's start with Newsmax. Since election day, various guests, attorneys, and elected officials
[00:28.840 --> 00:36.040]  have appeared on Newsmax TV and offered opinions and claims about Smartmatic and Dominion Systems,
[00:36.040 --> 00:41.120]  both companies that offer voting software in the United States. Newsmax would like to
[00:41.120 --> 00:47.480]  clarify its news coverage and note it has not reported as true certain claims made about
[00:47.480 --> 00:53.360]  these companies. There are several facts our viewers and readers should be aware. Newsmax
[00:53.360 --> 00:59.960]  has found no evidence either Dominion or Smartmatic owns the other or has any business
[00:59.960 --> 01:07.600]  association with each other. We have no evidence Dominion used Smartmatic software or vice versa.
[01:07.600 --> 01:14.720]  No evidence has been offered that Dominion or Smartmatic use software or reprogram software
[01:14.720 --> 01:22.440]  that manipulated votes in the 2020 election. Smartmatic has stated its software was only used
[01:22.480 --> 01:27.720]  in the 2020 election in Los Angeles and was not used in any battleground state contested
[01:27.720 --> 01:34.440]  by the Trump campaign and Newsmax has no evidence to the contrary. Dominion has stated its company
[01:34.440 --> 01:39.880]  has no ownership relationship with the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's family, Senator Dianne
[01:39.880 --> 01:45.600]  Feinstein's family, the Clinton family, Hugo Chavez, or the government of Venezuela. Neither
[01:45.600 --> 01:52.360]  Dominion nor Smartmatic has any relationship with George Soros. Smartmatic is a U.S. company
[01:52.360 --> 01:57.520]  and not owned by the Venezuelan government, Hugo Chavez, or any foreign official or entity.
[01:57.520 --> 02:03.200]  Smartmatic states it has no operations in Venezuela. While the company did election
[02:03.200 --> 02:10.000]  projects in Venezuela from 2004 to 2017, it states it never was founded by Hugo Chavez nor
[02:10.000 --> 02:16.360]  did it have a corrupt relationship with him or the Venezuelan government. Let's see what American
[02:16.360 --> 02:22.240]  Thinker has to say. American Thinker and contributors Andrea Woodberg, R.D. Wedge,
[02:22.240 --> 02:29.800]  Brian Tomlinson, and Peggy Ryan have published pieces on AmericanThinker.com that falsely accused
[02:29.800 --> 02:34.880]  U.S. Dominion Inc., Dominion Voting Systems Inc., and Dominion Voting Systems Corporation,
[02:34.880 --> 02:40.960]  collectively Dominion, of conspiring to steal a November 2020 election from Donald Trump. These
[02:40.960 --> 02:47.840]  pieces rely on discredited sources who have peddled debunked theories about Dominion's
[02:47.840 --> 02:53.520]  supposed ties to Venezuela, fraud on Dominion's machines that resulted in massive votes switching
[02:53.520 --> 02:59.080]  or waiting votes, and other claims falsely stating that there is credible evidence that
[02:59.080 --> 03:06.000]  Dominion acted fraudulently. These statements are completely false and have no basis in fact.
[03:06.000 --> 03:10.880]  Industry experts and public officials alike have confirmed that Dominion conducted itself
[03:10.880 --> 03:18.440]  appropriately and there is simply no evidence to support these claims. It was wrong for us
[03:18.440 --> 03:24.320]  to publish these false statements. We apologize to Dominion for all of the harm this caused them
[03:24.320 --> 03:29.720]  and their employees. We also apologize to our readers for abandoning nine journalistic principles
[03:29.720 --> 03:34.240]  and misrepresenting Dominion's track record and its limited role in tabulating votes for the
[03:34.240 --> 03:39.760]  November 2020 election. We regret this grave error.