Newsmax denies destroying evidence in 2020 defamation case after Smartmatic alleges ‘cover-up’ | CNN Business

Wilmington, Delaware CNN  — 

The right-wing cable channel Newsmax denied Friday that it intentionally destroyed or concealed internal emails in an ongoing defamation case filed by voting technology company Smartmatic over the network’s airing of false claims about the 2020 election.

Lawyers for Smartmatic previously claimed Newsmax “concealed over 200,000 documents” and “made multiple material misrepresentations to the court,” by falsely asserting it had turned over everything before the discovery process wrapped up.

But the network said in filings Friday that it never meant to hide anything, and that the vast majority of the supposedly new materials were duplicates of

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