Dominion sends letters threatening lawsuits to FOX News OANN, Newsmax, Epoch Times and conservative media personalities

The firm of Clare Locke LLP sent the letters to Fox News hosts Maria Bartiromo, Lou Dobbs and Sean Hannity, radio host Rush Limbaugh, the heads of Newsmax, OAN, Fox News, the Epoch Times and others. The letters obtained by Business Insider are demands for retractions as well as document preservation notices. These letters are in addition to the one that Dominion sent to Sidney Powell one week ago.

The letter to Hannity read: "We write regarding patently false accusations that Dominion has somehow rigged or otherwise improperly influenced the recent US Presidential election—accusations that you have featured on your programming and that you yourself have also echoed."

It demands that he "…cease and desist making defamatory claims against Dominion" and "…retain all documents relating to Dominion and your smear campaign against the company" and warns that "…litigation regarding these issues is imminent." All of the letters featured similar language.

According to CNN, Dominion lawyers had also sent letters to White House counsel Pat Cipollone and President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani instructing them to preserve all records related to the company at the center of Trump's theories of election fraud and warned Giuliani that legal action is "imminent."

Dominion CEO John Poulos said on CNN's "New Day" that the company would be taking legal action against several individuals "…promoting lies and amplifying those lies ... on various media platforms since Election Day." He added that, "…we fully expect that none of them will be retracting their statements, so it forces our hand to file action."

Asked if Dominion anticipated taking legal action against Trump, Poulos said the company will be "…looking into absolutely everybody that has made, and repeated, and amplified false statements that have been defamatory and damaging to our company and to our election."

On Election Day, a reported "glitch" in the software of Dominion Voting Systems equipment saw 6,000 votes switched from Republican to Democrat in Antrim County, Michigan. Similar glitches in the software were reported in Georgia.

Dominion Voting Systems from Toronto, Ontario has headquarters in Denver, Colorado and is one of three firms providing voting machines in the US elections, which combined control 88 percent of the US market. Dominion Democracy Suite 5.5 software was used in 69 counties in Michigan for the Presidential election. The system in 2019, failed certification in Texas. The company's equipment is used in North Carolina, Nevada, Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, and Pennsylvania, all states that became the focus of national controversy concerning the 2020 Presidential election.