Defamation suit against Salem’s Eric Metaxas can proceed, court rules

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A defamation lawsuit brought by former Dominion Voting Systems executive Eric Coomer against Salem Media Group syndicated host Eric Metaxas and 14 others will move forward, an appeals court has ruled. The Colorado Court of Appeals wrote that the defendants, which also include the Donald J. Trump campaign, could be found by a jury to have had actual malice by defaming Coomer but did not work as part a conspiracy to do so, according to The Daily Sentinel.

Coomer’s lawsuit, filed in 2022, alleges that the Trump campaign and other parties fabricated claims that Coomer worked to rig election equipment in multiple states to favor now President Joe Biden in the 2020 election.

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