Eric Coomer has made national headlines with the lawsuits he's filed, charging that media firms such as Fox News and a range of political figures, including former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, made bogus accusations of election fraud targeting his former employer, Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems, and in the process turning him into a target for groups tricked into believing that former President Donald Trump was cheated out of a second term.
Westwood.com reports Coomer's latest complaint, filed on November 13 against Salem Media of Colorado, owner of KNUS 710 AM in Denver and one of its hosts, attorney and Republican National Committeeman Randy Corporon.
According to the document, KNUS and Corporon jointly "elevated Dr. Coomer into the national spotlight, invaded his privacy, threatened his security, and fundamentally defamed his reputation through a relentless election fraud campaign."
Among Salem's alleged sins is providing a platform for Joe Oltmann, described as a "Colorado-based conspiracy theorist," whose tales about a fictional partnership between Dominion and antifa organizations to steal the presidency for Joe Biden were among the major reasons Coomer spent months in hiding after the 2020 election.
But while Corporon endorsed such theories — saying at one point, "Joe, what you have done and exposed may save the republic, or at least save the possibility of having an honest outcome to this election" — Peter Boyles, another KNUS personality who chatted with Oltmann, has been far more critical of fraud fairy tales. Indeed, the suit quotes Boyles as saying, "The center of the conspiracy is all here. A river runs through it. This stuff all generates at this radio station and comes through this radio station." He added that "a list of people remain, and many of them appear here at this radio station again and again and again."
The suit's comment about this statement: "Unfortunately, Boyles’ moment of candor was not shared by all at 710 KNUS, and other Salem Media hosts continue to promote the falsehoods about the election generally and Dr. Coomer in particular.
Salem Media vice president and general manager Brian Taylor, Corporon and Boyles all declined to comment about the lawsuit.
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