Smartmatic Brags About ‘Integrity and Transparency’ Hours After President Indicted for Fraud, Doesn’t Bother to Deny Charges
When organizations issue public relations-style statements, they often raise more suspicions than they quell.
For instance, in the wake of an indictment handed down on Thursday against its company president and others, the Florida-based voting machine company Smartmatic issued a statement that oozed chutzpah and thus made one wonder about company officials’ capacity for truth-telling.
Indeed, the statement concluded with a remarkable boast of the company’s “integrity and transparency.”
At first glance, of course, one might expect such a boast since the indictment did not name the company itself. Nor did the indictment allege voter fraud.
Nonetheless, in light of the indictment’s details, the Smartmatic statement qualified as highly disingenuous.
