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Right-wing cable news network Newsmax wants to take a chance on going to trial for voting equipment company Smartmatic’s defamation suit — and it is unlikely to end well for them, a former federal prosecutor said Friday. The trial is set to begin Sept. 30, unless the parties agree to settle beforehand. “Newsmax doesn’t want to retract the lies and pay damages; instead they’ll roll the bones in court & hope against hope they can get out of it, which is very unlikely given the evidence that the stories about voting machines were false & outlets like Newsmax that ran them knew it,” wrote former p…