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In a court filing, Smartmatic's lawyers allege that Newsmax deleted emails and texts between high-ranking executives that would have incriminated them as making those claims for viewership and profit, despite knowing that they were untrue.

From Salon • May 22, 2024

They believed that messages on Skaggs’s phone were deleted by members of Skaggs’s family before the phone could be inspected by authorities and that those messages could potentially have incriminated someone else.

From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2022

A judge told another New Yorker that he may have incriminated himself during courtroom arguments.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 17, 2021

Mr. Déby also prevented these people from testifying, which prompted Mr. Serres to write that evidently “they could have incriminated Déby or provided evidence embarrassing to him.”

From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2016

No. Had I done so, I should have incriminated myself.

From The Solitary Farm by Hume, Fergus