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In Testimony, Hannity and Other Fox Employees Said They Doubted Trump’s Fraud Claims
New York Times ^ | Dec 22 | By Jeremy W. Peters

Posted on 12/22/2022 4:18:34 AM PST by RandFan

On Nov. 30, 2020, Sean Hannity hosted Sidney Powell on his prime-time Fox News program. As she had in many other interviews around that time — on Fox and elsewhere in right-wing media — Ms. Powell, a former federal prosecutor, spun wild conspiracy theories about what she said was “corruption all across the country, in countless districts,” in a plot to steal re-election from the president, Donald J. Trump.

At the center of this imagined plot were machines from Dominion Voting Systems, which Ms. Powell claimed ran an algorithm that switched votes for Mr. Trump to votes for Joseph R. Biden Jr. Dominion machines, she insisted, were being used “to trash large batches of votes.” Mr. Hannity interrupted her with a gentle question that had been circulating among election deniers, despite a lack of supporting proof: Why were Democrats silencing whistle-blowers who could prove this fraud?

Did Mr. Hannity believe any of this?

“I did not believe it for one second.”

That was the answer Mr. Hannity gave, under oath, in a deposition in Dominion’s $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News, according to information disclosed in a court hearing on Wednesday.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


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1 posted on 12/22/2022 4:18:34 AM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

But now it’s universally recognized that the claims were true.


2 posted on 12/22/2022 4:22:30 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (No Doubt Now: Stolen Election)
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To: RandFan

And? This doesnt mean much unless of course the NYT is heaping credibility upon Fox and Hannity , etc…. Does it? Are they? Its clear the fraud claims were true…. Who really ever needed Fox or any media to validate the claims of cheating we all know occurred. 81 million votes people!!!!!


3 posted on 12/22/2022 4:24:05 AM PST by MrRelevant
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To: RandFan

NYT doubting could have been concerns.


4 posted on 12/22/2022 4:24:06 AM PST by Bayard
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To: MrRelevant
The fraud had nothing to do with Dominion voting machines. It should have been obvious to anyone very early on that the people going on TV and peddling these claims were nothing more than self-aggrandizing charlatans.

“Release the kraken,” my @ss.

5 posted on 12/22/2022 4:27:12 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("It's midnight in Manhattan. This is no time to get cute; it's a mad dog's promenade.")
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To: RandFan

I’ve thought Hannity a bit dim for a long time, going back to when he was on local talk radio here in Atlanta in the 90s. Here he is confirming it in a deposition.


6 posted on 12/22/2022 4:30:06 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: RandFan

Now however, there exists absolute proof of election fraud and tampering in the 2020 election.

Yes, the releases from twitter unequivocally demonstrate that the US intelligence agencies used public resources to hide important facts from the American people, silence proponents of Trump and detractors of Joe Biden. I find it very unlikely that this only occurred at twitter. Further, they silenced the voices of those who witnessed direct ballot tampering, so as to prevent further investigation.

We, must now accept as fact that we do not have ‘free and fair elections’ and any attempt to discredit Trump about the method of Fraud is academic. It happened, it’s now been proven, and no one has been prosecuted because the government is in control of it all. While they continue to vilify Trump, the Twitter releases have proven Trump correct. Thus far, the Federal Government and the Democrats have not disputed the information from Twitter as false.

Fascism is probably the best description of our present form of government. What my ideals are, what I believed for so long, what most Americans cling to, what so many Americans sacrificed for, no longer exists.


7 posted on 12/22/2022 4:32:35 AM PST by Pete Dovgan
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To: RandFan

Hannity is a cuck. He was afraid of the FBI going after him, so he played it safe.


8 posted on 12/22/2022 4:32:55 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: RandFan

I hate the pukes on Fox more than the libtard networks.


9 posted on 12/22/2022 4:33:58 AM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Morons all.


10 posted on 12/22/2022 4:35:20 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Great minds drink alike...me and my baby havin' a hell of a night. - - BB King)
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To: RandFan

Fraudulent ballots that are filled out by machine are harder to detect.

People get lazy and make mistakes, machines don’t.


11 posted on 12/22/2022 4:35:54 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: RandFan

Hannity and the FOXies like to talk like they’re bad but they’re a bunch of liberal loving sissies.


12 posted on 12/22/2022 4:37:54 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Hey Amerika! The whole world is watching and laughing their asses off. )
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To: Wilderness Conservative
I hate the pukes on Fox more than the libtard networks.

Hear, hear.

13 posted on 12/22/2022 4:38:39 AM PST by USS Alaska (NUKE ALL MOOSELIMB TERRORISTS, NOW.)
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To: RandFan

Compilation of votes statewide is somewhat error prone since machines don’t understand state subdivisions.

Normally parties and election officials should verify that the vote counts are realistic.


14 posted on 12/22/2022 4:39:57 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: RandFan

I can understand the initial doubt about the 2020 election and subsequent elections, most people can’t conceive of the idea that Democrats have a plan to subvert the entire election system in multiple ways all designed to steal elections.

The Democrats change laws in states they control.

The file one lawsuit after another in states they don’t control.

The goal is subverting the election system.


15 posted on 12/22/2022 4:42:27 AM PST by srmanuel
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To: Alberta's Child

Fraud is done at the local level.


16 posted on 12/22/2022 4:42:28 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Travis McGee

Hannity was asked if he believed Powell’s conspiracies.

The NYT is carefully choosing snippets of sentences.

Please tell me you don’t buy Powell’s claim that there was a shoot out in Germany at a secret CIA location as Special Forces went there to claim the internet logs of the election theft.

There were many killed and wounded.

Of course we now know the theft had taken place through ballot box stuffing and not via the internet.


17 posted on 12/22/2022 4:42:38 AM PST by David Chase
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To: Brian Griffin

Correct.

Not in Germany by the CIA or through the internet, as Powell was claiming.

It was ballot drop boxes.


18 posted on 12/22/2022 4:45:45 AM PST by David Chase
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To: RandFan

Powell and that lawyer from Georgia turned out to be total grifters.


19 posted on 12/22/2022 4:49:25 AM PST by circlecity
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To: Gay State Conservative

No they were not true.

Powell’s claim:
A secret CIA location in Germany was raided by Special Forces to obtain internet logs of the election theft. Many wounded and killed.

The truth: The election fraud took place using ballot drop boxes and not the internet.

Hannity was asked about Powell’s nutty conspiracy theories.
The NYT is carefully choosing the excerpts the print.

Odd on how anyone you believe a NYT story.
I guess it’s ok if they say what you want to hear.


20 posted on 12/22/2022 4:51:09 AM PST by David Chase
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