Rupert Murdoch, Fox News Hosts Saw Donald Trump’s Election Fraud Claims As “Crazy” And “B.S.,” Dominion Says In Defamation Filing; Network Calls Lawsuit “An Assault On First Amendment” (Tucker called Trump "A Demonic Force")

Deadline ^ | 2/16/2023 | Ted Johnson

[marcusmaximus]

Fox News hosts and executives, including Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham, did not believe Donald Trump’s election fraud claims in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, but the network nevertheless amplified the conspiracy theories as it worried about losing viewers to Newsmax, according to filings from Dominion Voting Systems made public on Thursday.

In its motion for summary judgment in its $1.6 billion defamation suit against Fox, with a redacted version made public on Thursday, Dominion makes heavy use of text messages and emails from the Fox personalities and staff

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[Sam Gamgee]

Arrogant BIATCH Dana

[Lumper20]

Seems all the news and Internet articles have been erased since the lawsuit. You are new here little one. Stop trashing others.

[gattaca]

I didn’t know that. Wow

[trustverify0128]

I will trash Powell and Guiliani for bringing Smartmatic into the voting machine claims, thereby making said voting machine claims less credible.

Unless they can prove that votes were flipped in Los Angeles County, CA... the word “Smartmatic” should never have been uttered.