Donald Trump went on the attack against Fox Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch following the latest revelations from Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit against the media company
hosts “endorsed” Trump’s election claims. Murdoch found those claims to be “bulls— and damaging,” and in his deposition, he acknowledged that he “would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing” the election fraud allegations.
Trump also wrote, “There was so much Voter Fraud & Irregularities in the 2020 Presidential Election that it amazes me how weak and ineffective FoxNews is at portraying itself in the lawsuit against them. They look too scared and frightened to reveal the massive amounts of voter fraud & Irregularities already found, and it would actually help them in the lawsuit. Instead FoxNews wants to silence its anchors and reporters, the reason so many of their viewers fled.
Dominion sued Fox News and Fox Corp. for $1.6 billion, alleging that Fox hosts and guests defamed the election systems company as they amplified false claims that the election systems company was involved in rigging the election. Through a flurry of texts, emails and depositions, Dominion is trying to show that Fox personalities and executives knew that the claims were false but, afraid of losing the Trump-backing audience, advanced them on the network programming anyway.
In its filing released on Monday, Fox News contends that Dominion is taking an “extreme, unsupported view” of defamation law, as the network was covering allegations by a sitting president of the United States. It also claims that the Dominion release of emails and text messages is “about what will generate headlines than what can withstand legal and factual scrutiny.”
Trump has recently been chiding Fox News for giving favorable coverage to a potential rival for the Republican nomination, Ron DeSantis.
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