A woman who claims the wind talks to her and put forth claims of election fraud that she admitted were 'pretty wackadoodle' turned out to be a key source of baseless claims that Fox News aired night after night in 2020.
Attorney Sidney Powell spread baseless election-fraud claims on Fox News after the 2020 election. To back up her claims, she forwarded Fox hosts an email from a source who admitted those claims were"pretty wackadoodle."Attorney Sidney Powell spread baseless election-fraud claims on Fox News after the 2020 election. To back up her claims, she forwarded Fox hosts an email from a source who admitted those claims were"pretty wackadoodle.
Dominion Voting System's lawyers would not comment further to NPR. Fox News and parent company Fox Corp. declined to comment on the email. More broadly, Fox has accused Dominion of mischaracterizing the record and cherry-picked quotes without the proper context.Fox News stars and executives privately reviled their newsroom colleagues who told viewers that such claims were baseless, because such fact-checks alienated viewers.
One of Dominion's attorneys asked Bartiromo while she was being deposed whether the email was"nonsense." The Fox News anchor agreed that it was.That's not how Bartiromo responded at the time. Powell responded:"That is where the fraud took place, where they were flipping votes in the computer system or adding votes that did not exist."
By Nov. 8, Fox Business Network senior vice president Gary Schreier was warning the channel's president, Lauren Petterson, that Bartiromo"has GOP conspiracy theorists in her ear and they use her for their message sometimes." Two days after the fateful Bartiromo appearance, Powell turned up on Fox's air once more, this time on Ingraham's primetime Fox News show. Powell asserted,"We have demonstrable, statistical and mathematical and computer evidence of hundreds of thousands of votes being injected into the computer systems repeatedly."
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