Abby Grossberg, a former producer for Fox News who is now suing the network, says she was put "in a very vulnerable position to be the company scapegoat" amid a lawsuit centering on false claims about the 2020 presidential election.
Grossberg found herself the subject of headlines amid an ongoing lawsuit filed by voting equipment company Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News.
Dominion was the target of conspiracy theories claiming widespread election fraud and other wrongdoing in the wake of the November 2020 presidential election, and the company eventually sued several of Trump's closest allies, including Fox News, for allegedly repeating lies about its machines.
Grossberg was questioned as part of Dominion's suit, and under oath said that she did not believe it was her responsibility to fact-check the claims made by Fox News personalities on-air.
Speaking to NBC News' Cynthia McFadden in her first television interview this week, Grossberg alleges she was "bullied, intimidated and coerced into saying that [under oath] just to keep my job and stay at the company."
She continued in the interview: "And the question a lot of people would have is, 'Why would you do that?' I made the decision to keep my job so that I can keep paying my bills. It seemed like the safer decision for me at the time."
Grossberg was fired by the network just last week, after she filed her...
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