Newly released text messages and emails from top Fox News anchors and executives show them expressing disbelief in former President Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was rigged. But, a high-profile lawsuit alleges, the news network peddled the dialogue anyway.
According to court papers filed Thursday by Dominion Voting Systems — the voting software corporation that is suing Fox Corp. and its cable TV networks — private messages and testimonies show that Fox News personalities, including Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham, doubted Trump’s repeated false statements about President Joe Biden’s win being fraudulent.
The disclosure of those messages and statements follow months of discovery and depositions related to the $1.6 billion lawsuit.
“Fox witness after witness has admitted under oath that they have not seen evidence proving Dominion stole the 2020 Presidential Election or that they do not believe Dominion did,” Dominion alleged in its court filing. “Not a single Fox witness has presented evidence that Dominion rigged the 2020 election because no evidence, documentary or otherwise, suggests it.”
Here are some of the major details from the court filing:
Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch called claims from Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, about voter fraud weeks after the election, “Really crazy” and “damaging” in a Nov. 19 email. Murdoch also said that Giuliani’s claims should be taken “with a large grain of salt.”
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