Fox Corp. and Dominion Voting systems are both staunchly refuting a report that Tucker Carlson was fired following a secret handshake deal as part of the massive defamation settlement with Dominion Voting Systems, expressing both publicly and privately that the very idea is laughable and separately using the words “categorically false.”
The Tuesday report from Variety claims Carlson, the top-rated host on Fox News before he was canned on April 24, learned in a phone call with an unnamed member of Fox Corp.’s eight board members two days later that his ousting was a condition of Fox News’ $787.5 million defamation settlement with Dominion. It was a verbal agreement, not part of the written deal the companies signed to stop the case from going to trial, the report said, citing “multiple sources with knowledge of the conversation.”
The report further said that not canning Carlson would have scuttled the settlement, meaning that the trial featuring most of Fox’s top names as witnesses would have then moved forward. Considering the amount of embarrassing material in discovery alone, a trial certainly had the potential for more cringe details going public.
But both Fox and Dominion were swift to issue statements refuting the idea. People close to the settlement, using words like “flabbergasted” and other, more colorful language, told TheWrap that Dominion had no designs whatsoever on Carlson, noting that the “Tucker Carlson Tonight” host was openly and privately more skeptical...
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