Fox News lawyers’ defense strategy to combat a voting software firm’s allegation that the conservative cable giant knowingly peddled election fraud lies about the company is starting to fully come to light.
When it comes to Fox hosts, commentators, and guests pushing falsehoods that rigged voting machines “stole” the 2020 presidential election from then-President Donald Trump, Fox attorneys insist that claims those statements were defamatory have “omitted context” of those remarks.
According to NPR, the network’s attorneys filed motions last week asking the judge presiding over Dominion Voting System’s $1.6-billion defamation case to dismiss the lawsuit prior to its trial date this April. Dominion contends that the channel’s executives allowed baseless election conspiracies to air in an effort to appeal to disgruntled MAGA viewers who abandoned Fox after the network called Arizona for Joe Biden.
While those motions are sealed, supplementary public filings indicate that the defense team’s argument seems to justify the debunked voter fraud claims Fox News stars made about Dominion following the election.
“[T]here is not a single statement for which Dominion can prove every element of its claim for defamation,” Fox attorneys wrote in the filing. Dominion lawyers argue that roughly 115 statements made by Fox hosts and guests shortly after the election were defamatory.
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