A Venezuelan businessman has sued the Fox News for defamation, claiming the network falsely and “xenophobically” linked him to the 2020 U.S. presidential election and claims of voter fraud.
In a complaint filed earlier this month, Majed Khalil says that former Fox Business host Lou Dobbs and guest Sidney Powell—both supporters of former President Donald Trump—linked Khalil to baseless claims of voter fraud in the weeks and months following 2020 U.S. presidential election.
Khalil says the defamatory statements “were published and republished on a Fox social media account and on Dobbs’ show, and rebroadcast” on the network’s business channel on Dec. 10, 2020.
“A Lie Totally Devoid of Reality”
Khalil says in the lawsuit that Dobbs and Powell said that Khalil was one of four people who worked with voting software companies Dominion and Smartmatic to “rig or fix the results” of the election in favor of Biden. Naming him, Khalil alleges, was part of a “concerted, fraudulent effort” on behalf of Fox, Dobbs, Powell, and others “to overturn the demonstrable and irrefutable fact that Donald Trump had lost the election, in which there had been no rigging or manipulation of the election results.”
In the complaint, Khalil says that when Smartmatic and Dominion pushed back against claims from Dobbs and others, the defendants doubled down and “falsely identified Mr. Khalil, a Venezuelan businessman who … had no involvement in, or connection to, any United States election and no business...
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