A former producer for Fox News host Tucker Carlson made his contempt clear for the “Tucker Carlson Tonight” audience after he referred to those who falsely believed the 2020 presidential election was stolen as “terrorists” and incestuous.

“Like negotiating with terrorists,” former producer Alex Pfeiffer said in a text, “but especially dumb ones. Cousin fucking types, not saudi [sic] royalty.”

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The new messages are part of a trove of evidence related to a $1.6 billion lawsuit leveled against Fox News by Dominion Voting Systems. Dominion alleges that Fox News helped spread former President Donald Trump’s election lies despite knowing the claims were false.

Hundreds of internal text messages obtained through the lawsuit spell out how top talent at Fox News and Fox media mogul Rupert Murdoch expressed frustration with the mounting lies while still allowing those lies to get airtime.

For instance, Fox News routinely platformed Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and campaign lawyer, Sidney Powell, despite knowing that they were spouting baseless conspiracies. One of those false claims from Powell was that she had an affidavit linking Dominion to Venezuela in a plot to give the election to President Joe Biden.

“Sidney Powell is lying, by the way,” Carlson said in a text to fellow host Laura Ingraham on Nov. 17, 2020. “It’s insane.”

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“I hate him passionately.”

- Tucker Carlson, referring to former-President Donald Trump in a private text message.

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