Recent revelations from the hearings into the January 6 attack on the US Capitol have shown that former President Trump knew that he lost the 2020 presidential election and was informed that there had been no fraud. That did not stop him though from insisting that he had won and spouting unfounded claims and conspiracy theories in an attempt to overturn the valid results.
Rightwing news media and Trump loyalists went along for the ride even when it was evident that there was “no there, there.” Now the chickens are coming home to roost, with talk of potential criminal prosecution for the former president and billion-dollar lawsuits for those TV news outlets involved, including Fox News.
Fox News, along with Newsmax and One America News Network (OAN), are facing lawsuits from two companies that provided voting machines and software used in the 2020 elections. Those companies, Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic, were at the center of one of the many baseless conspiracy theories that were fed to the American public around the clock, including on primetime viewing. They are suing Fox News for $1.6 billion and $2.7 billion, respectively.
Two weeks after the election, Trump’s election campaign was tasked with looking into allegations that votes were being switched from Trump to Biden on Dominion voting machines using Smartmatic software, supposedly developed for former Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. The researchers ...
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