Oh my. A new court filing by Dominion Voting Systems shows that Fox News anchors and producers privately acknowledged that Trump and his minions' allegations of election fraud were false despite their network promoting those claims. Via ABC News:
In a nearly 200-page document filed as part of its billion-dollar defamation suit against the network, Dominion Voting Systems shared emails, texts, testimony, and other private communications from Fox News personnel that cast doubt on claims that Dominion's voting machines had somehow rigged the presidential election in Joe Biden's favor.
The voting company is suing Fox News for $1.6 billion for allegedly defaming the company in the aftermath of the 2020 election.
"Fox knew," according to the filing, which cited excerpts of evidence gathered as part of the suit. "From the top down, Fox knew 'the Dominion stuff' was 'total BS.' Yet despite knowing the truth -- or at minimum, recklessly disregarding that truth -- Fox spread and endorsed these 'outlandish voter fraud claims' about Dominion even as it internally recognized the lies as 'crazy,' 'absurd,' and 'shockingly reckless.'"
Of course, that didn't stop them from jumping on the bandwagon:
In mid-November 2020, host Tucker Carlson texted one of his producers that "there wasn't enough fraud to change the outcome" of the election, and later said that Sidney Powell, one of Trump's attorneys and a vocal promulgator of election denialism, "is lying."
Months later, on Jan. 6, Carlson called Trump "a demonic force, a destroyer," in a text message to the same producer.
Dana Perino, an anchor, called allegations of voter fraud against Dominion "total bs," "insane," and "nonsense."
