After Donald Trump’s election loss in November 2020, executives and anchors at conservative Fox News broadcaster campaigned on the issue of the stolen election, but didn’t believe a word of it. That’s according to a memorandum filed Thursday, Feb. 16, in a Delaware court by the Dominion company, which was falsely accused of tampering with ballots with its voting machines. The company has filed a defamation lawsuit against Fox News, demanding $1.6 billion.
The climax of the controversy was reached during a memorable press conference on November 19, 2020 at Republican Party headquarters in Washington. Donald Trump’s advisors, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and attorney Sidney Powell, are stepping up allegations of fraud following the incumbent’s defeat. Without providing evidence. Sidney Powell is particularly implicating Dominion, a company accused of developing a system to allow Hugo Chavez to rig his own elections in Venezuela and linked to left-wing Hungarian-born billionaire George Soros and the Clinton Foundation.
The software used by Dominion, Ms Powell had accused, “can define and run an algorithm that has likely worked across the country to take a certain percentage of President Trump’s vote and return it to President Biden.” Dominion’s attorneys said multiplied the interviews and received written exchanges from this period. Reading her 192-page application reveals that the Tory channel’s star presenters (Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham) and executives knew full well they were relaying lies.
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“Really crazy stuff that’s going to cause damage,” said station owner Rupert Murdoch while listening to Rudy Giuliani’s press conference. “Sidney Powell is lying,” wrote Fox News’ far-right anchor Tucker Carlson on Nov. 16. “I have a high tolerance for weirdos, but Powell is too much,” he later wrote, before adding, “I hope she gets punished.” “I didn’t believe that whole story Sidney told me for a second,” Sean Hannity later said.
But there was no need to anger the Trumpist electorate. Fox News is the number one news channel in the United States, the favorite channel of conservative Republicans. Leaving that vein to Newsmax, an even more right-wing broadcaster, is out of the question. The drama begins on election night, November 3, 2020. Fox News is the first to announce Joe Biden’s victory in Arizona, the crucial state for winning the presidential election.
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