“Do the executives understand how much credibility and trust we’ve lost with our audience?” a text by Tucker Carlson read. “We’re playing with fire, for real....an alternative like Newsmax could be devastating to us.”
Dominion Voting Systems filed a motion for summary judgment Thursday in its $1.6-billion defamation case against Fox News, claiming Rupert Murdoch’s network knowingly pushed a false narrative based on former President Trump’s bogus claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
Dominion’s filing lays out some of the behind-the-scenes comments by Fox News executives and on-air talent expressing their skepticism of Trump’s effort to use a ragtag team of lawyers, such as Sidney Powell, and surrogates to wage a vigorous campaign to overturn his loss to President Biden.
“Sidney Powell is a bit nuts. Sorry but she is.” host Laura Ingraham said to Hannity and Tucker Carlson on Nov. 15, 2020. Even Murdoch stated Trump’s claims were false, telling Fox News Media Chairman Suzanne Scott two days before the election, “if Trump becomes a sore loser we should watch Sean especially and others don’t sound the same.”
Based on the evidence, the surge of Newsmax caused a full-scale panic inside of Fox News. Carlson expressed concerns in a text to his producer that the voter fraud story could energize rival conservative networks.Newsmax is off DirecTV, blaming liberal pressure. The satellite TV company says the move is to keep customer bills low in the face of cord-cutting.
Scott contacted Fox Corp. Executive Chairman Lachlan Murdoch to agree on a plan that day to win viewers back. In the weeks that followed, Fox News gave ample time to press conferences with Powell and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, which Murdoch described as “really crazy stuff” and damaging. Dominion has to prove that Fox News spread Trump’s lies with actual malice. The motion said the willful dissemination of false claims was spread by people throughout Fox News.
Fox News argued that the amount Dominion is asking has “no connection” to the company’s financial value “or any supposed injury it suffered” as a result of the network’s reporting.
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