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Fox hosts didn’t believe 2020 election fraud claims
Associated Press ^ | February 17, 2023 | Randall Chase

Posted on 02/16/2023 10:09:23 PM PST by Olog-hai

Hosts at Fox News had serious concerns about allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election being made by guests who were allies of former President Donald Trump, according to court filings in a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against the network.

“Sidney Powell is lying,” about having evidence for election fraud, Tucker Carlson told a producer about the attorney on Nov. 16, 2020, according to an excerpt from an exhibit that remains under seal.

The internal communication was included in a redacted summary judgment brief filed Thursday by attorneys for Dominion Voting Systems.

Carlson also referred to Powell in a text as an “unguided missile,” and “dangerous as hell.” Fellow host Laura Ingraham, meanwhile, told Carlson that Powell is “a complete nut. No one will work with her. Ditto with Rudy,” referring to former New York mayor and Trump supporter Rudy Giuliani.

Sean Hannity, meanwhile, said in a deposition “that whole narrative that Sidney was pushing, I did not believe it for one second,” according to Dominion’s filing. […]

Fox’s counterclaim is based on New York’s “anti-SLAAP” law. Such laws are aimed at protecting people trying to exercise their First Amendment rights from being intimidated by “strategic lawsuits against public participation,” or SLAPPs. …

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: 2020; actors; closetliberals; dominion; donaldtrump; foxnews; hannity; ofcoursenot; powell; qtardpowell; randallchase; seanhannity; sidneypowell; trump; tucker; tuckercarlson; weak
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1 posted on 02/16/2023 10:09:23 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

It sounds more like that they didn’t believe Sidney Powell, not that they didn’t believe there were problems with the 2020 election.


2 posted on 02/16/2023 10:15:40 PM PST by Jonty30 (THE URGE TO SAVE THE WORLD IS ALMOST ALWAYS AN URGE TO RULE IT)
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To: Olog-hai

They enjoy Biden in he White Hut. The more outrageous he is, the more they get to scream loudly and affect indignant poses.

It’s all bullcrap.

And I remember Tucker a week before the election saying he would no longer discuss Hunter Biden and his struggles because Hunter was his friend. It’s all Kibuki theater.


3 posted on 02/16/2023 10:22:21 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: Olog-hai

They are entertainers and news readers. Their opinions mean squat.


4 posted on 02/16/2023 10:24:01 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: Olog-hai

Whether the individual Fox Hosts believed in the Voter Fraud or not, I’m guessing if those hosts were interested in keeping their jobs as is, they were expected to agree with the corporate point of view. Murdoch and Sons would have wanted the names and recent performance reviews of ‘ungrateful and troublesome’ hosts for further
deliberations. That’s how humongous industry-clusters often work. Ask someone from Facebook or Twitter what happens when you buck the system. Sean knows what side his bread is buttered on.


5 posted on 02/16/2023 10:26:48 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Olog-hai
“Sidney Powell is lying,” about having evidence for election fraud, Tucker Carlson told a producer about the attorney on Nov. 16, 2020

Well, if we’re being honest, it turned out Powell didn’t have any evidence to support her claim, which was primarily about Dominion voting machines.

To be clear, I am completely opposed to electronic voting, and I was a huge supporter of Powell and Trump on this site at the time.

But they failed to make the case, unfortunately. Didn’t even really try is what it looked like.

Now Dominion is even suing companies like Fox for defamation. And it looks like Dominion is now going to win.

Which is horrible news for anyone who wants to stop voting machines.

Why hasn’t Trump fought harder?

6 posted on 02/16/2023 10:28:25 PM PST by Golden Eagle (The LGBT indoctrination agenda is designed to outlaw the Bible, and anyone who believes it.)
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To: Golden Eagle

They were stonewalled / ridiculed the entire time


7 posted on 02/16/2023 10:31:39 PM PST by TheElectionWasStolen
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To: Olog-hai

why would Sidney Powell, lie? why would Gen. Flynn lie? why would Mike Lindell, lie? or Giuliani? or Bannon, or Navarro? what would they have to gain by lying?

truly it would have gone far easier for them and they would have been far better off just toeing the ruling class line that claims of election fraud are always ‘baseless.’


8 posted on 02/16/2023 10:33:56 PM PST by dadfly
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To: Olog-hai

Paul Ryan

“We have to support illegals cause they are Catholics too”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/paul-ryan-working-behind-the-scenes-to-push-comprehensive-immigration-legislation/2013/07/10/e75edb2e-e8ce-11e2-a301-ea5a8116d211_story.html

All u need to know

Him and deep state neocon Murdochs and their posh lefty bitches


9 posted on 02/16/2023 10:40:00 PM PST by wardaddy (Truth is treason in the Empire of lies)
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To: TheElectionWasStolen

Trump has had time and money to put a good case against Dominion together, if there is one that can be made.

His personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, and one of his top activists, Mike Lindell, are also being sued by Dominion, but Trump is completely uninvolved with either case. Reports also exist Trump never paid Giuliani for his services.

Why is this? Is there no possible case against Dominion that Trump thinks can be made? He thinks voting machines are 100% on the up and up?

Based on his lack of action, it’s starting to look that way. And it doesn’t matter what Trump SAYS, only what he DOES. If anything.


10 posted on 02/16/2023 10:43:17 PM PST by Golden Eagle (The LGBT indoctrination agenda is designed to outlaw the Bible, and anyone who believes it.)
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To: wardaddy

Did Paul Ryan actually say that? Lol!
I hope he was joking.


11 posted on 02/16/2023 10:44:56 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Olog-hai

Anyone believes Biden got 12 million more than the Kenyan in 2008 needs to see someone professional

And the GOPe beat every single barometer and bellwether known to man historically as indicative of the national winner

By a long shot

Trump got a record real votes

Beat by mail in fraud and engineered in plain sight as needed by extended voting counts in high minority metro areas in purple states

This is what happens when u have no independent media and the Republican Party wanted trump gone too so they went along

Now look around u even on this forums the squishes and quislings out in force already


12 posted on 02/16/2023 10:45:41 PM PST by wardaddy (Truth is treason in the Empire of lies)
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To: dadfly

Maybe Sidney Powell did lie, because itbwas her job to make ridiculous the idea of fraudulent voting machines?


13 posted on 02/16/2023 10:53:06 PM PST by Jonty30 (THE URGE TO SAVE THE WORLD IS ALMOST ALWAYS AN URGE TO RULE IT)
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To: Golden Eagle

Please tell us what court case she was allowed to present her evidence of Dominion fraud in?


14 posted on 02/16/2023 10:55:37 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: wardaddy

I’m no squish. I’m asking where TF is tough guy Trump on these Dominion lawsuits. I want to see Dominion shut down. Where is he?


15 posted on 02/16/2023 10:56:04 PM PST by Golden Eagle (The LGBT indoctrination agenda is designed to outlaw the Bible, and anyone who believes it.)
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To: DesertRhino

There’s court cases going on right now, FYI. That is the point of this article.

Why isn’t Trump commenting in Dominion, instead of freaking Rihanna?


16 posted on 02/16/2023 10:58:52 PM PST by Golden Eagle (The LGBT indoctrination agenda is designed to outlaw the Bible, and anyone who believes it.)
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To: Jonty30

No. She is a good attorney. The court denied admission of much that she had


17 posted on 02/16/2023 11:02:18 PM PST by Nifster ( EI see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: DesertRhino

Precisely


18 posted on 02/16/2023 11:02:38 PM PST by Nifster ( EI see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: DesertRhino

Precisely


19 posted on 02/16/2023 11:02:40 PM PST by Nifster ( EI see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: Golden Eagle
Why hasn’t Trump fought harder?

He was busy simultaneously fighting the left and their lies, (and losing badly) while being backstabbed by the retards and saboteurs and family grifters (oy!) he handpicked while he did NOTHING to secure his re-election.

I believe those fux newz saying voting fraud doesn't exist through demonion machines are $cared and have become ¢oward$ under the pressure.

20 posted on 02/16/2023 11:02:53 PM PST by Captainpaintball (America needs a (temporary) CONSERVATIVE dictator to return it to a Constitutional Republic. )
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