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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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To: Golden Eagle

“I’m asking where TF is tough guy Trump on these Dominion lawsuits.”

We don’t know the if/how/what about his involvement behind the scenes. He could be providing some heavy financial assistance to other defendants for their cases.

How would it help him in regard to 2024 to be on camera whining 24/7? People already KNOW the truth, and his constant nagging about it won’t help the cause.


61 posted on 02/17/2023 3:38:50 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Stupid is supposed to hurt.)
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To: Olog-hai

... and when Demos have made the same claims for previous elections the silence has been deafening.


62 posted on 02/17/2023 3:41:51 AM PST by The Duke (Never Retreat, Never Surrender!)
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To: dadfly

“the smart lie is and was always to lie that there was never any election fraud”

Well said. It just confirms the fact that they’re whores.


63 posted on 02/17/2023 3:43:27 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Stupid is supposed to hurt.)
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To: mbrfl

“Why exactly Trump wasn’t able to do more as President to prevent the steal,”

Immediately after taking office he appointed Chris Kobach to investigate and try to fix this — “Election Czar” or something.

To accomplish this, the states had to play ball, as elections are entirely in states’ jurisdictions. The corrupt states refused to cooperate in any way, including providing data.

No sense in continuing a project that has a zero percent chance of succeeding — ever.


64 posted on 02/17/2023 3:51:32 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Stupid is supposed to hurt.)
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To: Olog-hai

Tucker fans hardest hit. Glad I never trusted the bow tied reader.


65 posted on 02/17/2023 3:54:10 AM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: no-to-illegals

“There are no journalists …… Being a journalist is hard work and dangerous.”

There are a few. James O’Keefe — who has been silenced for now. Darren Beattie. Natalie Winters. MSM cable news would not ever give them exposure, though.


66 posted on 02/17/2023 3:54:38 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Stupid is supposed to hurt.)
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To: Olog-hai

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67 posted on 02/17/2023 4:07:52 AM PST by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: Olog-hai

Sold out in order to keep their jobs at the cost of losing their cred. They can get away with this because of their ratings.


68 posted on 02/17/2023 4:35:27 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (“Racist” is the new “Nazi”.)
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To: Olog-hai

Their loss, not mine! I have never watched any of them since Nov 2020.


69 posted on 02/17/2023 4:37:50 AM PST by eeriegeno (Checks and balances??? What checks and balances?)
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To: Olog-hai

No one cares what fox hosts think.


70 posted on 02/17/2023 4:43:05 AM PST by chopperk ( )
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To: Olog-hai

Fox News hires JOURNALISTS, just like the rest. Otherwise, the term “2000 Mules” might actually be something that would get their attention.


71 posted on 02/17/2023 4:46:06 AM PST by BobL
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To: McGruff

“I’d like to hear Tucker Carlson comment on this. I’d be disappointed if he believed the fair election lies.”

He throws out sarcastic remarks about the supposed fair elections that garnered the “hermit” Biden many more votes than Obama got, as he did last night.


72 posted on 02/17/2023 4:54:21 AM PST by odawg
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To: Golden Eagle

“I want to see Dominion shut down”

Is the problem with the machines themselves or with those that used the machines?

The user manual for at least one model explains how vote totals can be distorted, and there are legitimate reasons doing that, believe it or not.

A voting machine with electronic chips in it can be suspicious, because you can’t see inside those chips and know what they can do.


73 posted on 02/17/2023 5:01:23 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: MayflowerMadam

Regrettably, democrats have spokespersons that are not journalists and conservatives journalists are constantly silenced, as was you mention


74 posted on 02/17/2023 5:15:10 AM PST by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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To: Nifster
Why do you want him to comment on an ongoing court case? That is stupid beyond belief.

Oh really? Please explain how Trump speaking put in support of his advocates who are being sued for a billion dollars apiece by Dominion voting systems is “stupid beyond belief.” Thank you.

75 posted on 02/17/2023 5:56:44 AM PST by Golden Eagle (The LGBT indoctrination agenda is designed to outlaw the Bible, and anyone who believes it.)
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To: GranTorino
The cia wanted everyone to look at the machines when the real fraud was mail in voting.

I think there is fraud in the machines myself, or at least the potential for massive fraud to be conducted much easier. They need to go.

76 posted on 02/17/2023 6:00:35 AM 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

“But they failed to make the case, unfortunately.”

On the contrary, some statisticians did make the case, but the evidence was never allowed in any court, despite what the MSM maintains.


77 posted on 02/17/2023 6:19:00 AM PST by odawg
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To: Jonty30
It sounds more like that they didn’t believe Sidney Powell, not that they didn’t believe there were problems with the 2020 election.

Exactly, that is the takeaway here.

78 posted on 02/17/2023 6:23:19 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: MayflowerMadam
It’s pretty clear that she did, as did Rudy. Didn’t you watch any of the hearings held in various states?

I did watch a lot of the hearings, as much as I could, and Rudy did have a lot of circumstancial evidence of questionable behavior, but nothing explicitly criminal. That would have taken more time tomfind, but they completely gave up after J6. Powell came onto the case later, but didn’t have much other than accusations. I believed a lot of her accusations, regarding how machines can be manipulated, but there was no hard evidence that they were, unless you can point me to it.

Have you seen her defense statement in the Dominion case that claims no reasonable person would have believed her evidence in the Trump case? I’m sad to see he reduced to that, but it clearly shows Dominion is in the driver’s seat right now.

And they were denied effective platforms to present the evidence.

There was one county in Michigan or somewhere they got access to a machine, they kept telling us was the mother lode, but nothing ever came of it. There were many calls for Trump to send in US Marshalls to secure some but he never did. No one else did anything either.

Tucker, Ingraham, Hannity, etc., knew it was in the best interest of their careers to follow the company line.

If even Trump himself isn’t going to fight Dominion, doesn’t look like anyone is. Except the weak members of the herd that Dominion has picked off, being the Trump advocates like Powell, Giuliani, and Lindell, who have no choice but to defend themselves. Where is Trump, protecting his flock?

79 posted on 02/17/2023 6:31:49 AM PST by Golden Eagle (The LGBT indoctrination agenda is designed to outlaw the Bible, and anyone who believes it.)
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To: JudyinCanada; All

“Biden surges into a bare lead to take him over the top”

What put Biden over the top in all of those cases was MAIL in ballots. Detroit, Milwaukee, Phoenix, Atlanta, Philadelphia all produced enough paper ballots to give the state to Biden.

Old fashioned ballot stuffing was employed in each of these states. I do not believe it had anything to do with Dominion voting machines. I do believe in 2000 Mules. That people were paid to pick up ballots and drop them off into boxes in all the metro areas.

What we need to do is STOP mail in voting. Any place it is employed. We lose because it is too easy to cheat. I have yet to see ANY PROOF of machines changing vote totals.


80 posted on 02/17/2023 6:36:22 AM PST by woodbutcher1963 ( )
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