Posted on 04/09/2023 6:49:30 PM PDT by Coronal
WASHINGTON, April 9 (Reuters) - Fox News said on Sunday it has reached a settlement with a Venezuelan businessman Majed Khalil, ending a defamation case in which Khalil said he was falsely accused on air of helping to rig the 2020 U.S. presidential election against Donald Trump.
Khalil had filed a defamation suit against the news outlet and former host Lou Dobbs, arguing in filings that they had fabricated claims he and other Venezuelans were involved in "orchestrating a non-existent scheme to rig or fix the election" against the former Republican president.
A short letter sent to U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton in Manhattan on Saturday said the parties had reached a "confidential agreement to resolve this matter" and expected to file a joint stipulation of dismissal next week.
"This matter has been resolved amicably by both sides. We have no further comment," Fox News said in a statement on Sunday.
Lawyers for Fox News and Dobbs referred Reuters to the statement. Khalil's lawyer did not respond immediately to a request for comment.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
“Jury selection is set to begin on Thursday ahead of a separate trial in Dominion Voting Systems Corp’s $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News...”
The scent of settlement is in the air.
I think Dominion is too PO’d to settle.
Republicans need to start suing every news media source that claims the 2020 Presidential election was NOT fraudulent.
Republicans cannot prove that Donald Trump won the 2020 election.
However, the Political Left cannot prove that Donald Trump lost the election.
Fact - Trump lost the 2020 election by 43,000 votes spread across three states - Wisconsin, Georgia, and Arizona.
However, the Political Left has no idea how many ineligible voters cast a ballot in those three states.
And, the Political Left has no idea how many ballots have no verifiable chain of custody in those three states.
Yet, the Political Left news media have stated - on thousands of occasions - that all claims that the election was fraudulent have been debunked.
Wake up, Republicans.
Time to fight back.
Whut?
Russia needs to sue CNN, NBC, etc for the collusion accusations.
we need to do the same at a larger scale
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