A voting machine company , Dominion , is suing the cable news channel for $1.5 Billion for knowingly pushing Donald Trump’s false comments about their machine producing errors in the 2020 Presidential election….
A second voting machine company is lining up to sue for $2.5 Billion on for the same reason….
Many of the top Fox talking heads are on the line in the cases…..
Pre-Trial testimony has revealed that the staff and management discussed Trump’s complaints being false and unbelievable even to them….
The case goes beyond just reportinng the news, into lending a political hand of support to someone that drives their ratings and share price….
While he is not a defendant in the YUGE civil case?
His name will come up repeatedly …..
Add this to long list of Trump’s legal cases coming at him….
Fox News suffered a significant setback on Friday in its defense against a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit that claims it lied about voter fraud in the 2020 election.
A judge in Delaware Superior Court said the case, brought by Dominion Voting Systems, was strong enough to conclude that Fox hosts and guests had repeatedly made false claims about Dominion machines and their supposed role in a fictitious plot to steal the election from President Donald J. Trump.
“The evidence developed in this civil proceeding,” Judge Eric M. Davis wrote, demonstrates that it “is CRYSTAL clear that none of the statements relating to Dominion about the 2020 election are true.”
Judge Davis said the case would proceed to trial, for a jury to weigh whether Fox spread false claims about Dominion while knowing that they were untrue, and to determine any damages. The trial is expected to begin April 17.
But he rejected much of the heart of Fox’s defense: that the First Amendment protected the statements made on its air alleging that the election had somehow been stolen. Fox has argued that it was merely reporting on allegations of voter fraud as inherently newsworthy and that any statements its hosts made about supposed fraud were covered under the Constitution as opinion.
“It appears oxymoronic to call the statements ‘opinions’ while also asserting the statements are newsworthy allegations and/or substantially accurate reports of official proceedings,” Judge Davis said.
For example, in a “Lou Dobbs Tonight” broadcast on Nov. 24, 2020, Mr. Dobbs said: “I think many Americans have given no thought to electoral fraud that would be perpetrated through electronic voting; that is, these machines, these electronic voting companies including Dominion, prominently Dominion, at least in the suspicions of a lot of Americans.”….
Note…
Of those who have supported the serial liar?
He leave ‘s a trail of court cases, civil fines , arrests and for some?
Jail time….
To pretend that Fox News ,which I have long referred to as the Republican News Network ,is a legitimate news network is idiotic after all these revelations.
This is strictly “news entertainment “ in much the same vein as the WWE is “sports entertainment.”
And it looks like they are going to pay BIG TIME for carrying the water for a guy they laughed at behind the camera…..
BIG TIME could = a BILLION DOLLARS…..
Two lawsuits face value $4 Billion