Tucker Carlson, other Fox News stars privately mocked Trump's stolen election claims, Dominion suit shows

Tucker Carlson, other Fox News stars privately mocked Trump's stolen election claims, Dominion suit shows

Tucker Carlson, other Fox News stars privately mocked Trump's stolen election claims, Dominion suit shows

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Fox News star hosts and top executives privately disparaged former President Donald Trump's false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him, even as Fox News promoted some of those same fraud claims on the air, Dominion Voting Systems argues in court papers filed Thursday. The filing is part of Dominion's $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News and its parent company, Fox Corporation, in Delaware State Superior Court. The suit is scheduled to go to trial in April.

Dominion's partially redacted filing includes text messages and depositions from Fox founder Rupert Murdoch and other top executives, and between Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, and Sean Hannity. "Not a single Fox witness testified that they believe any of the allegations about Dominion are true," Dominion says in its 192-page filing. The document alleges that Fox News, losing viewers angry over its early coverage of Trump's loss, highlighted the false fraud claims to keep up with Newsmax, OANN, and other unabashedly pro-Trump networks.

Texts from Carlson, for one prominent example, would seem to bolster that case. Carlson referred to Trump as a "demonic force" after the election and called pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell an "unguided missile" who is "dangerous as hell" and was obviously "lying" about vote-fraud conspiracy theories. "Our viewers are good people and they believe it," he added.

But when Fox News correspondent Jacqui Heinrich fact-checked Trump's vote fraud claims in a tweet, Carlson texted Ingraham and Hannity: "Please get her fired. Seriously ... It needs to stop immediately, like tonight. It's measurably hurting the company. The stock price is down. Not a joke." Heinrich had deleted her tweet by the following morning.

Dominion has to prove that Fox executives and TV personalities purposefully "spread and endorsed" allegations they knew to be false, harming Dominion's business and reputation. In a countersuit also filed Tuesday, Fox Corp. argues that Dominion is seeking an exaggerated amount of money to try and stifle constitutionally protected speech. Fox says Trump's election-fraud claims were objectively newsworthy and got balanced coverage.

Proving that Fox acted with "actual malice" — knowingly spreading harmful lies or failing to do due diligence — is a difficult burden to meet and often fails in court, The New York Times reports. "But legal experts said Dominion's arguments were stronger than most," thanks to damning text messages and the fruit of eight months of depositions.

 

[quaawaa]

But when Fox News correspondent Jacqui Heinrich fact-checked Trump's vote fraud claims in a tweet, Carlson texted Ingraham and Hannity: "Please get her fired. Seriously ... It needs to stop immediately, like tonight. It's measurably hurting the company. The stock price is down. Not a joke." Heinrich had deleted her tweet by the following morning.

Literally the exact opposite of what the headline says. Tucker fired someone who denied election fraud. Fuck journos.

 

[Bland Crumbs]

Dramatization of Crumb's experience:
Wow man they disparaged him? I am glad this article provides the exact text of the disparagement!

Well I guess I will just click on the first link. Ah The Washington Post.
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The fuck was this written by an autistic AI?

Oh no direct excerpts here either. Wonder why.

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Hannity is whatever he just says whatever is safe and best for his image.

I have seen Carlson pretty much say he thought 2020 was a scam on an open in the last couple of months so even if at one point he did not think there was fraud it kind of looks like he does now.

Powell also was a complete mess and if she had handled shit differently she might have been more effective.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Literally the exact opposite of what the headline says. Tucker fired someone who denied election fraud. Fuck journos.
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Headlines can always get you when you don’t choose to read the rest of the fine print. It’s easy to deceive, but it’s hard to think with your brain when your masters force you to get back in line.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

Literally the exact opposite of what the headline says. Tucker fired someone who denied election fraud. Fuck journos.
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It says he wanted the fact checker gone because the tweet was hurting Fox's reputation with viewers, not that he believed Trump's election claims.

 

[Corpun]

Instantly knew this was bullshit journo babble when they said Tucker said this. Sounds to me like they're trying to start retarded beef.

 

[The Nothingness]

Literally the exact opposite of what the headline says. Tucker fired someone who denied election fraud. Fuck journos.
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And fuck those lolbertarians who fell for the headline just to take a disingenuous victory lap.

 

[Meat Target]

Headlines can always get you when you don’t choose to read the rest of the fine print. It’s easy to deceive, but it’s hard to think with your brain when your masters force you to get back in line.

Just what I expect from Potomac Pravda and the mouth-breathing midwits who read it.

Instantly knew this was bullshit journo babble when they said Tucker said this. Sounds to me like they're trying to start retarded beef.

Tucker normally doesn't take this kind of shit lying down, but I'm not sure if he'll clap back if it's regarding ongoing litigation.

 

[byuu]

Literally the exact opposite of what the headline says. Tucker fired someone who denied election fraud. Fuck journos.
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The headline obviously refers to:

Carlson referred to Trump as a "demonic force" after the election and called pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell an "unguided missile" who is "dangerous as hell" and was obviously "lying" about vote-fraud conspiracy theories.

 

[Freya]

I really doubt tucker carlson is actually retarded enough to believe trumps claims.

 

[Corpun]

Tucker normally doesn't take this kind of shit lying down, but I'm not sure if he'll clap back if it's regarding ongoing litigation.

Yeah, remember when he was having a nice dinner with his wife and kids and some asshole decided to call his daughter a whore to his whole families face. Tucker justifiably told that guy to fuck off and threatened to beat the little weasel.

Media ran that story like Tucker is an unhinged lunatic when that is a tame response to what should have happened. I've always believed Tucker hides his power level and the way he gets treated by all these rags and even his own people at Fox a lot of the time really sells me on that theory.

 

[SBG]

Powell also was a complete mess and if she had handled shit differently she might have been more effective.

Seemed Powell was hoping to get some kind of discovery going that would allow them to look into the voting irregularities and obtain evidence, then the courts took the position that she needed evidence that no one on Trump's side had any legal ability to obtain (hence going to court over it).

I've never heard a better way they could have handled it, since the whole situation is just sorta weird for how many government officials were fine just letting all allegations go undebunked.

 

[AnotherPleb]

Seemed Powell was hoping to get some kind of discovery going that would allow them to look into the voting irregularities and obtain evidence, then the courts took the position that she needed evidence that no one on Trump's side had any legal ability to obtain (hence going to court over it).

I've never heard a better way they could have handled it, since the whole situation is just sorta weird for how many government officials were fine just letting all allegations go undebunked.

"well yeah, we clearly broke the law but the judges know how the game's played so it's now legal for us"

 

[Bland Crumbs]

Seemed Powell was hoping to get some kind of discovery going that would allow them to look into the voting irregularities and obtain evidence, then the courts took the position that she needed evidence that no one on Trump's side had any legal ability to obtain (hence going to court over it).

I've never heard a better way they could have handled it, since the whole situation is just sorta weird for how many government officials were fine just letting all allegations go undebunked.

I meant how she behaved. Maybe it is hazy recollection but I recall some rather uncomfortable interviews.

 

[Harvey Danger]

So? I also disparaged Trump's claims, because he was just spouting off theories and hiring Rudy Giuliani to file late lawsuits that didn't ask for strong enough fixes.

Yet I still think 2020 was stolen, not because of what Trump said, but because I saw the evidence get disappeared in real time by Big Tech, the media, and the courts. I saw videos of fake ballots being harvested and counted, I saw website scrapers proving tens of thousands of dead people voted, I saw cities report they received 2x the number of votes than they had voters. I saw women doxing themselves on Twitter to prove someone double voted in their maiden names, and they all got banned for spreading misinformation.

And I saw the Dominion machines break down, report bad numbers, and screw over districts all over Election Night. It screwed over the real time NYT feed that so many commentators were relying on for state-by-state coverage. Trump focused a little too hard on them, because he wants 1 big bad guy to target, but he wasn't wrong to call them out, and Fox wasn't wrong to report on them.

So I will still call Trump a retard while I call the election a coordinated fraud. Anyone could see this shit happening in real time and comment on it without taking Trump seriously.

 

[SBG]

I meant how she behaved. Maybe it is hazy recollection but I recall some rather uncomfortable interviews.

Yeah I remember one awkward interview with Tucker where he basically took the stance the courts did and demand she present the evidence she was going to court to try and get.

It was a similar attitude much of the media took, which I think made it awkward for Powell when in interviews since it was a pretty insane uphill battle.

 

[MadStan]

Today the Judge Sanctioned Fox News for withholding evidence in the case. I know most KFers jerk-off to Fox News, but this is a pretty big deal. The Court case in not going well for Fox News at all and in all likelihood there is going to be a new round of Discovery that is going to tie Murdoch closer to Fox News Management than he wants to be tied.

This case is going to shake how we receive news in the United States and have some pretty large ramifications. It is a fascinating case.

 

[870EVO]

Today the Judge Sanctioned Fox News for withholding evidence in the case. I know most KFers jerk-off to Fox News,

Have you watched FOX news? Like the entirety of it? Most of it is thinly veneered Neo-Con talking points trying to convince you with vague notions of Patriotism. Tucker is the only one who really goes off the plantation, and that's earned him the ire of the entire establishment.

 

[Jimjamflimflam]

. I know most KFers jerk-off to Fox News,

Yeah, I suppose that strawman you constructed in your head does that. Thought that's pretty gay to be thinking of guys jerking off but you do you.

 

[MadStan]

Have you watched FOX news? Like the entirety of it? Most of it is thinly veneered Neo-Con talking points trying to convince you with vague notions of Patriotism. Tucker is the only one who really goes off the plantation, and that's earned him the ire of the entire establishment.

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I've some training in the area and I am amazed at how Tucker pulls it off. His choice of words, body language and how he combines it is the stuff of brilliance. He is no average talking head. If he wasn't in Fox News, he'd by the head of a cult. He is a natural and impressive.