Rupert Murdoch: We Lied About The Stolen Election
Hard to see how Dominion doesn’t win their civil suit against Fox now:
Rupert Murdoch, chairman of the conservative media empire that owns Fox News, acknowledged in a deposition that several hosts for his networks promoted the false narrative that the election in 2020 was stolen from former President Donald J. Trump, court documents released on Monday showed.
“They endorsed,” Mr. Murdoch said under oath in response to direct questions about the hosts Sean Hannity, Jeanine Pirro, Lou Dobbs and Maria Bartiromo, a legal filing by Dominion Voting Systems said. “I would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing it in hindsight.”
Mr. Murdoch’s remarks, which he made last month as part of the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox by Dominion, added to the evidence that Dominion has accumulated in an attempt to prove its central allegation: The people running the country’s most popular news network knew Mr. Trump’s claims of voter fraud during the 2020 election were false but broadcast them anyway.
Can’t wait for Trump’s response to this…
The quotes are just delicious.
When asked why Fox continues to give a platform to Lindell—who continues to this day to spout lies about Dominion— Murdoch agreed that “It is not red or blue, it is green.”
Rupert Murdoch acknowledged in his deposition that numerous Fox hosts had “endorsed at times this false notion of a stolen election.”
Q. And you could have said to Suzanne Scott or to the hosts, “Stop putting Rudy Giuliani on the air?”
Rupert Murdoch. “I could have. But I didn’t.”
This trial is taking place in Wilmington, but you wouldn’t know it from the News Journal’s lack of coverage.
I hear Hobby Lobby is giving out gift cards to the defendants…