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MIND BLOWINGLY NUTS’: FOX NEWS HOSTS AND EXECS REPEATEDLY DENOUNCED 2020 ELECTION FRAUD OFF-AIR—HERE ARE THEIR MOST SCATHING COMMENTS

Alison Durkee Forbes Staff

Feb 17, 2023

TOPLINE

Fox News personalities and executives privately made clear they didn’t believe falsehoods being peddled by former President Donald Trump and his allies about fraud in the 2020 election despite pushing them on-air, a new court filing by Dominion Voting Systems alleges, part of a billion-dollar defamation suit the voting company is waging to hold Fox liable for its on-air claims.

KEY FACTS

Dominion filed a motion for summary judgment with the court as part of its long-running defamation suit against Fox News, which included significant evidence that had previously not been made public in the case—most notably Fox officials allegedly denying the far-right conspiracy theory linking Dominion voting machines to election fraud.

Host Tucker Carlson said in text messages that far-right attorney Sidney Powell “is lying” and called her claims “insane” and “absurd,” saying it was “shockingly reckless” to push the Dominion fraud claims and Powell was “poison,” an “unguided missile” and “dangerous as hell” and he “hope[s] she’s punished.”

Carlson also wrote after the January 6 attack that Trump is “a demonic force, a destroyer,” and told host Laura Ingraham he “had to make” the Trump White House “disavow” Powell’s comments, calling her a “nut.”

Host Sean Hannity testified he “did not believe … for one second” that Powell’s voter fraud claims were true and it was “obvious” Powell’s allegations were false when she appeared on his program, also saying far-right attorney Rudy Giuliani was “acting like an insane person” and calling the lawyers “f’ing lunatics.”

Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott also testified she “had a number of conversations with [Hannity] where he wanted the President to accept the results” and said he had believed President Joe Biden had lawfully won the election “for some time.”

Ingraham called Powell a “complete nut” and added “ditto with Rudy [Giuliani],” telling Carlson that “no serious lawyer could believe what they were saying” and calling Giuliani “such an idiot.”

Fox host Lou Dobbs, who repeatedly hosted Powell on his program, agreed under oath that it was “false” to say that Powell revealed evidence of voter fraud on his show, and Dominion alleges that no Fox witness has testified there’s any evidence of voter fraud involving Dominion machines.

Powell’s evidence for her voter fraud claims was based on an email from someone who claimed to be “internally decapitated” and said, “the wind tells me I’m a ghost, but I don’t believe it”—a message that Fox host Maria Bartiromo acknowledged under oath was “nonsense” and “kooky,” but she still put Powell and her claims on her program anyway.

Fox Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch called Giuliani’s allegations “really crazy stuff” and “damaging,” said he should be taken “with a large grain of salt” and called the fact he was advising Trump “really bad.”

Fox Corporation Executive Raj Shah called the voter fraud claims “mind blowingly nuts” and said in a text message to Carlson’s producer Alex Pfeiffer, “So many people openly denying the obvious that Powell is clearly full of it,” to which Pfeiffer responded that Powell is a “f–king nutcase.”

Fox host Dana Perino described the Dominion fraud allegations in texts and emails as “total bs,” “insane” and “nonsense,” writing, “Where the hell did they even get this Venezuela tie to Dominion? I mean wtf.”

Fox host Brett Baier said on November 5, “There is NO evidence of fraud. None.”
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In https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2023/02/17/mind-blowingly-nuts-fox-news-hosts...