Donald Trump has gone on the offensive against Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch following recent revelations from Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation suit against the media outlet.
“Why is Rupert Murdoch throwing his anchors under the table, which also happens to kill his cause and enrage his viewers who are going to leave in droves – they already are – they already are,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social before further debunking and false claims that the 2020 presidential election was rigged.
In their most recent filing, released Monday, Dominion lawyers focused on Murdoch’s role after the election. According to the filing, Murdoch said in a recent statement that some Fox News anchors “support” Trump’s election claims. Murdoch found these allegations “bullish – and damaging” and admitted in his statement that he “wished we were stronger in exposing” allegations of voter fraud.
Trump also wrote: “There was so much voter fraud and irregularities in the 2020 presidential election that it amazes me how weak and ineffective FoxNews is in the lawsuit against them. They seem too afraid and afraid to expose the massive amounts of voter fraud and irregularities that have already been found and that will really help them in court. Instead, FoxNews wants to silence its anchors and reporters, which is why so many of their viewers have fled.”
Dominion sued Fox News and Fox Corp. for $1.6 billion, alleging that Fox hosts and guests defamed the voting system company for supporting false allegations that the voting system company engaged in election rigging. Through a deluge of texts, emails and statements, Dominion is trying to show that Fox figures and executives knew the allegations were false but pushed them into the network show anyway, fearing to lose the Trump-backed audience .
In the filing released Monday, Fox News claims that Dominion has an “extreme, unsupported view” on defamation law as the network covered allegations by a sitting president of the United States. It also claims that Dominion’s output of email and text messages “is more about making headlines than standing up to legal and factual scrutiny.”
Trump recently reprimanded Fox News for giving positive treatment to a potential rival for the Republican nomination, Ron DeSantis.
In the filing, Dominion’s lawyers wrote that “Murdoch’s son-in-law and senior adviser to Trump, Jared Kushner, provided Fox with confidential information about Biden’s advertising and debate strategy during the 2020 presidential campaign.” Dominion said the allegation was based on material it collected from Murdoch, including his testimony and text messages.
Asked on Tuesday whether Biden was aware of reports that Murdoch shared the ads with Trump, White House deputy press secretary Olivia Dalton reiterated that “despite new revelations” about the 2020 campaign, the president won the election has.
“And revelations like this aren’t particularly surprising to anyone who tunes in to Fox News recently,” she said.
Source: Deadline
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