Dominion’s CEO defends Fox News’ settlement decision, saying “All the facts we discovered during the case have already come to light.”

Dominion Voting Systems CEO John Poulos defended the $787.5 billion settlement with Fox News and Fox Corp. Good morning America that “all the facts we discovered during the case have already come to light”.

Under the terms of the settlement, Fox News is under no obligation to issue an on-air apology or retraction. In a statement released shortly after a judge announced Tuesday afternoon that the parties had settled the case, Fox said, “We recognize the court’s rulings finding that certain allegations about Dominion are false.”

In his interview with George Stephanopoulos, Poulos said: “There was an admission, and it certainly wasn’t the way I wrote it. I’ve had some conversations with our team, my co-founder and myself, and at the end of the day, when the legal system is really about accountability, we feel like we have it.”

Stephanopoulos pressed Poulos on Fox’s testimony, noting that the network only confirmed that the judge said there were untruths.

“Is that enough?” asked Stephanopoulos.

Poulos replied: “Well, if you look at the documents, I think they speak for themselves. You admitted it. You have not asserted any falsehood. And the motion for summary judgment was extremely clear. In fact, he used the language ‘crystal clear’.”

The settlement came immediately after a jury was sworn in for the case and just before opening statements began. Fox Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch was to be one of the first figures called by Dominion to testify.

The settlement amount is one of the highest ever for a defamation lawsuit. Over the past month, a trove of internal Fox emails, text messages and other documents have been released in the case, showing that a number of executives and Fox figures believed many of the allegations of 2020 election fraud to be unfounded or even illegal is “unfounded”. “was crazy. But that didn’t stop the network’s hosts and guests from amplifying them. Fox said the coverage was related to then-President Donald Trump’s arguably newsworthy claims, but the judge in the case said it couldn’t if defense in the case is not used.

The discovery materials also contained embarrassing messages that may not have been shown to the jury, such as Tucker Carlson’s comment to a friend that he hated Trump “passionately.” In other posts, Carlson and co-hosts Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham talk about the network’s news site.

Hootan Yaghoobzadeh, chief executive and co-founder of Staple Street Capital, which owns a majority stake in Dominion, told CNBC Fox he had “never offered that much money” to settle the case before Tuesday.

In the GMA In an interview, Poulos said the fallout from the false allegations of voter fraud was “devastating” for Dominion.

“It was not about harassing our employees one day a week or a month. It continues to this day. All our partners who have chosen to work with us in the past are affected. Our customers have not been harassed or attacked for any reason other than their relationship with us.”

He added: “For us it was never really about Fox per se. It was to tell the truth and the media to tell the truth, and I think what was important to us was that people be held accountable when they recklessly and knowingly tell lies that have such devastating consequences… It’s a big step forward in democracy if our system can send a signal that media outlets are willing to pay a very high price for knowingly lying to whoever they are, on whatever channel.”

Dominion has six other lawsuits, including lawsuits against Newsmax and One America News, and against Trump allies Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell.

Speaking on CNN on Tuesday, lead attorney Justin Nelson told host Pamela Brown, “This is a civil lawsuit and we believe something happened here, that we’ve taken the civil lawsuit as far as we can go.” We could have made the verdict and under the defamation law you don’t get an excuse. You get money.”