Murdoch Acknowledges Fox News Hosts Endorsed Election Fraud Falsehoods

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.

Dominion’s latest filing also described how Paul D. Ryan, a former Republican speaker of the House and current member of the Fox Corporation board of directors, said in his deposition that he had told Mr. Murdoch and Mr. Murdoch’s son Lachlan, the chief executive officer, “Fox News should not be spreading conspiracy theories.” Mr. Ryan suggested that the network pivot and “move on from Donald Trump and stop spouting election lies.”

In a brief filed in court this month, Dominion lawyers revealed private text messages and emails that showed hosts including Mr. Carlson repeatedly insulting and mocking Trump advisers like Ms. Powell.

“Sidney Powell is lying by the way. I caught her. It’s insane,” Mr. Carlson wrote on Nov. 18, 2020, to Laura Ingraham, who hosts the prime-time Fox News show that airs after his.

Ms. Ingraham responded: “Sidney is a complete nut. No one will work with her. Ditto with Rudy.”

Mr. Carlson continued, “Our viewers are good people and they believe it,” making it clear that he did not.
The hypocrisy is astounding. Democrats have been election deniers for decades but the media never wants to talk about that.
 

18 U.S. Code § 595 - Interference by administrative employees of Federal, State, or Territorial Governments​


016 Georgia Code
Title 21 - Elections
Chapter 2 - Elections and Primaries Generally
Article 15 - Miscellaneous Offenses
§ 21-2-604. Criminal solicitation to commit election fraud; penalties​

Universal Citation: GA Code § 21-2-604 (2016)
(a) (1) A person commits the offense of criminal solicitation to commit election fraud in the first degree when, with intent that another person engage in conduct constituting a felony under this article, he or she solicits, requests, commands, importunes, or otherwise attempts to cause the other person to engage in such conduct.

(2) A person commits the offense of criminal solicitation to commit election fraud in the second degree when, with intent that another person engage in conduct constituting a misdemeanor under this article, he or she solicits, requests, commands, importunes, or otherwise attempts to cause the other person to engage in such conduct.

(b) (1) A person convicted of the offense of criminal solicitation to commit election fraud in the first degree shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than three years.

(2) A person convicted of the offense of criminal solicitation to commit election fraud in the second degree shall be punished as for a misdemeanor.
 
The number of election deniers in the repub party is astounding. In Wisconsin, the repub who lost by 14 point and refuses to concede is now repub party chair. It is a disease in the repub party.

 
Leatherface Lake is still at it, despite zero evidence that there was anything suspicious about the AZ election. It's just a grift.
Yup, she learned from trump, that she can make the "election fraud" claim continue until she collects lots of money from her mindless cult. I expect it will continue for months, or as in trump's case, years. I wonder if he is the repub nominee in 2024 and loses again if he will continue grifting his stupid cult. OF COURSE HE WILL!
 
Tucker, Hannity, Murdoch

They all admitted they’ve been scamming their viewers with this stolen election lie

But those viewers don’t care
The people who watch FOX want their opinions to be confirmed, so FOX confirms them. If FOX told their viewers, "There is no evidence that Trump was cheated out of re election" FOX would lose a lot of these viewers.
 
The people who watch FOX want their opinions to be confirmed, so FOX confirms them. If FOX told their viewers, "There is no evidence that Trump was cheated out of re election" FOX would lose a lot of these viewers.
Exactly. Fox knows it. They’ve admitted it
 
Your ignorance of my politics just makes this more sad.

You now know what has happened. We've been telling you for years that they're lying to you. It's on you to man up and admit it.

Early indications are not positive.
Now projecting due to your own gullibility and lack of self-awareness. You’ve swallowed lies about Donald Trump for years and repeated said lies. It’s on you to man up and admit what a tool you were. All indications show you aren’t man enough to do so and will never be.
 
The filing also revealed that Murdoch referred to some of Trump’s 2020 election lies as “bulls**t and damaging.”

 

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