Donald Trump Rails Against Rupert Murdoch After Latest Revelations In Dominion Defamation Lawsuit – Deadline
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Donald Trump attacked Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch following the latest revelations from Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit against the media company.
“Why is Rupert Murdoch throwing his anchors under the table which also happens to be killing his case and infuriating his viewers who will flock again – they already are,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social, before he said made further unsubstantiated and false claims that the 2020 presidential election was rigged.
In their most recent filing, released Monday, Dominion lawyers focused on Murdoch’s post-election role. According to the filing, Murdoch said in a recent affidavit that some Fox News anchors “corroborated” Trump’s election claims. Murdoch found these allegations “bullish – and damaging” and in his affidavit he acknowledged that he “wished we had been stronger in prosecuting” the 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 look too frightened and scared to expose the massive amounts of voter fraud and irregularities already found, and it would actually help them with the lawsuit. Instead, FoxNews wants to silence its anchors and reporters, the reason so many of its viewers have fled.”
Dominion sued Fox News and Fox Corp. to $1.6 billion and alleged that Fox hosts and guests defamed the voting systems company when they reinforced false claims that the voting systems company was involved in election rigging. Through a barrage of texts, emails and testimonies, Dominion is attempting to show that Fox personalities and executives knew the claims were false but, fearing losing the Trump-supported audience, introduced them to the network program anyway .
In its filing released Monday, Fox News claims Dominion takes an “extreme, unsupported view” of the defamation law as the network reported allegations by a sitting President of the United States. It also claims that Dominion’s release of emails and text messages is “about what will make headlines than what will stand up to legal and factual scrutiny.”
Trump recently berated Fox News for treating a potential rival for the Republican nomination, Ron DeSantis, favorably.