Giuliani Admits in Deposition He Never Attempted to Verify Claims
Allies of Donald Trump testified under oath that they had done little to verify debunked claims of fraud in the 2020 election before spreading them on the national stage, according to tapes of their depositions.
The video details responses from the Trump allies as a lawyer representing former Dominion Voting Systems executive Eric Coomer in his defamation case against them peppers them with questions about their allegations.
"Sometimes I go and look myself—when stuff comes up. This time I didn't have the time to do it." Giuliani continues: "It's not my job, in a fast-moving case, to go out and investigate every piece of evidence that was given to me. Otherwise, you're never going to write a story. You'll never come to a conclusion."
'What do you mean I have to verify if my evidence is real and factual before or after spewing it!?' -Old Rudy G
Thing is, they all know from Trump on down that the election fraud claims are bullshit and that Biden won in a fair election. These clowns are falling all over themselves now.
A Venezuelan businessman has sued the Fox News for defamation, claiming the network falsely and "xenophobically" linked him to the 2020 U.S. presidential election and claims of voter fraud.
In a complaint filed earlier this month, Majed Khalil says that former Fox Business host Lou Dobbs and guest Sidney Powell—both supporters of former President Donald Trump—linked Khalil to baseless claims of voter fraud in the weeks and months following 2020 U.S. presidential election.
Khalil says in the lawsuit that Dobbs and Powell said that Khalil was one of four people who worked with voting software companies Dominion and Smartmatic to "rig or fix the results" of the election in favor of Biden.
Smartmatic Sues Lindell and MyPillow for Defamation
The Smartmatic voting machine company has filed a scathing defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump ally and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, alleging he concocted lies about a rigged presidential election to sell his products.
"Crazy like a fox. Mike Lindell knows exactly what he is doing, and it is dangerous," Smartmatic said in its lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Minnesota.
The suit, which also names the MyPillow company as a defendant, also alleges deceptive trade practices and seeks unspecified monetary damages. Dominion Vote Systems also sued Lindell last year for $1.3 billion in damages for the "enormous harm" it says Lindell created with his "viral disinformation campaign" about the presidential election.
Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
Lindell Sued for Defamation by Ex-Dominion Staffer
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has been served with another lawsuit—this time, from Eric Coomer, a former Dominion Voting Systems employee whom Lindell once accused of being a national traitor.
Lawyers for Coomer, who worked as Dominion's director of product strategy and security, filed a court complaint against Lindell on Monday to kick off a defamation case against the pillow CEO and his online platform Frank Speech.
Lindell was served with the lawsuit Tuesday at a mini-rally he hosted in Denver. "MyPillow and Frank Speech didn't do nothing. I don't even know if I've ever mentioned Eric Coomer," Lindell said. "They're trying to cancel Frank Speech, your favorite show!"
Your Lord knows very well what is in your heart. Your soul suffices this day as a reckoner against you. I need no witnesses. You do not listen to your soul, but listen instead to your anger and your rage.
Fox Producer Begged to Take Pirro Off the Air Due to Her Election Lies
The November 2020 email from an anguished Fox News news producer to colleagues sent up a flare amid a fusillade of false claims. The producer warned: Fox cannot let host Jeanine Pirro back on the air. She is pulling conspiracy theories from dark corners of the Web to justify Donald Trump's lies that the election had been stolen from him.
The existence of the email, confirmed by two people with direct knowledge of it, is first publicly disclosed by NPR. Fox News declined comment.
The producer's email is among the voluminous correspondence acquired by Dominion's attorneys as part of its discovery of evidence in a $1.6 billion defamation suit it filed against Fox News and its parent company.
"The producer warned: Fox cannot let host Jeanine Pirro back on the air. She is pulling conspiracy theories from dark corners of the Web to justify Donald Trump's lies that the election had been stolen from him." -snip
These Rightist do love their 4chan, 8kun, Zerohedge OAN and Stormfront "news" sources.
"The producer's email is among the voluminous correspondence acquired by Dominion's attorneys as part of its discovery of evidence in a $1.6 billion defamation suit it filed against Fox News and its parent company." -snip
Court Okays Another Defamation Suit Against Fox News
A defamation lawsuit against Fox Corporation, Fox News Network, and Lou Dobbs can proceed toward trial, a judge ruled Monday after concluding that a Venezuelan businessman had made sufficient claims of being unfairly accused of trying to corrupt the 2020 U.S. presidential election to be permitted to gather more evidence.
The lawsuit filed last year alleged that businessman Majed Khalil was defamed by Dobbs on "Lou Dobbs Tonight" and in tweets.
It said the former Fox personality joined with attorney Sidney Powell on a December 2020 show to claim that Khalil and three others designed and developed programs and machines to corrupt the presidential election.
Dominion Uses Fox CEO's Own Words to Get Access to Employment Contracts
Besieged by angry viewers, denounced by Donald Trump, questioned by some of its own stars, Fox News found itself in a near-impossible spot on Election Night 2020, after its election-analysis team announced before any other network that Joe Biden would win the pivotal swing state of Arizona.
Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott proved so flummoxed by what ensued that she warned colleagues, "We can't give the crazies an inch."
That is according to the account of a lawyer for Dominion Voting Systems, which is seeking $1.6 billion from Fox in a defamation suit over false allegations on the network that the company committed election fraud. A trial date is set for April in Delaware.
In a court proceeding earlier this week, Dominion's lawyer Justin Nelson revealed Scott's remarks while arguing that his legal team should be able to review the employment contract of 13 Fox News executives, including Scott's. Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric M. Davis ruled on Wednesday that Dominion is entitled to the contracts.
Additionally, Nelson argued that senior Fox News executives tried to stop pro-Trump network stars Lou Dobbs and Maria Bartiromo from booking Trump's campaign lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell on their shows in the aftermath of the election to push baseless voter fraud conspiracies.
sean hannity admitted he knew that trump lost the election. foxnews/murdoch is so screwed. but i guess hannity gets away with it?
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Your Lord knows very well what is in your heart. Your soul suffices this day as a reckoner against you. I need no witnesses. You do not listen to your soul, but listen instead to your anger and your rage.
They all knew Trump lost and the election wasn't stolen back in Nov of 2020. There was less money to be made in saying that and they're still scared of Trump's cult and their love to violence.
Newly Exposed Internal Messages Create Lega Nightmare for Fox News
A newly unsealed court filing shows that Fox News deliberately promoted bogus election claims they knew to be false.
The document, which pulls from a host of internal communications from Fox News employees involved in election coverage, includes comments and quotes revealing that producers, executives, and stars of the network knew that the election was not stolen and that fraud claims were bogus.
The communications suggest that Fox News zeroed in on fraud claims as a way to boost ratings and appease their conservative viewership, whom the company believed abandoned them after President Joe Biden won in Arizona.
Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich published a tweet the week after Election Day fact-checking a message from Donald Trump, who was relying on what he had seen on Fox: "There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised."
Tucker Carlson soon after sent a text to Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham stating, "Please get her fired. It needs to stop immediately, like tonight. It's measurably hurting the company. The stock price is down. Not a joke."
Related text messages showed the same prime-time hosts expressing outrage that their employer had called Arizona for the Democratic ticket, not because the call was wrong, but because the call led some of Fox's core audience to turn to other media outlets aligned with the right.
And so, according to Dominion's court filing and the internal communications it featured, Fox programming promoted ridiculous claims and promoted ridiculous voices in order to appease Republican voters—and keep them watching.
At one point, a Fox executive pointed to a fringe website promoting bizarre nonsense stating, "This type of conspiratorial reporting might be exactly what the disgruntled Fox News viewer is looking for."
A day later, reporter Kristin Fisher told viewers, referring to a Rudy Giuliani/Sidney Powell press conference, "So much of what he said was simply not true or has already been thrown out in court."
The reporter soon after received a call from her superior, who told her that Fox executives were "unhappy" with her accurate description of reality, and she needed to do a better job of "respecting our audience."
Evidently, "respecting" Fox viewers means telling them what they want to hear instead of what is true.
The messages also show that doubts extended to the highest levels of the Fox Corporation with Chairman Rupert Murdoch calling Trump's voter fraud claims "really crazy stuff."
That was not, however, what the network's viewers were told.
The entire, still-emerging picture of Fox is one of an organization that was scared to tell its viewers the truth and instead internalized what it saw as the business value of airing false and baseless claims from noncredible actors whether its own staff explicitly endorsed them or not.
^^"The entire, still-emerging picture of Fox is one of an organization that was scared to tell its viewers the truth and instead internalized what it saw as the business value of airing false and baseless claims from noncredible actors whether its own staff explicitly endorsed them or not." -AdamPoE
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Nov 5th, 2021 04:47 PM
Excellent.
