FOX News Is Going to Have a Hard Time Overcoming the OVERWHELMING Evidence in the Dominion Lawsuit

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FOX News Is Going to Have a Hard Time Overcoming the OVERWHELMING Evidence in the Dominion Lawsuit
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Friday March 26, 2021 · 6:51 PM EDT


The bill is coming due for Fox News for having recklessly, repeatedly, and maliciously spread flagrant falsehoods to support Donald Trump's Big Lie over election fraud. Dominion Voting Systems has just announced that they are suing Fox for defamation to the tune of $1.6 billion.

The Associated Press is reporting that Dominion's case argues that "the cable news giant falsely claimed in an effort to boost faltering ratings that the voting company had rigged the 2020 election." The story goes on to note that...

"The lawsuit is part of a growing body of legal action filed by the voting company and other targets of misleading, false and bizarre claims spread by President Donald Trump and his allies in the aftermath of Trump’s election loss to Joe Biden. Those claims helped spur on rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in a violent siege that left five people dead, including a police officer. The siege led to Trump’s historic second impeachment."

This lawsuit against Fox News follows on to Dominion's previously announced suits against Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell (who is adopting the Tucker Carlson Defense), as well as Mike Lindell, the infamous MyPillow Guy. And Fox News has also been sued by Smartmatic, a voting software services company that alleges similar defamation in Fox's election reporting.

Fox News is going to have a hard time defending itself from these lawsuits. There is an abundance of evidence that supports the claims, and most of it consists of video from Fox News itself. Their program hosts and guests relentlessly made baseless charges against Dominion on the air. Media Matters has documented some of the more egregious episodes in detail (with videos and transcripts). Here are some the featured headings:

Dominion Was Used to Rig the Election for President Joe Biden and the Company Has Done This Before
Dominion Is of Venezuelan Origin, Created at the Request of Hugo Chavez to Alter Election Results in Furtherance of an International Conspiracy
Dominion’s Scheme Was Run by a Deputy of George Soros
Kickbacks Were Paid to State Officials -- Including Those in Georgia - to Utilize Dominion Machines
Smartmatic Owns Dominion and Its Software Is Embedded in Dominion Machines
Dominion Machines Are Unreliable and Cannot Be Truly Audited

In addition to this lawsuit, Dominion's lawyers say that they are continuing to explore legal options that could include naming Fox News hosts such as Sean Hannity, Lou Dobbs, Jeanine Pirro, Maria Bartiromo, and more. The list of defendants could even extend to include Trump. Which would only be fair. There must be consequences for knowingly disseminating slanderous lies. And that is what Fox News does every day. This lawsuit should just be the first of many more to come.

NOTE: Trump tried to peddle his Big Lie about election fraud again on Laura Ingraham's show Thursday night. But Ingraham cut him off. Ya think that had anything to do with this lawsuit?

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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/3/26/2023063/-FOX-News-Is-Going-to-Have-a-Hard-Time-Overcoming-the-OVERWHELMING-Evidence-in-the-Dominion-Lawsuit

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. :::: Rubs hands ::::

[flying rabbit]

2. Oh yeah.

Bring it.

[ShazzieB]

15. Please pass the popcorn!

[malaise]

3. Good

Hope it shuts them down

[sarcasmo]

8. The same way Thiel shut down Gawker via Hulk Hogan.

[dsc]

11. actually Hulk Hogan wasn't libeled nor did he sue for libel

he sued for invasion of privacy. He frankly should have lost and would have had someone been able to post the bond required for the appeal. The case against Fox is vastly stronger in my mind but Fox has much deeper pockets (though not 1.6 billion deep).

[Bristlecone]

4. I'd bet they end up settling for 100s of millions.

I think they bake this stuff into their "business" model.

[soothsayer]

5. Might not sink fox but if they go after OAN it could kill them

Depending on how much Russia wants to keep funding it I suppose

[demosincebirth]

6. Not this. Evidence is overwhelming like the author said.

[Bristlecone]

21. The Author is "News Corpse"

I'm not discounting that there is overwhelming evidence. But a stated unverified by DailyKos news story may not be all that we hope it is.

[dsc]

12. the problem Fox has here, and what makes it less likely Dominion will agree to a settlement

is that Dominion is effectively destroyed, no country will hire them ever now. the only way they can even begin to be repaired is for a clear cut win, with an admission. Otherwise they need huge money for damages.

[Bristlecone]

17. Maybe, but Diebold just rebranded. We can count on Dominion doing the same

Regardless of outcome. They have to. And 250 million is a lot of marketing dollars.

But you are probably right. This is very high stakes. Not their typical sexual harassment suit.

[dsc]

19. I think Diebold made more money from ATMs than voting machines

so they still could operate as a company even losing that business. Dominion can't rebrand if they have no income stream with which to rebrand.

[Bristlecone]

33. Yeah, they were huge in ATMs.

But that is what I suggested Dominik would accept a large settlement. Funds in which to rebrand.

[AnrothElf]

27. Completely different circumstances

For one thing, the Diebold tech WAS flawed, and it was a while ago. In tech, a while ago is a long time ago.

[Bristlecone]

30. The point was about rebranding. Not tech or flaws.

[AnrothElf]

26. THIS

[keithbvadu2]

7. The standard new defense that 'we are not credible'?

The standard new defense that 'we are not credible'?

[AnrothElf]

28. Yup

[Catherine Vincent]

9. Oh let's hope so

Shut 'em down or make 'em pay. Bigly.

[Oldem]

10. I shudder to think

of an out-of-court settlement with no admission of guilt. It happens all the time. I think we all want to see Faux pay the full price.

[dsc]

13. I really think that is not all that likely

Dominion is literally destroyed by this. No one will hire them ever again. And, not being a person but instead, a company, they have every incentive to sue until they get the money they lost.

[monkeyman1]

14. too bad , so said !! to the unemployment line they go.

[Goodheart]

16. I think Dominion made a mistake when it referred to Fox as " "the cable news giant"

Better to have said "the cable network giant."

Fox is not primarily a news network. Providing news is not their mission.

[luvtheGWN]

22. No, it isn't.

But people refer to it as "Fox News", and that's how Fox watchers view it. They couldn't get a cable news licence, because that meant they would have to be reliably truthful, so instead they opted for an entertainment licence. BUT viewers consider it News, and that's what matters.

[BobTheSubgenius]

18. I imagine Faux could survive an adverse judgment, but the rest?

Dominion bankrupting the rest of the named, and yet-to-be-named defendants would be the best thing that could happen this year.

OK, not THE best, but certainly one of them.

[AnrothElf]

29. I think it more likely Dominion is bankrupted

No matter the outcome of the defamation suits, their tech is toast with the regressive surrender-monkey confederate voting block. No election Dominion participates in will go uncontested until Trumpaloompas finally lay down their flags and give the fuck up.

[calimary]

32. Gotta say I like that! Trumpaloompas!

Fits!

[bem6207]

20. The most hysterical part about it is

All of those trumpsters “boycotting fox” and turning to Newsmax, because they felt so betrayed when fox called the election before anyone. It’s all they talk about. STILL! 😂😂😂😂😂

Getting sued and losing the very people you defended. Love it

[niyad]

23. I am putting in a popcorn order now. I hope a truckload will do for a start. Any special

requests?

[hibbing]

24. Hannity......pretty please n/t

[Midnight Writer]

25. Just like the Jan 6 crowd, they filmed it themselves and put it out there.

[MissMillie]

31. My favorite suit is the Smartmatic suit

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Because the only place their software was used on Nov 3 was in Los Angeles County, CA. It would seem to me that anything at all that was said about Smartmatic was intentionally meant to be derogatory and defamatory.

At first I wondered why Powell, Giuliani, et al, would bother with Smartmatic. Then I realized that because one of Smartmatic's founders/owners is Venezuelan and that's how they created the narrative about Chavez.

on edit: I have to add that the fact that they made up all the stuff on Smartmatic completely ruins their credibility with Dominion (not that they had any anyway.)

[LetMyPeopleVote]

34. This lawsuit will be fun to watch

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