In Testimony, Hannity and Other Fox Employees Said They Doubted Trump's Fraud Claims

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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/21/business/media/sean-hannity-fox-trump-election.html

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On Nov. 30, 2020, Sean Hannity hosted Sidney Powell on his prime-time Fox News program. As she had in many other interviews around that time — on Fox and elsewhere in right-wing media — Ms. Powell, a former federal prosecutor, spun wild conspiracy theories about what she said was “corruption all across the country, in countless districts,” in a plot to steal re-election from the president, Donald J. Trump.

At the center of this imagined plot were machines from Dominion Voting Systems, which Ms. Powell claimed ran an algorithm that switched votes for Mr. Trump to votes for Joseph R. Biden Jr. Dominion machines, she insisted, were being used “to trash large batches of votes.”
Mr. Hannity interrupted her with a gentle question that had been circulating among election deniers, despite a lack of supporting proof: Why were Democrats silencing whistle-blowers who could prove this fraud?

Did Mr. Hannity believe any of this?

“I did not believe it for one second.”

That was the answer Mr. Hannity gave, under oath, in a deposition in Dominion’s $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News, according to information disclosed in a court hearing on Wednesday. The hearing was called to address several issues that need to be resolved before the case heads for a jury trial, which the judge has scheduled to begin in April.

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[gratuitous]

1. Of course you didn't believe it, Sean

But that didn't stop you for even a second from bloviating on your Mr. Potato Head Hour of Glower program, did it?

[magicarpet]

2. Just having lots of fun trashing American Democracy.

[iemanja]

3. Doesn't that expose Fox to great liability?

[Wonder Why]

4. So he's admitted being a mass liar. Swallow that one, Hannity fans!

[JohnnyRingo]

5. "People say..."

"There are reports...."
"I'm hearing..."
"According to some..."

Phrases the right wing media use throughout their infotainment shows.
Like covering their asses with three pairs of pants and a fanny pack.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. But they carried his water anyways

[Solly Mack]

7. K&R

[Hassler]

8. Sean Manatee is willing to lie to FOX boobs, but not under oath.

[UTUSN]

9. The Young Turks said, "The boss isn't trump, the boss is MURDOCH."

My first reaction about Hannity's flip was that Drumpf has gone off the cliff too far even for Hannity, but I had forgotten that MURDOCH broke off from Drumpf months ago. And TYTs said MURDOCH signs Hannity's millions.

[GoodRaisin]

10. Oh. So they lied to their television audience. Ok.

So, they should do a segment where Tulsi asks them to define integrity. Just to be consistent with what she was doing with Santos.