Paul Ryan will be deposed in Dominion's $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News over electi

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Former House Speaker Paul Ryan will be deposed by Dominion Voting Systems in its $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox News, a new court filing shows.

Ryan joined the Fox Corporation board of directors in 2019 after choosing not to run for re-election in the 2018 midterms. He had been speaker of the House of Representatives for more than three years while Republicans were in power, capping off 20 years in Congress.

The election technology company is scheduled to depose Ryan on Tuesday morning, according to the filing, which was submitted to court Friday and made public Monday. Dominion sued the Fox News Network and its parent entity Fox Corporation in 2021, alleging they defamed the company by pushing false conspiracy theories about its role in the 2020 presidential election.

Following former President Donald Trump's loss in the election, Fox News hosts repeatedly interviewed Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani, two attorneys who spread false claims alleging Dominion was in cahoots with a rival election technology company, Smartmatic, and flipped votes from Trump in favor of now-President Joe Biden. Dominion alleges that Fox News hosts didn't sufficiently push back on the falsehoods, and in some cases perpetuated them. Dominion also claims that the hosts — Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo, and Jeanine Pirro — knew or should have known that the conspiracy theories had no merit.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/paul-ryan-will-be-deposed-in-dominion-s-1-6-billion-defamation-lawsuit-against-fox-news-over-election-conspiracy-theories/ar-AA16UfP9

[MagickMuffin]

1. I wish they were televised, as that would be fun to watch

Paul Ryan will find a way to weasel out any responsibilities!

He’s still a spineless weasel.

[certainot]

6. and as such his position was probably purely ornamental.

[leftieNanner]

2. He will be burning some sage

On his altar to Ayn Rand for protection.

[peppertree]

4. And from the beyond, Ms. O'Connor will cackle:

"Fuck you, Paulie. I've got mine; you're on your own - I mean, didn't you actually read my garbage?"

[ColinC]

3. I can't imagine his testimony will be enormously helpful for fox

[certainot]

5. i doubt dominion lawyers know limbaugh played the giuliani powell press conf live on his show to

endorse it and reach an exponentially larger live audience.

was limbaugh paid for that? regardless, 600 stations played that - and along with 1000 others that's a lot of blowhards and stations repeating the attacks on dominion and their employees

[tanyev]

7. Yo dude, I don't know anything about that, I was just counting my reps.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. This will be a fun depo

[republianmushroom]

9. like it

[czarjak]

10. The rich are richer because of Paul Ryan. Period.