'Fact-Check This Crap': The 5 Juiciest Fox News Revelations in Smartmatic's Newly-Unredacted Court Filing
A slew of private text messages from current and former Fox News hosts were made public on Tuesday night after a judicial hearing officer unredacted parts of a motion filed by Smartmatic.
Smartmatic, which provided election technology to Los Angeles County for the 2020 election, is suing Fox for $2.7 billion for defamation. After the 2020 election, President Donald Trump falsely alleged the contest had been rigged against him. In the ensuing weeks, some Fox News hosts and guests echoed those claims and singled out Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems for having played a role in getting Joe Biden elected. In 2023, Fox settled a defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion for $787.5 million.
Smartmatic’s motion was filed in late April, but only now are many of the texts from Fox News employees in it public after being recently unredacted. The unredactions were first reported by The Washington Post on Tuesday night.
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Here's one revelation:
What Bret Baier told Fox execs about Maria Bartiromo's election coverage: "None of that is true as far as we can tell"
More at https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/fact-check-this-crap-the-5-juiciest-fox-news-revelations-in-smartmatics-newly-unredacted-court-filing/
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