Fox News hosts and executives privately mocked pro-Trump election conspiracy theories after he lost, internal texts show
After a mob stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, Rupert Murdoch wondered whether Fox News was to blame.
Hannity's support for Trump, on one level, was understandable. The Fox News audience were fervent supporters of Trump. His two highest-profile lawyers at the time were Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, who both pushed a false conspiracy theory that Dominion and a rival election technology company, Smartmatic, secretly worked together to flip votes from Trump to Biden.The conspiracy theories were obviously false and were roundly rejected when Powell took her theory to the courts. In addition to suing Giuliani and Powell for defamation, Dominion also lodged a lawsuit against Fox News,.
"Dominion's motion for summary judgment takes an extreme and unsupported view of defamation law and rests on an accounting of the facts that has no basis in the record," a Fox News spokesperson told Insider."Dominion has mischaracterized the record, cherry-picked quotes stripped of key context, and spilled considerable ink on facts that are irrelevant under black-letter principles of defamation law.
Tucker Carlson said Powell was"lying" and called her a"fucking bitch." Laura Ingraham said in a group text with Carlson and Hannity that Powell was"a bit nuts." Hannity said he"did not believe it for one second" when he heard Powell's claims.Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images In the aftermath of Trump's election loss, Dominion sent 3,600 fact-checking messages to the company, which it said were widely circulated within the network.
Leadership at Fox News worried about Newsmax hoovering up their viewers. In the aftermath of the election, ratings for Fox News were down, Murdoch wrote in a message to Scott.When Lauren Ingraham pushed fraud claims on her show and on Twitter —— her producer Tommy Firth complained that she needed to stop trying to get on Trump's good side.
"Do the executives understand how much credibility and trust we've lost with our audience? We're playing with fire, for real....an alternative like newsmax could be devastating to us," Carlson told his producer. The email's author claimed that former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia"was purposefully killed at the annual Bohemian Grove camp…during a weeklong human hunting expedition" and that former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, who died in 2017, had almost-daily conversations with Murdoch"to determine how best to portray Mr. Trump as badly as possible."
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