Bonus: “Fox News EXPOSED”
A new filing in Dominion’s defamation case against Fox News has revealed the big wigs at Fox knew Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud were false, but they kept promoting his lies on their airwaves. Jon and Tommy read the private texts and emails that Laura Ingraham, Tucker Carlson and Fox executives sent one another during the fall of 2020. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.
- Duration
- 30m
- Broadcast on
- 18 Feb 2023
- Audio Format
- other
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(upbeat music) - Welcome to POD Save America, I'm John Favreau. - I'm Tommy Detore. - We decided to jump into the studio here on a Friday. I mean, here's the thing is, we weren't gonna have a pod on Tuesday 'cause it's, of course, our president's day weekend. But late Thursday night, we got a legal filing from Dominion Voting Systems that laid out just some of the extensive evidence uncovered during the discovery process in their defamation lawsuit against Fox News. For those who aren't familiar with the case, Dominion Voting Systems is suing Fox for defamation. They are seeking $1.6 billion. - With a B? - With a B in damages, they're cases that Fox knowingly spread conspiracy theories that Dominion Voting Machines essentially helped rig the election for Joe Biden, that their hosts said that, that they had guests on that said that, and then they just kept spreading those conspiracy theories, knowing they were inaccurate, thus defaming Dominion Voting Systems and costing them their reputation and $1.6 billion in damages. - My favorite part of the conspiracy is that Dominion was founded in Venezuela to rig elections for Hugo Chavez, just in case everyone is wondering, Hugo Chavez died in 2013. - Yeah, so it's a tough one. Then it all came from Sidney Powell. You guys might remember Sidney Powell, one of Trump's sort of D-list lawyers that came around at the end with, it was like a, like a Rudy deputy, basically, I think she was almost gonna be like Attorney General at the moment. - Sure, probably, probably. - Which is one of the people who was in the Oval Office having meetings with the overstock.com guy and Michael Lindell. - Yeah, part of that current. So the great thing about this lawsuit is, you sue Fox News, they go through Discovery. There was all this testimony with Fox executives and hosts, and they got text messages between Fox hosts and Fox executives as well. And so a lot of this was released Thursday night,
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A new filing in Dominion’s defamation case against Fox News has revealed the big wigs at Fox knew Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud were false, but they kept promoting his lies on their airwaves. Jon and Tommy read the private texts and emails that Laura Ingraham, Tucker Carlson and Fox executives sent one another during the fall of 2020. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.