Fox News: Maliciously mainlining Trump lies to MAGA junkies
Fox News viewers are always jonesing for their Big Lie fix. Rupert Murdoch’s team of on-air pushers – including Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham, even though they don’t believe the election fraud nonsense themselves – are happy to accommodate. The precious Fox News ratings depend on it.
Excerpt from the TMS story on AL.com: Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity privately derided former President Trump’s “insane” election fraud claims even as the network endlessly promoted them to viewers, according to a bombshell filing in the Dominion Voting defamation suit.
Carlson called Trump “a demonic force” that would take down the network with his megalomanic lies about his loss in 2020 in messages handed over to the voting machine company for its $1.6 billion suit.
Related: Dominion lawsuit: Tucker Carlson called Trump a ‘demonic force’ that would destroy Fox News – al.com
Related: Why Did Fox News Lie to Its Viewers? – The Atlantic
Related: Tucker Carlson says if he’s a Putin propaganda tool, so is Zelensky – al.com
Hannity blasted Trump election lawyer Sidney Powell as a shameless liar.
“[The] that whole narrative that Sidney was pushing, I did not believe it for one second,” Hannity said in a sworn deposition.
Even Laura Ingraham, one of Trump’s most unflinching supporters, agreed that Powell and Rudy Giuliani were both loose cannons.
“[Powell is] a complete nut. No one will work with her. Ditto with Rudy,” Ingraham said.
The damaging messages effectively show that the Fox hosts uncritically promoted claims about Dominion machines rigging votes for President Biden even though they knew they were baseless lies.
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