Fox Corp. Executive Chairman

Rupert Murdoch’s contempt for former President Trump’s actions after the 2020 election was again reflected in

unsealed?

Evidence presented in the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News.

“Trump insisting that the election was stolen and convincing 25% of Americans was a huge disservice to the country,” Murdoch wrote to Fox News Media Chief Executive Suzanne Scott,

according to recent unredacted evidence. “Virtually a crime. Inevitably it exploded on January 6.”

Murdoch,

the executive chairman of Fox Corp.,

also acknowledged in his testimony late last year that he told Scott to stop posting Trump on the network.

That ban has since ended as Trump,

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host Sean Hannity that is

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in several parts this week.

Murdoch’s comments surfaced in a slide deck of points

made

by Dominion Voting Systems

made public this week

in his lawsuit against Fox

what was announced this week

. The presentation included a number of statements and communications from executives at Fox News and its parent company that had previously been redacted.

Dominion, a maker of voting machines, claims Fox News on purpose

broadcast ran

Trump’s false allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 election to placate viewers, who fled the network in anger at how it called the state of Arizona for then-candidate Joe, President Biden.

Guests on Fox News made false claims about Dominion ownership, saying

That

his machines manipulated votes for it

President

pray Fox News has maintained that the allegations were newsworthy and that the coverage is protected by the 1st

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remark.

These documents demonstrate once again that Dominion continues to rely on handpicked quotes without context to generate headlines to divert attention from the facts of this case,” a Fox News representative said in a statement.

Evidence and statements filed in the case expected to go to trial in mid-April have revealed deep doubts among executives, producers and broadcasters about Trump’s

allegations, accusations

while expressing concern that the public would be put off by fully denouncing them.

The evidence revealed in the slide presentation also included documentation from the “brain room,” an investigative unit within Fox News that warned executives and producers that there was no evidence of voter fraud.

and the unit has made that clear

allegations from Trump’s lawyers about Dominion’s machines voting from Trump to

President

Biden was false.

Trump camp

said claimed that

Dominion stripped 2.7 million Trump votes nationwide and switched Trump votes to Biden

to vote

in several key states.

“Election officials from both political parties have publicly stated that the election went well and international observers have confirmed that there were no irregularities,” the memo said.

from the research group

.

David Clark, senior vice president of weekend programming and news

at Fox News

agreed in his statement that the brain chamber said the Dominion’s allegations were false and should never have happened

broadcast run

.

But Trump’s legal team, consisting of Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani, who outright reinforced the claims

present

After the fact checks were conducted, evidence continued to appear on Fox News and Fox Business Network.

In a

November 30, 2021,

a

report from Fox News producer Alexander Hooper said “every day with Rudy and Sidney is guaranteed gold”, referring to the ratings

for former

Fox Business Network host Lou Dobbs

would receive

when the lawyers were booked as guests.

Even Tucker Carlson, the most outspoken prime-time host on Fox News, expressed his distaste for Powell and her inability to back up her claims. On November 17

2020,

message to

Powell the lawyer

Carlson told her it was “reckless and cruel” to continue to present the allegations without hard evidence.

“You keep telling our viewers that millions of votes have been altered by the software,” Carlson wrote. “I hope you will prove that very soon. If you don’t have conclusive evidence of fraud on that scale, it’s cruel and reckless to keep saying.’

on Nov. 21

2020,

Carlson wrote to Trump attorney Jenna Ellis and told her

That

it was “shockingly reckless” for the

accusation claims about against

dominion

‘s

using software to manipulate votes without providing evidence.

In a text message to an unknown recipient, Carlson said he expressed skepticism about Powell on his program

is what

a “too bad we have to pretend the case has a chance at all.”

Anchor Maria Bartiromo, who had Sidney and Giuliani as guests on their “Sunday Morning Futures” show three times after the election was called for Biden, was told of

then House Minority Leader House Speaker

Kevin McCarthy

(R-California)

on November 6

2020,

that there was no evidence of widespread voter fraud and that the Democratic victory was fair.