Dominion, a voting machine company questioned by the Trumpists during the 2021 presidential election, filed a complaint against the conservative chain. According to a memorandum deposited before the courts, journalists and leaders of Fox News knew perfectly well that the election had not been faked.
by Arnaud Leparmentier (New York, correspondent)
After the lost election of Donald Trump in November 2020, the leaders and animators of the conservative Fox News channel campaigned on the theme of the stolen election, but they did not believe a word. This is what emerges from a memorandum deposited Thursday February 16 before a court of Delaware by the company Dominion, falsely accused of having faked the ballot with his voting machines. The company filed a defamation complaint against Fox News and claims $ 1.6 billion (around 1.5 billion euros).
The summit of the controversy was reached at a memorable press conference on November 19, 2020 at the headquarters of the Republican Party in Washington. Donald Trump’s advisers, former mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani and lawyer Sidney Powell, multiply the accusations of fraud after the outgoing president’s defeat. Without putting forward the slightest proof. Sidney Powell notably calls into question Dominion, a company accused of having developed a system to allow Hugo Chavez to fuel his own elections in Venezuela, and to be linked to the billionaire of the left of Hungarian origin George Soros and the Foundation Clinton.
The software used by Dominion, accused M me Powell, “can define and execute an algorithm that probably worked throughout the country to take a certain percentage of votes from President Trump and return them to President Biden “. Dominion lawyers multiplied the interviews and obtained written exchanges of the time. Reading their 192 -page motion shows that the star animators (Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham) and the leaders of the conservative chain knew that they were relaying lies.
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“Truly crazy things, which will cause damage,” the owner of the chain, Rupert Murdoch, is combing the press conference by Rudy Giuliani. “Sidney Powell is, written on November 16 Tucker Carlson, the most right -wing animator of Fox News. “I have a high tolerance for madmen, but Powell is too much,” he wrote later, before adding: “I hope it will be punished.” “All this story that Sidney was advancing, I did not believe it for a second, “said Sean Hannity.
But it was not necessary to displease the Trumpist electorate. Fox News is the first news channel in the United States, the favorite canal of conservative republicans. Out of the question to abandon this vein in Newsmax, a chain even more on the right. The drama is formed from the election evening on November 3, 2020. Fox News was the first to announce the victory of Joe Biden in Arizona, a decisive state to win the presidential election.
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