Fox Corp. chair Rupert Murdoch told Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott that hosts Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham may have 'went too far' in pushing former President Trump's election fraud claims on the network, according to court documents made public Tuesday.
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Fox Corp. chair Rupert Murdoch told Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott that hosts Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham may have "went too far" in pushing former President Trump's election fraud claims on the network, according to court documents made public Tuesday.
Murdoch later expressed concern about the network's amplification of Trump's claims in an email to Scott on Jan. 21, 2021: "Still getting mud thrown at us! … Maybe Sean and Laura went too far. All very well for Sean to tell you he was in despair about Trump but what did he tell his viewers?" He also called the baseless voter fraud claims "really crazy stuff" in a text referenced in the documents.A transcript of his January deposition shows that Murdoch admitted he had not ever seen any credible evidence to suggest Dominion was coordinating a massive effort to steal the election.
"You’ve never believed that Dominion was involved in an effort to delegitimize and destroy votes for Donald Trump, correct?" the Dominion lawyer asked.The records were released as part of Dominion's $1.6 billion defamation suit against Fox News. The voting machine company has accused the network of
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