The settlement was announced by the judge in the case, who allowed the case to go to trial while emphasizing that it was “CRYSTAL clear” that none of the allegations about Dominion aired on Fox by allies of former President Donald Trump were true.
Fox and Dominion: Reach Settlement Over False Elections Claims (Photo by: US Today)
Reach Settlement Over False Elections
The right-wing talk network, which for years has topped the cable television ratings with its incendiary and often fact-averse opinion programming, agreed to make the massive payout to the voting machine maker just before opening statements were set to begin in what would’ve been an exceedingly embarrassing spectacle of a trial.
Dominion, which bore the brunt of outlandish accusations from former president Donald Trump and his allies in the wake of his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden, was poised to put the top brass and top talent at Fox on the witness stand, where their attorneys were certain to have elicited humiliating explanations of why they knowingly aired ridiculously false claims about the voting machines made by the company.
Another voting machine manufacturer, Smartmatic, still has a multi-billion-dollar lawsuit pending against Fox for many of the same lies that pushed Rupert Murdoch and his organization to offer more than three-quarters of a billion dollars to get Dominion to drop their case. But it may be Mr. Trump who ultimately pays the highest price.
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