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8 Mar 2023

Lawsuit reveals what Fox News hosts really thought of Trump and January 6 riots

Washington Correspondent

Fox News may have served as a very public platform for the baseless claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump, but behind the scenes things were very different.

In a series of jaw-dropping disclosures as part of a $1.6 billion defamation trial being brought against the channel, among others, by Dominion – which makes voting machines – it’s been revealed that Fox News journalists and executives, up to and including Rupert Murdoch, said Trump was lying, yet went ahead and broadcast his claims anyway.