A defamation lawsuit is revealing scornful behind-the-scenes opinions by Fox News figures about Donald Trump, including a Tucker Carlson text message declaring, 'I hate him passionately.'
NEW YORK — A defamation lawsuit is revealing scornful behind-the-scenes opinions by Fox News figures about Donald Trump, including a Tucker Carlson text message declaring,"I hate him passionately."
A common theme emerging from the internal documents and depositions is that Fox executives and hosts doubted the election claims being peddled by Trump and his allies, but aired and emphasized them anyway. Fox was growing concerned about a decline in viewership as Trump supporters turned away from the network after it — correctly — called Joe Biden the presidential winner in Arizona on election night.
Federal and state officials, courts, exhaustive reviews in battleground states and Trump's attorney general found no widespread fraud that could have changed the outcome of the 2020 election, although Trump continues to falsely state that the presidency was stolen from him. "You can say what you really believe in public," Carlson said then."You're an American citizen. That is your right." Trump could lose in 2020, he added,"but he'll be a genuinely great president."
Fox's founder, Rupert Murdoch, has a complex relationship with Trump:"I was not close to him," Murdoch said in a deposition in the libel lawsuit.
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