Good EVENING AND WELCOME A DRAMATIC ENDING LATE TODAY TO THE EXPLOSIVE LAWSUIT BETWEEN FOX NEWS AND DOMINION, VOTING SYSTEMS WITH THE TWO SIDES REACHING A SETTLEMENT JUST HOURS AFTER THE JURY WAS SWORN IN FOX AGREEING TO PAY DOMINION MORE THAN $ 787 MILLION OVER THE NETWORK’S. Unsupported CLAIMS THAT THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WAS RIGGED. Dominion’S CEO, PROCLAIMING FOX, HAS ADMITTED TO TELLING LIES ABOUT DOMINION FOX, SIMPLY ACKNOWLEDGING RULINGS THAT DETERMINE CERTAIN CLMS ABOUT DOMINION TO BE FALSE.
The CASE CENTERED ON FOX’S BASELESS REPORTING THAT DOMINION VOTING MACHINES, FLIPPED VOTES AND SKEWED 2020 ELECTION RESULTS. Despite PRIVATELY ACKNOWLEDGING THOSE CLAIMS WERE FALSE. Today’S SETTLEMENT, LESS THAN THE $ 1.6 BILLION DOMINION, WAS SEEKING. Our STEPHANIE GOSK IS AT THE COURTHOUSE IN DELAWARE.
Steph, WHAT WAS IT LIKE IN THE COURTROOM WHEN THE JUDGE ANNOUNCED THE SETTLEMENT? > >, YOU KNOW, LESTER. We CAME BACK FROM A LUNCH BREAK, EXPECTING OPENING STATEMENTS, BUT THE JURY NEVER CAME IN IN THE DELAY STRETCHED INTO HOURS AND THEN THE JUDGE CAME IN AND WITH VERY LITTLE CEREMONY SAID, AN AGREEMENT HAD BEEN REACHED AND JUST LIKE THAT. The TRIAL THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO LAST FIVE TO SIX WEEKS WAS OVER “. The PARTIES HAVE RESOLVED THEIR CASE.
“, WITH THOSE WORDS, THE LANDMARK TRIAL BETWEEN DOMINION AND FOX NEWS, WAS OVER BEFORE IT BEGAN.
The 12-PERSON JURY SEATED JUST THIS MORNING, WAS THANKED FOR ITS SERVICE FOX AND DOMINION. Legal TEAMS THANKED THE COURT AND EVERYONE WALKED OUT. > > LIES HAVE CONSEQUENCES. > >, Reporter ATTORNEYS FOR DOMINION THEN SPOKE TO A SEA OF REPORTERS OUTS TODAY REPRESENTS A RINGING ENDORSEMENT. For TRUTH AND FOR DEMOCRACY, > > Reporter AS PART OF THE SETTLEMENT FOX AGREED TO PAY DOMINION $ 787.5 MILLION, JUST LESS THAN HALF OF THE $ 1.6 BILLION THEY WERE SUING FOR > > FOX HAS ADMITTED TO TELLING LIES ABOUT DOMINION THAT CAUSED ENORMOUS DAMAGE. To MY COMPANY, OUR EMPLOYEES AND THE CUSTOMERS THAT WE SERVE
Nothing CAN EVER MAKE UP FOR THAT. > >, Reporter DOMINION, VOTING SYSTEMS ACCUSED THE NETWORK OF DEFAMATION AND PROMOTING CONSPIRACY THEORIES ABOUT THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
President TRUMP’S LAWYERS WERE REPEATED GUESTS ON FOX, FALSELY CLAIMING DOMINION USED ITS VOTING MACHINES TO RIG THE OUTCOME. > > THE MACHINE RAN AN ALGORITHM THAT SHAVED VOTES FROM TRUMP AND AWARDED THEM TO BIDEN, > > AT THE CENTER OF IT ALL DOMINION, VOTING SYSTEMS.
Are THEY THE CULPRIT HERE? > > Reporter FOX NEWS, RELEASING A STATEMENT ACKNOWLEDGING THE COURT’S RULINGS THAT CERTAIN CLAIMS ABOUT DOMINION WERE FALSE, ADDING IT’S HOPEFUL. The DECISION TO RESOLVE THIS DISPUTE WITH DOMINION AMICABLY INSTEAD OF A DIVISIVE TRIAL, ALLOWS THE COUNTRY TO MOVE FORWARD TODAY. Reaction ON THE NETWORK, > > THE RISK FOR BOTH SIDES HERE –
Fox OBVIOUSLY DID NOT WANT TO LOSE THIS CASE. Dominion WOULD HAVE HAD TO PROVE ACTUAL MALICE. That’S A HIGH BAR IN ANY SUCH CASE, > > Reporter, BUT LEGAL TROUBLES ARE N’T OVER FOR FOX NEWS. It STILL FACES ANOTHER DEFAMATION LAWSUIT FROM VOTING TECHNOLOGY COMPANY SMARTMATIC, WITH SIMILAR ALLEGATIONS SUING FOR $ 2
7 BILLION FOX HAS DENIED THE ALLEGATIONS AND CALLED THE ALLEGED DAMAGES OUTRAGEOUS, >, > AND STEPHANIE. We JUST HEARD A REFERENCE TO THIS TERM. “ ACTUAL MALICE, .” DID FOX ADMIT SUCH A THING IN WHAT THE CASE WAS ABOUT NO LESTER, THEY DID N’T
They ACKNOWLEDGED THE COURT RULING THAT CERTAIN FALSEHOODS ENDED UP ON THEIR BROADCAST, BUT DID NOT
