Dominion Voting Systems Second Company To Sue Fox For The Big Lie

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Arizona Republican Sedition Party Chair Kelli Ward should lawyer up now because Dominion Voting Systems will get around to your worthless ass soon enough. They are not after your money, they are after discovery into the greatest right-wing conspiracy plot of all time – trying to overturn the results of the U.S. election with  “Big Lie” fascist propaganda. It involves numerous Republican politicians and GQP party leaders, and their shills in the conservative fascist media entertainment complex.

The AP reports Dominion Voting sues Fox for $1.6B over 2020 election claims. Now they need to sue One America News Network (OANN), Newsmax, Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia), etc. to get discovery. Roll up every traitor in this seditious plot.

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Dominion Voting Systems filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News on Friday, arguing the cable news giant falsely claimed in an effort to boost faltering ratings that the voting company had rigged the 2020 election.

The lawsuit is part of a growing body of legal action filed by the voting company and other targets of misleading, false and bizarre claims spread by President Donald Trump and his allies in the aftermath of Trump’s election loss to Joe Biden. Those claims helped spur on rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in a violent siege that left five people dead, including a police officer. The siege led to Trump’s historic second impeachment.

Dominion argues that Fox News, which amplified inaccurate assertions that Dominion altered votes, “sold a false story of election fraud in order to serve its own commercial purposes, severely injuring Dominion in the process,” according to a copy of the lawsuit obtained by The Associated Press.

“The truth matters. Lies have consequences,” the lawsuit said. “… If this case does not rise to the level of defamation by a broadcaster, then nothing does.”

Fox will start crying “cancel culture” again. What this country really needs is “consequences culture.” Fox has been a right-wing propaganda network that spreads disinformation and lies since it was established by Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch. It’s long past time that Fox is finally held to account for its contemptible business format.

There was no widespread fraud in the 2020 election, a fact that a range of election officials across the country — and even Trump’s attorney general, William Barr — have confirmed. Republican governors in Arizona and Georgia, key battleground states crucial to Biden’s victory, also vouched for the integrity of the elections in their states. Nearly all the legal challenges from Trump and his allies were dismissed by judges, including two tossed by the Supreme Court, which has three Trump-nominated justices.

Still, some Fox News employees elevated false charges that Dominion had changed votes through algorithms in its voting machines that had been created in Venezuela to rig elections for the late dictator Hugo Chavez. On-air personalities brought on Trump allies Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani, who spread the claims, and then amplified those claims on Fox News’ massive social media platforms.

Dominion said in the lawsuit that it tried repeatedly to set the record straight but was ignored by Fox News.

The company argues that Fox News, a network that features several pro-Trump personalities, pushed the false claims to explain away the former president’s loss. The cable giant lost viewers after the election and was seen by some Trump supporters as not being supportive enough of the Republican.

Attorneys for Dominion said Fox News’ behavior differs greatly from that of other media outlets that reported on the claims.

“This was a conscious, knowing business decision to endorse and repeat and broadcast these lies in order to keep its viewership,” said attorney Justin Nelson, of Susman Godfrey.

Though Dominion serves 28 states, until the 2020 election it had been largely unknown outside the election community. It is now widely targeted in conservative circles, seen by millions of people as one of the main villains in a fictional tale in which Democrats nationwide conspired to steal votes from Trump, the lawsuit said.

Dominion’s employees, from its software engineers to its founder, have been harassed. Some received death threats. And the company has suffered “enormous and irreparable economic harm,” lawyers said.

One employee, Eric Coomer, told the AP he had to go into hiding over death threats because of the false claims. He has sued the Trump campaign, conservative media columnists and conservative media outlets Newsmax and One America News Network.

Dominion has also sued Giuliani, Powell and the CEO of Minnesota-based MyPillow over the claims. A rival technology company, Smartmatic USA, also sued Fox News over election claims for a similar sum of money. Unlike Dominion, Smartmatic’s participation in the 2020 election was restricted to Los Angeles County.

Even before Dominion’s lawsuit on Friday, Fox News had already filed four motions to dismiss other legal actions against its coverage.

“Fox News Media is proud of our 2020 election coverage, which stands in the highest tradition of American journalism, and we will vigorously defend against this baseless lawsuit in court,” it said in a statement on Friday.

This is the most outrageous lie of all. Fox does not qualify as “journalism,” it is fascist propaganda, frequently amplifying Putin’s Russian Intelligence dezinformatsiya. I hope Dominion does discovery into this unholy alliance.

Dominion lawyers said they have not yet filed lawsuits against specific media personalities at Fox News but the door remains open. Some at Fox News knew the claims were false but their comments were drowned out, lawyers said.

“The buck stops with Fox on this,” attorney Stephen Shackelford said. “Fox chose to put this on all of its many platforms. They rebroadcast, republished it on social media and other places.”

The suit was filed in Delaware, where both companies are incorporated, though Fox News is headquartered in New York and Dominion is based in Denver.

Political scientist Brendan Nyhan believes it’s in the network’s interest to settle as quickly as possible. Fox could give Dominion ‘a dump truck of money’ to avoid discovery in defamation suit: political scientist:

Nyhan, a professor of political science at Dartmouth, writes on Twitter that Fox will likely be very wary of giving Dominion’s lawyers a crack at discovery over fears of what they might turn up.

Like ties to Russian Intelligence agencies?

“Discovery is going to be lit if this gets that far,” he writes. “Plausible Fox drives a dump truck of money up to Dominion like it did in the Seth Rich case to make this go away.”

Dominion’s lawsuit came even after Fox earlier this year fired host Lou Dobbs, who was one of the network’s chief purveyors of bogus conspiracy theories about the company’s voting machines.

Others were Trump Fluffer Maria Bartiromo and Judge Jeanine “Box of Wine” Pirro. Fox, Newsmax shoot down their own aired claims on election.

Additionally, Fox aired several on-air corrections debunking false claims made by Dobbs and other hosts about Dominion voting machines, which suggests that the network’s legal team has known for months that it has real exposure in any defamation case brought by the company.

On social media many cheered the news.

This is the Tucker Carlson Defense: “No reasonable person would conclude that the statements were truly statements of fact..”, recently asserted by contemptible Trump lawyer Sidney Powell.





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1 thought on “Dominion Voting Systems Second Company To Sue Fox For The Big Lie”

  1. Seriously? Fox News’s Peter Doocy, who only has a job because of nepotism – he is the son of Steve Doocy, one of the dolts on the divan on Fox & Friends – tried to create a conspiracy theory that President Biden excluded him from questions at his Press Conference. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, who is way smarter than both Doocy’s put together, shut him down: “It is clear that the network is trying to distract from the $1.6 billion lawsuit about their election lies.”

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