Fox News' Sean Hannity admitted under oath that he never believed the lie that former President Donald Trump was cheated of victory in the 2020 presidential election by voting tech firm Dominion Voting Systems.
Fox News host Sean Hannity, a close ally of former President Trump, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in August 2022.Fox News host Sean Hannity, a close ally of former President Trump, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in August 2022.
Hannity and a top Fox News executive who oversees prime-time programs told a different story about Trump's false claims of fraud under oath and in front of attorneys, during separate depositions in a $1.6 billion defamation suit. While the depositions happened in August, their statements emerged yesterday in a Delaware Superior Court hearing relating to a series of motions by the two sides in the case.
Meade Cooper, Fox News' executive vice president,"confirmed under oath she never believed the lies about Dominion," the Dominion attorney, Stephen Shackelford, Jr., also said. Those sworn interviews took place during what's called the discovery phase of the case, in preparation for trial, which is scheduled for April.Dominion Voting Systems' suit against Fox News and its parent company, Fox Corp, is roiling the network, the corporation and the Murdoch family that controls them both. Dominion alleges it was unjustly damaged by the false claims that its machines were intentionally rerouting Trump's votes for Joe Biden.
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