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The recently released legal filing in Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News shows the extent to which multiple Fox executives and anchors knew that the network was pushing lies about the 2020 presidential election results on air. The filing also contains a startling statement by Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch: that Fox News executives who knowingly allowed lies to be broadcast should potentially be fired. From the filing (emphasis in original):
Q. What should the consequences be when Fox News executives knowingly allow lies to be broadcast? A. They should be reprimanded – They should be reprimanded, maybe got rid of.Rupert Murdoch, Chairman, Fox Corporation.
The filings also show the extent to which Fox executives knowingly spread the conspiracy theory that Dominion Voting Systems had rigged the election at least in part in order to keep up with its far-right media competitors. These decisions now leave multiple Fox executives implicated as potentially worthy of firing, according to Rupert Murdoch’s own declared standard.
Rupert Murdoch
First off, and most obvious, is Rupert Murdoch himself. As chairman of the Fox Corp., Murdoch could have intervened at any time and stopped the hosts and guests featured on his network from spreading lies about the 2020 election, a fact that he bluntly admitted under questioning by Dominion’s lawyers. From the filing:
Q. And you could have said to Suzanne Scott or to the hosts, “Stop putting Rudy Giuliani on the air”?
A. I could have. But I didn't.
Furthermore, Murdoch did nothing about the entreaties by Fox board member Paul Ryan, a former Republican speaker of the House, who argued according to the filing “that Fox News should not be spreading conspiracy theories.”
Murdoch did, however, take direct action to get rid of a Fox executive who told the truth. On November 20, 2020, Murdoch personally signed off on firing vice president and Washington managing editor Bill Sammon, who had been involved in the network’s projection that President Joe Biden had won Arizona, which assured Biden his Electoral College victory. “Maybe best to let Bill go right away,” Murdoch said, per the filing, adding that this move would “be a big message with Trump people.”
Lachlan Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch’s son and Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch is also clearly guilty under the standard that his father enunciated, as he helped tailor the network’s messaging to help promote lies about the election. As just one example, Lachlan instructed the network to give positive coverage to a “Stop the Steal” rally on November 14, 2020, which served as a prelude to the January 6 insurrection, and to brand the violent and far-right event as a “celebration of the president.”
The Dominion filing further alleges that in addition to Lachlan’s close interactions with his other key executives, “specific evidence shows he attended the November 13 afternoon editorial meeting” that preceded an episode ofLou Dobbs Tonight that featured disgraced Trump-allied attorney Sidney Powell.The then-Fox Business host Lou Dobbs repeatedly called Powell a “great American,” while she claimed that Dominion had been “created to produce altered voting results in Venezuela for Hugo Chavez, and then shipped internationally to manipulate votes for purchase in other countries, including this one.”
Suzanne Scott
Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott also played a clear role in spreading lies and suppressing the truth on the network. Under questioning, Scott affirmed that she had always believed, since at least when the network itself had called Arizona and thus the election on November 7, 2020, that in fact Biden had won legitimately.
And yet on multiple occasions, Scott reprimanded on-air talent who called out the lies and conspiracy theories. Examples include her involvement with Lachlan Murdoch in reprimanding then-anchor Leland Vittert’s coverage of the November 14 “Stop the Steal” rally, as well as her reported “screaming” about negative coverage by anchor Dana Perino and then-Fox reporter Kristen Fisher of the infamous November 19 press conference by Trump attorneys and election conspiracy theorists Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell. “The audience feels like we crapped on [them] and we have damaged their trust and belief in us….We can fix this but we cannot smirk at our viewers any longer,” Scott said at the time.
The filing also reveals that Scott worked personally to preserve the network’s relationship with right-wing billionaire conspiracy theoristMike Lindell, CEO of MyPillow, assisting him in spreading dangerous lies about the election and Dominion Voting Systems. In mid-December, after Lindell publicly claimed that Fox was supposedly “in on” stealing the election, the filing details that Scott sent a personal note and a gift to Lindell. She further suggested that shows should book Lindell in order to “get ratings.” (Rupert Murdoch himself admitted that Fox went out of its way to preserve its relationship with Lindell, one of the network’s largest advertisers, to shore up its profits.)
When the network later hosted Lindell on the January 26, 2021, edition of Tucker Carlson Tonight, the star prime-time host depicted his network’s top advertiser as a champion of free speech, rather than challenging him on his false claims about the election or his apparent effort to urge Trump to impose martial law.
Viet Dinh
Fox Corp. chief legal and policy officer Viet Dinh also admitted during his testimony that Fox executives had a duty to “prevent and correct” falsehoods.
Q. But when the executives at Fox News know that hosts of shows are broadcasting allegations that the executives know or believe to be false, in that situation, the executives have an obligation to act, right?
A. If they are within the chain of command and if they -- and if they come to that knowledge, yes.
Q. And by “act,” that means to put a stop to it, right?
Q. They have an obligation under those circumstances, the executives do, in the chain of command, to put a stop to those broadcasts, right, sir?
A. Yes, to prevent and correct known falsehoods.
Dinh confirmed under questioning that he had “pretty easily” been able to look up and debunk the claim that Dominion was owned by a Venezuelan company and founded in order to rig elections for the late dictator Hugo Chavez. But the filing suggests Dinh failed to require Fox News hosts and guests to debunk such easily discredited lies. On the contrary, the network aired that bogus claim over and over again.
Raj Shah
Fox Senior Vice President Raj Shahsent numerous internal communications about the damage to Fox’s reputation among conservative viewers, including the supposed “brand threat” posed by Fox figures who openly debunked Trump’s fake claims of mass election fraud. On November 13, he sent a “Brand Protection Unit Roundup” to Lachlan Murdoch, Dinh, and Scott, stating there was “strong conservative and viewer backlash to Fox that we are working to track and mitigate.” He further explained that “[p]ositive impressions of Fox News among our viewers dropped precipitously after Election Day to the lowest levels we’ve ever seen.”
In order to mitigate this damage, at one point he pitched the idea of “some sort of public mea culpa for the AZ call,” or “some programming that’s focused on hearing our viewers grievances about how we’ve handled the election.” In other words, Shah wanted the network to apologize for actually broadcasting a truthful story.
In another instance, when host Tucker Carlson briefly feuded with Sidney Powell, Shah instructed a producer for Carlson’s show to downplay the extent of her ludicrous claims. At the same time as Shah described Powell’s claims as “so fucking insane,” he also advised Carlson’s team to “pivot to being deferential.”
Shah suggested the phrasing “we hope she is able to provide the evidence in court and we’ll bring it to viewers when they do” — even though he knew no such evidence existed or could ever be offered in court. In another message just the next day, Shah described Powell’s claims as “MIND BLOWINGLY NUTS.”
Jay Wallace
Fox News President and Executive Editor Jay Wallace is also responsible for his inaction on the network’s continued lies about the election, even as a Dominion consultant repeatedly :{reached out to him personall}:y (citations removed):
The day before the WSJ editorial and article appeared—November 16— Dominion’s Communications Consultant Tony Fratto, former Deputy White House Press Secretary under President George W. Bush, personally brought the false allegations to the attention of the two top executives at FNN—Scott and Wallace— telling them that Dominion, “as you know, has received a great deal of attention on FoxNews [sic] and from the President. An enormous amount of misinformation -- actually, completely and verifiable wrong information—is finding its way on-air.” Fratto offered to provide the two of them a briefing about Dominion and concluded: “I think this situation is crossing dangerous lines.” Scott responded asking Wallace to provide his thoughts, and Wallace and Fratto then spoke over the phone. When Lou Dobbs again broadcast lies about Dominion that very night, Fratto reached out again to Wallace. He forwarded part of the transcript to Wallace and told him: “More fucking out [and out] lies. Honestly. He is a disgrace.”
Irena Briganti
Irena Briganti, Fox News senior executive vice president of corporate communications, also presided over the network’s continued inaction, even as it was clearly brought to her attention via a press inquiry (citations removed):
On December 1, a reporter with The Washington Post emailed FNN stating that Powell had appeared on both Dobbs and Hannity’s programs the day before making claims of voting machine fraud. The reporter asked,
[D]oes Fox News Media management have any concerns about the veracity of the claims that Powell has been making on network shows? Is Sidney Powell welcome to appear on any Fox News Media show? Has Fox News Media encouraged show hosts to fact-check claims about voter fraud?
Irena Briganti forwarded the inquiry to Scott and Wallace, stating “FYI—we spoke with Lauren [Petterson] and Meade [Cooper] and there’s nothing to combat this, so we are not responding.”
David Clark
David Clark, senior vice president for weekend news and programming, was directly responsible for Fox host Maria Bartiromo’s Sunday Morning Futuresprogram, in which she hosted Giuliani and Powell. The filing reveals that he also agreed with the statement that there was “no credible evidence of massive cheating or fraud,” and yet he allowed her to continue spreading conspiracy theories by hosting figures such as Powell and Giuliani, and to not push back on them. Interestingly, the Dominion filing notes the ways in which Clark took active steps to temporarily rein in Fox host Jeanine Pirro, but he seemingly failed to do so with Bartiromo.
Fox Business executives
Fox Business executives Lauren PettersonandGary Schreier spoke of using Fox Business shows to grab viewers who were going away from Fox News proper, by supporting the election lies. (They just couldn’t be as open about it, compared to Fox’s far-right competition at Newsmax.) From the filing (citations removed):
The night of November 7, after Fox called the election, Fox Business Network (“FBN”) President Lauren Petterson wrote FBN executive Gary Schreier that she had turned off Fox’s coverage: “I don’t know how we work here. Honestly. We are going to look back at this week and know this was when we lost a significant part of our audience who won’t come back. As soon as Facebook starts telling people to go to [N]ewsmax.” But Schreier and Petterson saw an opening: “You know though between us. This is a problem for the channel yes. But if we keep doing what we do, fbn will get a bunch of the disenfranchised folks too.” Petterson responded: “100 percent. I was talking about exactly that with my husband last night.It’s actually an opening for us.” Schreier: “Yes. We just can’t play for it openly like newsmax and oan.”
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November 14, after a long day jeering at antifascist and Black Lives Matter protesters, the Proud Boys were thirsty. In downtown Washington, D.C., where about 400 of the group’s members had gathered for the Million MAGA March to protest President Donald Trump’s electoral defeat,a small band of Proud Boys wandered down E Street, their feet dragging in heavy tan combat boots. The weather in D.C. had been unseasonably warm for November—about 65 degrees and sunny—and the group looked sunburned and tired. Toward the back of the pack, a middle-aged man in a tactical vest and blue-mirrored sunglasses came to a stop, pulled a mango White Claw from the front pocket of his vest and cracked it open.
“I want to punch some commies,” he said, and took a sip.
In the nation’s capital, it’s not easy for a Proud Boy to get a drink. Coronavirus restrictions aside, many of D.C.’s restaurants refuse to serve members of the far-right hate group, who are easily identified by their signature black-and-gold Fred Perry polo shirts. “Hate not welcome here,” read a sign posted in one downtown shop window. So instead of roaming the streets in search of another drink, the gang of Proud Boys headed toward the group’s favorite D.C. watering hole: Harry’s Pub, in the heart of Penn Quarter.
Protestors attending the second day of the Million Maga March at Freedom Plaza in downtown Washington, D.C., pass by Harry’s Restaurant and Bar in the Harrington Hotel on Dec. 12, 2020.
The low-key bar has suddenly been news for all the wrong reasons. On Saturday night, after the second running of the Million MAGA March, police responded to a fight between Trump-supporting rallygoers and counterprotests near Harry’s, in which at least four people were stabbed. On election night in November, a group of Proud Boys that included Enrique Tarrio, the group’s national chair, and the conservative provocateur Bevelyn Beatty was assaulted while leaving a watch party at Harry’s. Beatty suffered a non-life-threatening stab wound to her back.
In a city known for its high-powered, wood-paneled eateries, Harry’s can seem out of place. Housed on the ground floor of the Hotel Harrington, Washington’s self-proclaimed “tourist hotel” where rooms begin at $95 per night, Harry’s is a rare dive bar in the middle of the city’s expense account district, an oasis of $6 Bud Lights in an ocean of $18 Manhattans. Hundreds of police patches hang on the walls of the narrow bar, which is filled with old-school red vinyl stools and faux-Tiffany lamps, while black-and-white tiled floors gives the place a sort of fun-house feel. The food is cheap, and the atmosphere is casual. “Don’t eat the fish,” counsels a top review on Yelp.
But what for years was a low-key haunt for off-duty police officers and busloads of tourist groups has, during the Donald Trump presidency, attracted a brand-new clientele.In the past four years, Harry’s has become the de-facto D.C. headquarters of the Proud Boys, the all-male extremist group known for its members’ thinly veiled racism, penchant for street violence and unwavering support for the president. When they’re in town for rallies or protests, the Proud Boys and other rank-and-file MAGA loyalists toast Trump and down beers among the vinyl stools here, or on the patio, under the eerie technicolor glow cast by the pub’s neon signs.
If the Trump International Hotel has become the social nerve center of the MAGA elite—Republican senators and foreign oligarchs courting favor with the president under the gilded lobby vaulting—Harry’s Bar, a block away from the hotel, is where the other half of MAGA social life in D.C. unfolds—a hangout for bearded militiamen and young, clean-cut white nationalists and Trump supporters on a budget. Stella Artois at the Trump Hotel’s high-end cocktail bar costs $11, and cocktails start at $22. At Harry’s, drinks cost half as much. But it’s still close enough to feel like part of the hotel’s upper-class ecosystem, benefiting from its power and appeal through some mysterious social osmosis.
DECEMBER 12, 2020: A member of the Proud Boys holds an organizational flag outside the Trump International Hotel along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DCon the day of the second Million Maga March at Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC.
“We bounce back and forth from Harry’s to the Trump almost every night we’re [in Washington], but the Trump is a little too expensive,” said Tarrio over the phone. “[Harry’s] is your practical, everyday run-of-the-mill bar.”
In the twilight hours of the first Million MAGA March on November 14, the Proud Boys’ bravado was on full display at Harry’s. Groups of scowling men in tactical vests milled around, eating popcorn, drinking pitchers of beer and trading war stories from past rallies. The crowd spilled onto the outdoor patio, where a vendor was selling American flags and Trump knickknacks from the back of a trailer. Many wore MAGA hats. Few wore masks. At one point, a group gathered in the street in front of Harry’s to unfurl a massive “Thin Blue Line” flag with “TRUMP” emblazoned across the top in oversize block letters. A handful of Proud Boys ran under the flag while its handlers sent ripples across the surface, like toddlers at some sort of beer-soaked jamboree. The city’s Beverage Regulation Administration later slapped Harry’s with two $1,000 fines for violating social distancing guidelines and occupancy restrictions during the gathering.
...Harry’s first gained traction with the Proud Boys during the Mother of All Rallies (M.O.A.R), a pro-Trump gathering on the National Mall in September 2017. The rally’s organizers promised crowds of more than a million, but the event ended up drawing closer to 1,000 Trump loyalists, leading some to dub it “the Mother of All Flops.”The Proud Boys, however, were well represented, as were members of a number of other far-right extremist groups, including the Three Percenters, Oath Keepers and American Guard. The after-party coalesced at Harry’s.
In September 2018, the Proud Boys returned to the bar after the second M.O.A.R., which drew similarly underwhelming crowds. Over Fourth of July weekend in 2019, Harry’s served as the group’s home base during the “Demand Free Speech” rally, a hodgepodge of speeches and marches that the Proud Boys nominally organized. More recently, the bar made headlines this October when Trump retweeted a video of unmasked Harry’s patrons first-bumping Metropolitan Police Department officers and chanting “back the blue” as the officers ordered food. The video triggered an investigation by the city’s Beverage Regulation Administration, resulting in two warnings for pandemic restriction violations.
Meanwhile, the Proud Boys’ adversaries have also taken notice of Harry’s. During the Demand Free Speech rally in 2019, a group of antifascist counterprotesters confronted the Proud Boys on the bar’s patio, which was heavily patrolled by police. The groups traded insults across a line of officers before the counterprotesters dispersed. Violence broke out in earnest this past November, though, when roaming bands of Proud Boys clashed with antifascists and BLM activists in the streets surrounding Harry’s, resulting in at least 20 arrests and a number of serious injuries.
During the second Million MAGA March on December 12, this past weekend, police arrived outside Harry’s in the early afternoon in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent clashes between the Proud Boys and other pro-Trump demonstrators who had gathered outside the bar and counterprotesters who had gathered nearby at Black Lives Matter Plaza. At 4 p.m., Harry’s closed, leaving large crowds of Proud Boys milling around on the sidewalk. (If Harry’s gets a third Covid-19 violation, the pub’s liquor license will be reviewed by the Alcoholic Beverage Control board.) At night, four people were stabbed around 11th and F Street, less than a block from the bar. The police have not yet said who the victims are.
As for the Hotel Harrington, they’re trying to keep away from the controversy. The hotel’s managing director, Ann Terry, recently told the Washingtonian that the bar’s new MAGA scene is “Harry’s responsibility.” “I really don’t keep up with it a lot. We don’t play any part in running things,” she said.
With Trump set to depart from the White House in January, the Proud Boys’ future at Harry’s remains uncertain. According to Tarrio, the Proud Boys are planning to increase their presence in Washington during the Biden presidency, and Tarrio is considering buying a second home in the area so he can split his time more evenly between the capital and his native Miami.
“I think you’ll see us a lot more often in D.C. now, if Biden assumes the presidency, which is very likely,” Tarrio said. “I can see already by Biden’s posture what his policies are going to be on certain things … and there’s gonna be a f---ton of policies that I’ll probably disagree with.”...
November 6, 2020
More than 200 protesters, including militia movement members, gather to protest in Detroit, Michigan. A group of Trump supporters target a local news station for a protest in Youngstown, Ohio. More protests take place in Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.
November 7, 2020
Late in the morning, the Associated Press and major television networks announce that Biden is projected to become the 46th president of the United States.
That afternoon, in addition to the widespread public celebrations over Biden’s victory, Stop the Steal protests take place across the United States at state capitols and ballot-counting locations. At the Pennsylvania state capitol, extremists including armed militias, white supremacists, QAnon believers, and Proud Boys participate in a heavily armed protest.
Extremists, including white nationalist movement leaders and Proud Boys, also begin promoting and planning a “Million MAGA March” in Washington D.C. for Nov. 14.
(Source: Parler)
November 8, 2020
Amy and Kylie Jane Kremer of the organization Women For America First re-brand a Facebookgroup called “Boot Pelosi” to “March for Trump.” Retooling existing online assets is a common tactic, taking an audience that came together for one particular cause and redirecting them toward another one — in this case, a ready-made group of Trump supporters who might express interest in participating in a march. The Facebook group has more than 9,000 members at the time of publication. A significant portion of online infrastructure established in prior political campaigns, including anti-COVID-19 lockdown protests, are retrofitted to deliver misinformation about the election and to organize rallies.
Promotional materials for a “Million MAGA March” circulate among extremist communities online and began to appear on militia movement recruiting forum boards and chat rooms.
Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes streams live video from a Stop the Steal rally in Purcellville, Virginia.At the time of publication, the Oath Keepers channel remained accessible on YouTube. (Warning: The following video contains explicit and otherwise offensive material.)
November 9, 2020
Jones’ outlet Infowars promotes the Stop the Steal cause and organizes a multi-state caravan to Washington, D.C. Infowars personalities urge viewers to follow a Parler account with the handle @stopthestealcaravan. Host Owen Shroyer will go on to travel in a custom armored vehicle from Texas to D.C., making stops in several cities along the way. The outlet continues to promote the protest with additional videos and posts.
(Source: InfoWars)
Women for America First updates its website to promote Nov. 14 protests in Washington, D.C. and to share the names of conservative influencers to follow online. The listed influencers include a convergence of white nationalists, anti-Muslim voices, conspiracy theorists and spreaders of COVID-19 disinformation.
(Source: TrumpMarch.com)
November 10, 2020
Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes tells Alex Jones that he had men stationed outside Washington, D.C. prepared to engage in violence on Trump’s command. According to Media Matters:
Rhodes said Trump should task special forces leaders in the military to gather and process the information because “he cannot trust the normal military intelligence services.” Noting that he has previously been opposed to U.S. military intervention in domestic matters, Rhodes said that in this case Trump should invoke The Insurrection Act to accomplish this goal.
Rhodes then said that, in support of Trump, “we have men already stationed outside D.C. as a nuclear option in case they attempt to remove the president illegally, we will step in and stop it” and emphasized that these men are “armed” and “prepared to go in, if the president calls us up.” In addition to activity outside of the capital, Rhodes said he will have Oath Keepers inside the city this coming weekend to support a caravan of Infowars supporters being led by Shroyer who say they will hold an event on November 14. The Infowars contingent is one of several far-right groups that say that they will rally in the city to support Trump. Stewart added that his group has been doing “recon” for the past week in the Washington, D.C., area.
Alex Jones, Owen Shroyer and Stewart Rhodes. (Source: Media Matters)
Inside a chatroom for dues-paying Oath Keepers members, users discuss their intentions to attend the Nov. 14 rally. Around the same time period, users also advise those fellow members attending to “watch your backs” and refer to those who plan to attend as “soldiers.”
(Source: Oath Keepers)
November 12, 2020
According to notes shared by an Oath Keepers member inside a chat room for dues-paying group supporters, Rhodes says that members of his group will be stationed near Washington, D.C. until Trump is installed as president.
(Source: Oath Keepers)
That same day, then-White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany says during a Fox News appearance that she expects turnout at the Nov. 14 protest in Washington, D.C. to be “quite large.”
Trump, meanwhile, teases a visit to the Nov. 14 rally in D.C. “Wow!” he writes. “Thousands of people forming in Washington (D.C.) for Stop the Steal. Didn’t know about this, but I’ll be seeing them! #MAGA”
(Source: The Trump Archive)
November 13, 2020
Trump campaign allies host a bewildering press conference at the Four Seasons Total Landscaping company in Philadelphia, where they air grievances over the counting of votes. Almost every single Trump campaign challenge against the results of the election will be tossed out of court, and the small number of legal challenges won will do nothing to change the result of the vote.
(Source: AP)
November 14, 2020
Trump supporters and far-right extremists gather by the thousands in D.C. to protest the results of the 2020 election. Trump pays a visit to theMillion MAGA March with a presidential motorcade drive-by. That night, members of the Proud Boys and Trump supporters engage in violence in downtown D.C., feuding with civil rights counter-protestors. At least one person is stabbed and hospitalized.
“While much of the day unfolded peacefully, brief but intense clashes erupted throughout,” the Washington Post writes. “Activists spewed profanity and shouted threats, threw punches and launched bottles. On both sides, people were bloodied, and at least 20 were arrested, including four whose allegiances remain unknown on gun charges. The chaos also left two officers injured.”
Footage pulled from my IG live from last night. I’m positioned in front of PBs with antifascists behind me. When PBs moved in is when my phone got thrown. Looks like someone picked it up to catch bike cops coming through. Explains why I found it on the curb! pic.twitter.com/5TZpWBH0oQ
— talia (@mxtaliajane) November 15, 2020
Just after 8 p.m., the Proud Boys and other Trump supporters receive praise from the president for brawling with counter-demonstrators.
(Source: Twitter. Note time stamp for this image is Pacific Time.)