![]() ![]() That newsworthiness, he argued, exists regardless of the accuracy or fairness of the claims.įox's fortunes looked shaky after the November 2020 elections because its research team made Fox the first network to project that Biden would win the key swing state of Arizona. ![]() In an earlier interview with NPR, Webb said that Fox News was merely covering inherently newsworthy claims by inherently newsworthy people - meaning a sitting president and his campaign lawyers and advisers contesting a presidential election. Fox has argued the false claims were inherently newsworthyįox News declined comment, as did its lead outside trial attorney, Dan Webb, through a network spokeswoman. The voting machine company's legal team argued that Fox had already waived reporter's privilege by producing those texts without redactions. A reporter's privilege is intended to protect confidential sources and to some extent news-gathering, as Dominion acknowledged.ĭominion asked the court to compel Fox to bring Pirro back to answer questions directly about those exchanges and other points, though their specific interests were withheld from public view. During Pirro's deposition, Fox's attorneys asserted a reporter's privilege toward some of the questions posed, barring Pirro from answering them. In the filings, Dominion's attorneys write they had been asking for all relevant communications from Fox for months but that the network produced several directly relevant texts from Pirro just 13 hours before her deposition in late August. Pirro did read Dominion's denials on the air.įive days after the segment, the Dominion motion notes, Powell appeared at the Republican National Committee headquarters with Trump campaign attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis, where they held a press conference at which they made nearly identical allegations. Those claims and others she made were false. Powell alleged, among other claims, that computer codes were overwritten to manipulate Dominion software and that statistical and mathematical evidence showed votes were flipped from Trump to Biden. Powell and others are being sued by Dominion separately. Pirro is not named as a defendant in Dominion's suit against Fox and its parent company, Fox Corp. Untangling Disinformation Fox producer's warning against Jeanine Pirro surfaces in Dominion defamation suit That was just one example of the vast cache of documents and testimony that Dominion has acquired. "Discovery has revealed that.Fox News host Jeanine Pirro help spread the verifiably false yet devastating lies against Dominion," the company's lawyers wrote in the legal documents.Įarlier this month, NPR revealed that a Fox producer had warned colleagues in an email against putting Pirro on the air in the days after the election, saying she was pulling conspiracy theories from extremist conspiracy-minded websites to justify Trump's lies. The case is at a pre-trial phase of the litigation, where both sides are able to obtain testimony and documentary evidence from key figures in a process called "discovery." Its filings argue that by questioning Pirro, Dominion can meet the key legal threshold of proving Fox showed "actual malice" when it broadcast false claims the firm sought to throw the race to Joe Biden over then-President Donald Trump. In documents filed Thursday in a Delaware courthouse, the voting tech company explicitly identified Pirro, a former Westchester County district attorney and New York state judge, as central to its case. Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, shown here addressing the Conservative Political Action Conference in February 2017, has been placed at the center of a $1.6 billion defamation suit against Fox by Dominion Voting Systems over false claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential elections.ĭominion Voting Systems is putting Fox News star "Judge Jeanine" Pirro back on the legal hot seat in its clash with the network in a $1.6 billion defamation suit over baseless claims of fraud in the 2020 elections, NPR has learned. ![]()
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