To the editor:
As a result of the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News by Dominion Voting Systems, a very prominent voting machine company, it has been revealed that virtually all Fox executives and program hosts strongly believe that the claims that they were making, seemingly endlessly, on the air that the 2020 U.S. presidential election was somehow rigged against President Donald J. Trump in his bid for re-election by entities, in particular Dominion Voting Systems, were, in fact, completely bogus, and were done to placate their many viewers by their advocating for and promotion of confirmed fallacies of which they espoused in order to maintain their viewership and massive profits.
Some of the quite revealing comments made by Fox executives and hosts indicate that they completely disbelieved what they were communicating to their viewers regarding Trump's outrageous claim that the presidential election was stolen from him include Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch, who has stated that Trump's claims were "really crazy stuff," as well as Fox News program hosts including Tucker Carlson, who, off the air, stated that former President Trump was a "demonic force and a destroyer," and Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham, who referred to Trump's personal attorneys Rudolph Guiliani and Sidney Powell as "nuts," "insane" and "idiots," while being totally supportive of them on air.
In addition, it has been reported that current Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy has inexplicably given Carlson 44,000 hours of surveillance videos from the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, which has been referred to as a very dangerous and unprecedented breach of U.S. security.
Also, recently, Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia has called for a national divorce by red states from blue states, which translates to another future Civil War in our great country, and Trump, wearing his MAGA hat, turned his appearance in East Palestine largely into a self-promoting political event, and made it quite clear at the recent Conservative Political Action Convention that his 2024 run for the presidency is essentially ego-driven and revenge-inspired.
In closing, it will be quite interesting, indeed, to see how Fox News might respond if it does lose its massive defamatory case to Dominion Voting Systems, as it so appears it well may.
It could get quite interesting, to say the least.
Richard Hord
Martins Ferry