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Feb 2023
30m 11s

Bonus: “Fox News EXPOSED”

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A new filing in Dominion’s defamation case against Fox News has revealed the big wigs at Fox knew Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud were false, but they kept promoting his lies on their airwaves. Jon and Tommy read the private texts and emails that Laura Ingraham, Tucker Carlson and Fox executives sent one another during the fall of 2020.

 

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