| | | Fox News Just Hammered the Final Nail in the Coffin of Trump’s Election Lie
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Trump has long declared elections he lost as stolen, and has never provided a whiff of evidence to support those claims. He pledged during the 2016 campaign that if he lost he would say the election was rigged. He pledged the same during the 2020 campaign. When he did lose in 2020, he made good on that promise. It fueled a violent riot at the U.S. Capitol. The theory was completely made up. All of this was foreseeable.
Trump’s claims were put to the test in court. And sure enough, dozens of judges across the political spectrum, including ones Trump appointed, rejected his attempts to overturn the election. His infamous effort to compel Georgia’s Republican election officials to find exactly enough votes to give him the state fell on deaf ears, and is now the subject of a criminal investigation. A team of researchers his own campaign hired to prove the election was stolen failed to find any evidence it was.
And now, the final nail in the coffin: Fox News just paid Dominion Voting Systems a historic sum of $787.5 million because it could not find evidence to support the stolen election claims.
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Of course, if the stolen election claims were at all true, Fox News could have argued them as a defense against the Dominion suit. They were not true. Fox News had to shell out nearly one billion dollars because of how not-true they were.
An extraordinary amount of money has by now been wasted in an effort to prove Trump’s crackpot theory that he won an election he lost by seven million votes. All that money has done is build a mountain of evidence disproving the theory.
Still, it has persisted in prominent places. Fox News, for one, has consistently promoted the claims. We know, as a result of the Dominion suit, that Fox’s campaign to promote the theory came despite hosts and executives at the network admitting privately that it was insane.
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