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Dominion Settled and We All Lost
FOX will never admit their lies, and now their viewers will never know the truth
The lawyer for Dominion keeps saying how proud he is of Dominion’s employees and continues to cite the evidence presented during the pretrial depositions as proof of FOX’s lies. There is just one problem: no one who watches FOX will ever know this.
Yes, Dominion got money and quite a lot of it. But FOX viewers won’t know that either because they don’t tend to get news from any source except FOX.
The lawyer said he’d “like to think” that FOX would tell the truth about it, but how naïve can this man be? FOX hosts told blatant lies, knowing they were lies, and now he thinks they will put on their big boy pants and be honest out of the goodness of their hearts?
The judge already made rulings confirming that FOX consistently made defamatory falsehoods. Again, FOX viewers don’t know this. But given how little was left to prove in a trial and with all the discovery complete, the trial itself could have been concluded in relatively short order.
Had Dominion refused to fold and forced FOX to go to trial, they could have petitioned the judge to require, as part of the damages claim, that FOX announce their complicity in broadcasting those lies, and perhaps could…
