Fox News under fire in election-related probe
This morning, as part of its billion-dollar defamation lawsuit against Fox News, Dominion voting systems has revealed private communications from the network's top anchors, suggesting they express disbelief that Dominion's voting machines rigged the 2020 presidential election, even while promoting the false claims on air. Many of Donald Trump's 72 million voters believe this election was fundamentally unfair, and they're right about that. According to the court filings, Tucker Carlson texted a producer 10 days after the election, saying there wasn't enough fraud to change the outcome. And texts show Carlson, along with Sean Hannity and Laura Ingram, did not believe Trump attorney Cindy Powell's election fraud claims. In response to the new court filings, Fox News accuses Dominion of mischaracterizing the record and cherry-picking quotes without context. Meanwhile, in a separate case, a grand jury has now released part of its report on whether former President Trump and his allies broke the law trying to overturn Trump's 2020 election laws in Georgia. The report reveals the jury believes one or more witnesses may have lied under oath.
The catalyst for the investigation was Trump's phone call to Georgia's Secretary of State. I just want to find 11,780 votes. Trump did not testify before the grand jury and insists he did nothing wrong. The report does not name any of the grand jury witnesses, but among those who did appear before the grand jury were Rudy Giuliani, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and Senator Lindsey Graham. I'm confident I testified openly and honestly. The jury said it unanimously found no widespread fraud in Georgia's election. Everything allegation that was made after 2020, we checked it out.
One of the first ones we heard that there were thousands of dead people that voted, we had found two. And since that time, we found two more. They said there were 66,000 underage voters. There was actually zero. The grand jury's recommendations are now in the hands of the district attorney. Ike Jachi, ABC News, Washington.
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