A bombshell new leak from the ongoing defamation lawsuit against Fox News Network by Dominion Voting Systems has all but effectively destroyed the reputation of network CEO Suzanne Scott, after the leak exposed photos of alleged inside emails, showing Scott berating and chastising Fox anchors for daring to fact-check Donald Trump’s blatant lies about the 2020 election on air.
Senior fellow at left-wing media watchdog Media Matters for America, Matt Gertz, posted a series of images in a Twitter thread, said to have come from a leaked slideshow deck being used by Dominion Voting Systems in their massive defamation lawsuit against Fox News, connected to the Right-wing network’s decision to repeatedly air blatantly false claims about Dominon’s role in Donald Trump’s brutal 2020 election loss.
Gertz’s Twitter thread features a treasure trove of evidence the voting systems company is using against the ultra Right-wing network in their rock-solid defamation case. Among that leaked evidence was a screenshot of an email sent to Fox News executive Meade Cooper by Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott. In this particularly damning email, Scott is seen angrily railing against network host Eric Shawn for his decision to use his Fox segment to openly fact-check disgraced former President Donald Trump’s lie-filled claims and conspiracy theories about election fraud, on live air — more specifically, Trump’s claim that Democrats used “massive dumps of votes” to outright cheat in the 2020 presidential election.
Mere moments after Shawn dismantled this Trump claim on television, Scott penned a furious email to Cooper, fuming that Shawn and other hosts just like him were infuriating Fox viewers by picking apart Trump’s claims and conspiracy theories about the elections for the lies that they were.
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“This has to stop now,” Scott can be seen demanding in the email. “This is bad business and there clearly is a lack of understanding what is happening in these shows. The audience is furious and we are just feeding them material. Bad for business.”
Dominion has already repeatedly proven that Fox News Network was airing claims about the company’s machines and their wrongful connection to Trump’s loss on air, knowing full and well that the claims they were making were blatantly false. This particular leak only serves to further corroborate earlier inside correspondence that showed Scott complaining that network hosts who used their air time to discredit and fact-check Trump’s lies “don’t understand our audience.”
See Gertz’s Twitter thread on the leaked evidence here:
In an email, Fox CEO Suzanne Scott responds to Fox’s Eric Shawn fact-checking a Trump falsehood: “This has to stop now… this is bad business… the audience is furious and we are just feeding them material.” pic.twitter.com/6yDMzst5f5
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) March 29, 2023
Featured image via Flickr/ajay_suresh, under Creative Commons license 2.0
