According to a bombshell new piece from the New York Times that broke today, Donald Trump’s own self-proclaimed best friend, none other than Fox’s Sean Hannity, turned his back on the scandal-ridden ex-president’s notorious Big Lie election claims during a recent under oath testimony, during which the Fox Network talking head denounced Trump’s assertions about voting machine fraud in the 2020 election, stating that he “did not believe it for one second.”
Hannity’s remarks reportedly came in response to a question posed to him about allegations that were made by “Kraken” attorney Sidney Powell, who once served as a federal prosecutor who represented Donald Trump through various election-related lawsuits on the heels of Trump’s humiliating loss. Donald Trump claimed, and still to this day continues to claim, that the 2020 presidential election was rigged against him via widespread voter fraud across the entire nation. Powell was personally responsible for many of the public claims that Dominion Voting Systems machines were riddled with fraudulent practices that cost Donald Trump his 2020 victory.
Powell utilized Sean Hannity’s Fox segment during an appearance on Nov. 30, 2020, just a couple of short weeks after the election was called in Joe Biden’s favor, to publicly declare that there had been “corruption all across the country, in countless districts,” in relation to the election.
Trump himself latched onto that conspiracy theory, regularly claiming that Dominion Voting Systems “deleted” votes in his favor, and “switched” countless votes over in favor of Joe Biden.
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Dominion Voting Systems has since launched a massive $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox News Network for restitution of defamation. The voting machine company is also suing Sidney Powell personally.
The New York Times reports:
At the center of this imagined plot were machines from Dominion Voting Systems, which Ms. Powell claimed ran an algorithm that switched votes for Mr. Trump to votes for Joseph R. Biden Jr. Dominion machines, she insisted, were being used ‘to trash large batches of votes.’
Mr. Hannity interrupted her with a gentle question that had been circulating among election deniers, despite a lack of supporting proof: Why were Democrats silencing whistle blowers who could prove this fraud?
Did Mr. Hannity believe any of this?
‘I did not believe it for one second.’
That was the answer Mr. Hannity gave, under oath, in a deposition in Dominion’s $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News, according to information disclosed in a court hearing on Wednesday. The hearing was called to address several issues that need to be resolved before the case heads for a jury trial, which the judge has scheduled to begin in April.”
The Times noted that Hannity’s testimony “is among the strongest evidence yet to emerge publicly that some Fox employees knew that what they were broadcasting was false.”
Attorneys for Dominion Voting Systems openly argued in court today that “not a single Fox witness” has actually been able to substantiate the allegations and claims of voter fraud, in any conceivable way, in relation to the 2020 presidential election.
“Many of the highest-ranking Fox people have admitted under oath that they never believed the Dominion lies,” one Dominion lawyer stated.
Making matters that much worse for Trumpworld still, one Dominion attorney said the voting system company possesses evidence that Fox News Network intentionally attempted to stop Powell, via channels through the Trump White House, from publicly spreading her lies and claims about the 2020 election:
Another previously unknown detail emerged on Wednesday about what was going on inside the Fox universe in those frantic weeks after the election. A second lawyer representing Dominion, Justin Nelson, told Judge Davis about evidence obtained by Dominion showing that an employee of the Fox Corporation, the parent company of Fox News, had tried to intervene with the White House to stop Ms. Powell. According to Mr. Nelson, that employee called the fraud claims ‘outlandish’ and pressed Mr. Trump’s staff to get rid of Ms. Powell, who was advising the president on filing legal challenges to the results.”
Read the full report from the New York Times here.
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