MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell on Wednesday steered three phrases might have saved Fox Information from paying out $787 million within the defamation lawsuit introduced by Dominion Voting Programs.
Had Fox hosts stated “if that’s true” after listening to baseless claims that Dominion’s voting machines by some means rigged the election towards former President Donald Trump, then “The Final Phrase” anchor stated the conservative community wouldn’t have been sued after which needed to accept the huge quantity because it headed to trial.
“The stupidity within the govt places of work at Fox and on the anchor desks led to this consequence which was fully avoidable,” he defined. “Somebody at Fox might have stated to the folks internet hosting their reveals, ’You possibly can let (former Trump legal professional) Rudy Giuliani inform any lie he needs for so long as he needs and on the finish of it, all you must say is, ‘If that’s true… this can be a horrible scenario and we’re going to need to do one thing about it.’”
Fox “by no means might been sued as a result of the host would have stated, ‘if that’s true,’” O’Donnell continued. “These are the authorized protected phrases that prevent $787 million and everybody working at Fox was too silly to know these authorized protected phrases.”
“Rupert Murdoch was too silly to inform his folks to make use of these authorized protected phrases,” he added. “And so Fox misplaced and reality gained.”
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