In 2020, Fox News personality Bret Baier privately worried that his network was losing viewers to other outlets even more willing to air Donald Trump’s lies about an election that he’d lost, especially since his employer had been the first to call Arizona for President Joe Biden.
“I have pressed them to slow. And I think they will slow walk Nevada,” Baier assured Tucker Carlson in a text message, made public as part of Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit over Fox News knowingly airing false claims about the last presidential contest.
