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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Richard Luscombe

Fox News hosts thought Trump’s election fraud claims were ‘total BS’, court filings show

Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity.
Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity. Photograph: AP

Hosts at Fox News privately ridiculed Donald Trump’s claims that the 2020 election was stolen while simultaneously peddling the same lies on air, according to court filings in a defamation lawsuit against the network.

Rightwing personalities Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham are among those named in the $1.6bn action brought by Dominion Voting Systems, the seller of electronic voting hardware and software that is suing Fox News and parent company Fox Corporation for maligning its reputation.

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