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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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John Bowden

Paul Ryan ‘absolutely disagrees’ with Tucker Carlson as he defends role on Fox News board

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Paul Ryan is responding to a wave of criticism aimed at him and other Fox executives after testimony and other evidence revealed during the course of Dominion Voting Systems’ lawsuit against the company showed that top personalities on the network spread Donald Trump’s election lies while trashing them in private.

The former speaker of the US House of Representatives has been vocal in his disdain for the former president since leaving office, and called his actions impeachable after the attack on Congress. But now, the lawsuit against his company has shown that Mr Ryan himself profited from the company that employed opinion hosts who, in 2020, were active in questioning or flat-out dismissing the veracity of the election results on-air while privately admitting that the Trump team had no case.

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