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Salon
Politics
Samaa Khullar

Sean Hannity tried to get reporter fired

Fox News hosts Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson conspired to try to get one of their colleagues fired for daring to fact-check false claims about the election, according to a nearly 200-page brief in Dominion Voting Systems' defamation lawsuit against the network. 

In the days after former President Donald Trump's 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden, Fox News correspondent Jacqui Heinrich accurately debunked a Trump tweet about Dominion that mentioned Hannity's show by name, according to the brief, writing that "top election infrastructure officials" confirmed that "there is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised."

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