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While Hannity publicly supported the former president on his widely watched prime time show, he’d actually “been privately disgusted with Trump for weeks, but was scared to lose viewers,” Murdoch emailed Ryan in Jan. 2021, per court filings released Monday.
“The sooner we can put down the echoes of falsehoods from our side, the faster we can get onto principled loyal opposition,” Ryan told Murdoch, according to new documents that form part of Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation suit against Fox.
The lawsuit alleges Fox hosts made unfounded claims about Dominion voting machines denying Trump victory in the 2020 election.
“I truly hope our contributors, along with Tucker (Carlson), Laura (Ingraham), and Sean (Hannity) get that and execute,” Ryan added.
In the same filing, it emerged that Murdoch under oath admitted several of the network’s personalities “endorsed” false conspiracy theories about the election, following on from other records released earlier this month that showed the gulf between what hosts were saying on air and in private.
Fox has claimed the lawsuit is “more about what will generate headlines than what can withstand legal and factual scrutiny.”
