Mediaite’s Aidan McLaughlin Tells CNN Dominion’s Bombshell Brief Shows ‘Pervasive Fear’ of Trump at Fox News
Mediaite editor in chief Aidan McLaughlin appeared on CNN Newsroom Sunday to discuss the latest revelations in the litigation between Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News with anchor Jim Acosta and CNN senior media reporter Oliver Darcy. This “bombshell lawsuit is exposing what some of the biggest names over at Fox really felt about Donald Trump, even as they pushed his claims of election fraud,” said Acosta to kick off the segment. Fox News has denied the claims in Dominion’s lawsuit, characterized the demand for $1.6 billion in damages as unreasonable, and issued a statement defending the network’s actions as constitutionally protected free speech. “Usually, a network would not allow a case like this to go to trial,” McLaughlin said, but the whopping $1.6 billion Dominion was demanding undoubtedly played a part in Fox’s refusal to settle. “When you talk to legal experts, they don’t think the $1.6 billion number is reasonable,” he said, “but this could really hurt Fox News,” despite the “lucrative” network’s $1 billion annual profits.
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