Murdoch Testified That Fox Hosts ‘Endorsed’ Election Lie (2)

Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch testified that Fox News’s popular commentators “endorsed” Donald Trump’s false claim that the 2020 presidential election was rigged, even though Murdoch said he doubted the conspiracy theory right away, according to a filing in a defamation lawsuit.

“Some of our commentators were endorsing it,” Murdoch said while being questioned under oath in a $1.6 billion suit by Dominion Voting Systems Inc., which included excerpts of the deposition in a court filing Monday.

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“About the endorsement of a stolen election?” a lawyer asked.

“Yes,” Murdoch said. “They endorsed.”

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