New Smartmatic Filing Reveals Fox News Staffers Admitted Election Claims Were 'So F***ing Cray' and 'MINDBLOWINGLY NUTS'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: MEDIAite

Jun 19th, 2025, 4:16 pm


In the wake of Dominion Voting System’s stunning $787.5 million settlement in its defamation lawsuit against Fox News, all eyes turned to Smartmatic, another voting technology company that had filed its own lawsuit making similar claims that Fox News had made false and defamatory accusations that Smartmatic had engaged in fraud during the 2020 election.

This week, the Smartmatic litigation revealed another similarity with the Dominion case: discovery that has unveiled blunt and shocking admissions by Fox News’ employees that they knew the election fraud claims made by President Donald Trump and his attorneys, surrogates, and other key supporters were false — along with a multitude of synonyms for crazy.

Both sides have filed motions for summary judgment, seeking to convince the judge that the other side’s case is too flawed and should be thrown out ahead of trial. This latest motion was filed by Smartmatic’s legal team, led by Erik Connolly, and specifically opposes the motion for summary judgment filed by defendants Fox News Network, Fox Corporation, Maria Bartiromo, Jeanine Pirro, and the estate of Lou Dobbs (who passed away in July 2024).

Pre-trial discovery in the Dominion litigation revealed a trove of documents in which Fox’s on-air personalities and top executives exchanged emails and text messages acknowledging Trump had lost the 2020 election, that his claims the election was stolen from him via fraud were unfounded, and lamenting the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. An additional set of documents with previously redacted comments was released in March 2023, and the case ended up settling the very morning trial was set to begin.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/lawcrime/new-smartmatic-filing-reveals-wild-admissions-by-fox-employees-2020-election-fraud-claims-were-so-fing-cray-and-mindblowingly-nuts/

[Old Crank]

1. Hopefully a bigger settlement is on the way

Knowingly lying and already having to pay out.

[BoRaGard]

2. "Ha ha. American suckers and losers." - G.O.P. Lie Machine

[MacKasey]

3. Could the officers hurt on Jan 6, 3021

Go after Fox news for their lies/false information causing the atrocities/damages on Jan 6th?

[BumRushDaShow]

5. There have been multiple civil suits filed since 2021

that are still going including this one - https://www.lawyerscommittee.org/smith-v-trump/

I have been digging around for the past hour trying to find the DU threads to get more details as to whether any include Faux (there were some related suits filed by members of Congress too), but the suits did focus on the lies and stoking the insurrection.

[wolfie001]

4. More stalling and refilling's to drag this out ad infinitum

If a Democratic defendant or organization were on trial, this case would have been "resolved" about 3 years ago.

[LymphocyteLover]

6. Yes, Felon 47 is F***ing Cray' and 'MINDBLOWINGLY NUTS'

[mzmolly]

7. The lawsuit should force Fox to air repeated apologies

to their viewers. They should also have to air a documentary about how they lied, over and over again.

[Martin68]

8. The damage is done. Millions of Fox viewers still believe the election was stolen.

[mwb970]

11. These are weak-minded simpletons who will apparently believe ANYTHING.

That's MAGA morons for you.

[hibbing]

9. No Hannity? n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

10. Dominion nailed Hannity

and then of course did that huge settlement with Faux. But I don't know if Hannity spent as much time going after Smartmatic (which is this case).