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Revelations emerge as Dominion Voting accuses network of amplifying debunked claims in $1.6bn lawsuit
Good morning, US politics live blog readers, there’s a lively day in store in Washington and the overnight deluge of new revelations in the $1.6bn lawsuit against Fox, Rupert Murdoch’s rightwing US cable news channel, over its backing of Donald Trump’s bogus claims of election fraud continues to wash over America.
Here’s what’s happening:
More revelations and reverberations as details continue to surface from the massive civil case by voting machine maker Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News Networks for boosting Trump’s lie that he had won the 2020 presidential election, not Democrat Joe Biden.
Evidence emerging as part of Dominion’s motion in court for summary judgment of its $1.6bn defamation lawsuit against Fox show that figures at every level of the company knew Trump’s claims were false and there ensued a war between the news side of Fox, which declared Biden’s victory, and the opinion side, which one executive called an “existential crisis” at the cable channel.
Anger continues, meanwhile, over Fox star host Tucker Carlson. He’s revealed as part of the above case to “passionately hate” Trump, but now he’s once again aired selective footage from the January 6, 2021, insurrection, supplied to him by the House speaker, Kevin McCarthy, purporting to show them milling around the US Capitol not violently trying to overturn the election result.
On Capitol Hill, the director of national intelligence, Avril Haines, the CIA director, William Burns, the FBI director, Christopher Wray, and others will testify at a hearing by the Senate intelligence committee on the latest perspective on “world threats” to security.
The White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, is due to hold the daily media briefing in the West Wing at 12.30pm ET.
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