Republicanism: Fox news Lawyers were going to argue that the whole reason they were saying bs about the voting machines is purely because of 45th and the words he used specifically blaming Dominion, so that would make everything okay and all the spreading of the lies is legit.
"we know that its all lies and garbage, but the president said it first... so... so there" - Fox lawyers
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The night before the trial's scheduled start, attorneys for Fox News filed documents imploring the judge overseeing the case to allow them to introduce evidence arguing the company's allegedly defamatory claims against Dominion's voting machines were primarily inspired by Trump's own rhetoric that the election—with Dominion's involvement—was specifically rigged against him.
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Because Trump was the president, Fox News' attorneys argued, his comments about the company were therefore newsworthy, raising questions about whether the conservative network's personalities were acting with "actual malice" in repeating them on the air.

Fox was going to argue that because the President was saying all these lies and garbage about Dominion that it would considered newsworthy and therefore justify all the bullshit being spread to the hogs
https://www.newsweek.com/fox-news-blames-donald-trump-2020-election-comments-dominion-voting-systems-defamation-lawsuit-1794860This post was edited by Crunkt on Apr 21 2023 03:30pm