Tucker Carlson's Dominion Text Messages Brutally Expose The Fox News Fraud

Carlson’s text messages aren’t just incriminating, they undermine the entire basis of his persona, and Fox News's.

by Ben Cohen

In November 2020, Dominion Voting Systems filed a defamation lawsuit against Fox News for $1.6 billion. The lawsuit alleged that Fox News spread false claims about Dominion and its role in the 2020 presidential election, causing irreparable damage to the company’s reputation.

The lawsuit alleges that Fox News hosts and guests made false statements about Dominion, including that its voting machines were manipulated to switch votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden, and that the company has ties to Venezuela, Cuba, and China. Dominion asserts that these claims are baseless and defamatory. Fox News has argued that its coverage of Dominion and the 2020 election was protected by the First Amendment, and that it was reporting on a matter of public concern. However, Dominion aims to prove that the network acted with actual malice, meaning that the network knowingly spread false information.

The ongoing lawsuit has taken a dramatic turn with the recent release of text messages sent by several of the network's high-profile hosts. These messages, submitted as evidence in the lawsuit, show definitively that the network knowingly spread false information about the voting systems company.

The legal ramifications could be catastrophic for Fox News, but more than that, we now have incontrovertible evidence that the network is actively undermining democracy in America and propagandizing its audience with fake news.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the most damning evidence comes from the network’s most insidious and powerful operator, Tucker Carlson. Carlson’s text messages aren’t just incriminating though, they undermine the entire basis of the persona he projects to his audience on a nightly basis — and thus his employer’s entire programming agenda.