Their distrust of his claims Donald Trump For 2020 election fraud his top managers made messages to each other Fox News Television Network, although the channel continued to promote Trump’s lies on its shows. Network celebrity anchors Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingram, as well as top executives, repeatedly wrote insulting and derisive comments about Trump in their messages, as well as targeting then-presidential advisers such as Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell.

“Sidney Powell is lying. I caught her right away. But our viewers are good people and they still think Trump won,” Carlson wrote to Ingram on November 18, 2020, to which the reporter replied, “Sydney is totally crazy. Nobody wants to work with her. The same goes for Rudy.”

The revelations came about thanks to a defamation lawsuit filed by an online scam company against Fox News. The network claimed, without providing evidence, that the company’s movers were biased in favor of Democrats in the 2020 election.

Over the past eight months, lawyers for the plaintiff company have obtained testimony and electronic transcripts from dozens of Fox News executives, including network founder Rupert Murdoch. The court will issue its verdict in mid-April.

The testimony revealed feuds on the canal. Network president Jay Wallace appears in a November 2020 post criticizing commentator Lou Dobbs, one of Trump’s staunchest followers of the scam theory, writing, “North Koreans are more restrained in their praise than Lou Dobbs.” Sean Hannity, one of Fox’s most popular talk show hosts, testified under oath in the case twice, and the plaintiff company’s lawyers sought to prove that the hosts caused the company financial harm by knowingly promoting lies.