A New York appeals court on Tuesday rejected Fox News' bid to shut down a multibillion-dollar defamation lawsuit accusing the network of spreading lies that a voting-technology company helped 'steal' the 2020 election from then-U.S. President Donald Trump.
A five-judge panel ruled unanimously against the network, host Maria Bartiromo and former host Lou Dobbs. They said they were simply reporting the news when they broadcast unsupported claims from Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell about Smartmatic USA. The claims were false.
Messages seeking comment were sent to Smartmatic and Fox News; the network’s lawyers are also representing the hosts. Federal and state election officials, exhaustive reviews in battleground states and Trump’s own attorney general found no widespread fraud that could have changed the outcome of the 2020 election. Nor did they uncover any credible evidence that the vote was tainted. Trump’s allegations of fraud were also roundly rejected by dozens of courts, including by judges whom Trump had appointed.
But Smartmatic says Fox News and the three prominent hosts at the time - Bartiromo, Dobbs and Pirro - repeatedly allowed Trump’s lawyers to falsely portray Smartmatic as a foreign company involved in a sprawling, multi-state operation to “flip” votes to Biden from the Republican incumbent. The company says business tanked and executives and customer-support workers received death threats because of the bogus allegations. It’s seeking more than $2.7 billion in damages.
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