being replaced by loyalists from other countries. what is this really about? why do i hate putin so much? has putin ever called me a racist? has he threatened to get me fired for disagreeing with him? a trump/carlson ticket might be awkward since we learned this year in 2021, tucker was texting about how he hated him passionately. we know that little insight into tucker s feelings from private texts revealed during pretrial discovery in dominion voting system s massive defamation lawsuit against fox. thethetwork settled that suit in april to the tune of $787.5 million. carlson was unceremoniously canned by fox less than a week later without much explanation from tucker or fox. a new book from journalist brian stelter digs into the circumstances of carlson s firing and much more about fox, including the network s role in radicalizing its viewers, promoting the big lie, january
speech that s not protected. every fraud requires a statement as part of the crime. so if i call you up, jamie, and lie to you on the phone for the purpose of stealing money from you, that s wire fraud. my lies to you are not protected speech. if i threaten you, gloria, and in return to force you to coerce you to give me something of value, that s extortion. my threat to you is protected speech. that s not the case they re making in this indictment. his speech not protected because it is part of a crime. just to put a period on it, there is a different channel, fox, $787.5 million they paid to dominion electronic voting systems because of the defamation. that s right. the defamation that they platformed and made themselves. some of their hosts against that
a $787.5 million settlementing but this time it s hitting even closer to trump. rudy giuliani admitting in a court filing that some of the most brazen lies and claims he made about election fraud were false, they were lies. giuliani was acting as a lawyer for donald trump at the time. the lies at issue centered around two election workers, ruby freeman and shea moss. giuliani alleged they had committed crimes. he lied repeatedly on camera. earlier in the day, these two were engaged in another apparent voter fraud in which they were passing out usb cords, which were being used apparently, you know, to infiltrate the croed dominion voting machines. ruby freedomen and shea freeman moss and one other gentleman quite obviously surveillance help tishsly passing around usb
character that my character lucy explores. this is a tabloid and subplot of who done it, it s where america has gone. she s put in situations as a writer, as a journalist, lucy, in writing about them and her editors are goosing them to sell papers. and, you know, there isn t that far distance between the $787.5 million settlement being paid by fox to dominion. it s part of the tabloidfication of the american media. some of it is black and white unclear how they re goosing the story to make things up but shades of gray there that holds a mirror up to the media industry writ large. jake, first of all, this is a book that has footnotes in it, so you will learn something. but it s also a really fun interesting read, if you love a good thriller.
$787.5 million defamation settlement with dominion voting systems and a $12 million settlement to resolve a discrimination lawsuit from a former fox producer. joining us now ray epps attorney. the lawsuit claims fox and the host suggested repeatedly that your client was part of a secret fbi plot to orchestrate the january 6th riot. obviously the nutty, false theory. but lay this out for us. how did this happen? well, they didn t just suggest it. they told their viewers it was true. it began somewhat early with the view from a right-wing former trump official who speculated and stated that ray epps must have been the linchpin of the fed surrection is what they labeled it because originally the fbi had posted a picture of ray epps on their website