huge news story, i raced out to the report first with neil cavuto, then special report, when some fox shows said they were bogus conspiracy theories. fox acknowledged if a statement the judge s findings that some on their comments about dominion were false and that dominion s ceo in more pejorative terms toll reporters that fox had lied. donald trump insisted and continues to say without proof almost two and a half years later that the election was rigged against him. this is all said to be one of the biggest defamation settlements in american history though the hundreds of millions of collars were far short of the $1.6 billion sought by anyone on, and the company held it up as a form of accountability. by the way, dominion lawyer steven shackleford said on msnbc, quote, we can t make fox news report on this, we couldn t make fox news report on the trial even if it happens. that is just false. others made the same mistake,
steven, i saw you a couple o days ago in wilmington i do want to say congratulations again on the outcome, but look, for a few days out now from th settlements. there has been criticism ove not going forward with the trial to verdict, some outlets calling it a split decision, a win for rupert murdoch, on headline saying fox news los the lawsuits, but won the war. but let s be clear, i m former trial lawyer as well. you were in the trenches for this legal battle from the ver beginning. so, what is your response to those critics? look, i understand people s disappointment that we didn have a trial, that we were all preparing to go through. but i think what i hope people understand when they sit bac and think about this i dominion and dominion s owners including john kudos and - they wanted accountability and they wanted justice for th company and they didn t settle this case last year. that was very important to them they were not ready to settl this case last year. what they wanted w
sydney powell, newsmax and o a f. if the evidence against them i those cases is asked wrong a the evidence against fox the the two will be crushed by dominion legally. and forced to pay judge settlements that will probably bankrupt them. steven shackleford is right. money is accountability. that is how the civil justic system works in that system, and in tha system alone, money it i accountability that is how lawsuits work. lawsuits are about money the outcome of a lawsuit is no expressed with words lik guilty or not guilty those words never enter lawsuit. it is expressed in amounts o money. and a settlement like this one is the equivalent of a guilt plea in a criminal case.
and forced to pay judgments or settlements that will probably bankrupt them. steven shackleford is right. money is accountability. that is how the civil justic system works in that system, and in tha system alone, money it i accountability that is how lawsuits work. lawsuits are about money the outcome of a lawsuit is no expressed with words lik guilty or not guilty those words never enter lawsuit. it is expressed in amounts o money. and a settlement like this one is the equivalent of a guilt plea in a criminal case. fox knew from the top down from the top down fox knew that is what dominion said in brief file in the case and dominion proved that they proved that in their case and they proved to the judge i the case that what fox sai about dominion and allowed t be said about dominion was