Though Dominion Voting Systems settled their defamation lawsuit with Fox News on Tuesday for $785.5 million, new evidence has come to light regarding one of the big names in the case—former Trump personal attorney and Mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani.
According to The Guardian, the evidence submitted in the trial last Wednesday before this week’s settlement included recordings former Fox producer Abby Grossberg made of Giuliani admitting that providing evidence for the claims being made by the Trump campaign against Dominion was proving to be “a little harder” than expected.
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The recordings were provided by Grossberg in her separate suits against Fox News alleging a culture of “systemic chauvinism” at Fox and that the network pressured her into giving false testimony in the Dominion case. In her latest filing, Grossberg stated that these recordings and transcripts made of them were “widely circulated and discussed within Fox.”
Though it doesn’t appear that these late-emerging bombshell recordings affected the main Dominion vs. Fox suit, Dominion Voting Systems still has six lawsuits pending against other parties, including networks One America News Network (OANN) and Newsmax, Sidney Powell, Mike Lindell, Patrick Byrne, and Giuliani himself. All six suits allege defamation against Dominion by spreading false claims about the company’s role in the 2020 presidential election.
Leaked Audio Shows Rudy Giuliani Admitting He 'Can't Prove' Election Lies
The contents of the tapes were aired on MSNBC's Alex Wagner Tonight on April 12th and included admissions from Giuliani to Fox News host Maria Bartiromo off-air on November 8th, 2020—just days after Donald Trump's loss in the presidential election—that he "couldn't prove" Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi had an interest in Dominion's software.
In the first audio clip from tonight's exclusive report, Rudy Giuliani is candid about his lack of evidence on Dominion voting machines. pic.twitter.com/9QNuD9L09x
— Alex Wagner Tonight (@WagnerTonight) April 13, 2023
The former attorney wasn't the only voice captured on the damning audio: a Trump campaign official also went off-the-record to admit that "our understanding—again, this is from the secretary of state's office—was that there weren't any physical issues with machines on those inspections," which went directly against public claims made by Giuliani, Fox News, and others that the Dominion machines had actually been rigged to ensure a favorable election outcome for Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
In this second audio clip from tonight's exclusive report, a Trump campaign official tells former Fox producer Abby Grossberg that "the audit came in pretty darn close to what the machine count was" and "there weren't any physical issues with machines" in Georgia. pic.twitter.com/Xf2ok85S3r
— Alex Wagner Tonight (@WagnerTonight) April 13, 2023
One Of The Largest Defamation Settlement In History
Fox News abruptly settled with Dominion on Tuesday for $787.5 million, one of the largest settlements ever obtained in a defamation lawsuit. The sudden settlement after two years since filing so stunned those in the courtroom, reported the New York Times, that "gasps filled the air" when Judge Eric M. Davis told the jury that the matter had been resolved: "Lawyers for both sides had been preparing to speak to the jury for the first time, microphones clipped to their jacket lapels."
The astronomical settlement relieves the network of a trial that would have seen many of the company's biggest names, including Fox chairman Rupert Murdoch, called to the stand for questioning.
