Fox News execs let 'reckless' Jeanine Pirro 'air monologues' they knew were 'filled with falsehoods': report

It remains to be seen how a civil jury will ultimately rule in Dominion Voting Systems' $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News. Defamation, under the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark New York Times v. Sullivan ruling of 1964, is extremely difficult to prove. But Dominion has presented, as evidence, an abundance of e-mails and text messages from Fox employees in the hope of convincing jurors that it suffered defamation.

After the 2020 presidential election, Sidney Powell and other Donald Trump attorneys falsely claimed that Dominion's voting equipment was used to help Democratic now-President Joe Biden steal the election. And Dominion alleges that Fox News employees knew that these claims were totally false but promoted them anyway.

One of the names that appears in Dominion's defamation case is Jeanine Pirro, a far-right Fox host. In a report published on April 3, Media Matters' Matt Gertz observes, “In the post-election period, Fox executives took Pirro off the air because they feared she'd promote election fraud lies — then brought her back and let her air two monologues that they knew were filled with falsehoods, all while her own executive producer denigrated her privately as a 'reckless maniac' who 'should never be on live television.'"

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Gertz goes on to summarize events of November 2020 and beyond, according to evidence in Dominion's lawsuit.

Gertz reports, "November 13, 2020: Pirro is informed about Dominion's debunking of falsehoods about the company…. November 14, 2020, evening: Pirro makes false claims about Dominion, hosts Powell, who spreads more falsehoods with little pushback…. November 20, 2020: Fox's internal 'Brain Room' review identifies Dominion falsehoods in Pirro's draft monologue…. March 26, 2021: Dominion files $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox."

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Read Media Matters' full report at this link.