Key Quotes from FOX internal communications
Rupert Murdoch
Fox News Owner
"We don't want to antagonize Trump further...everything is at stake."
Ron Mitchell
Fox News Executive, Programming & Analytics
[Newsmax’s] “conspiratorial reporting might be exactly what the disgruntled Fox News viewer is looking for.”
Sean Hannity
Fox News Host
"I did not believe [the Dominion fraud claims] for one second."
"In one week and one debate they destroyed a brand that took 25 years to build and the damage is incalculable."
Brett Baier
Fox News Host
"There is NO evidence of fraud. None."
Lucas Tomlinson
Fox News Reporter
"It's dangerously insane their conspiracy theories."
Alex Pfeiffer
Fox News Producer
"It’s a hard needle to thread, but I really think many on ‘our side’ are being reckless demagogues right now."
"I dont think there is evidence of voter fraud."
Lou Dobbs
Fox News Host
“I think many Americans have given no thought to electoral fraud that would be perpetrated through electronic voting, that is these machines … prominently Dominion, at least in the suspicions of a lot of Americans.”
Tucker Carlson
Fox News Host
“[Trump's] a demonic force, a destroyer. But he’s not going to destroy us.”
"It's unbelievably offensive to me. [But] our viewers...they believe it."
“Do the executives understand how much credibility and trust we’ve lost with our audience? We’re playing with fire, for real … an alternative like newsmax could be devastating to us.”
"No serious lawyer could believe what they were saying."
Steve Bannon
Speaking to Fox Pundit Maria Bartiromo
"71 million voters will never accept Biden. This process is to destroy his presidency before it even starts; IF it even starts...We either close on Trump's victory or delegitimize Biden...THE PLAN"
Fox Memo on Election Fraud Claims
Circulated internally in November 2020
"Incorrect" and "not evidence of widespread fraud"
Laura Ingraham
Fox News Host
"Sidney Powell is a bit nuts. Sorry but she is."
Susanne Scott
Fox News CEO
"After Fox News called the election for Joe Biden, I believed he was legitimately elected President of the United States."
Raj Shah
Fox Corp Senior VP
"MIND BLOWINGLY NUTS"
