Released messages show Bret Baier expressing concern about Maria Bartiromo promoting false claims that the 2020 election was stolen and urging network leadership to fact-check those claims. Messages show Bartiromo urging Trump lawyers Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani to overturn the election results after Joe Biden was declared the winner, including pleas to keep Powell visible and to bring evidence. Additional messages show Jeanine Pirro criticizing colleague Sean Hannity’s behavior and recounting Hannity entering the Oval Office and asking to use the president’s private bathroom. Smartmatic has pursued legal action tied to the disclosures and their claims.
AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana Fox News anchor Bret Baier was reportedly concerned by colleague Maria Bartiromo's election fraud claims in 2020, warning an executive at the network, We need to fact-check this crap, according to newly-released text messages. On Tuesday, the Washington Post reported on a newly-unredacted court filing by voting technology company Smartmatic which is currently suing Fox News for defamation revealing a number of text messages sent by Fox News hosts to colleagues at the cable television news network.
Bartiromo also reportedly texted Trump lawyers Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani, urging them to overturn the results of the 2020 election after it was called in former President Joe Biden's favor. Sidney we must keep you out there, Bartiromo told Powell, according to the filing. I am very worried Please please overturn this. Bring the evidence. I know you can. In a message to Giuliani, she reportedly wrote, I want you to overturn this.
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