Steve Bannon Declares War on Fox News for Disrespecting Donald Trump

Fox News has been skewered in recent weeks following reports that some of its hosts, like Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingram, were making fun of former President Donald Trump's election fraud claims in private. And Steve Bannon has declared war against them and their boss.

While Fox News faced criticism from the media and the left, with many Republicans remaining silent on the scandal, the Trump ally was very vocal in criticizing the conservative media outlet on Friday.

This comes after Fox Corporation founder and chairman Rupert Murdoch admitted under oath that Fox News personalities like Lou Dobbs and Maria Bartiromo knowingly spread Trump's false claim that the 2020 presidential election was rigged.

According to NBC News, Bannon appeared at the Conservative Political Action Conference and attacked Fox News and its leader, saying, "You've disrespected Donald J. Trump long enough."

Former Vice President Mike Pence and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis were noticeably missing from the annual conservative political event, which was heavily attended by Trump-loyal Republicans.

In his fiery speech, Bannon singled out the Fox Corp. founder, saying, "Murdoch, you've deemed Trump's not going to be president... Well, we've deemed that you're not going to have a network. Because we're going to fight you every step of the way."

Bannon also ripped the family of Australian-born Murdoch as "foreigners" and blasted the network for softball interviews with people reportedly running against Trump.

Fox News on Shaky Legal Ground in Dominion Lawsuit

Steve Bannon's remarks came days after court documents in the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit of Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News and its parent company, Fox Corp., were made public.

Court papers showed texts from the network's hosts and executives, including Rupert Murdoch's deposition that revealed he did not believe Donald Trump's election lies as well.

The documents also showed a set of text messages, which revealed that several Fox News personalities and executives brutally mocked claims of voter fraud by Trump as well as his attorneys, Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani, in private.

Trump has asserted that the 2020 election was rigged, and companies like Dominion and Smartmatic helped Joe Biden steal the elections.

That led to both companies filing separate billion-dollar lawsuits against Fox News. The lawsuits alleged that Fox News defamed the two companies by repeatedly claiming, without evidence, election fraud claims involving their voting machines.

Legal experts like Catherine Ross, a constitutional law professor at George Washington University, believe this is truly defamation.

She told The Hill that the network "does not have any plausible defense, particularly in light of what Dominion uncovered in discovery of real-time knowledge of falsity."

Fox News Scared of Losing Viewers to Newsmax

Many believe that Rupert Murdoch's admission that his network's decision to welcome Donald Trump's conspiracy theories and present them to the public as correct was motivated by money.

According to CNN, in one of the emails that Dominion presented, Murdoch told Fox Corp. Board member Paul Ryan that host Sean Hannity had "been privately disgusted by Trump for weeks, but was scared to lose viewers."

Tucker Carlson was also reportedly mad at a Fox News reporter who fact-checked Trump about his election claims.

Carlson allegedly called for the reporter to be fired as her fact-checking would make the network lose viewers to rival Newsmax and decrease the company's stock prices.

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Written by: Rick Martin

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