He even questioned the network’s editorial decision to embrace Trump’s election denialism, which Dominion claims was done because Fox was afraid of losing its pro-Trump audience. “It could have been a bigger story that a President who lost an election was making all these unsubstantiated false allegations” about widespread fraud, Davis mused from the bench. The judge previously rejected Fox’s requests to throw out the lawsuit, and allowed Dominion to add Fox’s parent company as a defendant, ramping up the legal exposure for the Murdochs. Fox News attorney Erin Murphy blamed Trump and his allies for inventing the lies about Dominion.
