When Paul Ryan took a seat on the Fox News board of directors conservatives feared the worst.
It turns out these worries were well-founded.
And these bombshell court documents show Paul Ryan tried to push Fox News to ditch Donald Trump.
Dominion Voting Systems filed a $1.6 billion defamation suit against Fox News after Fox News aired reports about false accusations that the company’s voting machines switched votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden.
As the case prepares for trial Dominion filed a legal brief that included revelations about how after the press called the 2020 election for Joe Biden, Paul Ryan pressured Fox News to cut off Trump and ignore Trump contesting the results.
In an email to Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch and his son, Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch, Ryan argued the 2020 election provided a pivot point for the GOP to move on from Trump and go back to the Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan version of the Republican Party.
Dominion’s legal brief stated:
As a Board Member, Ryan believed that the period immediately following the 2020 Presidential Election was a pretty important inflection point, not just for the company Fox, but for the country and for the conservative movement itself and shared this view as a fiduciary with Rupert and Lachlan. He confirmed that the inflection point was not just one day; it was the whole time in the post-election November/December timeframe. Ryan knew that these conspiracy theories were baseless and that Fox should labor to dispel conspiracy theories if and when they pop up. 263:2 Ryan also understood that when events occur, Fox can clearly amplify that news being made by covering it. Ryan believed there ought to be a listing of all the allegations and then all the evidence or the validation or invalidation of those [election fraud] allegations just for the viewers sake, and suggested as much to Fox’s senior management. Ryan told Rupert and Lachlan “that Fox News should not be spreading conspiracy theories.”
The Dominion court filing showed Ryan tried to use his influence as a board member to dictate Fox News programming and even which hosts to put on the air.
“Ryan was aware, through coverage by other media outlets, that FNN was having Powell and Giuliani on air to spread conspiracy theories about Dominion. Ryan gave Lachlan and Rupert plenty of suggestions with respect to programming, as well as suggestions regarding content and show hosts. Specifically, he told the Murdochs that Fox should be pivoting at this key inflection point during November 2020 through January 2021 consistently advising them to move on from Donald Trump and stop spouting election lies,” the brief continued.
Paul Ryan is an unabashed supporter of mass amnesty for illegal aliens, and globalist trade deals that decimated the American middle class.
Ryan and his fellow GOP elites ignored the wishes of their voters for so long that the Republican base finally got fed up and sent the loudest possible message that they could by nominating Donald Trump.
Establishment RINOs like Ryan could only bide their time and wait for the right moment to try and exile Donald Trump.
Ryan believed that moment came after the 2020 election.
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