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Ex-Fox News producer subpoenaed in voting machine libel suit

A former Fox News producer who claims she was pressured into giving misleading testimony in a Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit has been subpoenaed in another defamation case against the conservative network.

Abby Grossberg has been ordered to testify in a lawsuit brought against Fox News by Smartmatic Inc. seeking evidence and correspondence related to Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, in addition to the Trump Campaign and the Trump Organization, reported NBC News.

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Lead Jan. 6 investigator details questions special counsel will likely ask of Mike Pence

Timothy Heaphy, the former lead investigator for the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress and the attempt to overturn the 2020 election, has a list of questions that special counsel Jack Smith could ask of former Vice President Mike Pence.

Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Wednesday, Heaphy first addressed her questions about why Pence refused to get into the car in the basement of the Capitol that day. Pence had said to his aide that he didn't know who was driving and didn't trust that person. Trump aide Marc Short said that Pence was afraid of how the appearance of the VP's motorcade fleeing from the Capitol might look to the world at a time when the United States Capitol was under attack.

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Trump hires new lawyer in Stormy Daniels case – with Joe Tacopina expected to take a back seat

Donald Trump has hired a new lawyer to assist in his defense on criminal charges brought by the Manhattan district attorney.

The former president brought on former federal prosecutor Todd Blanche, who was until recently a partner at law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, as part of his defense team against an indictment filed last week in New York, reported Politico.

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Rudy Giuliani begs Trump supporters to 'send a buck' for 'his morale'

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Sunday urged supporters of Donald Trump to send the former president at least one dollar to improve his morale after being indicted by a New York grand jury.

On his WABC radio program, Giuliani said supporters should not come out to protest when Trump is arrested on Tuesday even if the former president asked them to.

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'Stunning': Analyst breaks down how Fox desperately put election liars on air to keep their audience

CNN's Oliver Darcy reacted with astonishment on Wednesday evening to the newly released emails in Dominion Voting Systems' $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox News, which provided even more evidence the network higher-ups, including CEO Suzanne Scott, knew they were pushing false conspiracy theories about the election — something Fox still denies.

"Stunning that the CEO of Fox said in an email or a text, said that fact-checking the former president, which some Fox employees were trying to do, was bad for business," said anchor Anderson Cooper. "Not something you would expect from a leader of a purported news network."

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'He’s hardly infirm': Judge shoots down Fox News lawyers’ efforts to avoid Rupert Murdoch’s testimony

At 92, Rupert Murdoch is far from retired. Much of the coverage at Fox News and Fox Business reportedly reflects his enthusiasm for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as a possible 2024 GOP presidential candidate. And the Melbourne, Australia native (who has homes in London as well as different parts of the United States) continues to be a highly influential figure in right-wing media.

During a late March pre-trial hearing in Delaware, Judge Eric M. Davis pushed back against what he said were efforts by Fox News attorneys to prevent him from traveling to testify in Dominion Voting Systems' $1.6 billion defamation case against the right-wing cable news outlet. Davis, according to National Public Radio (NPR), believes that Murdoch is still perfectly capable of traveling.

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Fox lawyer points to lawsuit omission that shows Trump potentially defamed Dominion

In an attempt to defend his clients, one of the lead attorneys representing Fox against the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems highlighted an exchange between Donald Trump and Fox host Maria Bartiromo in late November 2020 that could be used to make the case that the former president did what the conservative network is accused of doing.

In an interview with National Review's Jim Geraghty, attorney and former solicitor general Paul Clement attempted to make the case that Fox News hosts were only offering opinions and not making statements of fact about the 2020 election results.

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Revealed: Emails show how Trump lawyers drove Michael Cohen to turn on the president

Attempts by lawyers working at the behest of Donald Trump tried to keep former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen on the ex-president's side and were not only unsuccessful but helped to drive him into the arms of federal investigators according to a cache of emails analyzed by the Daily Beast.

According to a report from the Beast's Jose Pagliery, Donald Trump's choice to elevate former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani was a major factor in Cohen's decision to come clean about the alleged hush money payoff to adult film star Stormy Daniels which is now at the center of a possible Trump indictment coming from a Manhattan grand jury.

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Dominion lawsuit has already destroyed Fox News' reputation: analysis

Fox News sealed its own fate in a defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems by making Sidney Powell a household name.

The voting machine company has sued Fox News for defamation, and Dominion's lawyers argued the network had destroyed its own reputation by giving Powell, who hadn't even been formally hired by Donald Trump and was shut out of White House meetings, a platform on its airways, wrote Guardian columnist Sam Levine.

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'Bullhorn antisemitism': Critics shoot down Rudy Giuliani’s George Soros airport anecdote

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani traveled to Ukraine in 2019 and brought back a tale about liberal billionaire philanthropist George Soros that he was recorded sharing in a podcast appearance that made its way to the internet on Wednesday night.

Recall that Giuliani's Ukraine visit – which included a stop-off in Budapest, Hungary – was to speak with prosecutors in Kyiv "for a documentary series meant to bolster unproven and debunked claims of corruption," CNN explained at the time. That refers to ex-President Donald Trump's failed efforts to blackmail Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy into giving him dirt on then-Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, which led to his first impeachment.

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Trump's 11th-hour attempt to thwart New York indictment blows up in his face: analysis

Faced with a likely indictment by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg over his $130,000 hush payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels, former President Donald Trump deployed a last-ditch weapon.

Trump tapped attorney Robert Costello to testify to the grand jury on his behalf, specifically to discredit Michael Cohen, the former Trump lawyer who facilitated the payment to Daniels — part of Bragg's evidence that Trump deliberately falsified business records to keep the payment secret.

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Trump ally Robert Costello reveals what he told the Manhattan grand jury

Donald Trump ally Robert Costello spoke to the grand jury on Monday as a defense witness for the former president to discredit lawyer Michael Cohen, who has been giving information to the district attorney.

Costello said that he began by handing D.A. Alvin Bragg five bundles of papers that he said should be given to the grand jury.

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Watergate prosecutor reveals how Robert Costello just opened Trump up to even more charges

Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman joined Michel Cohen on MSNBC Monday following a press conference by Donald Trump ally Bob Costello who appeared before a Manhattan grand jury.

As a possible indictment hangs over Trump, the district attorney's office asked the former president if he wanted to speak out in his defense to the grand jury. He declined but he sent Costello instead. Costello then said that he provided stacks of "evidence" about Cohen that show he was desperate and willing to do anything to get out of potential prison.

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