Former Trump Spokesman Raj Shah Exits Fox Corp as Dominion Fallout Continues

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first reported by CNN, was not made public.Shah’s name surfaced, however, in multiple documents brought to light by Dominion’s lawsuit against Fox News, which revealed that Shah was among the execs, producers and hosts who privately expressed disbelief in the claims of a stolen election, but nevertheless pushed the network to amplify the narrative on the air.One notable exchange took place amid the infamous press conference held by Rudy Giuliani a few weeks after the November 2020 election, when the former mayor pressed the allegations of election fraud as streaks of hair dye ran down the side of his face.“This sounds SO F—— CRAZY btw,” Shah wrote, The Washington Post reported, when the gravity and breadth of the Dominion lawsuit came to light.“Rudy looks awful,” a deputy responded, prompting Shah to remark that “he objectively looks like he was a dead person voting 2 weeks ago.”Shah, whose job was to protect the company’s brand, also pushed back on any efforts to dispute the claims on the air as the network feared losing conservative viewers to networks like Newsmax and One America News that went whole-hog on Trump’s election denial.When a Fox News reporter on the air at the end of Giuliani’s news conference said that some of what the president’s lawyer claimed was “simply not true,” Shah reacted quickly.“This is the kinda s—that will kill us,” he texted the deputy. “We cover it wall to wall and then we burn that down with all the skepticism.”Separately, Shah criticized Fox News host Neil Cavuto’s decision to cut away from a Kayleigh McEnany press conference as a “brand threat.” Fox settled the Dominion suit for an eye-popping $787.5 million as it was set to go to trial in mid-April, but after millions of pages of.