Lawrence O’Donnell Blames Fox News Settlement on Rupert Murdoch’s ‘Stupidity': Gave Dominion A ‘Huge Win’ (Video)

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$787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems related to lies Fox News told about the 2020 election.“The stupidity in the executive offices at Fox and at the anchor desks led to this outcome which was completely avoidable,” the MSNBC host said during his show on Wednesday. “Someone at Fox could’ve said to the people hosting their shows ‘You can let Rudy Giuliani tell any lie he wants for as long as he wants and at the end of it all you have to say is ‘if that’s true, this is a terrible situation and we’re going to have to do something about that’’ and Fox never could have been sued.

Because the host would have said if that’s true. Those are the legal safe words that save you $787 million and everyone at Fox was too stupid to know those legal safe words.

Rupert Murdoch was too stupid to tell his people to use those legal safe words and so Fox lost and truth won.”  Some on social media expressed disappointment in the outcome, arguing that a trial would’ve better served the public interest.

O’Donnell replied that the reaction is “completely understandable” but acknowledged that “civil litigation is usually an inadvertent remedy to harm done.” He also argued that Dominion’s lawyers already secured a “huge win” with the settlement and proved everything Fox said about the company was untrue before even going to trial. “If the Dominion case went to the jury, they were not going to be able to order Tucker Carlson to apologize to anyone.