‘I Did Not Believe It for One Second’: Hannity Testifies Under Oath He Didn’t Buy Trump Election Fraud Claim

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

So he helped promote wild conspiracies he didn't believe.

Guilty.

Hannity has always been a partisan hack

 

[struth]

FAIR! hhhahahhahhah a radical leftist media outlet that can't actually compete....

 

[playtime]

The Democrat Media Bubble Cult realizes that most of there cultists don't have the wherewithal for that level of understanding.

 

[Donald H]

This is a significant development! Hannity was one of Trump's most stalwart, and now he's coming clean by admitting he was a part of the comedy routine and was only joking for the purpose of ratings and making more money.

The Trumpers will never find a replacement for Hannity!

Trump's popularity is declining like a runaway freight train! That's sad in a way because he will have very little effect against America's war with Russia.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

Cherry picking and misleading report here by MSN.
Hannity only denied that he believed a SPECIFIC, single accusation that Trump said once about the voting machines were set to delete or switch votes.
That's it. This is not Hannity saying he didn't believe there was no shenanigans at all.... just one, specific, point.

It's not so much about Hannity..as it is about FOX. If you read the entire article..never a given on this board, you'll see that the real issue is that FOX knowingly presented bogus info as fact..thus defaming Dominion.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

sounds like he just reported on the allegations....a reporter doesn't have to believe the allegations, but if it's news, certainly can report on them.

Except..if he KNOWS they are false, or has reasonable belief of same, he's obligated to say so. He did not, in fact, he asked questions designed to bolster the story's credibility.
He, and FOX, did not just report..they enabled..thus they defamed Dominion.
It's going to cost them..bigly~

 

[struth]

Except..if he KNOWS they are false, or has reasonable belief of same, he's obligated to say so. He did not, in fact, he asked questions designed to bolster the story's credibility.
He, and FOX, did not just report..they enabled..thus they defamed Dominion.
It's going to cost them..bigly~

He never said the entire story was false or he believed it was entirely false. He did with one particular claim, and he just said that.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

well...this thread didn't age well

It aged better than you can read or research..that's for sure.

 

[TheGreatSatan]

The election was stolen.

Most Biden voters don't know they voted.

 

[struth]

Red handed.

The cult won't care.

the interesting thing in your video is how the dems flip flopped on the issue from 2016, to 2020....but i don't think you'll see the irony there.

 

[BackAgain]

Guilty!

You’re guilty of being dishonest. Next?

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

Yes it's true...no I learned it in a journalism class in college.

...and you passed? Amazing. As it so happens, I have a degree in Journalism..back in the Stone age. Perhaps you missed the course on Journalism Ethics?
I know...that shit is so Old School, right?
Hannity KNEW the allegations were false..yet he promulgated them anyway. FOX knew the allegations were false...in fact, as the article states, they sent someone to Trump's team to beg them to drop Powell and the accusations pertaining to Dominion.
Now why would they do that? Because they KNEW the allegations were false..yet they reported them as fact..not supposition.
Hannity's question, "Why were Democrats silencing whistleblowers who could prove this fraud?" is presented as a fact..that Democrats were silencing whistleblowers who could prove the fraud..and asking why were they doing such a thing?

 

[struth]

...and you passed? Amazing. As it so happens, I have a degree in Journalism..back in the Stone age. Perhaps you missed the course on Journalism Ethics?
I know...that shit is so Old School, right?
Hannity KNEW the allegations were false..yet he promulgated them anyway. FOX knew the allegations were false...in fact, as the article states, they sent someone to Trump's team to beg them to drop Powell and the accusations pertaining to Dominion.
Now why would they do that? Because they KNEW the allegations were false..yet they reported them as fact..not supposition.
Hannity's question, "Why were Democrats silencing whistleblowers who could prove this fraud?" is presented as a fact..that Democrats were silencing whistleblowers who could prove the fraud..and asking why were they doing such a thing?

no he didn't know they were false....the journalist in the OP doesn't have any ethics...they implied from part of his testimony that he disagreed with everything she said, when in fact the testimony was one specific accusation.

Clearly you failed.

 

[Mac1958]

the interesting thing in your video is how the dems flip flopped on the issue from 2016, to 2020....but i don't think you'll see the irony there.

Yes, the two ends of the spectrum can be remarkably similar in their behaviors.

As I've said at least a hundred times here.

I'll bet you thought you "had " me there.

 

[struth]

Yes, the two ends of the spectrum can be remarkably similar in their behaviors.

As I've said at least a hundred times here.

I'll bet you thought you "had " me there.

I am just curious why you think the demafacsit flip flopped like they did?

 

[Mac1958]

I am just curious why you think the demafacsit flip flopped like they did?

Because they're nearly as consistent as you guys.

Your feeble attempt at deflection fails. Fox has been conning you for years, and you know it.

That's why you're so miserable and pissy. You're a rube.

 

[Ame®icano]

Looks like Hannity is unwilling to lie for Trump..wise move--so it is firmly established that FOX aired lies..knowing they were lies--not a smart move:

MSN

www.msn.com

Sean Hannity testified under oath in a deposition that he did not believe former President Donald Trump’s claims about voting machine fraud in the 2020 election, according to a piece published by the New York Times on Wednesday.
Mr. Hannity interrupted her with a gentle question that had been circulating among election deniers, despite a lack of supporting proof: Why were Democrats silencing whistle blowers who could prove this fraud?

Did Mr. Hannity believe any of this?

“I did not believe it for one second.”

That was the answer Mr. Hannity gave, under oath, in a deposition in Dominion’s $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News, according to information disclosed in a court hearing on Wednesday. The hearing was called to address several issues that need to be resolved before the case heads for a jury trial, which the judge has scheduled to begin in April.
The paper went on to say that Hannity’s testimony “is among the strongest evidence yet to emerge publicly that some Fox employees knew that what they were broadcasting was false.”
The Fox News host responded to a question about allegations made by Sidney Powell, a former federal prosecutor who represented Trump in election-related lawsuits. Trump falsely claimed the election was rigged against him. Powell alleged that states that used voting machines made by Dominion Voting Systems were rife with fraud.
She reiterated the claim on Hannity’s Fox News program on Nov. 30, 2020, a couple of weeks after the election was called for Joe Biden. Powell stated there had been “corruption all across the country, in countless districts.”
Trump has baselessly alleged the voting machines “deleted” votes for him and in some cases “switched” votes for him to Biden.
Dominion is suing Fox News for defamation and is seeking $1.6 billion in restitution. The company is also suing Powell.
Lawyers for Dominion argued in court on Wednesday that “not a single Fox witness” has substantiated the allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 election.
“Many of the highest-ranking Fox people have admitted under oath that they never believed the Dominion lies,” said one attorney.
Another lawyer for Dominion said the company had evidence that Fox News tried to stop Powell via the Trump White House from spreading her election fraud claims:
Another previously unknown detail emerged on Wednesday about what was going on inside the Fox universe in those frantic weeks after the election. A second lawyer representing Dominion, Justin Nelson, told Judge Davis about evidence obtained by Dominion showing that an employee of the Fox Corporation, the parent company of Fox News, had tried to intervene with the White House to stop Ms. Powell. According to Mr. Nelson, that employee called the fraud claims “outlandish” and pressed Mr. Trump’s staff to get rid of Ms. Powell, who was advising the president on filing legal challenges to the results.

Fox News declined to comment to the Times and Mediaite.

Another one of "cherry picked" snippets taken out of the context, and spun for their "enormous" audience.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

no he didn't know they were false....the journalist in the OP doesn't have any ethics...they implied from part of his testimony that he disagreed with everything she said, when in fact the testimony was one specific accusation.

Clearly you failed.

Clearly you did not read the entire article. BTW..Hannity has said..in deposition, that he did not believe the election was stolen, "not for one second"--dude you're bailing long after the boat has sunk~

Sean Hannity Testified He Didn't Believe Trump's Election Fraud Lies 'For 1 Second'

That didn't stop the Fox News host from featuring fraud proponents with wild, unproven allegations on his show.

ca.style.yahoo.com

Sean Hannity was apparently willing to promote Donald Trump’s bogus election fraud claims on his Fox News show but unwilling to defend them while under oath.
The New York Times is reporting that when Hannity was deposed earlier this year as a part of a massive defamation lawsuit brought forward by Dominion Voting Systems against the right-wing network, he basically admitted his real thoughts about the 2020 election being stolen.
“I did not believe it for one second,” Hannity testified.
However, that didn’t stop Hannity from hosting fraud proponents like Sidney Powell, who offered wild allegations about Dominion such as the machines supposedly running an algorithm that switched votes for Trump to Joe Biden.
Hannity’s confession came out in court during a hearing on Wednesday to address several issues that need to be resolved before the case heads for a jury trial scheduled to begin in April.
But Hannity’s Dominion disclosure does suggest that at least some Fox employees were aware they were broadcasting fake news.
The Times notes that the high legal standard of proof in defamation cases requires Dominion to persuade a jury that network employees were saying one thing in public and another in private.
In fact, Dominion lawyers argued in a Delaware courtroom on Wednesday that “not a single Fox witness” had produced anything that supported any of the bogus election fraud claims Trump and his supporters promoted after the 2020 presidential election.
Dominion lawyer Stephen Shackelford told the court that Hannity’s doubts were echoed in depositions with other Fox hosts and executives, including Tucker Carlson, who he said: “tried to squirm out of it at his deposition” when asked about what he really believed.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Trumpers are dwindling in number every day. Only the hardcore left now.Hannity should be out of work after this.

 

[struth]

Because they're nearly as consistent as you guys.

Your feeble attempt at deflection fails. Fox has been conning you for years, and you know it.

That's why you're so miserable and pissy. You're a rube.

what did Fox do that was any different then what Clinton and the dems did? Sounds like Fox is reporting what they did. They are exposing the big dembot con