Fox News hosts, execs privately blasted Trump election fraud claims shared on network, court documents show

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ecutives at Fox News and leading hosts on the network privately dismissing former President Trump’s claims of voter fraud in the days that followed the 2020 presidential election, expressing worry about how fact checks of the president’s assertions might upset the network’s audience. Top network hosts Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and L

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ura Ingraham in text messages referred to the voter fraud allegations made by Trump and his associates as “insane” while network leadership debated how rebuking those claims on the air might hurt the conservative media giant’s reputation with its

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