It is not our fault that we’ve been right on a few things lately. Admittedly, this was that hard a call. The Dominion lawsuit against FOX is going to put enormous pressure on all Right-Wing media to not allow Trump’s blatant lies to dominate the air.

As we reported on Saturday, Dominion’s $1.6 billion suit hit the news on Thursday (We suspect it was filed Tuesday or Wednesday, but regardless, by Thursday, everyone knew). We said that the lawsuit will put every host on notice that they’re next, Hannity and Tucker are surely about to be sued in their personal capacity. On Thursday night, Trump called into Laura Ingraham’s show to “rebut” President Biden’s press conference. As soon as Trump started to rant and rave about the election, he got cut off:

Trump:

And what they did was absolutely disgraceful and if you look at the numbers, the numbers were vastly in favor of us in the Presidential election.  It was disgraceful that they were able to get away with it and the Supreme Court didn’t have the courage to do what they had to do.

Laura senses trouble and cuts him off with some intriguing legalese:

Yeah, well speaking as a, speaking as a lawyer, we’re not going to relitigate the past tonight.  But speaking as a lawyer I think that going forward, I think any candidate running for office has to have a heck of a legal strategy in place before, like long before the election takes place.

We wonder what might have been on Laura’s mind? Because every candidate for president has a legal army already prepared, with a strategy, just prior to the election – especially Trump. It is just that they had no case.

Speaking of legalese, lawyers, and what might be on Fox News’ hosts’ minds, none other than Judge Jeanine jumped in and cut Trump off Saturday night, even shoving Trump off the air, “I know your time is very valuable.” (Which must be humiliating since he’s sitting at home at Mar-a-Lago on a Saturday night.)

Notably, she did it just as he tried to get into the last election:

Trump was mid-rant to Judge Jeanine when she drew their interview to a quick close, saying, "I know your time is valuable." pic.twitter.com/nBxq4f70H0

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 28, 2021

That is totally cutting him off.

As we’ve said, not only is this lawsuit going to quiet all talk about the election, but it is going to cause a lot of other companies and people that have been hurt by Trump’s blatant lies and false reality to move. We suspect we are going to see some COVID lawsuits against FOX, though – admittedly, there are some huge causation issues to those types of suits. But they remain a threat.

And who knows what lies will be told into the future? FOX News, and OAN, and whatever the hell else on the right, now has to weigh printing or airing blatant lies, or risk the defamation lawsuits. Additionally, one simply has to know that none of these companies want to undergo discovery. Imagine deposing Donald Trump and Sean Hannity, separately, and then comparing how they describe their conversations. Just because Dominion’s suit is against FOX doesn’t mean that they cannot call Trump as a witness if they think he was the one spurning FOX on.

No, this Dominion lawsuit has the power to really change the landscape on the MAGA right. This is day four and we’ve seen Trump cut off twice now already. We also believe that Dominion will not settle without retractions from all these people. Imagine the impact of retractions all across the Right-Wing mediasphere?

The impact should snowball. That would be a very good thing.

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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