Fox News Anchor Comically Sums Up 2020 Election Claims That Got Fox Sued For Billions: ‘Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah’

 

Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner had her own “yada yada yada” moment on Tuesday’s edition of The Faulkner Focus while discussing early voting in U.S. elections.

The moment happened after Faulkner played a clip of Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) encouraging early voting in his state and asked New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) about getting Republicans on board in other states to do the same thing when the practice has been so reviled by the right and the GOP:

How do you get Republicans, in 2023 and going forward, to vote before Election Day when it has been so really put down. The left did it, they cheated at it, they blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But now, you know, you have to get people out early.

Even before the 2020 election, former President Donald Trump claimed it would be stolen from him through fraud. After he lost to now-President Joe Biden, he waged a public and legal campaign to overturn the election. One of the pillars of the stolen election fantasy was that Democrats illegally changed voting laws to allow for early voting and voting by mail. Every legal challenge to the election was tossed out of court.

To this day, Trump bashes early and mail-in voting to his supporters, ludicrously claiming they methods are rife with fraud.

At for Fox News: The problem with “yada yada yada,” or in Faulkner’s case, “blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,” is that it glosses over Fox News being sued for billions of dollars by two companies, Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems, for promoting Trump’s claims of election fraud on air. Fox settled with Dominion in April for a massive $787.5 million, but still faces a similar defamation lawsuit by Smartmatic.

Trump’s crusade against the election, supported by outlets like Fox News, eventually culminated in the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Thousands of protesters stormed the Capitol during the certification of the election, hunting lawmakers, ransacking the building and beating police in an attack that left seven people dead. Four Capitol Police officers who responded to the attack that day died by suicide in the weeks after.

That’s the “blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah” part.

Watch the video above via Fox News.

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