Dominion Defamation; Fani Willis; Right Wing Identity Politics

It's Complicated

Renato Mariotti

News Commentary, News, Politics

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🗓️ 28 February 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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In this episode: Dominion's defamation case against Fox News looks very strong; part of the Special Grand Jury report is released in Fani Willis' investigation into election interference in Georgia in the 2020 election; plus identity politics from the right, and why Asha switched her Twitter handle to "Ashley" (now "Asha Marie Rangappa"). Subscribe to our podcast: https://link.chtbl.com/its-complicated Follow Asha on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_ Asha's Substack: https://asharangappa.substack.com/ Follow Renato on Twitter: https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti Follow Asha on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asha.rangappa/ Follow Renato on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/renato.mariotti/ Subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Its.Complicated/ Follow Asha on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_ Asha's Substack: https://asharangappa.substack.com/ Follow Renato on Twitter: https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti Follow Asha on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asha.rangappa/ Follow Renato on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/renato.mariotti/Follow Renato on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@renato.mariotti Opening Theme and Bumper music provided by eitanepsteinmusic / Pond5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	M-S-W media.
0:08.8	So, Asha, with all the evidence that Fox News was lying about the 2020 election,
0:15.7	is this the end of Fox News as we know it?
0:19.2	Mm, it's complicated. I'm Asharangappa. I teach national security law at Yale University. I'm a former FBI special agent and a Legal and National Security analyst.
0:35.0	And I'm Renato Mariati.
0:37.0	I'm a former federal prosecutor, a practicing lawyer, and a legal analyst.
0:42.0	And we're here to help you understand topics that can't be boiled down to a sound bite or a tweet.
0:48.0	Ooh boy.
0:51.0	So, so Vernado, one of the big things that happened this past week is that we were able to see the motion for summary judgment, which was filed by Dominion voting systems in its
1:07.1	defamation lawsuit against Fox News. So we can we can break down like exactly what that what that mean. So Dominion has so sued Fox news for defamation for false statements that it made that basically Dominion voting systems
1:27.6	was falsifying votes and
1:30.1	engaged in various types of conspiracies to throw the election to Joe Biden and they've sued Fox News for 1.6 million dollars.
1:38.0	Wait. No what? I'm a billion dollars. Sorry.
1:41.0	Million.
1:42.0	Sorry. Like a Dr. Evil moment.
1:45.0	One million dollars.
1:47.0	$1.6 billion dollars,
1:50.0	$1.6 billion, which is a lot of money.
1:54.0	And the, you know, in order to show defamation,
2:01.0	the court ruled that Fox News is quote-unquote a public figure meaning that the
2:06.7	standard the legal standard for proving defamation is higher. It's not enough to show that they were publishing false statements.
2:17.0	It's that they have to show that they acted with actual malice, meaning that they knew the statements to be false and acted with the reckless
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