5 surprising passages from Rupert Murdoch’s deposition you probably didn’t hear about – By Adam Klasfeld (Law and Crime) / Mar 8, 2023
Rupert Murdoch’s two-day deposition, as his Fox News empire attempts to fend off a $1.6 billion lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems, has been quoted widely for his candid assessments of former President Donald Trump and his network’s top hosts.
Among those widely reported revelations, Murdoch testified that some of Fox’s prime-time stars effectively “endorsed” the 2020 election conspiracy theories that he described as “really crazy stuff.” It’s now known that he handed Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner confidential information about then-candidate Joe Biden’s advertisements and campaign strategy. Dominion highlighted Murdoch’s expression of regret: “I would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing it in hindsight.”
All of these revelations generated countless headlines as Dominion and Fox News prepare for a six-week trial in April.
Fuller passages of Murdoch’s depositions, released on Tuesday evening, show that these only scratch the surface.
