Overview

• Newly unredacted court filings show Jeanine Pirro texted Ronna McDaniel that she was working hard for Trump and the GOP despite Fox’s ban on political activity.
• Pirro also called Sean Hannity an “egomaniac” in a 2020 text describing his conduct during an Oval Office visit with the president.
• Jesse Watters texted Greg Gutfeld that Fox’s ratings would be “incredible” if the network went “ALL in on STOP THE STEAL,” even as he privately doubted fraud claims.
• Bret Baier urged leadership to scrutinize election-fraud assertions, texting an executive, “None of that is true as far as we can tell… We need to fact-check this crap.”
• A judicial hearing officer reduced redactions in Smartmatic’s filings, making the messages public as both sides press summary-judgment arguments in the $2.7 billion defamation case.