A defamation suit filed by a Venezuelan businessman against Fox Corp., Fox News Network and former host and guy who will wear the cheerleader outfit for Trump Lou Dobbs can proceed after a federal judge ruled the businessman has sufficient proof that he’s been damaged by their false claims, the Associated Press reports.
Majed Khalil says Dobbs and Trump attorney Sidney “The Kraken” Powell defamed him by claiming he and three other people designed systems used in Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic that were designed to manipulate the results of the balloting.
Khalil wrote a number of responses debunking the claims made by Dobbs and Powell, which made him a target of derision and harassment by Trump apologists who claimed the 2020 elections were stolen.
Judge Louis L. Stanton of the Southern District of New York dismissed motions by Dobbs and Fox to have the entire case dismissed, claiming Khalil could not prove any damages. Stanton also tossed a different attempt by Fox to get out from under the case by claiming it’s not responsible for something Dobbs and Powell said on the air. Their air. On a Fox television network. With Dobbs being their employee. And made more claims on his work-affiliated Twitter account.