MISLEADING: Fox News FIRES Tucker Carlson producer as she SPILLS on deposition coaching

MISLEADING: Fox News FIRES Tucker Carlson producer as she SPILLS on deposition coaching

Producer Abby Grossberg sued Fox News saying their attorney tried to set her up, along with host Maria Bartiromo, to take the fall in the Dominion Voting Systems case. Last week, the network countersued, only to drop their case the next day. Now they’ve fired her, as she continues to reveal more about the deposition prep.

Grossberg says that legal defense hired by Fox led her to believe that saying “I don’t recall” couldn’t be perjury, even if she did remember, and provided her with wording that would be misleading about certain events, such as falsely implying that a segment in which Rudy Giuliani (who is also being sued by Dominion) spouted conspiracy theories about voting machines could not have been edited to avoid promoting the unsupported claims.

The now former Fox producer filed a new document correcting matters from her original deposition that she says were either in error, or inaccurate due to coaching and pressure from the attorneys who coached her.

This includes amending a statement that she trusts her employers — she now says that she doesn’t trust all of them, since many producers are activists who “impose their political agenda on the programing.”

On Friday, Fox followed up the dropping of their countersuit by firing Grossberg, which they admit was the result of her lawsuit.

They say they advised her she could file any lawsuit she desires, but that she’s in possession of private information  and would be fired for sharing it — a warning which didn’t stop her from pouring out more information in her latest filing. From NBC:

“Grossberg said in the errata sheet that Dominion-related reporting did not receive the same editorial oversight — including editing of questionable content — as other stories, stating that ‘Dominion-related reporting … was allowed to receive significant airplay without any evidence implicating them in any way.'”

The law firm representing Grossberg has made a few public statements about the matter, declaring that the fired producer has “ample documentary evidence” for her claims, and that her lawsuit will “reveal the truth, not the selected version of sanitized events that Fox is famous for.”

Here’s a clip of Giuliani, during the relevant period, being allowed to claim on Bartiromo’s show that the election was ‘stolen’ and to imply that votes were changed, without any rebuttal or press for evidence.

Stephanie Bazzle

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