Fox News is asking a New York judge to compel liberal billionaire George Soros to produce documents as the network seeks to defend itself from defamation allegations brought by voting systems company Smartmatic.
In a new court filing, Fox's lawyers say the network is “entitled to all evidence that is relevant to Smartmatic's claims and Fox's defenses, including evidence bearing on the full extent of Smartmatic's entanglement with the Soros Group.”
As part of its process of legal discovery, Fox is seeking to depose Mark Malloch Brown, who is the president of the Soros-backed Open Society Foundation and served as chairman of Smartmatic's parent company.
“The Soros Group cannot refuse to disclose relevant evidence in their possession merely because one aspect of their connection to Smartmatic is already publicly known,” Fox argued in its legal filing.
In 2021, Smartmatic sued Fox for $2.7 billion claiming former Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell defamed the company during their appearances on the network following the 2020 election.
According to The Hill, Fox issued subpoenas to Soros and his organization for documents related to the case earlier this summer, Soros and the Open Society Foundation then issued a series of objections to the court, arguing Fox's requests are “not relevant to the claims or defenses of any party” in the case.
“Mr. Soros objects to the Subpoena in its entirety on the grounds that its service is an abuse of process that constitutes harassment of a non-party,” an attorney for Soros wrote as part of the objection. “The Complaint in this Action cites, within its hundreds of pages, only a handful of vague allusions, made by Fox personnel or their guests, to a purported ‘connection' between Smartmatic and Mr. Soros. This handful of stray, imprecise remarks does not provide grounds for the broad requests served on Mr. Soros, a private non-party to this Action.”
The network has so far unsuccessfully moved to have the Smartmatic case dismissed, which it has said it does not anticipate going to trial until 2025.
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Wow Fox is seeking to Depose someone on the Left???? I guess Tucker may have made a big impression on them after all. How do they dare to break from the Soros/Murdoch kingdom ?
As George Soros laughs all the way to the bank. He should have lost his dual citizenship here in America 50-years-ago. He is an ex-Nazi lover and believes in a “Hell On Earth Policy.”
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Will Soros comply??