Lou Dobbs and Sidney Powell made a lot of crazy claims in the aftermath of
the 2020 election lies in support of the Big Lie claims that the election had
been stolen in many different ways.
You might remember some of them big ones like that somehow Hugo Chavez had
rigged the election, so Biden would win.
But the thing is they actually made more specific claims than that even
in the area of this Venezuelan plot to overthrow American democracy.
In fact, they identified a particular Venezuelan man as being a part of this and
that is now biting them in the behinds because that man is suing them for
$250 million.
This is Magic Khalil, he says that Lou Dobbs and Sidney Powell wrongly wrapped
him up in their conspiracy theory that Smartmatic and Dominion voting systems.
The two rival election technology companies worked to rig the last
presidential election against Donald Trump.
He says that he was first identified in a promotion for a December 10th broadcast of
Lou Dobbs tonight featuring an interview with Sidney Powell.
That tweet said the 2020 presidential election was a cyber Pearl Harbor and
identified Khalil and others specifically as the perpetrators.
And so in both their shows and in media appearances and in social media posts.
Both Lou Dobbs and Sidney Powell pushed elements of the false theory that
Khalil was once the COO of an operation to rig votes for President Hugo Chavez.
And that he was involved as well in the plot to rig the 2020 election.
They also said because why not he's a liaison with Hezbollah.
So there's also some terrorism in there, I guess.
He says that he's never been involved in not
only attempts to overturn US elections, but
that he was not involved in any elections in Venezuela either.
That said maybe they have secret information and perhaps Lou Dobbs and
Sidney Powell will have a chance in court to present it to the judge.
What do you think Jake?
>> Well, yeah, that's the good news, John about the United States just system.
You can present your evidence,
all of your evidence any of your evidence in court, go ahead.
Let's see what your evidence is on, how this guy and
the ghost of Hugo Chavez rigged the election, can't wait crack.
And you said you were gonna release the evidence a long time ago, Donald Trump
talking about the massive dumps, you guys are all gonna take of evidence.
Where are they, we haven't seen any dumps, let alone massive ones.
And so look, this is a really important story because when I saw
them lying about this particular guy, I thought, okay?
We're gonna find out if there's any consequences in America for
just wholesale making up awful things about people.
Now did I know anything about Majid Khalil?
Of course, I didn't right and he's a random guy in Venezuela.
But did I believe that Lou Dobbs and
Sidney Powell had evidence that this random guy in Venezuela
had effectively rigged the entire United States elections.
In Cahoots with Hugo Chavez who has been dead for seven years.
And that he was then connected to Hezbollah because he's got a Muslim name,
I was 100% certain that every part of that was made up.
Now we'll forget to find out John and I can't wait for their dumps and
their crayons.
Okay, go get him, if he's connected with terrorists, I'd love to find out.
He apparently thinks he's not, that's why he's suing you in open court.
And so maybe if this guy wins, Doumanian wins,
Smartmatic wins, there's going to be consequences for
lying, brazenly and outrageously on air if they don't win.
That means anybody and everybody can lie about everyone and
make up anything they want about you or anyone else and get away with it.
So this case is monumentally important.
>> Yeah, and just for context, everyone should remember that in addition to this
case specifically against Lou Dobbs and Sidney Powell.
You have separate legal efforts that have already successfully disbarred Giuliani.
Sidney Powell is targeted in the same way and Smartmatic has sued Fox News and
Dobbs and several other hosts earlier this year.
For $2.7 million dollars Dominion has lawsuits against several, these right
wing networks as well and some of those have recently been allowed to go forward.
So as with all instances like this, these are big cases, so
they can be appealed it could potentially take years.
But we'll see if you can just have this gigantic multibillion dollar news
network that makes claims, they know to be false about virtually everyone
being responsible for the news they don't like.
>> Yeah, and I thought you might have said a million.
I said I don't wanna be clear, they're suing for $2.7 billion, okay?
So that one's gonna leave a mark.
>> That's what I meant, I guess I didn't say that.
>> Yeah, that's, okay that one's gonna leave a mark and
even a company as big as Fox News is going to be deeply concerned about that.
By the way, they took Lou Dobbs off the air right after the election cuz his main
job was to kiss the assets of the president.
But since Trump was no longer powerful and Dobbs was causing them legal trouble,
they took him off there.
There's some chance later, they'll turn on Dobbs.
I don't know if Lou Dobbs because he's such a senile old man
even understands that because they're paying for his legal bills.
But at some point they can go, hey, you know what?
We took him off the air as soon as we could, he's an idiot,
we had nothing to do with him.
Good luck trying to collect from him.
So I don't know if that will happen, but I would look forward to it.