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- Top Fox News commentators skewered Rudy Giuliani in private text messages after the 2020 election.
- That's according to a new court filing in Dominion Voting Systems' defamation suit against Fox.
- Laura Ingraham called him an "idiot" and Sean Hannity said he and his allies were "f'ing lunatics."
Fox News' primetime opinion commentators spent the months after the 2020 election pushing outlandish conspiracy theories about widespread fraud, rigged voting machines, and corrupt election officials.
But behind the scenes, many of those commentators and their producers excoriated the people primarily responsible for amplifying those conspiracy theories. Chief among them was former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, who spearheaded President Donald Trump's effort to overturn the results of the election.