“In perspective, it’s not my first rodeo,” Smith added. “Getting near 70 means being in the last half. I waited for the right time. Friends are happy for me.” It’s not the only major headline Murdoch has made in the new year. He and Fox News are currently ensnared in a defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems following the news network’s continued promotion and coverage of election fraud in the 2020 presidential election between Donald Trump and President Joe Biden. Murdoch was the subject of remarkable testimony from a deposition revealed Feb. 27, in which he admitted that Fox News hosts “endorsed” on-air what they knew to be a false narrative.
