A Delaware judge has just ordered Fox Corporation to hand over a mountain of internal records in a long-running shareholder lawsuit aimed at Rupert Murdoch, his son Lachlan, and other Fox directors. The files cover phone hacking, board minutes, emails, and the deletion of Rupert Murdoch’s text messages.

The order landed last week from Vice Chancellor Bonnie David. Fox fought to keep the material sealed. The judge sided with the plaintiffs across the board.

According to NPR, the haul includes roughly 700 documents that mention “phone hacking,” years of Fox board meeting minutes, emails from former Ford CEO and longtime Fox director Jacques Nasser’s Ford accounts, and a list of every email address ever used by Nasser or Rupert Murdoch.

Shareholders’ lawyers will also get sealed records from the still-pending Smartmatic case that deal with what the court calls Murdoch’s “spoliation” of records, legal speak for wiping texts.

The case was filed about three years ago by five New York City public-employee pension funds and Oregon’s public employee retirement system.

Those are Democrat-run, taxpayer-backed institutions using Delaware corporate law to try to pin Fox’s legal bills on the Murdochs personally.

The Associated Press reported earlier that the same funds accuse Murdoch and other Fox leaders of ignoring “red flags” after 2020.

The lawsuit was lit by Fox’s nearly $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems in April 2023, one of the largest defamation payouts in American history. Smartmatic is still suing and wants $2.7 billion.

The Gateway Pundit said at the time that Fox rolled over. Joe Hoft wrote that the mainstream media was “giddy” and that Fox “gave the MSM everything they ever wanted.”

Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz told The Gateway Pundit the Dominion deal “never should have happened” and that “something else had to have been involved.”

Bill O’Reilly said the same week that Rupert Murdoch settled because he did not want to take the stand. “He told his lawyers settle it,” O’Reilly said.

Now those same settlement dollars are being used as the launch pad for this derivative suit. The pension funds want the Murdochs and other directors to personally eat the loss.

Seth Rich Is Back in the File

The complaint also points to Fox’s retracted 2017 reporting on murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich and what plaintiffs call an undisclosed settlement with the Rich family. Fox published, then yanked, a story suggesting Rich may have leaked Democratic emails to WikiLeaks.

The Gateway Pundit has covered the Rich case for years. In 2018 we reported that a federal judge dismissed the Rich parents’ lawsuit against Fox News.

This summer TGP reported attorney Ty Clevenger’s claim that the FBI had stashed hundreds of Seth Rich pages in a previously hidden SCIF room at headquarters, mixed with burn bags.

The Left treated any question about Rich as forbidden. Fox folded the story. The pension-fund lawyers now want to use that episode as proof the board ran a “scandal business model.”

Phone Hacking and Wiped Texts

The British phone-hacking scandal at News Corp. titles more than a decade ago has already cost that side of the Murdoch empire an estimated $1.5 billion, according to NPR.

Fox Corp. was split off from News Corp. after that mess. Plaintiffs want the “phone hacking” paper trail anyway, plus board records from Fox and related companies.

Then there are the texts.

Fox’s own lawyer, Anitha Reddy, told the Delaware court that claims of wholesale deletion are “incorrect,” but she admitted “there was a period … when text messages were not retained.”

Court argument, as reported by NPR, is that Rupert Murdoch auto-deleted texts until about April 2022, after Dominion had already sued.

Shareholders now get the sealed Smartmatic file on that spoliation fight. Fox, for its part, has accused Dominion and Smartmatic executives of destroying evidence too and asked for sanctions.

During the Dominion case, Dominion’s lawyers also accused several Fox personalities and executives of failing to preserve texts and emails. NPR notes that list included Pete Hegseth, now serving as Secretary of War.

The entire case may turn on one man: Jacques Nasser.

Nasser, the former Ford chief, sat for more than two decades on Murdoch boards at News Corp., 21st Century Fox, and Fox Corp., including as lead independent director until 2023.

Plaintiffs say he was never truly independent, that he backed the family through the UK hacking crisis, a BSkyB stock buyback that increased Murdoch clout, and the selection of other directors. If a judge later finds Nasser was not independent of Rupert Murdoch, plaintiffs argue more than half the Fox board fails Delaware’s independence test and the case can go to trial.

Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster already refused to throw the suit out in December 2024. David’s new order is the discovery hammer.

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President Trump on Sunday floated restoring former President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s White House swimming pool, the site of which is now occupied by the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room. 

This comes amid Trump’s ongoing feud with the White House Correspondents’ Association and the left-wing media after he removed CNN, MS Now, and Politico from the White House earlier this month.

The three outlets were reinstated with White House access last week after a judge ruled that Trump’s ban on the outlets was likely unconstitutional and ordered the White House to restore their access.

Still, the leftist press pool decided to boycott the President, which ultimately backfired when conservative media outlets finally got a seat at the table.

Real America’s Voice took over the press pool to cover Trump’s trip to New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. Lindell TV and Real America’s Voice were then tapped to be the television pool network to cover Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit in Washington, DC.

Additionally, on Saturday, Real America’s Voice was tapped to cover television pool duties for Trump’s trip to Tennessee on board Air Force One, while CNN was excluded from the trip, sparking continued outrage from the left-wing media. The Gateway Pundit was also in the pool for President Trump’s travel that day.

CNN on Saturday lost it, claiming that there was no outlet to replace CNN in the pool, leading to “limited coverage of his trip,” and that “there’s no TV pool coverage.” This is despite Real America’s Voice being in the air and on the ground with the President and providing pool coverage with audio and video to any outlet that chooses to cover Trump.

MS Now went on to slander conservative media as “state media” while suggesting the White House is giving direct subsidies to the press via free airfare on Air Force One.

Ironically, the claim that outlets like Real America’s Voice and The Gateway Pundit are receiving direct financial assistance came from a former Politico reporter, who was there when Politico was paid $8 million from the federal government under Biden.

WATCH: Former White House Correspondents’ Association President Calls Conservative Media “State Media” and Suggests They Receive Financial Benefits From White House

Now, Trump is triggering the media even more, trolling them by suggesting he'll bulldoze the press room and restore the old swimming pool. The "FDR Pool" was originally built under Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration in 1933 and converted into a Press Briefing Room under Nixon in 1970.

Trump posted the following side-by-side graphic on Truth Social, with the current White House Briefing Room labeled "Fake News" and "Before," and Franklin D. Roosevelt's White House pool labeled "FDR Pool" and "After."

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Meanwhile in the Democrat hellhole of Seattle…

A 36-year-old woman has been arrested for biting off a chunk of another woman’s face in downtown Seattle.

A homeless attacker bit off a huge chunk of a woman’s forehead on September 18 in an unprovoked attack.

According to KOMO News, the victim, Diana Gonzalez, was walking on Third Avenue when the suspect threw a piece of trash at her and started yelling slurs.

When Gonzalez confronted the woman and asked her why she threw trash at her, the suspect began screaming, “you’re an inferior race!”

The suspect then spit on Gonzalez and then grabbed her and took a huge bite of her forehead.

An employee at the nearby Arctic Hotel broke up the fight.

The suspect then spit the chunk of Gonzalez’s forehead into a storm grate.

The King County Prosecutor’s Attorney’s Office identified the attacker as Kamilia Chadli, however, police have not released her mugshot.

Chadli was charged with felony assault.

Kamilia Chadli reportedly has a history of run-ins with law enforcement.

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Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday sparred with ABC’s “This Week” host Martha Raddatz over President Trump’s ban on CNN, Politico and MSNOW.

Trump last Friday announced that he has banned CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from the White House for constantly reporting “FAKE NEWS.”

The outlets filed suit on Monday and sought an emergency order to overturn the ban.

A federal judge, in a temporary order, ordered the Trump Administration to restore the affected media outlets’ access to the White House.

On Saturday, CNN was blocked from boarding Air Force One as President Trump traveled to Tennessee.

The Gateway Pundit, Red State Media and Real America’s Voice traveled with President Trump and covered his attendance at the University of Tennessee vs University of Texas football game.

AG Blanche erupted on Martha Raddatz after she tried to put words in his mouth.

“You’re saying you’re gonna screen people before they get on a flight? Come into the White House?” Martha Raddatz asked Blanche.

“I did not say that. You don’t get to put words in my mouth!” Blanche said.

Raddatz interrupted Blanche: “But you said…”

“You don’t get to put words in my mouth. That’s not how it works! You just said, ‘are you saying.’ I didn’t say that,” Blanche said.

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Lindsay Clancy Attorney Kevin Reddington blasted Edward Paltzik, the attorney for the lone holdout juror in Clancy’s murder trial, telling him to “shut up” and calling him a “foul individual” over the weekend. 

He further called the holdout an “obstructionist” for not letting a woman who executed three innocent children walk free.

As The Gateway Pundit reported last week, the holdout juror, now identified as Michael Desronvil after a media doxing campaign, is pushing back amid calls for him to be investigated over the jury deliberations, which resulted in a mistrial.

Edward Paltzik, Desronvil’s attorney, blasted Reddington and his “Looney Tunes motion” where he asked the judge to investigate Desronvil by examining his cellphone records and interrogating him.

The motion, Paltzik said, “is not just an attack on Michael for being the courageous lone holdout juror.”

Holdout Juror Fights Back After Lindsay Clancy’s Lawyer Seeks His Phone Records — Spokesperson Says OTHER Jurors Were on Phones and Posting During Deliberations

I really don't care what Ed thinks. He knows where the courtroom is, and he knows how to find it," Reddington said of Paltzik's out-of-court statements.

"I think Ed ought to learn how to go into the courtroom and articulate his position rather than be a histrionic individual that's just mouthing off for the media."

He further responded to Ed Paltzik, saying in a Fugitive TV interview last week that Lindsey Clancy "is demonic, and by all rights she should be executed.”

"Ed, me to you," he said," why don't you just shut up, really, you foul individual," Reddington told Fox News.

"I think the biggest misconception is that this individual is referred to as the holdout juror," he added.

"He, in fact, is the obstructionist juror, and every motion that has been filed is legitimate It's all based on sound, law, facts, jury questions, and I'm doing what I should do, representing Lindsay. And I'm pretty sure that Ed would have probably done the same thing, were it in Houston, and he was representing his client."

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