Lawsuit alleges Sean Hannity and Fox News 'conspired with' Boebert to 'defame' political activist: report



Months after North Carolina activist David Wheeler hit United States Representative Lauren Boebert (R-CO) with a defamation lawsuit over allegedly making "multiple false claims about him and" his super PAC American Muckrakers, Fox News and host Sean Hannity will be "added as defendants," News From The States reports.

"They conspired with Lauren Boebert to defame me," Wheeler said Monday, according to the report. "I repeatedly asked to go on their news shows to discuss the allegations she was making against us and was either ignored or told 'no' over and over again while she continued to go on their shows bashing me."

Per the report, "His complaint, in U.S. District Court of Colorado, alleges Boebert made 'maliciously false statements' about Wheeler and American Muckrakers on multiple occasions last summer, particularly during broadcasts of Hannity’s Fox News shows and on radio. Fox personality Tomi Lahren is also singled out in the complaint as having provided a platform for Boebert to allegedly defame Wheeler."

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The news outlet reports, "Last month, Boebert asked the Colorado court to dismiss Wheeler's case, saying he failed to state a legally sufficient claim and that statements by her that form the basis of the lawsuit are protected by the First Amendment. She also said a new Colorado law that protects people who exercise First Amendment rights from the threat of lawsuits — known as an anti-SLAPP law — calls for the case to be dismissed."

American Muckrakers, according to the report, "previously worked to unseat former Republican U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina," and "targeted Boebert last year as she sought a second term in Congress," by allegedly publishing "unflattering information" about the right-wing lawmaker.

This prompted Boebert to say she planned on "moving forward with a lawsuit" against Wheeler and Muckrakers, but News From The States notes that "She never followed through with her threat to sue Wheeler and Muckrakers, who now essentially claim that Boebert defamed Wheeler by falsely accusing him of defaming her."

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News From The States' full report is available at this link.



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