‘The View’ Hosts Say Fox News Settlement ‘Wasn’t Enough’ for Vindication: ‘Just Didn’t Sting Enough’ (Video)

“Anything under a billion dollars I don’t think sends the right message,” Sunny Hostin said on the ABC talk show

After Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News reached a settlement in their $1.6 billion defamation battle on Tuesday, the hosts of “The View” were pretty unimpressed. According to the women at ABC’s table, the outcome “just didn’t sting enough” for Fox.

Dominion settled the suit against Fox News for $787.5 million, almost exactly half of what they were suing for. In the end, Fox didn’t apologize for the claims, and didn’t actually admit to knowingly lying to their viewers, but said, “We acknowledge the Court’s rulings finding certain claims about Dominion to be false.”

But, no one on the network was made to acknowledge these things on-air, and for host Sunny Hostin, “that’s my biggest problem with it.”

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