Lordy, Abby Grossberg Has Tapes!
And stories to tell, dang.
The other evening, former Fox News producer Abby Grossberg, whose lawsuit may be a contributing factor for why Tucker Carlson was so unceremoniously fired Monday morning, started making the media rounds with her lawyer. (She thinks her lawsuit is probably a factor.) She appeared on MSNBC with Nicolle Wallace, and her lawyer showed up afterward on the same network's Ari Melber show.
News, as they say, was made.
She talked about about how Tucker had made her life a "living hell," and what a disgusting and misogynist place Tucker's show was to work. (That's all in her lawsuit.) She talked about how much Tucker liked to say the C-word, about women in general who made him mad, and especially about Sidney Powell, and how Fox News's lawyers coached her to tell common lies about whether that bothered her. Indeed, she told Wallace that after she gave her original deposition in the Dominion lawsuit, the show threw a special lunch called "Abby Day" because they were so proud of her answers.
And she talked about how bizarrely and preternaturally obsessed Tucker was with making up and spreading conspiracy theories that the terrorist attack of January 6 was some kind of false flag perpetuated by the FBI. Even though lawyers for people on trial for invading the Capitol that day were begging him to stop.
That's all at the end of this clip, which is quite a highlight reel of the full interview:
“Abby Grossberg explains how she was used as a plant by Fox to spy on another female colleague and that Tucker Carlson was intent on portraying the FBI as the culprit of the 1/6 attack, despite what Proud Boy lawyers said. This is obstruction, FYI.”
— Amee Vanderpool (@Amee Vanderpool) 1682514102
According to Grossberg, the now-former Fox News star was “very set on finding an FBI person who was implanted in the crowd” so he could prove the insurrection was a false flag by the government.
“[He was] spinning this conspiracy that they were ultimately the ones responsible for the Capitol attack, not Fox News as they’re about to go into the Dominion trial,” she said. “It was really the FBI that set up this thing, not Fox telling the American people that the election was rigged and the voting machines did it.” Grossberg claimed that even an attorney representing some of the Capitol rioters implored her to push Carlson away from the unhinged theory, but it was to no avail because “everyone was a believer” on the show.
“I went back to them and said, look, there’s no conspiracy theory here. I called the attorney who is representing one of the Proud Boys. He told me on two occasions, ‘There’s no conspiracy, get away from this stuff, this is dangerous. Tell Tucker to stop. I will come on your show, but I’ll absolutely walk off if he asks me this.’ And the result was, find somebody else, Tucker is really intent on this.”
It was bizarre how Tucker latched so quickly on to the idea that the January 6 terrorists were all innocents, and that an attack on them was an attack on all his viewers. And he knew exactly what the assignment was when Kevin McCarthy gave him all those tapes.
Oh well, thank goodness he can't spew that nonsense to such a big audience night after night anymore.
Maybe he can get some cats and tell January 6 Was A Planned Demolition conspiracy theories to them in his Maine "Hee Haw" studio.
And Lordy, Her Tapes!
Grossberg really did record a lot.
She says she's got 90 tapes, that she knows of, so far, so it's definitely not just that Rudy Giuliani tape that came out just before the Dominion trial, where he admitted out loud to Maria Bartiromo that he didn't have shit evidence for all his voter fraud lies.
In the clip below she explains that Fox News failed to turn over a whole lot of things she provided to them during discovery for the Dominion case, and doesn't know whether it was intentional or reckless that they failed to turn them over to Dominion. Oh well, she found 'em now! She says she's also gotten a subpoena in the Smartmatic case.
“Nicolle Wallace: "Where are those recordings now? Did Dominion ultimately get them?" Abby Grossberg: "I have several recordings I’m still going through that we recovered from all the phones. There are 90 that we have. I don’t know what Fox turned over."”
— Justin Baragona (@Justin Baragona) 1682455435
The next hour on Ari Melber's show, where Grossberg's lawyer was a guest, he played a big important tape of Ted Cruz on the phone with Maria Bartiromo on January 2, talking about denying certification of the election on January 6, then standing up a fake commission afterward to investigate all the fake frauds, then use that to overturn the result:
From the Washington Post:
If the commission found “credible evidence of fraud that undermines confidence in the electoral results in any given state,” then the state would then call a special session and recertify results, according to Cruz.
“Is there any chance you can overturn this?” Bartiromo asked Cruz.
“I hope so,” he responded.
"Who gets inaugurated?" asked Bartiromo. Ted Cruz said hopefully the commission could figure all that out.
Watch that whole Melber report above to see how much Cruz was plotting. He was working hard to overthrow the government y'all!
Cruz is angrily sending out missives acting like this is all some "gotcha!" by MSNBC and insisting these were things he was saying in public at the time too. And yes, it is true that those plotting the coup were largely doing it in all our faces, because that's what kind of craven, unpatriotic shitheels they are.
But it's just another piece of the puzzle, and Abby Grossberg's lawyer Gerry Flippatos has told Melber and other news media that he's been in touch with Special Counsel Jack Smith, who is investigating the many-pronged plan to overthrow the government and steal the presidency from its rightful winner Joe Biden.
Have they given Smith all of Grossberg's Lordy She Has Tapes, which include the ones we've mentioned, plus conversations between Maria Bartiromo and Sidney Powell and other Trump campaign people? Flippatos says they've talked to "numerous law enforcement agencies" about the tapes, and provided info about how they'll deliver them:
"We have voluntarily surrendered to the relevant law enforcement agencies details regarding the approximately 90 Otter tapes in Miss Grossberg's possession and have engaged in discussions with these law enforcement agencies to receive targeted subpoenas regarding any such tapes that may be of interest to them," he said. Otter is an app that transcribes audio recordings and is popular with reporters and producers.
In summary and in conclusion, she recorded everything and they are ready and willing to help.
Have fun with your upcoming life adventures, everyone on Abby Grossberg's recordings!
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