Category: Media — Fox News Host
Role: Co-host of Fox & Friends; host of One Nation with Brian Kilmeade
Priority: P2

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For Trump Supporters: Questions Worth Considering

The Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit produced internal Fox News communications showing that hosts were privately skeptical of election fraud claims while continuing to platform those claims on air. Kilmeade was among the Fox & Friends hosts whose private messages became part of the public record. Trump reportedly watched Fox & Friends daily during his presidency — meaning the morning show had a direct line into the White House as a source of information and amplification for whatever narratives the show promoted.

Here’s a question worth sitting with: The Dominion lawsuit revealed a specific documented gap at Fox News: hosts privately told each other that election fraud claims were false or unfounded, while simultaneously giving those claims airtime. Kilmeade co-hosts the show that Trump reportedly watched every morning. The president of the United States was watching and being influenced by a program whose hosts, internal communications show, were privately skeptical of the claims being aired. If the person you trust to tell you what’s true is privately telling colleagues the opposite — what does that mean for the information you received? And does the answer change based on whether the show aligns with your politics?

A second question: Fox & Friends runs approximately 3 hours every weekday morning — roughly 750+ hours of programming per year. Kilmeade has hosted it since 1998. The show’s format is conversational, personality-driven, and explicitly entertaining — it is designed to be engaging, not comprehensive. A format designed for entertainment has different incentives than one designed for information accuracy: entertaining content generates ratings regardless of whether it is true; accurate content generates trust but may not generate ratings. When you watch a morning show for 3 hours a day, you are spending more time with its hosts than with almost anyone else in your life. What standards should govern how you evaluate what they tell you?

Sources

• Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News Network (Delaware Superior Court, settled April 2023)

Last Updated: May 11, 2026