that these redacted messages were a catalyst in the network’s decision to part ways with its highest-rated, prime-time host, which it announced to the public on Monday.
Dominion lawyers had planned to ask the judge to allow the use of the redacted texts in the trial and prepared to pepper him with questions, aiming to pin him down with the messages that were most offensive to women.had no comment outside of its initial statement announcing Carlson’s departure and neither Carlson nor his lawyer, Bryan Freedman, responded to the Times request for comment.