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Lou Dobbs debunks his own claims of election fraud — after a legal demand from Smartmatic

A fact-check segment that aired on his Fox Business show Friday will be rebroadcast on two other Fox programs this weekend

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December 19, 2020 at 1:35 p.m. EST
Fox Business host Lou Dobbs speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February 2017. The segment he aired Friday debunking election-fraud claims will be rebroadcast on two other Fox programs this weekend. (Alex Brandon/AP)

Something surprising happened Friday night on Lou Dobbs’s top-rated show on the Fox Business Network.

Dobbs, an opinion host and conservative ally of President Trump who has consistently raged over the past month that the president was robbed of a second term by a rigged election, introduced a segment that calmly debunked several accusations of fraud that Rudolph W. Giuliani and other Trump supporters have lobbed against the election technology company Smartmatic.