Connolly's key exhibits in the case include interviews broadcast on Fox with two Trump lawyers, Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani, who are also targeted in the suit.
Former President Trump won't immediately try to stop several former Justice Department officials from testifying before Congress but is willing to put up a fight over executive privilege if legislators try to secure further interviews with his former aides and officials, a letter from lawyer Doug Collins reads.
NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! New York Attorney General Letitia James appeared to celebrate a court order that former President Donald Trump and two of his children must testify under oath in the state's civil investigation into his business practices.
Now, Fox's role in amplifying those claims could have major legal and financial consequences for the network founded and owned by Rupert Murdoch. Fox provided a sympathetic platform to then-president Trump and his lawyers as they engaged in a campaign to persuade the American public that a massive fraud had taken place.
According to Washington Post media reporter Sarah Ellison, Fox founder and owner Rupert Murdoch has always wanted access to an American president, and he got it once Trump was elected.
Chicago lawyer Erik Connolly is preparing the $US2.7 billion ($3.7 billion) defamation case against Fox News, three of the network's stars — Maria Bartiromo, Jeanine Pirro and Lou Dobbs — and two Trump lawyers on behalf of Smartmatic.
"He's coming back … because he didn't lose the election, they stole it," a Trump supporter told Four Corners.