On the morning of November 16, 2020, a Fox News producer named Anne McCarton sent an email to Lou Dobbs, the then-Fox Business primetime anchor and host of what had long been the most-watched business show in America. For several days, Dobbs had been focusing his attention on White House allegations of a voter fraud scandal involving Dominion Voting Systems, an election technology company that Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell said could be traced back to pro-Chavez Venezuelans who had built the software to alter voting results. (In fact, Dominion was built by a Canadian electrical engineer.) A few nights earlier, Dobbs had told his viewers that the Dominion scandal appeared to be “the endgame to a four-and-a-half yearlong effort to overthrow the president of the United States.”