James Randi would tell the story about a time when he was doing magic on stage, and carefully explained to the audience that it was a trick, and that he didn't have any special powers. If memory serves, he may have even explained part of how the trick was done.

To his dismay, an audience member called him on his claim, and insisted that he *did* have magical powers, and he was only saying it was a trick to hide his true power. Or some such.

This is a common phenomenon once conspiracy thinking has taken hold. You're going to see a lot of it in the next few weeks and months as FOX tries to save itself from the literal courtroom admission that they knew they were pushing lies, and knowingly aided an illegal attempt to overthrow the legitimate government.

I don't know how to guess such things. But I don't think this will hurt FOX very much, even if they lose the entire 1.6B suit. If anything, their viewership may dig in harder.

This is why you never let Nazis have power.