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A new trove of exhibits unearthed as part of Dominion\u2019s defamation lawsuit against Fox News was released on Tuesday, including emails, text messages and transcripts from depositions by numerous Fox News personalities and executives.\nThere are lots of interesting details in the documents that reinforce the allegations made in Dominion\u2019s recent motion for summary judgment. But the main takeaways are:\n\nMost corners of Fox News \u2014 from reporters and producers to primetime hosts to the most senior executives \u2014 knew that the claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election put forward by Donald Trump, his lawyers and their political allies were bogus.\n\nDespite this, Fox News executives and primetime hosts leaned into the election conspiracy theories after they realized their Trump-loving viewers were abandoning the network for more right-wing alternatives.\n\nThe news and opinion divisions at Fox News, never great allies even in less stressful times, went to war with each other in the post-election period.\n\nTucker Carlson hates Trump.\n\nAnd Speaker Kevin McCarthy's decision to fork over Jan. 6 footage to Carlson\xa0 continued to reverberate around Capitol Hill yesterday following the Fox host\u2019s first big dispatch, which drew prominent rebukes from Democrats and Republicans. It was \u201ca headache of [House Republicans\u2019] own making,\u201d write Sarah Ferris, Olivia Beavers and Kyle Cheney, one that \u201creopened a painful fault line that his party has repeatedly tried to mend.\u201d\nSubscribe to the POLITICO Playbook newsletter\nRaghu Manavalan is the host and senior editor of POLITICO's Playbook Daily Briefing.Jenny Ament is the executive producer of POLITICO Audio.