Both lawsuits, however, point to other messages from Butowsky that they say make clear his and Fox's political motivations. On the day the story was published, he allegedly wrote to Wheeler, "If you can, try to highlight this puts the Russian hacking story to rest." He also allegedly wrote to various Fox producers saying, "One of the big conclusions we need to draw from this is that the Russians did not hack our computer systems and steal emails and there was no collusion like trump with the Russians [sic]," according to emails cited in the lawsuit.