The one person in America who hasn’t expressed an opinion on the settlement is Donald Trump, who would have been on trial almost as much as Fox. Why?
Almost certainly because Trump sees his interests, in the long run, being aligned with those of Fox, and he feared the consequences of a trial as much as Fox did. With good reason, I might add.
For Fox, paying large defamation claims is just a part of their business model. Trump doesn’t have that luxury. If it is ever found by an impartial jury that his claims about the “rigged” election were not just false, but reckless and absurd, it will do him a lot of damage.