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Tina Peters allegedly met with Trump to discuss election plans. Here's what that could mean for the midterms.

Written by Kayla Gogarty & John Whitehouse

Research contributions from Alex Kaplan & John Knefel

Published 10/06/26

Former Mesa County, Colorado, clerk Tina Peters, who was released from prison on June 1 after being sentenced to nearly nine years for actions related to tampering with voting machines following the 2020 election, allegedly met with President Donald Trump on October 5 to discuss the midterm elections.

Tina Peters allegedly met with President Trump – again.

• Speaking on Eric Bolling’s Real America’s Voice show, former Trump Justice Department official Ed Martin said that Peters was “in the Oval Office meeting with the president on election integrity” hours earlier.
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• From the October 5, 2026, edition of Real America's Voice's Bolling!

• ED MARTIN (GUEST): Well, let me break some news. This is a big deal, Eric, and I'm — you're the first person that knows. I'm going to say something — just hours ago, maybe two hours ago. Tina Peters, you know, from Colorado, was in the Oval Office meeting with the president on election integrity, and they were talking about the plans.

• And the one thing that they know is that Secretary Mullin of the Department of Homeland Security came out in late August and conceded and said, as a matter of law, a finding that there is — the machines for voting, the election voting machines use parts from China and Russia and foreign places and are therefore compromised. That's what Mullin said. That finding, when he finished that finding, he then said, and I have a billion dollars to help you states to do something other than use machines that are compromised. And, again, my point is this.

• You talk about local. It is a local election. I ran the election board in St. Louis. There is local control. However, the laws that govern the system, like safety and national security, are federal laws.

• And so when Tina Peters, you know, famous Colorado clerk, was in the Oval Office today just two hours ago talking about this question, the president's taking it seriously. If the Congress won't pass the SAVE America Act, and they won't, then the president's going to have to do what he's going to do. And it is not a local issue when it's national security, and it's clearly national security. So we'll see how it plays out.

• Peters has claimed to regularly be in contact with Trump administration officials, including by text, and said in late August that she has been to the White House six times. She also has thanked White House staff for facilitating her release from prison. In July, Peters claimed that Trump ordered his staff to do what she recommended, saying on a livestream, “Yesterday, when I was with the president, he talked — and I can’t get into the plan — but we talked, he basically said to his lead counsel to do what I was asking.”

• Peters has also recently claimed to have been in contact with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Attorney General Todd Blanche’s deputy chief of staff Shane Hedges, and Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon.

• Martin recently left Trump’s DOJ to — at least according to the president in a Truth Social post — “fight Legal Battles” related to the midterms. Martin and Peters have a history together. In 2025, Martin told Steve Bannon that he had been working for two months to find “a path” to her release. He also reportedly “discussed election security issues last year” with Peters’ associates and forwarded their pitch for a ban on voting machines to another senior Justice Department official.

What is Tina Peters’ plan for the election?

• Peters has been vocal in far-right circles about her election plan. As Media Matters’ Alex Kaplan documented in late July:

• The new proposal, dated July 22 and called the “100-Day Risk Mitigation Election Plan” and “Operational Guidance for the November Federal Election – 2026,” urges the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency — an agency housed under the Department of Homeland Security that is “one of the main federal partners for states on election security, sharing intelligence on potential threats to voting infrastructure and providing quick regional support,” per MS NOW — to “concentrate on six achievable measures,” including “transition[ing] the general electorate away from ballot-marking devices (BMD) to hand-marked paper ballots” and “insisting that the official count can only be certified after a full hand-count of every ballot.”

• It also lays out an implementation framework that would involve classifying all counties based on current election processes and their ability to transition ahead of the midterms and then providing each county with implementation plans. During a podcast interview discussing the plan, Peters acknowledged that “CISA is not a forceful body that they can make people do things, but they can actually make recommendations,” and suggested that DHS could use a recently announced grant for states “that comply with certain things like paper ballots and so on and so forth” as an “incentive.”
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• Peters released the new proposal, which she called a “practical election-security plan,” on her website along with a July 24 letter to the acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency thanking him “for meeting with us … and for giving us the opportunity to present our concerns and proposed path forward for the 2026 federal election.”

• Peters’ plan also requires that jurisdictions must “apply the ‘Bank-Teller Method’: independently hand-count every ballot for federal contests before certification and reconcile that count with the tabulator result.”

• As the midterms approach, Peters has continued to promote versions of her plan and give additional details, such as arguing that Trump already has the power to involve DHS and the Commerce Department through an executive order on critical infrastructure. Election deniers like Peter Ticktin, Jerome Corsi, Cleta Mitchell, and Wayne Allyn Root have made similar arguments about Trump already having authority.

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• TINA PETERS: Mr. President, it is time to treat America’s elections like the critical infrastructure that they are. We do not have months. We have days. Mr. President, our own government and your administration has documented vulnerabilities in election systems and identified foreign adversary threats. Voter databases, poll books, election networks, and voting technology are all at risk.

• The authority already exists. The national emergency under Executive Order 13873 is already in place. What is needed now is cabinet-level direction, direction of DHS, CISA, the EAC, FEMA, the intelligence community, and Commerce to immediately execute the 2026 mitigation plan.
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• The goal is simple and absolutely achievable, Mr. President: Secure and reduce electronic dependence, wherever possible, preserve physical paper evidence, and independently verify electronic results before certification. CISA should issue immediate cybersecurity guidance and assistance to transition all counties to handmark paper ballots, and make sure every electronic tabulation is human verified. FEMA should identify available funding for securing the elections.
• High-risk jurisdictions should receive rapid technical assistance, and Commerce should begin a foreign adversary election technology review. Please, Mr. President, set September 8 as the first deadline and make every electronic result independently checkable.

• This is a known national security issue. The complete risk mitigation plan is available.
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• We still have time to act, but the clock is running. Please direct your cabinet to move now. Our team stands ready to help.
• God bless you, Mr. President. This plan — I’m confident — will save our country.

What has Peters said about the president having authority to intervene in the midterms?

• Peters has been vocal that the president has the power to intervene in the midterms through executive power. (Experts have harshly criticized this analysis.)

• Peters said during a June 14 stream following her release from prison that she had spoken with the president and she believes “Trump could sign an executive order to get rid of the machines and say that they are — that a vendor cannot have that much influence over our elections.” She also said on June 25 that “we’ve got to get rid of the machines” and “mail-in ballots,” and Trump “needs to sign an executive order ... saying it’s unconstitutional that these things are allowed to be done.” Election denial activist Jerome Corsi has claimed that Peters will “play a major role in one of the key factors in Trump ultimately declaring the need for the elections to be supervised by the federal government.”

• Similar to what Martin told Eric Bolling on October 5, Peters has grounded her election rhetoric in terms of foreign interference and national security, saying, “There’s no security threshold when you have foreign agents that have proprietary authority, power, over the things that are used for our most sacred right, which is to vote who we want to represent us.”
• She has also claimed that Trump should take action against voting machines because some of the parts are “made in China.” Notably, Peters has also urged the military to get involved, saying: “It's very important to — for the Department of War — now I'm saying the Department of War because this is an international event that is going on with stealing our elections. Pete Hegseth needs to go in and demand to have these machines in their custody, and also the Mesa County machines. They're still out there.”

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September 5, 2026, edition of Real America's Voice On the Line

OSCAR RAMIREZ (HOST): Today we have to understand that the midterm elections are coming. These elections are very important, because if the Senate — it is very difficult for the Democrats to win the Senate — but the House, if won by the Democrats, there will be a big problem there, and they will want to impeach the president, put him on trial, and remove him from power, and it will be a copy-paste of what happened in 2016 and 2020. The same thing happened.

When the Democrats were in power and impeached President Trump, the massive caravans began to arise. I posted a video of a caravan, and many ignorant people, the majority of them socialist Democrats, started to say “the Republicans are creating caravans.” For the love of God. Under the Biden administration I walked with ten caravans to the southern border. Under the Biden administration I crossed the jungle four times with hundreds of thousands of migrants. The policies of the Democrats are for open borders in accordance with the Global Compact for Migration. Who creates the caravans? The same international organizations, the UN, the IOM, the UNHCR, the NGOs with their progressive activists in the U.S. paid to come and agitate and create these movements on a continental scale. It’s unbelievable.

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Trump says “stranger things have happened” after Wayne Allyn Root pitches his national security emergency idea on elections directly to him

Written by Media Matters Staff

Published 08/11/26

In an interview with Wayne Allyn Root, a host for Real America's Voice and longtime supporter of the president, Donald Trump appeared to give credence to the emerging far-right notion that he could declare a national emergency regarding elections. Trump previously distanced himself from the notion. Media Matters has been documenting this for months.

Media figures who've pushed claims of widespread election fraud — some of whom say they have been involved with drafting such an order that is “sitting on his [Trump’s] desk” — have urged Trump to give himself “king-like powers” by implementing the proposal, as it would supposedly empower Trump to “be able to make the rules” and use the National Guard to oversee midterm elections.

John Solomon, Steve Bannon, Cleta Mitchell, and others have appeared to signal that Trump could attempt to severely curtail voting rights under the pretext of declaring a national security emergency posed by China.

Media Matters has been covering the right-wing media personalities converging on the idea of an executive order for Trump to sign regarding elections for nearly a year. In fact, Wayne Allyn Root laid out the same plan to Steve Bannon weeks ago.

Update (8/11/26, 3:30 pm ET): At Election Law Blog, Rick Hasen lays out a case for vigilance but against panic:

This is ridiculous and people should not panic over it. The President has no role to play in running elections, a points courts have repeatedly raised in challenges to his two executive orders on elections. Calling it a “national emergency” doesn’t change things. There’s no part of the Constitution or federal law that would give the President power to say how states run their mail ballot programs, voter id, etc.

Now Trump could do a lot of things bad by declaring an emergency (Just Security has a good primer). Perhaps under the Insurrection Act he could try to mess with posting by sending troops into the streets. For many reasons that I’ve talked about elsewhere, it’s very unlikely he’s going to do that for political reasons. But even that is not a power over elections. (I’m also much more worried he will try to illegally mess with the tabulation and certification of votes if there is a close election for control of the House or Senate.)

This CAP report does a good job showing that a president’s declaration of a national emergency would not give him power over elections. But this has been the fever dream of the conspiratorial right for quite some time, going back to Cleta Mitchell floating this idea a couple of years ago.

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From the August 10, 2026, edition of Real America's Voice's America's Top Ten Countdown

WAYNE ALLYN ROOT (HOST): Let's segue way to the midterm. Listen. This is the whole ball of wax, the whole kit and kaboodle, the whole kitchen sink. We got to win the midterm because, otherwise, the last two years of your presidency, you and I both know you're not going to be able to pass anything. We got to win. So what's the strategy to win the midterm?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP (GUEST): Well, one thing is the Senate has to get going on SAVE America. I really believe that because people expect that to happen, and it has to happen. And you have a couple of Republicans who are voting for it, a few. You know, it's about an 89% issue with the overall population, including Democrats. SAVE America's voter ID — with photo, by the way. You know? It's nice to have them. They're fighting on the photo. We don't want a photo. Now why don't they want? Because they want to cheat. You know? It's very simple. There's only one reason. But we want to have that.

We want to have proof of citizenship. So it'd be nice to say, yes. I'm a citizen. Here's my citizenship. Proof of citizenship. And ideally, but we're not even stressing this because it's — that's only a 79% issue. You know, that's not in the 90s. The mail-in ballots are so corrupt. You know that.

ROOT: Right.

TRUMP: They're so corrupt. You saw it in California the other, a couple weeks ago when Spencer Pratt had a very substantial lead. And the election kept going on and on. You know, going on for weeks. It's — it might still be going on, actually. But, all of a sudden, you hear a report that the woman that nobody ever heard of is surging. Nobody ever heard of her. She's surging.

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ROOT: So, let me put an idea in your head. OK? Because it's so hard to get the Senate to do anything, now they're on recess. They don't get anything done, if they never get the SAVE America Act done, you have the right to declare a national security emergency for elections and the Supreme Court ruled in 1983, under Reagan, that INS v. Chadha, that if you declare a national security emergency as the President of the United States, they can't challenge it. It can only be overturned by a two-thirds vote of both houses of Congress. So if you do this in the next month, we will get photo ID, proof of citizenship, and a limit to mail-in ballots and you don't even need the Senate's vote.

TRUMP: Let me just say that stranger things have happened OK? I'll leave it at that.

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• ## Here are five right-wing and right-leaning influencers who have gone on ride-alongs with ICE

• ### Ben Bergquam

• • Bergquam is a right-wing influencer and correspondent for the far-right outlet Real America’s Voice who has used extreme rhetoric about Democrats and Democrat-run cities. Bergquam, who hosts a show for Real America’s Voice called Law & Border, recently said that “we need martial law, whatever it takes, to go in there and restore order” in Democrat-run cities. Bergquam also recently reportedly “filmed outside of Gov. JB Pritzker’s home and invited his followers to ‘take action’ after the murder of Charlie Kirk.” The Chicago Sun Times reported that the video “has prompted additional concerns over Pritzker’s safety.” The Arizona Mirror reported in 2022 that Bergquam had “been arrested for political agitation” and “got his start in Fresno, Calif., where he partnered with ‘proud islamophobe’ Laura Loomer to trespass onto Gov. Gavin Newsom’s mansion while dressed in racist caricatures of immigrants.” Chicago Sun Times, [9/12/25; AmericasVoice.news, accessed 11/7/25; Twitter/X, 10/6/25; Arizona Mirror, 11/30/22]

• • Bergquam has done at least 4 ride-alongs in Chicago, according to news reports and his own accounts, including embedding with Trump “border czar” Tom Homan in January and April.He mentioned a third ride-along with ICE during the June 12 episode of the show FlashPoint. And according to The Guardian, during a September ride-along, Bergquam yelled at protesters, calling them “the enemy within.” Bergquam posted footage to Facebook in October of one of his ride-alongs, which shows him referring to a group of bystanders as a “beehive of activist traitors,” with on-screen text that said, “Riding with ICE in Chicago exposing the enemies within!” The Guardian, [9/10/25; YouTube, FlashPoint,; Facebook, 10/17/25]

• • Bergquam has done at least 1 ride-along in Portland, Oregon, where he said that “leftist traitors need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law” and posted a picture saying he was “reporting from the rooftop #PortlandICE.”Bergquam posted a video of himself in an ICE vehicle with agents and wrote: “Every sanctuary jurisdiction in America needs to be shut down!” Twitter/X, [10/13/25, 10/1/25]

• • Bergquam has done at least 2 ride-alongs in Texas, during which he filmed content for his Real America’s Voice show, according to his posts.In August, Bergquam posted a clip of himself embedded with ICE in San Antonio for Law & Border, adding, “Stay tuned for the rest of the story, only on Law & Border.” He also wrote in the caption of the video: “Epic ride along with San Antonio #ICE today! Criminal warrant on one illegal turns into 5 illegals being picked up including two additional surprise felons! God bless ICE!” And at the end of October, Bergquam posted a video showing people in handcuffs with screen text that read, “Exclusive from Houston #ICE.” Twitter/X, [8/27/25; Facebook, 10/28/25]
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• • Bergquam has done at least 1 ride-along in Indiana, which involved embedding with ICE to provide “exclusive” footage of deportations, according to reporting and his own accounts.The Chicago Sun Times reported that Bergquam had “embedded with ICE in July to get videos of deportation flights leaving Gary, Indiana.” (It appears the ride-along actually happened in June.) In June, Bergquam posted a video of people in handcuffs being put on planes and wrote, “Exclusive! Gary, Indiana deportation flight! … Stay tuned for the full story on ‘Law & Border’ only on Real America’s Voice News.” Chicago Sun Times, [9/9/25; Twitter/X, 6/17/25]

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Journalist Katie Daviscourt appeared on Fox News with a black eye on Wednesday after she was assaulted by a masked “Antifa-affiliated protester” in Portland.

“Wow, that is quite a shiner. Are you all right?” asked Fox News host Jesse Watters.

“Oh yeah, I definitely have a black eye,” she replied. “That’s what it’s been like covering Portland for the past four months. Complete lawlessness.”

Daviscourt told Watters there were now “several blocks” in Portland which were “completely controlled by Antifa-affiliated protesters who harass, assault, and threaten anyone who they perceive to be a threat to their cause, including journalists, local residents, and ICE agents,” with local police refusing to maintain law and order in the area.

“The Trump administration is absolutely correct in deploying federal troops here because Portland Police has completely abandoned this zone. They refuse to go in and everyone that shows up is on their own,” she said:

Last night, I got assaulted and I immediately ran to a Portland Police officer, hunted down the suspect, chased her through the streets and said, “This is my assault suspect, can you guys finally do something?” and I had eyes on her for about 35 minutes– Portland Police refused to come in and make an arrest and I had three officers just standing there, watching me try to hunt down the suspect. And imagine my anger when I go online, after doing all that about an hour ago, and I see Portland Police put out a BOLO asking for the public’s help in identifying my assault suspect. So that is what it’s like on the ground here in Portland, and it’s time for a federal crackdown. The Trump administration needs to start treating Antifa like ISIS, the terrorists that they are, and put an end to them here for good.

During a separate interview with Real America’s Voice host Jack Posobiec, Daviscourt explained that she was hit with a large flag pole in the face by her attacker.

“This Antifa-affiliated subject just started approaching me and waving a flag pole in my face, and then I kind of turn around and that’s when she swung it like a baseball bat and directly hit my eye,” Daviscourt recalled.

Posobiec responded, “So she was trying to blind you. She was actually trying to blind you, and you know, a flag pole like that to the ocular socket, I mean, your brain is right there. There are serious– very, very serious injuries that could happen, and look, I’m sitting here in the Charlie Kirk studio. We all know how serious these things can get.”

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Portland Police put out a press release asking for help identifying the suspect in Daviscourt’s assault on Wednesday.

However, the police department denied Daviscourt’s claim that they refused to assist following the incident.

Portland Police claimed that upon being flagged down by Daviscourt, one of its Dialogue Liaison Officers “followed the suspect north on South Moody Avenue while calling in additional police resources.”

“The Dialogue Officer attempted to talk to the suspect to hear her side of the story. She would not stop, so the DLO told her she was being detained. She refused the lawful police order to stop and she fled,” the police department said in its press release. “At 8:59 p.m., patrol officers met the victim and began an investigation. They documented the incident and the case is now assigned to a detective in the Major Crimes Unit.”

The state of Oregon filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump on Sunday after the president announced he would send the National Guard to Portland to ensure public safety amid violent protests.

“At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists,” Trump declared. “I am also authorizing Full Force, if necessary.”

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Bulwark writer Will Sommer says President Donald Trump’s former attorney general Bill Barr caught flack at a recent Fox News appearance, but the reason for his condemnation couldn’t be less flimsy.

“Why did Fox just bring on traitor Bill Barr? He should be in prison,” posted MAGAinfluencer Gunther Eagleman, while another Trump enthusiast wrote “Bill Barr is on Fox News instead of a prison cell."

Sommer said X accounts and YouTube commenters are demanding Fox ban Barr from its airwaves, and wish him a prison term for treason.

READ MORE: 'That's how this ends': George Conway reveals 'the only way' to stop Trump's 'gangsterism'

“Why the insistence that Barr has committed a criminal betrayal of the country? Naturally, it’s a conspiracy theory,” said Sommer.

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“Huge swaths of the right-wing media audience have latched on to allegations that Barr schemed with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and conservative pundit Armstrong Williams to hatch the Georgia criminal case against Donald Trump and 18 other people,” Sommer writes.

The controversy stems from right-wing video producer Project Veritas publishing reports from sole source Patrícia Lélis, who Sommer describes as a ”Brazilian national fugitive wanted by the FBI and last known to be hiding out in Mexico.”

Lélis claims she learned of Barr’s scheme to orchestrate Trump’s prosecutions while working as Armstrong Williams’ employee. Sommer said it does not appear to matter that Merrick Garland — not Bill Barr — was attorney general at the time. Lélis alleges Barr secretly met with Jack Smith and Fani Willis to “hatch plans to bring a RICO case against Trump and more than a dozen other defendants.”

READ MORE: 'Duty to disobey': A stunning number of US troops know they can defy Trump's orders

Project Veritas published three videos focused on Lélis’s allegations, and Sommer said much of the American right have taken her claims “at face value.”

“They’ve been promoted by InfoWars chief Alex Jones, pundit Dinesh D’Souza, and Mario Nawfal, the ubiquitous X personality with more than 2 million followers,” writes Sommer. “Lélis has appeared on online politics streamer Real America’s Voice News, the home of prominent right-wing figures like Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk.”

“White nationalist figure” Nick Fuentes cited his own appearance on Bill Barr’s alleged “enemies list” to boost his credibility against allegations that he’s a federal informant, said Sommer.

Lélis’ believers ignore that she accused a Brazilian politician of rape in 2015, only to have police drop the case and request her own arrest, said Sommer, or that police determined her “texts” accusing the son of Brazil’s then-president Jair Bolsonaro of threatening her were forgeries. Sommer also points out that Lélis likely stole the photo of a baby from a social media account and photoshopped her own face onto the mother’s to make Lélis look like a mom.

READ MORE: 'Not looking great out there': Analysts warn this unexpected indicator predicts Trump slump

Still, Sommer reports Project Veritas telling him they stand behind her claims, and they plan more releases from her in the future, despite Brazilians familiar with Lélis being “aghast” at the company treating her like a credible source.

“She is a diagnosed mythomaniac!” one wrote to Project Veritas on X. “For God’s sake.”

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Several MAGA media personalities who have recently been given press access to the White House recently had a run-in with CNN journalist Donie O'Sullivan — who covers the far right.

The Daily Beast reported that Sullivan cornered Real America’s Voice Chief White House Correspondent Brian Glenn, LindellTV White House reporter Cara Castronuova and Bannon’s War Room Co-Host and White House Correspondent Natalie Winters for a segment that aired Wednesday. O'Sullivan began the conversation by asking Winters: "Do you consider yourself a journalist?"

When Winters — who was the subject of a flattering New York Times profile written by Daily Caller alumnus Andrew Trunsky — responded that she did, O'Sullivan then asked her if she would "call it out" if the president "messes up."

READ MORE:'Eroding': Major GOP donor warns it could take a 'lifetime to repair the damage' from Trump

“Yeah, and we have, I think time and time again, particularly on the...issue of immigration,” said Winters, who politically identified as a "populist nationalist" in the vein of her boss, Steve Bannon. “We are not for stapling green cards to diplomas.”

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O'Sullivan put Castronuova — who went viral for being during a daily White House press briefing — into a particularly tight spot. The LindellTV correspondent — who called herself a "Trump fan" — told O'Sullivan she wouldn't have any problem disagreeing with Trump if the moment presented itself.

"I’m sure things will happen that I disagree with," Castronuova said. When O'Sullivan pressed her, she demurred, saying: “I’m not going to — let me put some thought into that for a second ... Um, I’m just overwhelmed with how well I perceive things to be going.”

Brian Glenn — the boyfriend of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) who asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy why he wasn't wearing a suit in the Oval Office – defended his outburst as "a legitimate question that I just wanted to ask."

READ MORE:'Alito sounds nervous': Even notorious Trump enablers are sounding the alarm

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While all hell was breaking loose during an Oval Office meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, conservative reporter Brian Glenn—a.k.a. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s boyfriend—took a moment to question the Ukrainian president’s choice of clothing.

The 56-year-old Real America’s Voice host used his time at the microphone to ask Zelensky why he was not wearing a suit.

The question came on the heels of Trump and JD Vance bullying Zelensky during their Russia-Ukraine war talks.

In video posted to X (formerly Twitter) by C-SPAN, the MAGA congresswoman’s boyfriend demanded answers: “Why don’t you wear a suit? You’re at the highest level in this country’s office, and you refuse to wear a suit. Do you own a suit?”

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Glenn’s out-of-pocket query elicited laughter from those present, including Vance. A surprised Zelensky politely responded saying: “I will wear a suit after this war is over. Maybe something like yours. Maybe better.”

Greene, for one, thought it was an entirely appropriate question. She took to X to note how “proud” she was of Glenn “for pointing out that Zelensky has so much disrespect for America that he can’t even wear a suit in the Oval Office when he comes to beg for money from our President!!”

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The awkward exchange wasn’t the only time someone remarked on Zelensky’s garb on Friday. Earlier in the day, while greeting Zelensky, Trump apparently expressed his approval of his fellow prez’s get-up, the Daily Mail reported. “Oh, you’re all dressed up,” Trump remarked, to which Zelensky responded while shaking his hand “Yes. I had to.” Trump seemed pleased, “He’s all dressed up today.”

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Meet the Man MAGA America Wakes Up To

Between hosting Right Side Broadcasting Network and dating Marjorie Taylor Greene, Brian Glenn is the next big MAGA media star.

Brian Glenn stands for a portrait in Harlem.

Brian Glenn is fast becoming one of Donald Trump’s favorite reporters, likely racking up more one-on-one interviews with Trump in the last year than any other journalist. | Photos by Jamie Kelter Davis for POLITICO

By Adam Wren

04/24/2024

NEW YORK CITY — Brian Glenn was about to go live. Amid the hundreds of reporters crowded outside a Manhattan courthouse on the first morning of Donald Trump’s criminal trial last week, Glenn, the director of programming for Right Side Broadcasting Network, would be delivering the news from the circus straight to hundreds of thousands of faithful MAGA viewers.

Glenn looked like a typical television newscaster, but a bright blue and white pin he wore on the lapel of his suit set him apart from others in the press corral: It featured a big, bold “47” — a nod to Trump’s possible return to the presidency, which was gifted to him by the Trump campaign. Surrounded by Trump fans, Glenn cut the figure of a former homecoming king navigating the crowd at the big game. People wearing red caps kept coming up asking to be interviewed, a request he repeatedly obliged. In between, he pulled out his iPhone and flashed me photos from when he had shown up at this same spot to cover Trump’s arraignment last April.

Pointing to one image, he singled out his girlfriend, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. (He calls himself the other half of “MAGA America’s favorite couple.”) He recounted how his crew had to cut their coverage short that day after Greene was mobbed by press and onlookers. “I probably physically bulldozed a dozen people getting her out of there,” Glenn said.

Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks at a protest.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks at a protest held in Collect Pond Park across the street from the Manhattan District Attorney’s office in New York on April 4, 2023. | Stefan Jeremiah/AP

As Glenn spoke, he stopped mid-sentence, a voice breaking through his AirPods. “30 seconds?” I heard him say. He quickly returned to his mark and began to broadcast to an audience of what would soon blossom into more than 200,000 RSBN viewers spread across YouTube and Rumble, the right-coded video service. “This is Biden’s witch hunt,” Glenn told his viewers. “This is what this is. This is Biden’s trial. This is his ability, or effort right now, to take President Trump off the campaign trail.”

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Right Side Broadcasting Network dates back to 2016, when stay-at-home dad Joe Seales launched the online channel in order to live stream Trump rallies. Eight years later, RSBN has grown into a full outlet that employs roughly a dozen people and features a website full of stories. RSBN is like NFL RedZone for Trump rallies, covering them hours before any speakers approach the dais. Now, as Trump’s general election campaign kicks into high gear, it has also cemented itself as the pro-Trump media outlet of record for the MAGA base. The network boasts 1.64 million subscribers on YouTube (a larger subscribership than One America News Network) and another half a million on Rumble.

Glenn is the star who Seales has largely handed control over to. He is the Trump rally gameday host who plumbs the depths of MAGA America in the crowds wherever Trump goes. Glenn is fast becoming one of Trump’s favorite reporters, likely racking up more one-on-one interviews with Trump in the last year than any other journalist. During gaggles, Trump often singles him out for positive-slanted questions after entertaining a series of hardballs from other reporters. Christina Bobb, one of Trump’s revolving cast of attorneys, is a regular guest alongside Glenn on RSBN’s coverage of the trials.

Brian Glenn, second from right, interviews MAGA supporters.

Glenn (second from right) interviews MAGA supporters near the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse while jury selection is underway for Donald Trump’s criminal trial on April 16.

If you’ve seen a viral video of a Trump supporter at one of his rallies circulating on social media, there’s a good chance it came from Glenn’s crew. Earlier this month, when Trump traveled to an Atlanta Chick-fil-A restaurant, it was Glenn and Right Side that captured video of Trump explaining his new state-focused abortion policy. Prominent reporters like the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Greg Bluestein grabbed the clip and posted it to X. And when Trump made an off-the-record stop at a New York bodega where a man was stabbed to death following the second day of his trial, Glenn was there along with other reporters.

“He always goes to Brian — he’ll find him in any gaggle,” said Ron Filipkowski, the Florida defense attorney and anti-Trump online influencer who has logged hundreds of hours watching RSBN, which he calls “C-SPAN for MAGA.” “No one gets to interview Trump anymore. Brian has done the most Trump interviews of anyone over the last four years.”

RSBN has developed a reputation for going nearly everywhere that Trump ends up. Thanks to that flood-the-zone mentality of documenting Trump’s every move, it’s likely your favorite mainstream media reporter’s go-to method for keeping tabs on Trump on days that they’re off the campaign trail.

Filipkowski and Glenn have formed an unlikely friendship online over direct messages that have spanned years, something I did not expect when I reached out to Filipkowski, a prominent X personality who made his name by spending almost every waking moment dunking on Trump and the MAGA movement.

“I actually have found them to be the most valuable resource over the last four years to understanding MAGA — more than any other source,” Filipkowski told me. “I’ve probably posted 50 or 100 Brian Glenn interview clips of Trump, probably even 200. I find those clips incredibly valuable, because you’re getting it unvarnished. That’s when [Trump] lets his guard down a little, when he’s got a friendly face.”

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Brian Glenn interviews MAGA supporters near the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse.

Glenn interviews MAGA supporters near the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse on April 16. RSBN has developed a reputation for going nearly everywhere that Trump ends up.

What Filipkowski and many reporters most appreciate about Glenn’s coverage is a simple open-ended question he asks MAGA stans: What is it that you love most about Donald Trump?

“If you say ‘I’m from the New York Times,’ his fans at rallies say ‘you’re fake news’ and don’t talk to you,” Dave Weigel, a Semafor politics reporter who relies on the site, told me. “That’s obviously less interesting than somebody saying, ‘We love you guys. Let me explain to you all my views in an interesting way,’ which is what Right Side Broadcasting does.”

RSBN has “replaced mainstream media in the needs of your average Trump supporter: Why would you turn on Fox where they’re going to cut away when you can watch this website, and they’ve also got more access,” Weigel said.

Brian Glenn interviews MAGA supporters.

Glenn interviews MAGA supporters near the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse on April 16. He asks MAGA stans a simple open-ended question: What is it that you love most about Donald Trump?

“Fox is not neatly echoing what the base is saying or feeling anymore,” Glenn told me. “We just kind of filled that space. They abandoned that space.”

Over the last few weeks, in addition to Trump’s recent Pennsylvania rally and the opening days of the New York trial, RSBN has covered a Greene town hall in her home district and Trump’s visit to Atlanta, where they filmed him from the tarmac to the Chick-Fil-A. “It’s gonna be a busy couple of days here at Right Side,” Glenn told viewers as he waited for Trump’s plane to land in Georgia, “but that’s what we do. That’s what we signed up for.” Glenn narrates all of Trump’s movements at official and off-the-record stops. At rallies, he buries himself in the crowd for hours ahead of time. “They’re covering each Trump rally as if they were E! at the red carpet at the Oscars,” Weigel says.

“It’s normal people giving normal people the news,” RSBN founder Seales told POLITICO Magazine in 2017 of his vision for the network.

In our interviews, Glenn presented himself as exactly that, and he has the man-on-the-street interview cred to prove it. He got his start in local broadcast news, including a stint as a features reporter at the Dallas ABC affiliate WFAA-TV, where he became known for his “out-and-about” coverage, according to the former long standing TV critic Ed Bark at the Dallas Morning News. It was the kind of fodder that primed him for interviewing the hoi polloi at Trump rallies, where he has broadcasted for up to 7.5 hours straight at a time.

Brian Glenn speaks to Donald Trump supporters in Harlem.

Glenn speaks to Trump supporters in Harlem after the former president visited a local bodega in New York on April 16.

In one report from 2014 for WFAA-TV, Glenn covered the opening day of the Texas state fair and the Wild West Pet Palooza exhibit, a western-themed live animal show. “I cannot imagine what these dogs would do for a corny dog,” Glenn said of some of the exhibit’s shelter dogs who run around him as he reports. “I know what I would do for a corny dog, and coming up at 12:30, I may sing and dance for a corny dog.”

In July of 2015, WFAA parted ways with Glenn, though, saying his tone didn’t match the needs of the audience. “My mission has always been to entertain our viewers. Period,” he told Bark at the time. “They receive enough bad news throughout the morning. Why not give them a reason to smile or laugh while informing them on all the community events?”

In his private life, Glenn found himself becoming more politically minded, largely, he says, on account of Barack Obama’s presidency. He told me his employer once forced him to take a social media post down about Obama “doing something unconstitutional” on health care, though he could not recall the specifics. “That’s when I really started paying attention to what was happening in our country,” he told me, “and really what was happening in the Republican Party.”

Later that year, he landed at Salem Media Group in Dallas doing drive-time talk radio focused on business issues while also working for television conglomerate Nexstar Media. He said he was ultimately fired by Nexstar for posting images of a Trump rally on social media, and also criticizing Covid-era lockdowns.

He wasn’t out of a job long though, and by Sept. 2020 he’d landed at Right Side. “I sent them a message, and I literally said, ‘You need to hire me. I want to save this country.’”

There’s something Glenn wants me to know before we go any further during one of our interviews.

“Here’s something I really want you to mention — I take it seriously — I feel like I have a responsibility not to spread any of the, you know, the conspiracy theories and all of the things that people sometimes associate with this movement.”

He told me that if he’s ever interviewing somebody, “I want to stop them and be like, ‘OK, that’s, you know, that’s not true.’ I feel like I have to be a voice of reason, because I do understand the criticism that a lot of people have on the other side of the aisle about things that they think we believe in, so I do feel a responsibility to clarify stuff.”

Brian Glenn talks to Kari Lake at an event for Donald Trump.

Glenn talks to Kari Lake at an event for Donald Trump at SNHU Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Jan. 20.

I asked him for an example of one he’s encountered.

“Trump is still in charge, still in charge of the government, still in charge of the White House; that there are multiple Joe Bidens.”

“Just completely bizarre,” he said.

When I talked with Filipkowski, though, he pointed out that Glenn will often only say something back to his subject like, “I don’t want to get sued,” and then move on to someone else, rather than actually rebutting the information. “He might try and stop it halfway through, but it’s still got through,” Filipkowski said. “So, there’s plenty. There’s so many wild, wild, crazy internet conspiracies that they have ended up broadcasting.”

Filipkowski mentioned a group of women whom Glenn interviewed who were espousing a conspiracy involving Trump, John F. Kennedy Jr. and Princess Diana. But what most concerns him about his online friend is not just the people Glenn talks to, but Glenn himself.

“Since he has dated Greene, he has become much more hardcore,” Filipkowski told me. He said that Glenn had become more radicalized on issues like Ukraine aid and House Speaker Mike Johnson’s tenure (he’s against it). “If I ran into Brian in 2014, we probably would have agreed on 90 percent of things,” said Filipkowski, a former Republican. “My thinking is he has probably changed quite a bit like a lot of normal Republicans because of Trump.”

Marjorie Taylor Greene, left, joins Brian Glenn on camera during a campaign rally for Donald Trump.

Greene (left) joins Glenn on camera during a campaign rally for Trump at the Forum River Center on March 9 in Rome, Georgia. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Glenn, of course, told me he does disagree with Filipkowski on that. In our conversations, Glenn denied that he had become more radicalized since dating Greene. (The pair were spotted together in 2022, but Glenn told me it was early last year that they “started really seeing each other on a dating level.”) “He’s from the industry, so he is a great resource. He’s explained a lot, like how things work and yeah, it’s great,” Greene told Semafor last year, confirming their relationship for the first time: “So maybe I’m falling in love with the press.” (Greene’s office did not respond to requests for comment from POLITICO Magazine for this story.)

Glenn told me that the two have never disagreed on matters of politics. “Both of us absolutely live, breathe and sleep America First,” he said. “We focus on every day what she can do on the legislative side and the messaging that I can do with our outlet. And you know, we’re 100 percent behind President Trump and the America First agenda. And like I said, I try to keep everything factual. I don’t buy into all these far-right theories about stuff.”

What Glenn actually believes is pretty transparent throughout his broadcasts and in his interviews with Trump supporters. He told me he thinks Jan. 6 is an “inside job” and that “this whole thing was instigated by antifa.” He also dabbles in 2020 conspiracies, and he told me: “I think there was enough valid election discrepancies to question: Is the outcome legitimate?”

If he knows the MAGA base better than any other reporter, I wondered who he thought would be the 2028 heir to the movement. “Who’s the next man up on the bench to carry the torch?” he pondered for a moment when I posed that question. “I’m gonna say 100 percent that the person I know that their heart is in the right place, their focus is in the right place, and they’re tough enough and strong enough to do it, that’s Marjorie.”

Back in Atlanta two weeks ago, Glenn’s hourslong tarmac reporting shift paid off. Among a din of reporters from mainstream outlets shouting questions on everything from Trump’s abortion policy to his coming trial, Glenn said “Mr. President…”

Hearing a friendly voice, Trump turned Glenn’s way. “Let’s talk about your polling numbers,” he began, as Trump nodded approvingly. Glenn noted that he is “crushing Biden.” Then comes the question: “Thoughts on that?”

Donald Trump speaks outside a convenience store surrounded by people.

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Trump looked away to the rest of those gathered.

“Did you hear what he said? He just said I’m crushing Biden in the polls. I appreciate that question — thank you, Brian.”

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Real America's Voice - Wikipedia

Real America's Voice is a right-wing to far-right^[1][2][3] streaming, cable and satellite television channel founded in 2020 and owned by Robert J. Sigg.^[4][5]

The network and online presences have promoted right-wing and far-right conspiracy theories, including COVID-19 misinformation, 2020 election conspiracies, and QAnon.^[6][7] The network is a sister channel to WeatherNation TV.^[4] It is of no relation to the former National Empowerment Television of the late 1990s, which rebranded to America's Voice in its final years.}:

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Some of the network's top personalities include Steve Bannon,^[4] Charlie Kirk,^[8] Ted Nugent,^[9] Gina Loudon,^[10] John Solomon,^[11] and Frank Gaffney.^[12]

Previous notable network personalities included former Missouri governor Eric Greitens,^[4] 2022 Michigan Republican gubernatorial nominee Tudor Dixon,^[13] and Ed Henry.^[14]

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On the 15th April 2024, pro-trans hacktivism group SiegedSec had reported via Telegram and Twitter that they had hacked Real America's Voice's Amazon Web Services host. They proceeded to leak personal information on 1200+ users alongside wiping their Amazon S3 Buckets.^[15][16]

References

1. "Dismissing the mainstream, Colorado conservatives build their own news and social platforms". Axios Denver. March 9, 2022. Archived from the original on August 3, 2022. Retrieved August 3, 2022.
2. Draper, Robert (August 15, 2022). "The Arizona Republican Party's Anti-Democracy Experiment". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 23, 2022. I approached him after he finished an interview with a reporter for the far-right outlet Real America's Voice.
3. Gomez, Henry J.; Smith, Allan (July 29, 2022). "Trump endorses Tudor Dixon in Michigan governor's race". NBC News. Retrieved October 23, 2022. A former anchor for Real America's Voice, the far-right network that carries Steve Bannon's conspiracy theory-fueled program...
4. ^ Jump up to:^a ^b ^c ^d Stanley-Becker, Isaac (January 25, 2022). "Robert J. Sigg's Real America's Voice gives platform to Steve Bannon's pro-Trump War Room". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on June 10, 2022. Retrieved August 3, 2022.
5. Cartwright, Lachlan; Rawnsley, Adam (June 22, 2020). "Steve Bannon's COVID Podcast Is Being Distributed by a Convicted Crook". The Daily Beast. Retrieved September 10, 2022.
6. Horowitz, Justin (October 25, 2021). "The website of far-right broadcaster Real America's Voice is full of QAnon content". Media Matters for America. Retrieved August 18, 2022.
7. Joyce, Kathryn (August 11, 2022). "QAnon believers have a novel spin on Mar-a-Lago raid: At last the "Storm" is here". Salon. Retrieved August 18, 2022.
8. "Charlie Kirk | the Charlie Kirk Show". Archived from the original on August 3, 2022. Retrieved August 3, 2022.
9. "Ted Nugent, right wing rock icon, joins Real America's Voice". Real America's Voice News. Archived from the original on August 3, 2022. Retrieved August 3, 2022.
10. "Dr. Gina PrimeTime - Real America's Voice News". Archived from the original on August 3, 2022. Retrieved August 3, 2022.
11. "Award-Winning Investigative Journalist John Solomon to Host New Nightly News Show on Real America's Voice Network" (Press release). Archived from the original on August 3, 2022. Retrieved August 3, 2022.
12. "National Security Expert Frank Gaffney Launches New TV Program". PR Newswire. October 28, 2020.
13. "Tudor Dixon's Fox interview shows how Trump's effort to overturn 2020 is sanitized". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on August 2, 2022. Retrieved August 3, 2022.
14. "Ed Henry Benched at Real America's Voice Amid Clash with Far-Right Network". August 10, 2023.
15. "SiegedSec on X: "SiegedSec's next #OpTransRights2 breach is here!"". Twitter. April 15, 2024.
16. "Furry hackers target far-right news outlet behind Charlie Kirk, Steve Bannon". Daily Dot. April 16, 2024.

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Robert J. Sigg is an American media executive and owner of Colorado-based Performance One Media, which is the holding company for Real America's Voice and WeatherNation TV.^[1][2][3] Sigg's career in media began with Turner Media Group and outdoor sports channel In Country Television.^[4]

History

In 2004, Sigg was charged with mortgage fraud in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado^[5] and was convicted in 2006.^[2][6] He had previously been arrested for burglary and assault in Jefferson County, Colorado, drug distribution in Weld County, Colorado, domestic violence in Parker, Colorado, and assault and battery in Aurora, Colorado.^[7][8][9][3]

In 2006, Sigg founded Performance One Media,^[1] which originally focused on placing infomercials on cable television.^[10] In 2007, Sigg's previous media venture, Turner Media Group, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.^[1]

In 2010, Sigg's Performance One Media gained trademark and brand rights to Paul Douglas' WeatherNation.^[11][12] Performance One Media later gained full ownership and control over WeatherNation following a lawsuit against it in 2014.^[13]

In 2018, WeatherNation TV was dropped by DirecTV.^[1] In 2019, Sigg's network purchased distribution rights to Steve Bannon's War Room podcast.^[1] In 2021, Sigg discussed his desire to turn his network's footage of Donald Trump rallies into non-fungible tokens.^[1]

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STEVE BANNON (HOST): Is there a necessity for a special counsel since Jim Jordan looks like he’s going to be on it, a special prosecutor and if so, would you be available to assist them, sir?

RUDY GIULIANI: Well, the answer is yes to all of those, there’s certainly is a need for a special prosecutor and I certainly would be available to help, I probably know it better than anyone from the very beginning. And you have to do this, Steve.

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BANNON: What’s your current situation? You talk about the deep state coming after somebody, they are trying to destroy one of the greatest Americans, living Americans, Rudy Giuliani, before our eyes. Tell the audience what’s going on.

GIULIANI: Well, right now, based on a judgment that is easily reversed, the $145 million judgment to two women where I’m not able to use the tape recordings or video recordings that support the truth of everything I say because they’ve been taken off the tape deceptively.

I’ve been given a tape of what they did at the center that’s missing three hours and they rejiggered the numbering so it looked like it was consistent. And I discovered that. And in my bar association proceeding the judge ignored it. It would completely prove that -- although the $145 million is absolutely ridiculous even if I did what they say I did, I can show definitively that I didn’t.

Now based on that they’ve taken everything I own.

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right-wing media this week responded to former President Donald Trump’s fourth criminal indictment — this time, for conspiring to subvert the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia — by arguing that the charges signal the end of American democracy and the start of a potential civil war.

• On August 14, Trump and 18 of his allies were indicted in the state of Georgia on charges of felony racketeering and conspiracy for their attempts to subvert the 2020 election. The 98-page indictment was handed down by a grand jury that reviewed evidence gathered during a two-and-a-half year investigation headed by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
• Right-wing media have defended Trump using inflammatory rhetoric, accusing Democrats of sedition and totalitarianism. The extreme reactions from the right echo previous attempts by conservative media to shield the former president from accountability for his various charges.

Right-wing media bemoaned the indictment as an attack on democracy, a display of tyranny, and a constitutional crisis

• Right-wing podcaster Tim Pool responded to a post claiming that the “Fulton County DA went insane” with the comment “Civil war.” He later posted that “the only path forward is escalation. Either Trump is a cult leader trying to overthrow the US Or Democrats are engaged in seditious conspiracy to steal power.” Twitter/X, [8/15/23, 8/15/23]
• On Hannity, Fox News contributor and former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich decried the consequences of the indictment for the future of the country, comparing it to “the rise of secession and the Civil War.” He said, “I think what you're seeing tonight is one tree in a forest and I think we are drifting toward the greatest constitutional crisis since the 1850s and the rise of secession and the Civil War. I don't mean that as hyperbole.” Fox News, *Hannity*, [8/14/23]
• :{Article III Project founder Mike Davis argued on Steve Bannon’s:{ War Room }:that “there's no way they can come up with this before the election if he’s going to get a fair trial.”He then claimed that “this is going to have a very chilling effect on democracy” because “you can't get more dangerous than telling people if you dare to question elections in America, you face going to prison for many, many years.” :{Real America’s Voice, *War Room*,:(style="background-color:#ff6600ff"):}: [8/15/23]}:
• Fox News host Mark Levin said indictments of Trump are “an attack on the people. Every indictment is an attack on our freedom, our ability to vote.” Levin claimed, “Every indictment is an attack on our freedom, our ability to vote. The Democrats don't care about voting. They care about winning at all costs. The Democrat Party wants to be the monopoly party in this country.” Fox News, *Hannity*, [8/15/23]
• Far-right troll Mike Cernovich claimed the indictment was evidence that Democrats are forming “a totalitarian regime.” He posted, “We are occupied by the same totalitarian regime that we used to read about. It’s here. They are emboldened. Evil never stops. It’s going to get worse.” Twitter/X, [8/14/23]
• Levin similarly claimed that “Stalin would be proud. I'm sure Putin’s proud. I’m sure our enemies are celebrating.” He continued, “Congress is supposed to make all these final decisions. You're not supposed to criminalize the challenging of electors or dual electors or counting of votes and that sort of thing." Fox News, *Hannity*, [8/14/23]
• Breitbart Senior Editor-at-Large Joel Pollak decried the indictment as “political persecution of the opposition.” He posted that the indictment “recalls trials by totalitarian regimes” and that prosecutors are “doomed to fail.” Twitter/X, [8/15/23]
• Daily Wire host Ben Shapiro posted, “Whatever you think of the Trump indictments, one thing is for certain: the glass has now been broken over and over again.” Shapiro added, “Political opponents can be targeted by legal enemies. Running for office now carries the legal risk of going to jail -- on all sides.” Twitter/X, [8/15/23]
• Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk labeled Trump’s indictment as “an attempt to nullify the United States Constitution.”He also called the charges “psychological warfare.” Salem Media Group, The Charlie Kirk Show, [8/15/23]
• Former Fox Business host Lou Dobbs labeled prosecutors as “Marxist” and claimed that they have “trampled President Trump's rights and the Constitution.” He then argued that “the Left is an evil force that must be held accountable.” Twitter/X, [8/15/23]
• :{:{Failed Arizona GOP gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake said on Steve Bannon’s War Room}:, “I think we’ll end up seeing another indictment,” before claiming that “:{they’ll eventually come for you.”}::{ She continued, “They’re going to go after grandmas and grandpas and people who were these alternate electors. }:This is :{political persecution of people who support America. … And if you don't think they'll eventually come for you, you are living in a fantasy land. They will eventually be coming after all of us}:.” :{Real America’s Voice,**War Room:(style="background-color:#ff9900ff"):}:, [8/15/23]}:

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Right-wing activist James O'Keefe has reportedly resigned from the conservative Project Veritas group he founded. O'Keefe had previously been put on leave after employees alleged he had been abusive.

On Monday, OANcorrespondent Neil McCabe first reported O'Keefe "read his resignation letter to his former team and board members at their Mamaroneck, N.Y. headquarters."

"This is a very disappointing development," Real America's Voice host Charlie Kirktold his audience.

Earlier this month, The Daily Beast reported that employees complained in a letter about O'Keefe's mismanagement of Project Veritas.

"James has become a power drunk tyrant," one staffer said in the letter.

"I would describe Project Veritas' current environment with this saying: 'The beatings will continue until morale improves,'" another employee agreed.

Real America's Voice host Jack Posobiec suggested that the Veritas board ousted O'Keefe instead of allowing him to resign.

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WRITTEN BY MATT GERTZ

PUBLISHED 06/13/23 7:33 AM EDT

The federal criminal indictment against former President Donald Trump functions as a crushing repudiation of the apocalyptic rhetoric his right-wing media allies have deployed since August, when the FBI discovered a trove of highly classified documents while serving a search warrant at his Mar-a-Lago residence and resort. Their doomsaying and demagoguery, replete with warnings that the United States has become a lawless banana republic, has stoked the fury of an increasingly violent right-wing movement — and there’s little sign they plan to stop.

Fox News hosts cheered when Trump picked Bill Barr to become attorney general in December 2018 because they believed he could turn their conspiracy theories into federal investigations while protecting Trump and his allies from the law. In office he fulfilled that promise, shielding Trump from special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, launching an inquiry into the origins of that investigation, and forestalling legal accountability for the then-president’s cronies.

But even Barr isn’t willing to make excuses for Trump’s conduct after Friday’s unsealing of the 37-count indictment. Prosecutors led by special counsel Jack Smith allege in the indictment that Trump had personally overseen the removal of government documents from the White House; knowingly retained highly classified documents, including ones containing information “regarding defense and weapons capabilities of both the United States and foreign countries” and about “United States nuclear programs”; kept boxes of such documents stored at times in unsecured locations including Mar-a-Lago’s ballroom and a bathroom; and conspired to prevent their return to government custody. Trump will be arraigned on Tuesday in a Miami, Florida, courtroom.

“I was shocked by the degree of sensitivity of these documents and how many there were, frankly,” Barr said on Fox News Sunday two days after the indictment's unsealing. “And so, the government's agenda was to get those -- protect those documents and get them out. And I think it was perfectly appropriate to do that. It was the right thing to do, and I think the counts under the Espionage Act that he willfully retained those documents are solid counts.”

Barr added of the indictment, “If even half of it is true, then he's toast. I mean, it's a pretty -- it's a very detailed indictment, and it's very, very damming. And this idea of presenting Trump as a victim here -- a victim of a witch hunt is ridiculous.”

“Witch hunt” would actually qualify as a fairly mild critique of the Trump documents investigation on the network where Barr offered his comments.

Fox propagandists, the carnival of Trump lackeys and lickspittles they’ve trotted out to comment, and the motley competitors angling for the network’s market share have spent the last 10 months bombarding their audience with unhinged attacks on the Trump documents probe. They’ve described the FBI and Justice Department as fascist shock troops targeting Trump at the whim of a tyrannical President Joe Biden, and warned that the legal action against the former president is merely the first step in terminating the American republic — and coming after his supporters.

After Mar-a-Lago search, Trumpists denounced the Justice Department and FBI …

Newt Gingrich, Fox contributor: “The FBI has been totally corrupted. Now, it could actually be called the American Stasi because its behavior is more like the German secret police than like the traditional FBI.” [Real America’s Voice, The Charlie Kirk Show, 8/9/22]

Laura Ingraham, Fox host: “We all see the Justice Department's leadership now for what it is. It's not the image of Lady Justice operating with a blindfold, but this is a Praetorian Guard that shields all of those who hold the real power in this town.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 8/8/22]

Victor David Hanson, conservative pundit: “This is something like the East German Stasi in the Cold War. It really is. It's an ideological investigative group that is hired out by the left for particular retrieval services.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 8/8/22]

Sean Davis, The Federalist co-founder: “After you impeach and remove [Attorney General Merrick] Garland, you need to eliminate the FBI in its entirety, root and branch, and salt the earth where it stood. It is a corrupt, criminal enterprise that exists to terrorize anyone and everyone deemed a political enemy of the current regime.” [Media Matters for America, 8/9/22]

Steve Bannon, right-wing streamer: “The FBI right now is the Gestapo.” [Fox News, Tucker Carlson Tonight, 8/8/22]

Bannon: “I do not think it's beyond this administrative state and their deep state apparatus to actually try to work on the assassination of President Trump. …  I wouldn't put it past him to have planted stuff – that – this is a criminal. The FBI and the DOJ are essentially lawless criminal organizations.” [Infowars, The Alex Jones Show, 8/9/22]

Buck Sexton, talk radio host:“This is undermining our faith in the not only the peaceful transfer of power, but in the executive arm of the government under an opposition party. Not to act like the Stasi, not to act like the secret police that we've seen in totalitarian regimes.” [Fox News, Jesse Watters Primetime, 8/8/22]

… called the probe an attack on America that is destructive to the rule of law …

Sean Hannity, Fox host: “A dark day for our republic, the Department of Justice, the rule of law, what looks to be potentially a shocking overreach — we'll find out in due time — that will have serious ramifications potentially for many, many years to come. … DOJ is now being used as a weapon against Biden’s top political rival. That’s the former president of the United States of America, Donald Trump.” [Fox News, Hannity, 8/8/22]

Mark Levin, Fox News host: “This is the worst attack on this republic in modern history, period.” [Fox News, Hannity, 8/8/22]

Dan Bongino, then-Fox host: “This is some Third World bullshit right here. Let me say it again: Third World bullshit.” [Fox News, Jesse Watters Primetime, 8/8/22]

Sexton: “[I]t almost feels like a preemptive coup. We've heard so much about the insurrection and the coup, but this is preventing this is meant to prevent Donald Trump from being able to run again. ... This is the Rubicon being crossed. This is something we've never seen before.” [Fox News, Jesse Watters Primetime, 8/8/22]

Gingrich: “You really are now seeing the ugly face of a tyranny. And the left is so desperate, so frightened.” [Real America’s Voice, The Charlie Kirk Show, 8/9/22]

… warned that Trump’s supporters are next …

Tucker Carlson, then-Fox host:“These are acts of aggression and hostility aimed at Americans. No American president has ever done this. No American president has ever explicitly declared war on his own population. … And just in case you missed the theme here, they're hiring another 87,000 armed IRS agents just to make sure that you obey. Got it?” [Fox News, Tucker Carlson Tonight, 8/15/22]

Ingraham:“The real target of this investigation isn't Trump. The real target of this investigation is you or anyone who dares to call out and take on the rank corruption of the D.C. establishment.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 8/8/22]

Sexton: “They're sending a message now to President Trump and his supporters that they'll come for you if you stand against the machine.” [Fox News, Jesse Watters Primetime, 8/8/22]

Levin: “It's not just an attack on Donald Trump. It's an attack on everybody who supports him. It's an attack on anybody who dares to raise serious questions about Washington, D.C., and the establishment in both parties.” [Fox News, Hannity, 8/8/22]

Lara Trump, then-Fox contributor: “If this is what they're able to do to the former president of the United States, think about what they could do to you, to anybody in America.” [Fox News, Tucker Carlson Tonight, 8/8/22]

Gingrich: “If they can, if the FBI can send 30 agents to the home of a former president, they can do it to you, to me, to everybody listening to us today. This is a direct threat to freedom.” [Real America’s Voice, The Charlie Kirk Show, 8/9/22]

… and demanded action — sometimes even violence — in response.

Jesse Watters,Fox host: “I think there is going to be some more action you are going to see out on the streets from the base after they see this break tonight. ... There are just a lot of honest Americans that've had it with what this corrupt government and what the FBI has done.” [Fox News, Jesse Watters Primetime, 8/8/22]

Will Cain, Fox host: “A day after the FBI’s raid on former president Donald Trump we are starting to see what a permanent national split looks like. A divorce. Nobody wants to say it out loud, but it’s true. And this is not simply a break between Democrats and Republicans. No, that’s too simple. What we are seeing is a divide between people who are willing to use the power of the state to silence their opponent and those who are unwilling.” [Fox News, Tucker Carlson Tonight, 8/9/22]

Pete Santilli, radio host: “We will have to arm up and surround Mar-a-Lago to protect it, to protect life, liberty, and property if the governor fails and refuses to do that.” [The Pete Santilli Show, 8/9/22]

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Screengrabs from Fox News coverage following the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago.

The Trump indictment news brought more fever dreams of the end of U.S. democracy.

Hannity: “It is a dark day in America. … There is no equal justice. There is no equal application of our laws. … Our system of justice has now been weaponized beyond belief and this country is in serious trouble." [Fox News, Hannity, 6/8/23]

Stephen Miller, former Trump aide: “History will record today as the day that we ceased to be a democratic republic and we became a people ruled by an unelected government bureaucracy.” [Fox News, Fox News Tonight, 6/8/23]

Tim Pool, streamer: “The federal indictment by the Biden DOJ is direct election interference. It is subversion of the United States election. … I don’t see how the United States stands and continues to function when you’ve got the sitting president filing an indictment against his chief rival.” [Timcast, 6/8/23]

Matt Whitaker, former acting attorney general for Trump: “It's really a sad day … and it's the stuff of banana republics, quite frankly.” [Fox News, Fox News Tonight, 6/8/23]

Levin: “Let me say this. Today — what is today's date? June 8? June 8 is the day of insurrection, not January 6. … We have never seen anything like this in the United States. We saw it under Stalin. We have seen it in other autocracies, Marxist regimes, fascist regimes. The Third World. … You have crossed the Rubicon twice, which has never been done. And we will never forgive you. Never, ever!” [Fox News, Hannity, 6/8/23]

Bongino: “We live in the police state, Rob. The police state’s here. …The idea that you live in a constitutional republic — take it, wipe your rump with it, and flush it down the toilet bowl, cause that’s gone.” [NewsmaxTV, Rob Schmitt Tonight, 6/8/23]

Joe diGenova, Trumpist lawyer: “Think Panama, think banana republic. You are looking at a thug. He is not the president of the United States. He is a thug and Merrick Garland and Christopher Wray are complicit in the thuggery that led to this indictment today. This indictment today is an embarrassment to the rule of law in the United States, and I hope that the American people understand clearly and unequivocally that what happened today is an assault on the Constitution of the United States.” [NewsmaxTV, Rob Schmitt Tonight, 6/8/23]

Matt Walsh, Daily Wire podcaster: “I'm not sure where we go from there because that really is truly a collapse of the republic kind of situation. It just is. For all the talk of the attacks on our democracy, this would be an attack unlike anything we've seen yet. An actual attack on our democracy. And it's an attack on our democracy because it's an attempt to circumvent and subvert the will of the people heading into an election.” [The Daily Wire, The Matt Walsh Show, 6/8/23]

Trump’s March indictment by a New York grand jury over his alleged role in paying off an adult film actor to boost his 2016 presidential campaign and his subsequent arraignment brought a similar frenzy, with right-wing pundits warning that “there’s no coming back from this moment,” offering comparisons to authoritarian states, and calling for retribution. Indictments from the ongoing federal and Georgia probes related to Trump’s role in the January 6 insurrection would surely lead to more of the same.

The extreme rhetoric on Fox and other right-wing media bastions to the Trump documents probe is part of a violent, radical response that has law enforcement and experts on the far-right sounding the alarm and recalling the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The New York Times reports:

The federal indictment of former President Donald J. Trump has unleashed a wave of calls by his supporters for violence and an uprising to defend him, disturbing observers and raising concerns of a dangerous atmosphere ahead of his court appearance in Miami on Tuesday.

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The calls to action and threats have been amplified on right-wing media sites and have been met by supportive responses from social media users and cheers from crowds, who have become conditioned over several years by Mr. Trump and his allies to see any efforts to hold him accountable as assaults against him.

Experts on political violence warn that attacks against people or institutions become more likely when elected officials or prominent media figures are able to issue threats or calls for violence with impunity. The pro-Trump mob that attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was drawn to Washington in part by a post on Twitter from Mr. Trump weeks earlier, promising that it would be “wild.”

The Washington Post adds:

Federal and local authorities on Sunday ramped up security preparations ahead of Donald Trump’s first appearance in federal court on criminal charges here, monitoring online threats and potential gatherings of far-right extremists while marshaling more police officers to be on duty.

Escalating violent rhetoric in online forums, coupled with defiant statements from the former president and his political allies, have put law enforcement officials on alert for potential disruptions ahead of Trump’s court appearance.

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Authorities were monitoring plans for pro-Trump rallies in Miami, including one outside the federal courthouse on Tuesday purportedly organized by a local chapter of the Proud Boys, a far-right extremist group, some leaders of which were found guilty of seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

There’s little indication that the Trumpist right will change course, even after the release of the damning indictment. Fox hosts are still rallying behind the former president, while his congressional allies plot to use their offices to aid his legal defense. They’ve all spent years defending Trump’s indefensible actions and training their supporters to reflexively ignore them.

Their efforts make it harder for Trump’s Republican opponents to dethrone him from his position at the head of the party and more difficult to walk the GOP — and the country — back from the abyss.

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Real America's Voice host Ben Bergquam describes NGOs supporting migrants at the border as “synagogues of Satan”

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Right-wing pastor claims religious students are joining the clergy to turn Christians into atheists

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Right-wing pastor and Oasis Granger founder Lucas Miles appeared on the propaganda network Real America's Voice on Wednesday and proclaimed that students are infiltrating...

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United States Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) revealed to Real America's Voice talk show host Steve Bannon on Monday that she has drafted articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden over his investments in renewable energy.

"Because they're driving the Green New Deal which is going to plunge America into darkness and that will lead to death and all kinds of issues across America. We simply cannot exist on solar and wind energy at this time. The technology is not there and there's no reason to destroy fossil fuels," Greene said of the Inflation Reduction Act on War Room With Steve Bannon.

"And because of that, Steve, it's such a dangerous threat. No president should be doing that," Greene continued. "I have articles prepared on Joe Biden and we're looking at introducing those possible as early as this week."

READ MORE: [Marjorie Taylor Greene says the Navy will be 'force fed' bugs and Krabby Patties

Yale University explained last December why such claims are false.

"In reality, it is entirely possible to sustain a reliable electricity system based on renewable energy sources plus a combination of other means, including improved methods of energy management and storage," Yale wrote in its report. "A clearer understanding of how to dependably manage electricity supply is vital because climate threats require a rapid shift to renewable sources like solar and wind power."

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LARA LOGAN: We have in place an administration filled with open border ideologues who are implementing a globalist policy, that no one was given the option in this country to vote on, that bypasses the legislature and is completely in violation of the constitution. And what they're edging towards, and I know this from a source who was in meetings at the UN, and behind you know, closed doors, these are classified meetings and listened to these discussions of infiltrating 100 million people into the United States as the basis for forming a regional government instead of a national government. 

So, a government of Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. This is the strategy that's in place. And so things like the cartels were created as part of a push-pull strategy, where they would push people out of those countries because life would become unbearable, and pull them into the United States. It's about the destruction of this country. And, uh, and it's put in place step by step so that you don't really know what is happening. And so what is happening is, what some people have done now, a group of private citizens has funded a threat assessment of the national security threat on the southern border. Because the government is failing to do its job. And the, the basic premise is that you cannot begin to solve a problem that hasn't even been defined.

DAN BALL (Host):Wow, I mean you just threw a lot at us and I hope everybody absorbed that and understands what we're talking about. Because a lot of times we touch the surface on interviews of course we talk about the fentanyl deaths, we talk about the human trafficking and the rape, but we're not talking about the Great Reset, we're not talking about how they're changing the fabric of this nation and what they're attempting to do, by allowing these open boarders and what Laura just told us about blending Mexico, Canada, America, that is no longer American dominant. And then you heard my lead-up, Laura, about how are foes, China, Russia, see all this and they want the fall of the West.That's what everyone wants. No one wants America to be the strong country it's been, especially our foes.

LOGAN: And you know what though, Dan? It's interesting because this isn't just about the fall of America and the West. This is about the end of life as we have known it.

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the  Kremlin is attempting to justify its invasion of Ukraine by citing the remarks of conspiracy theorist and Fox Nation host Lara Logan. The Russian government has used Fox News figures to defend its war against Ukraine.

Fox News programming has repeatedly defended Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and pushed pro-Kremlin talkingpoints. Unsurprisingly, the Kremlin has amplified Fox host Tucker Carlson, and Mother Jones reported that a leaked Kremlin memo said “it is essential to use as much as possible fragments of broadcasts of” Carlson.

Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, recently praised Fox News’ coverage of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, claiming that the network is providing “some alternative points of view.”

Logan is the host of the Fox Nation program Lara Logan Has No Agenda.The network sidelined Logan after she compared Dr. Anthony Fauci to Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele in November. She recently said that “there are lots of people there” who want her back and that unnamed Fox News people “asked me to just let it blow over.”

During her hiatus from Fox News, she has been appearing on other right-wing media outlets and spouting pro-Kremlin talking points, including attacking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a “moron” and “some useful puppet that was installed by the CIA.”

In one notable instance, she appeared on the March 15 edition of Real America's Voice's America's Voice AM and, among other things, linked Zelensky’s entertainment career to the occult, claimed the entire Ukrainian military has Nazi links, and attacked the western media for its war reporting.

The Kremlin has been celebrating Logan’s March 15 comments on Twitter.

Alexander Alimov, the Russian deputy permanent representative to the United Nations Office in Geneva, Switzerland, tweeted:

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Right-wing personalities promote Kremlin conspiracy theory about biological research facilities in Ukraine

Conspiracy theorists spin an intelligence hearing about Russian disinformation strategy to help excuse Putin's unprovoked invasion

WRITTEN BY CYDNEY HARGIS

RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM ALEX KAPLAN

PUBLISHED 03/09/22

After the State Department reconfirmed the existence of biological research laboratories in Ukraine and expressed concern Russia may seize them, far-right media accused the United States of both controlling the labs for nefarious purposes and orchestrating a false flag operation against Russia. In reality, the idea that these facilities are controversial, much less a threat to Russia, is a Kremlin-backed conspiracy theory.

During a March 8 hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) asked Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland if Ukraine has “chemical or biological weapons.” Nuland responded that Ukraine has “biological research facilities,” adding that the U.S. government was “quite concerned” about the facilities falling into Russian hands. When Rubio noted the existence of a Russian disinformation campaign already in-effect to blame Ukraine for a future release of biological weapons, Nuland replied that “it is classic Russian technique to blame on the other guy what they're planning to do themselves.”

Citation From March 8, 2022, C-SPAN coverage of a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing

Russia isn’t the only state actor helping spread this conspiracy theory, which was also promoted by a spokesperson from the Chinese government — following a pattern of Chinese disinformation established during the pandemic.

The conspiracy theory that there are U.S.-funded bioweapons labs in Ukraine, and that they have been directed to destroy whatever pathogens are inside, has been floating around fringe and far-right media for several days since the conflict began. This burgeoning conspiracy theory has followed closely behind what theBritish Ministry of Defense described as “a notable intensification of Russian accusations that Ukraine is developing nuclear or biological weapons,” which the Kremlin hopes could provide “a retrospective justification” for its unprovoked war.

Ukraine does have biological research labs that were modernized as a result of a pact between its Ministry of Health and the U.S. Department of Defense. The U.S. and Ukraine entered into theagreement in 2005 — brokered, in part, by then-Sens. Barack Obama (D-IL) and Richard Lugar (R-IN) – to jointly-prevent the spread of deadly pathogens developed as part of the former Soviet Union’s expansive biological weapons program. As part of the agreement, the U.S. provided funding for security upgrades to the Soviet-era facilities to support the “peaceful research” of infectious diseases.

The DOD’s Biological Threat Reduction Program was designed as part of an arms control program to secure “pathogen strains and sensitive biological knowledge within Ukraine," specifically to prevent those resources from being released or weaponized. In fact, the agreement governing these facilities evolved from the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, which assisted Ukraine with the removal and decommissioning of Soviet nuclear weapons.

Some variations of the conspiracy theory go even further to claim that the labs are being run by the U.S. In reality, the labs are funded and operated by the Ukrainian government. But claims to the contrary have existed for years and are part of a Russian disinformation campaign to discredit the U.S. in the eyes of former Soviet republics. Indeed, FactCheck.org produced a full article debunking a previous iteration of this conspiracy theory on March 2, nearly a week before Nuland’s testimony.

Despite the abundance of evidence showing that these are not weapons facilities, far-right media personalities pounced on Nuland’s testimony about “research facilities” in Ukraine to hype Russia’s narrative justifying the invasion and to falsely claim she “confirmed every conspiracy theory about the existence of those labs”:

During the March 9 edition of Real America Voice’s War Room: Pandemic, host Steve Bannon claimed that Nuland was let “off the hook” and told all Florida residents to contact Rubio and ask him if the CIA, Defense Department, or DIA gave him the questions to ask. Bannon went on to play a clip of the hearing and said Rubio should have asked, “Is that a lab? What are they creating? Are we involved in any way? Have we financed it? Are we partners? Do we actually know what’s going on?” Bannon later said that “no Republican should vote for any money on Ukraine, zero dollars,” until we know exactly what is going on with the labs.

On March 9, the Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft shared a video that he said was of the “Director of the Information and Press Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation” telling the U.S. that Russia has “found your biological weapons” after Nuland’s testimony.

In a March 8 Gateway Pundit article, Hoft repeated China’s claim that there are “26 US biological labs in Ukraine alone” before running through the conspiracy theory that there was “biological testing in Ukraine near the Russian border.” Hoft went on to call Nuland’s comments an “explosive development.”

In a March 8 Telegram post, former Trump national security adviser Mike Flynn shared a post claiming, “I was told that biolabs in Ukraine was a conspiracy theory yet here we are. They are now admitting it openly.”

Former 8kun administrator, QAnon influencer, and GOP congressional candidate Ron Watkins shared an Epoch Times article in a March 9 Telegram post that questioned whether Vice President Kamala Harris will “negotiate the cover up of the US Biolabs in Ukraine.”

A March 8 post on thefar-right forum TheDonald shared a video of Nuland’s comments and added, “Another win for conspiracy theorists: the biolabs in Ukraine exist! CONFIRMED!”

A March 8 post on theQAnon forum The Great Awakening shared a video of Nuland from theRussian state media outlet RTand called her comments “Narrative Spin 101.”

In a March 8 Gab post, QAnon influencer Anonymous Patriot shared a post about Nuland’s comments and wrote, “And there it is. PANIC.”

Human Events’ Ian Miles Cheong:

Human Events’ Jack Posobiec:

Far-right conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich:

The Epoch Times’ Hans Mahncke:

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Far-right commentator Chuck Callesto:

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Bannon was banned from Twitter and YouTube after repeatedly calling for violence and suggesting live on air that Dr. Anthony Fauci and FBI Director Christopher Wray be beheaded. Now, Bannon listeners can turn to Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts to listen to his show and watch his broadcast on the QAnon-linked channel Real America’s Voice, which is platformed by ViacomCBS’ Pluto TV.

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Right-wing figures are touting a vague table in the draft Arizona “audit” report to claim massive voter fraud occurred. Here are some facts they're ignoring.

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Steve Bannon and his panel push for Arizona-style “audit” in Georgia

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Mike Lindell says state Republicans are giving him voter rolls for his team to “canvass” to prove his voter fraud conspiracy theories

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Steve Bannon regularly hosts a QAnon adherent to push for a Pennsylvania election “audit”

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David Brody and Gov. Kristi Noem fearmonger about people tele-consulting with a doctor for abortions: “The left's obsession with mailing everything doesn't end with ballots”

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Ken Cuccinelli says Afghan refugees are being brought to the United States in order to destroy the country

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Right-wing commentators get desperate with newest 2020 election claim: “unknown” votes

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MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell refuses to follow the COVID-19 testing and vaccine requirement for his employees

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Real America's Voice provides “Plandemic” conspiracy theorist a platform to lie about the Pfizer vaccine FDA approval

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Here are the right-wing outlets that promoted Mike Lindell's “cyber symposium” of election lies

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The website of far-right broadcaster Real America's Voice is full of QAnon content

Right-wing media personalities, including Steve Bannon, David Brody, and John Fredericks, all host shows on the QAnon-linked platform

WRITTEN BY JUSTIN HOROWITZ

PUBLISHED 10/25/21 8:56 AM EDT

New findings from Media Matters reveal that right-wing news broadcaster Real America’s Voice published QAnon conspiracy theory content on its platform in 2018 and 2019, exposing the outlet as directly propagating QAnon-aligned media.

Real America’s Voice broadcasts a lineup of right-wing shows hosted by fringe media personalities, including former Trump advisers Steve Bannon and Gina Loudon, right-wing media personality John Fredericks, and former guest panelist on NBC’s Meet the Press David Brody, among others. While these personalities have hosted QAnon-linked individuals on their shows in the past, new reporting demonstrates that Real America’s Voice has directly endorsed and promoted the conspiracy theory to its viewers.

Articles published on the Real America’s Voice website are labeled with tags that list the topics discussed in the piece. In reviewing content posted in 2018 and 2019, we found that several posts published under the byline “AMERICA’S VOICE ADMIN” include the tags “q anon,” “qanon,” “qanon latest new posts,” “today’s q posts,” “qanon.pub,” “q posts,” “qanonposts.com,” and the QAnon slogan “WWG1WGA” (an abbreviation of “where we go one, we go all”).

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Some of the QAnon content on Real America’s Voice does not include one of the associated tags. These untagged posts mention QAnon websites, discuss other QAnon influencers and shows, or include the hashtag “#QAnon” within the post itself.

The majority of the posts that include a QAnon-associated tag or mention the conspiracy theory are sourced from two conservative influencers: Black Conservative Patriot and Maggie VandenBerghe, also known as FogCityMidge. 

In 2018 and 2019, Real America’s Voice frequently re-posted videos analyzing QAnon “drops” posted to YouTube by Black Conservative Patriot. All of these videos embedded on Real America’s Voice’s website have been removed by YouTube and are not available to watch on either platform. However, the written content discussing the video subject matter is still available on the website.

This content includes conspiratorial analysis of QAnon posts, discussion of the “deep state,” and other baseless ideas tied to the conspiracy theory.

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Black Conservative Patriot appears to be an active conservative influencer peddling conspiratorial content online. Based on his social media profiles, he has pushed QAnon content on Twitter and has promoted the Pizzagate conspiracy theory on Instagram and Twitter. He also operates a Patreon account and has a YouTube channel he’s monetizing via pre-roll advertisements running before the start of his videos.QAnon influencers and related content are banned on Patreon, Twitter, YouTube, and both Instagram and its parent company, Facebook.

Since 2019, Black Conservative Patriot has seemingly tried to rebrand himself away from QAnon on some social media platforms. For example, his Patreon account description does not mention the conspiracy theory directly and he explains thathe is “one bogus strike away from losing the ability to upload to our channel for two weeks and two away from losing our channel altogether” on YouTube.

Posts and videos sourced from conservative influencer Maggie VandenBerghe often include QAnon tags at the bottom but do not directly discuss posts from “Q,” the central figure of the conspiracy theory. VandenBerghe has a history of pushing QAnon-aligned media and has regularly appeared on Steve Bannon’s podcast War Room: Pandemic. She is purportedly working on a movie about “anti-white” violence and “the growing hatred of white people in America.”

Real America’s Voice’s endorsement of QAnon aligns with its hosts’ extremist views and further solidifies the broadcaster as a danger to American democracy.

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Donald Trump is on a fringe right-wing media tour pushing election fraud conspiracy theories

The former president is latching onto any newsworthy topic to push his voter fraud lies from the 2020 election

WRITTEN BY JUSTIN HOROWITZ

PUBLISHED 09/29/21

Over the past few weeks, former President Donald Trump has appeared on a number of fringe right-wing media outlets to push election conspiracy theories and other misinformation, using news events to advance his election lies while attacking President Joe Biden and laying the groundwork for another presidential campaign.

Trump has pushed election lies for almost a year now. As he starts to set the stage for a possible 2024 run, the former president is latching onto current events and the Republican-led audits to spread his conspiracy theories and evolve his self-serving narratives.

In some of his appearances, Trump suggests that the QAnon-linked Arizona “audit” should lead to decertification of the 2020 election.In reality, the results of the audit’s draft report indicate that Biden actually received more votes than Trump in Maricopa County than were previously counted, and no fraud occurred.

As recently pointed out by CNN’s Brian Stelter, decertifying an election is not an actual route to reinstating a president. Stelter explained that while Trump “might not believe” his own lies, “his fans do,” suggesting this is a tactic for right-wing media to continue living in their political “fantasy … about the 2020 election, even though it’s almost 2022.”

The former president has also attacked Biden for the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan during these media hits while connecting it to his election fraud conspiracy theories. Trump regularly claims that if the election was not “rigged” or “stolen,” the outcome in Afghanistan would be different (although Trump himself negotiated an earlier withdrawal deal with the Taliban in 2020).

Trump’s attempt to tie his election fraud lies to any newsworthy story is embarrassing, but this relentless effort to spread misinformation and conservative grievances seems to be the entire point of his current right-wing media tour.

On September 27, the former president was interviewed by Real America’s Voice host and Trump adviser Gina Loudon.

Trump claimed that “the elections in our country are not fair and free” and there’s been “tremendous voter fraud.” He pointed to the Arizona “audit” as proof of voter fraud and suggested the results were “fantastic” and should lead to decertification of the state’s electors.

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CitationFrom the September 27, 2021, edition ofReal America's Voice's Dr. Gina Primetime

On September 24, Trump called in to an interview with evangelical media figure and conspiracy theorist David Brody.

During the interview, Trump pushed the same evidence-free election fraud lies that he pushed during his past interviews. He described the election as “so corrupt” and asserted that “possibly many states cheated” and “a lot of bad things happened [in] the so-called swing states.”

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CitationFrom the September 24, 2021, edition of Real America's Voice's The Water Cooler

During a September 23 interview with Real America’s Voice anchor and avowed social media ban-evader John Fredericks, Trump pushed more of the same conspiracy theories -- beginning with the lie that he “did not lose” in 2020.

Trump claimed the only way Democrats can win is by “rigging elections” and suggested that the election is “crooked.” He continued, suggesting that simply looking at the lines on election day showed that it was “rigged.”

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CitationFrom the September 23, 2021, edition of Real America's Voice's America's Voice AM

During a September 21 interview with Steve Gruber of Real America’s Voice, Trump pushed similar election conspiracy theories and lies. Trump asserted that he “won the election by a lot” and suggested that the Democrats “rigged” and “stole the election.”

Trump also attacked mail-in ballots, claiming that they “lead to fraud.” (They don’t.)

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CitationFrom the September 24, 2021, edition of Real America's Voice's Real AM Voice

During a September 14 interview on Newsmax with his former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, Trump complained that the election was “absolutely rigged.”

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CitationFrom the September 14, 2021, edition of Newsmax's Spicer & Co.

On September 10, Trump spoke with brothers Jim and Joe Hoft of The Gateway Pundit;a conspiratorial pro-Trump blog that consistently publishes misinformation.

During the interview, Joe Hoft claimed the 2020 election “was stolen on many counts.” The former president responded, “Absolutely,” and later asserted that Democrats “used COVID and they used mail-in ballots to rig the election. We won the election by a lot and they rigged it.” Trump went on to claim that he believes “they're going to decertify this election.”

When asked by Hoft what happens if “various states become decertified,” Trump responded by claiming that if you “rob” a jewelry store of its diamonds “and you get caught, you’re supposed to return them” -- suggesting to his right-wing audience that if states become “decertified,” he will be reinstated as president. “We caught them cheating -- you’re going to let somebody that cheated stay for three more years? I can’t imagine it.”

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CitationFrom the September 10, 2021, edition of The Gateway Pundit

In another interview with Fredericks on his September 1 radio show, Trump said it was “a terrible, rigged, horrible election and it's a disgrace.” He continued, saying that if the election was not “rigged,” gas and food prices would be lower.

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CitationFrom the September 1, 2021, edition of John Fredericks Radio Station Unplugged

During an August 31 interview with conservative commentators Clay Travis and Buck Sexton, Trump complained to the hosts that it was “a rigged election.”

Clay Travis & Buck Sexton interview Donald Trump

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CitationFrom the August 31, 2021, edition of The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show

When Trump was interviewed by radio host and conspiracy theorist Todd Starneson August 30, it was more of the same. Trump said “we had a rigged election” and claimed Democrats “used COVID in order to cheat.”

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CitationFrom the August 30, 2021, edition of The Todd Starnes Show

Also on August 30, Trump sat down with the far-right conspiracy theory broadcaster One America News. In an interview with Real America host Dan Ball, Trump said, “??I think the whole country is running incompetently -- except for stealing elections.” Ball responded that this is “intentional.”

Trump also repeatedly and falsely claimed that “a rigged election” got Biden into the presidency and that Democrats “cheat at elections.”

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CitationFrom the August 30, 2021, edition of One America News' Real America with Dan Ball

Trump's embarrassing efforts on this tour fell on the ears of a very receptive audience, who at best didn't engage and certainly never pushed back.

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AHA ?  : did talk radio supplant local news?  radio and podcast blend, and often has video now; snn radio amplifies fake paper website [trump picks up boost/escalate, feedback back into eyeballs/ratings [then RNC/GOP $]

https://www.alternet.org/2021/07/trump-election-claims/

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Since the 2020 presidential election, conservative news outlets have been popping up in droves to continue circulating former President Donald Trump's big lie about the election.

So how are outlets continuing to do this? According to NPR, it is more of a trick of the eye. The publication https://www.npr.org/2021/07/02/1011916687/how-pro-trump-local-news-sites-keep-pushing-2020-election-misinformation.

While the publication appears to be just a local news outlet, NPR reports that it is actually flagship of a news syndicate, known as The Star News Network, which consists of several pro-Trump sites. Like The Georgia Star News, the network has created similar sites for states like Arizona, Ohio, and Florida.

Per NPR:

"Its part of the Star News Network - an expanding network of pro-Trump sites seeking to influence local politics with conservative opinion by mimicking the look and feel of local newspaper sites. The group operates eight state-focused news sites, including in key Electoral College states such as Michigan, Arizona, Ohio and Florida."

By focusing on states where Trump is still heavily favored among voters, the network can continue to circulate misinformation since the audience is still focused on what transpired during and after the election.

During a rally in Ohio Las weekend, Trump also added more fuel to the fire with more dangerous claims of voter fraud.

"The biggest tragedy of all is millions of Americans have lost confidence in their vote," Trump said." We can't let that happen. And that's why I say you have to know what took place in 2020 before you can vote in 2022 or 2024."

To name mafter worse, conservative publisher John Fredericks defended defended sites and the information they share.

"We work very hard to fund our operation through legitimate advertising of all kinds, people that want to reach our expanding audience," he said. "And if somebody needs to reach informed, motivated readers that want the truth, advertising is a great opportunity for them, is a great [return on investment] potential."

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AHA: correction is a journalistic norm, not a law thus no real penalty for lying or just sloppiness (recall jrnl biz values the scoop 1st, thus speed vs accuracy, and clickbait values hype/eyeballs/ fear hate algo boost]

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/02/1011916687/how-pro-trump-local-news-sites-keep-pushing-2020-election-misinformation.

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How Pro-Trump Local News Sites Keep Pushing 2020 Election Misinformation

July 2, 20215:00 AM ET

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Georgia election workers begin their recount of ballots after the November election. Despite three recounts of the tally, former President Donald Trump and his allies falsely claim electoral fraud cost him the state.

If you don't follow politics in Georgia closely — or even if you do — you might be forgiven for not knowing much about The Georgia Star News.

Founded just after the November election when President Biden narrowly flipped the state by about 12,000 votes, it looks like a regular news website with a lifestyle section, a widget for the weather and stories about local and national goings-on.

But the site is more than just a local news outlet. It's part of the Star News Network — an expanding network of pro-Trump sites seeking to influence local politics with conservative opinion by mimicking the look and feel of local newspaper sites. The group operates eight state-focused news sites, including in key Electoral College states such as Michigan, Arizona, Ohio and Florida.

Steve Bannon, a former strategist for former President Donald Trump, described The Georgia Star News in a radio interview as content "you can't get anywhere else."

"We're not Conservative Inc.," he said. "It's very populist, it's very nationalist, it's very MAGA, it's very American First."

Pro-Trump media ecosystem

The Star News sites are part of a larger pro-Trump media ecosystem that emerged over the course of his four years in office. Since last year's election, some of those sites have spent months churning out false content suggesting Trump won the election and claiming that massive electoral fraud will be uncovered.

Many of the Star News sites have been around for a while, but the 2020 election — and an intense focus on swing states like Georgia — has helped the sites' stories reach a much a larger audience.

Georgia's fledgling website gets a boost from publisher John Fredericks' talk radio show that has featured numerous figures from Trump's orbit, including Bannon and former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. His show also regularly features Georgia Republican politicians who have pushed false claims of election fraud or are challenging those who did not work to overturn the election.

Fredericks, who most recently hosted his talk show from Virginia, came to Georgia ahead of last January's dual Senate runoffs as part of an effort by conservatives (and conservative media) to support then-Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue's reelection campaign. He alsohosts aTV show on the Real America's Voice network that also features Bannon's "War Room: Pandemic" podcast popular with many election skeptics.

So there was a ready-made audience when the Georgia Star published a misleading story mid-June questioning the legitimacy of nearly 20,000 absentee ballots placed in Georgia drop boxes — slightly more than the margin of Biden's victory there.

The story said that Fulton County, which includes Atlanta, could not produce crucial chain of custody documentation for ballots returned in drop boxes, suggesting that the ballots may not have been legitimate.

Days later, county officials were able to find all but eight of those forms, said all the ballots were accounted for — and noted that Georgia's votes were counted three different times in November.

"The most explosive thing" ESCA ECHO

But in the conservative alternate media sphere, the story began to pick up steam. On Fredericks' radio show, Bannon called it "the most explosive thing that I think has happened in the entire process."

From there it ricocheted across the pro-Trump mediasphere to TV networks like One America News and conspiracy sites such as The Gateway Pundit.

But the story was not limited to the fringe of Republican politics: several pro-Trump lawmakers and primary challengers in Georgia demanded an investigation. Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger — himself a frequent target of misinformation, attacks and death threats because of these sites — did too. That led mainstream outlets to run with Raffensperger's response, pushing the story further into the spotlight.

Just a few days after the original Georgia Star story, Trump issued several statements linking to a One America News segment about the misleading story and praising the Georgia Star writer by name for "the incredible reporting you have done."

The Georgia Star hasn't updated its original story, or several follow-up pieces, with Fulton County's release of the data.

In an interview, the story's author, Laura Baigert, blamed the county for providing incomplete documents and information.

"Not our problem to solve" ~ CORRECTION

"If they can't tell us how many forms they have and how many ballots they have, that's an issue for people who are administering an election," she said. "That's not our problem to solve that for them."

At the time, a Fulton County spokeswoman said that the county followed proper procedures in collecting the drop box ballots and the county was continuing to research the few remaining missing chain of custody forms. The county elections director said that staff spent more than 200 hours that week locating the "missing" forms before they were provided to Georgia Public Broadcasting.

But the story breathed new life into Trump's false claims, which he repeated at length during a rally last Saturday in Ohio.

"The biggest tragedy of all is millions of Americans have lost confidence in their vote," he said. "We can't let that happen. And that's why I say you have to know what took place in 2020 before you can vote in 2022 or 2024."

After the rally, Baigert snagged an exclusive half-hour interview with the former president as he rode back to the airport. The next day, an all-caps headline appeared on The Ohio Star, Georgia Star and sister sites in battlegrounds like Michigan and Arizona, touting the conversation and its key takeaway.

"There's no more important issue than the 2020 election," Trump said.

Fredericks defended the outlet's coverage in an interview and said that the Georgia Star is a credible news service for Georgians that acts as an alternative to "fake news" mainstream media."Our goal is to speak truth to power in the world of fake news, and that's really what we're dealing with, that's why we're here," he said. "That's why we have an audience."

Less than seven months into existence, Fredericks said that the website was profitable, thanks to a crush of advertising from local Republican candidates and conservative groups.

"We work very hard to fund our operation through legitimate advertising of all kinds, people that want to reach our expanding audience," he said. "And if somebody needs to reach informed, motivated readers that want the truth, advertising is a great opportunity for them, is a great [return on investment] potential."

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