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February 12, 2026, edition of Newsmax's Chris Plante: The Right Squad

ALEX SWOYER (GUEST): So, Chris, I'm going to go to you first. We know President Trump hates those windmills. He thinks they look terrible. And I will say driving through Iowa, my dad's home state, you see them everywhere. And they are kind of, you know -- they kind of don't look well with the landscape. They don't look like they quite fit. So is this was this a push to try to eliminate some of those windmills?

PLANTE: Well, it's windmills — have you know, they're an embarrassment invented in Persia and 700 A.D. And the Democrats think that they're the latest in energy. They're not the latest in energy. They're Cuisinarts in the sky. They turn eagles and hawks into, you know, into shredded former birds. They don't give us a lot of energy. They are a blight. And they're not economically viable either.

Look, we've got all kinds of sources of energy. And we don't have to go to Persia from the eighth century to adopt new forms of energy in the United States of America. But the Democrats oppose all known forms of energy in the 21st century. They don't like hydroelectric dams because of the fish. They don't like coal burning plants because they're afraid of smoke in the sky or something.

We need more smoke in the sky, it'll block the sun out. It'll cool the Earth and they'll feel better. They don't like nuclear energy, of course, which is clean, efficient, inexpensive, and, you know, hasn't killed anybody. You know, it's the old more people died in Ted Kennedy's car than died at Three Mile Island.

SWOYER: I guess they're not worried about the birds. Although I will say windmills do freeze, that's an issue there.

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October 8, 2025, edition of Newsmax's Chris Plante: The Right Squad

MERCEDES SCHLAPP (CO-HOST): Virginia, I saw this number and I was just in complete shock.

VIRGINIA ALLEN (CO-HOST): Yeah, you know, I wish I could say I was in shock, but for so long we've been hearing that Chicago is just the worst of the worst. The stories out of Chicago and the extreme gang violence, this isn't new, but the situation right now has escalated. And the bizarre thing to me, when we're seeing these protests outside ICE detention facilities, I think you essentially have two camps of people that are protesting outside these facilities that want these illegals back on the streets. You have the no borders people, the people that think, oh, we should just let everyone in. People can go wherever they want. And then we have people, I think in some ways, like Pritzker, that have bought into this lie of these are these poor, suffering people. We should let them into our country. We should keep giving them handouts. I'm not quite sure between those two camps which is worse, but I am so thankful that we finally have a president who's instituting real law and order.

SCHLAPP: Antifa is not poor and suffering. Let me just make that very clear. But, Chris, okay, we talk about this all the time with Jason here when he's like, oh, the shootings are 36% lower. OK, this year alone, 1,200 shootings in Chicago, 360 homicides. That means people are dying. People are getting shot. Right?

CHRIS PLANTE (HOST): And it's more dangerous than Afghanistan was at the peak of the war. And they say it's pretty good. We killed 900 last year. We're only going to kill 700 this year. And they think that's good. Look at our record. We're making progress.

*Also, since JB Pritzker said, come and get me, put me in cuffs, it should be pointed out that Donald Trump himself pardoned a former Illinois governor who was in prison for more crimes that he had committed. It was Rod Blagojevich, a Democrat. And Blagojevich was from Illinois, one of five recent Illinois governors who ended up in prison. So, let's go ahead and put JB Pritzker on the list. Why not? It's a time-honored tradition in Illinois.

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September 3, 2025, edition of Newsmax's Chris Plante: The Right Squad

MERCEDES SCHLAPP (CO-HOST): Not missing the opportunity to turn tragedy into political leverage, Minnesota governor — who's a Democrat — Tim Walz is calling for an emergency legislation session on gun control. "It's time to take serious action at the State Capitol to address gun violence," this was posted on X. Walz doubling down, urging state legislatures at a special session to come together to do something on guns.

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I don't know how anyone voted for that man. I swear he's such an idiot. But OK, no money for school security, but it's about the guns. I mean, this is the same playbook of the Democrats.

REAGAN REESE (WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT, THE DAILY CALLER): I know. It's absolutely unreal. And I think it's going to be up to the Trump administration to really lead the country out of this tragedy. We know that they're investigating all facets of this shooting, including gender ideology. And we've heard President Trump talk about it a lot, or a little bit. He told me he thinks the shooter was very troubled, not sure if gender ideology was at play. But one thing's for sure, I believe the FBI and the DOJ are going to get to the bottom of it.

JAMES KIMMEY (REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST): Yeah, I would just say that the problem isn't too many guns. It's the fact that these criminals don't face consequences. So maybe we should, you know, incentivize, or we need prosecutors who are actually going to enforce the law and put these people behind bars.

CHRIS PLANTE (HOST): I've been arguing for some time now that if you're a registered Democrat, you should be barred from gun ownership.

KIMMEY: That could work, too.

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May 21, 2025, edition of Newsmax's Chris Plante: The Right Squad

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That's where we are right now, JD Vance said. He continues talking to Ross Douthat, The New York Times. Success to me is that we have established a set of rules and principles that the courts are comfortable with, and that we have the infrastructure that that allows us to deport large numbers of illegal aliens, because illegal aliens are illegal. When large numbers of illegal aliens come into the country. But I think whether we're able to get there is a function, of course, of our efforts, but also the courts themselves, JD Vance said. And the vice president continued, I think that you are saying, and I know this is inflammatory, but I think you are seeing and an effort by the courts to quite literally overturn the will of the American people.}:

And honestly, I think we're seeing that at every turn, aren't we? With some Biden appointee or Obama appointee and even Clinton appointees overturning the executive branch, which was just voted into office by 77 million Americans. And it's — you know, this is — it smells like 1861 around here.

TONY SHAFFER (GUEST): Are you against the administrative state, Chris? How dare you? How dare you, sir? It's insane that we have people who are not elected who somehow believe that they can use whatever loophole. And I'm not a lawyer, but I pretended to be one in front of the Iowa Supreme Court one time. And that's a story for another day. And I got away with it. It was legal. But I think that's the issue that the legality of these rulings — and I heard Judge Napolitano earlier on the network today talk about, you know, well, they're taught in law school that that that basically any ruling has to equally apply across the board. But the problem is, this: no judge actually was elected by all the people of the United States, and therefore his actions have been outweighed — basically inappropriate level of influence over this fact. So I think he's right. And I think Congress — it's time for Congress to do something to limit the power of the judges.

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The real story behind Trump's DOGE office | The Right Squad

On Monday's "Chris Plante The Right Squad," the panel discussed the origins of DOGE, which was formerly known as U.S. Digital Service and created by Barack Obama.

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February 10, 2025, edition of Newsmax'sChris Plante: The Right Squad

CHRIS PLANTE (HOST): Total chaos, I tell you, in the island nation of Sri Lanka where there was a nationwide power outage yesterday, leaving more than 20 million of our fellow human beings entirely without electricity in the 90 degree heat there.

You know, it's not so much wintertime there. Who knew they had electricity in Sri Lanka? That's where I wanted to start.

But I — so the monkey caused a nationwide — one monkey, apparently — caused a nationwide power outage. And I've got to — I think there's more to come. But the country's energy minister blamed it all on a monkey that came into contact with our grid transformer, he said, causing an imbalance in the power system. And I'm expecting this in California any day now.

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### While discussing hammer assault on Paul Pelosi, Chris Plante plays The Beatles' Maxwell's Silver Hammers, sings “made sure she was dead”

10/29/22

CHRIS PLANTE (HOST): The break-in was, according to a police sergeant in San Francisco, at 2:27 a.m. – 2:27 a.m. California time, of course. And there is video of the break-in. So that probably rules out being invited in then, and all that.

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But there's video of the break-in at 2:27 a.m., according to a San Francisco police sergeant. Alright. We got that going for us. That's the – that's the thing.And it does look like Nancy has an alibi, but that doesn't mean – I know. I kid. I kid. I just kid. Womp, womp, womp. Bang, bang. Maxwell's silver hammer.

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### A Fox News report about Paul Pelosi’s attacker, briefly annotated

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An assailant violently attacked Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul, with a hammer at Pelosi’s San Francisco residence. The New York Times reported that, “The intruder was in search of Speaker Pelosi, according to a person briefed on the attack, and confronted Mr. Pelosi in the couple’s home shouting: ‘Where is Nancy, where is Nancy?’"

While covering the attack, Fox News’ John Roberts listed some of the conspiracy theories the alleged assailant reportedly posted online, including transphobic language, COVID vaccine misinformation, and beliefs that a “global elite” was conspiring to steal Americans’ money. Roberts didn't mention was that all of these things are regularly heard on Fox during the 8 pm hour.

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JESSE WATTERS (CO-HOST): What I want is that I want this allegedperpetrator to be treated the exact same way if he had treated -- if he had attacked anybody else. Because a lot of people get hit with hammers. A lot of people get attacked. And a lot of the times they're out on bail the next day and it's a simple assault charge. So I don't know why this guy is being treated differently. He's facing what? Attempted homicide? He's in prison right now? We've seen people assault people all the time randomly with all kinds of weapons. And we see them released the next day. So I don't know why this guy's getting all of a sudden special treatment or different treatment because the victim was so high profile.

Remember, if you call on a welfare check, the left wants to send a social worker. What if a social worker had come to this call? You would have had a dead husband and you would have had a dead social worker. That's why you have to have police.

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What came out of the meeting? As Axiosreported in February of this year, Thomas provided Trump with a very prescriptive list of people in his administration that he should fire for being insufficiently loyal to the cause, and suggestions on whom he should bring in instead.After his impeachment trial concluded, Trump was looking to clean house, and Thomas was looking to get more people she trusted in more positions of power. I’m sure that if we take a look at the list as reported by Axios, given Thomas’s decades of work with some of the most powerful people in the country, we will find a universally respected group of some of the brightest minds in the conservative movement:

“Potential hires she offered to Trump, per sources with direct knowledge: Sheriff David Clarke for a senior Homeland Security role, Fox News regular and former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino for a Homeland Security or counterterrorism adviser role, Devin Nunes aide Derek Harvey for the National Security Council, Radio talk show host Chris Plantefor press secretary, Federalist contributor Ben Weingarten for the National Security Council.”

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AIM’s 10th Annual Reed Irvine Awards to Judge Jeanine Pirro, Chris Plante, and Rep. Lamar Smith

by Accuracy In Media on May 8, 2015

A biased and corrupt news media have enabled the Obama administration to present itself as modestly successful, relatively scandal free, and advancing American interests and values at home and abroad. Nothing could be further from the truth, as Accuracy in Media (AIM) has been documenting for the past 46 years. Most of what is generally considered to be the mainstream media have been spinning agenda-driven falsehoods and obscuring the facts. However, some in the media continue their efforts to combat this liberal bias and inform the public about issues the mainstream media deliberately omit, spin, or suppress. As part of its 2015 Reed Irvine Award ceremony, held on April 21st, AIM championed the efforts of a few of these voices for truth and accountability, and awarded them for their ongoing efforts.

“It’s about truth and justice, right and wrong. It’s about evidence,” said Fox News’ Judge Jeanine Pirro describing how she runs her show, “Justice with Judge Jeanine.”

“And the most disappointing part of all this, folks, is the fact that nobody really cares about the truth anymore,” she observed. She later continued, “And when the mainstream media is more concerned about an ideology, about politics, than truth and right and wrong, I’m telling you folks we are in real trouble.”

Judge Pirrocame from an average family in Elmira, NY. She has served as both a judge and District Attorney, and hosted her own Emmy winning court show before finding a home at Fox News. She received AIM’s prestigious Reed Irvine Award for Investigative Journalism.

“This award means a great deal to me,” she said. “What was amazing was when he [Reed Irvine] started coming on the scene, people were saying well, ‘We really do have enough conservative people on television,’ as if enough of you over there, we don’t need any more of you.”

Chris Plante, host of WMAL’s “The Chris Plante Show,” spent 17 years at CNN and said that while he did good honest work there, in the end it was embarrassing.

“It’s so unbalanced, it’s so unfair, and it’s never been worse than it is now with Barack Obama and now Hillary Clinton jumping into the fray,” he said. “We’re going to see a new a layer, a new level. But the coverage of President Obama over the last six years has been deplorable. It’s been Third World, it’s been Soviet-style reporting.”

Irvine founded AIM in 1969 to combat biased media coverage, particularly coverage of the Vietnam War. Irvine felt that Walter Cronkite, in particular, “contributed a great deal to our defeat in Vietnam.”

“Walter Cronkite actually came over to the house a couple of times when I was a kid, and I thought, ‘Gee, it’s Uncle Walter. What a great guy,’” observed Plante. “Now, in retrospect, I’m not very impressed with the news media.”

Plante said that his Reed Irvine Award for Excellence in Journalism would be “displayed prominently and proudly because of Reed Irvine’s legacy and the importance of what he started.” He talked about the award a couple of days later on his show: [click on play button below]

A biased media actually stand in the way of stewarding our effective democracy, argued Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX), founder and Chairman of the Media Fairness Caucus.

rap-lamar-smith-don-irvine“We rely upon the media to tell us what the facts are and if they don’t give us the facts, the American people can’t make good decisions,” he said. “And if the American people can’t make good decisions that’s when we lose our form of democracy.”

The caucus says to the media “give the American people the facts” and “don’t tell them what to think,” Rep. Smith said, calling AIM a “stalwart ally.” He received AIM’s Reed Irvine Award for Accountability in Journalism.

Here is an edited version of the comments that night from the three Reed Irvine Award winners:

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Ethan Epstein The Washington Times

November 27, 2018

The biggest question I had about Chris Plante was answered within the first several minutes I spent sitting in his studio at WMAL as he broadcast his 9 a.m. to noon radio show one day this month. The answer was yes: Chris Plante is always Chris Plante, even when the microphone is off.

Mr. Plante, as his legions of Washington-area listeners know, is a remarkable broadcast talent: astonishingly well-spoken, with the ability to improvise complete paragraphs that are as well put together as if they had been labored over for hours; unfailingly jocular, with enthusiastic energy and a penchant for caustic nicknames (“Morning Joe” is “Morning Joke,” Nancy Pelosi is “Nanny Pelosi”); a talented mimic; and a marvelous free associator.

Given his astonishing energy, I half expected Mr. Plante to go into something akin to suspended animation during commercial breaks. Not so: He keeps up a running commentary with his producer, Michael Piercey, and phone screener, Victoria Glakas, as he flips through print and online news articles, deciding seemingly on the fly what story he will focus on as soon as he’s back on the air.

Much of Mr. Plante’s commentary, on air and off, focuses on the mainstream media which he habitually (and hilariously) refers to as the “Dem steno pool” with a particular ire reserved for CNN. Perhaps that’s because for Mr. Plante, CNN is personal: He worked at the network for 17 years as a producer, assignment editor and eventually on-air talent. He spent much of his CNN career reporting from the Pentagon. He had just pulled into the parking lot on Sept. 11, 2001, when he saw a massive explosion erupt from the building in front of him.

Mr. Plante took a buyout from CNN not long after. Never and still not a habitual talk radio listener, he ended up on WMAL quite by accident. At a cocktail party in the mid-2000s, he by happenstance met the station’s then-program director. Within a few minutes of chatting, he had been offered a Sunday show. That quickly morphed into his daily program, which since 2017 has been nationally syndicated and can be hard on powerhouses ranging from WABC in New York to WLS in Chicago.

He has a big following in Washington in particular: “In the most recent Nielsen ratings, Chris’s show ranks No. 1 in Washington in the 9 a.m. to noon time slot with his target audience (men 35-64), and third with adults overall,” says Bill Hess, WMAL’s program director. His is the second most popular show on the station, behind only the reigning champion of talk radio, Rush Limbaugh.

Mr. Plante’s distaste for his former employer is visceral on the radio he has called it, with characteristic understatement, “a disgrace to western civilization.” CNN is “not news, it’s show business,” he tells me over lunch, lamenting that the network no longer cares about presenting information but rather simply convenes panels where the guests vie to see who can denounce the president in more flagrant terms.

Mr. Plante revels in CNN’s failures with the glee that only someone with a personal stake in the matter could muster. “Last week, they didn’t have a single show in top 25 cable ratings,” he tells me with relish. He says he has little contact with people still at the network, but keeps up with some of his former colleagues who also have moved on. They share his distaste for what has happened to CNN, he tells me.

He spends much of his waking hours monitoring the cable news networks. He’s up at 5:45 a.m. for “Morning Joke” and CNN’s “New Day.” (He has a set-up at home that allows him to watch multiple networks simultaneously.) And after his show is off the air it’s back to work, watching the cable networks. It sounds kind of dreary perhaps that’s why Mr. Plante likes watching old movies as a form of escapism.

There’s an irony to Mr. Plante’s show. As much as he disdains the mainstream media, in a way, he needs it: On the show I sat in on, he spent a good 15 minutes flaying John Berman, one of CNN’s morning anchors. And that segment was hardly unusual. The “Dem steno pool” and all its antics gobble up a huge percentage of his airtime every day.

It makes sense, then, that Mr. Plante tells me his show is modeled more on Jon Stewart or Bill Maher than other conservative talk radio programs. Like “The Daily Show” in its prime, Mr. Plante soars when he’s mocking the inanity pumped out by cable news shows. And if he is having a moment now, that may be because he’s perfectly positioned for a period when we have a president who is just as fixated on cable news as he is and with CNN in particular.

Ethan Epstein is deputy opinion editor of The Washington Times. Contact him at eepstein@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter @ethanepstiiiine.

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Chris Plante (born December 12, 1959) is a syndicated radio talk show host, based at WMAL Radio in Washington D.C., and heard on the Westwood One Network. He is also a frequent guest on both Fox News and Fox Business.

Chris Plante is the stepson of one-time CBS News White House correspondent Bill Plante.^[4]

Career](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Plante#Career)

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Plante worked at CNN for 17 years, mostly covering The Pentagon and U.S. Military.^[5] At various times at CNN, he was a Pentagon Correspondent, Senior Producer for National Security Affairs, Military Affairs Producer and an assignment editor. Plante traveled to foreign locations, including Saudi Arabia, Bosnia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Africa and the remote corners of the former Soviet Union covering stories for CNN.

Radio[

After leaving CNN, Plante got a job doing a weekend radio show at WMAL, which serves the Washington, D.C. metro area, sometimes hosting a joint show with liberal host Jerry Klein.

In 2005, Plante moved to weeknights, and in 2008 he moved to the midday time slot. In 2009, Plante's show was briefly replaced by The Joe Scarborough Show, but demand from fans saw his return to the 9 AM - Noon time slot in October 2009.^[6] Guest hosts include Mary Walter and Mike Opelka.^[7]

Plante has filled in for national hosts including Mark Levin, Michael Savage and Rush Limbaugh.

In 2016, Cumulus Media announced Plante would be nationally syndicated by Westwood One, replacing Herman Cain's program, which reverted to a local program.^[8] The Herman Cain Show would still air in the Atlanta, Jacksonville, Orlando, Tulsa, and Dayton markets.^[9] Westwood One and Plante's home station, WMAL, are both owned by Cumulus Media.

Awards[

Plante received the Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTNDA) for his reporting from the Pentagon during the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

In 2015, Plante won a Reed Irvine Award for Excellence in Journalism^[10]

References[

Plante reported he was nine years old when Apollo 11's Neil Armstrong walked on the moon (Chris Plante Show, 31 August 2018)

Farhi, Paul (2010-11-04). "Conservatively speaking, WMAL radio host Chris Plante is on the rise". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2016-12-20.

"Barbara Barnes Plante, 73". tribunedigital-chicagotribune. Retrieved 2016-12-20.

"Conservatively speaking, WMAL radio host Chris Plante is on the rise".

Farhi, Paul (2010-11-04). "Conservatively speaking, WMAL radio host Chris Plante is on the rise". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2016-10-18.

"NTS MediaOnline". www.ntsmediaonline.com. Retrieved 2016-10-18.

"The Chris Plante Show on Apple Podcasts". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved 2020-07-20.

"Westwood One To Officially Offer WMAL/D.C.'s Chris Plante In Syndication". All Access. Retrieved 2016-10-18.

"The Herman Cain Radio Show will be loud and strong in 2017". Herman Cain. Archived from the original on 2016-11-30. Retrieved 2016-12-20.

"AIM's 10th Annual Reed Irvine Awards to Judge Jeanine Pirro, Chris Plante, and Rep. Lamar Smith". Accuracy in Media. 2015-05-08. Retrieved 2016-10-18.

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