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May 22, 2024, edition of Newsmax's *Eric Bolling: The Balance

ERIC BOLLING: I have to bring some of these things up. You're so right about all these things. License to kill - now, mind you, Mar-a-Lago is a secure location. It has U.S. Secret Service all over the place all the time. Those documents weren't gonna get stolen or mutilated during a raid.

License to shoot and kill — there were innocent people standing around Mar-a-Lago. People staying there, friends, guests. What happens if Donald Trump is there and sees someone — an FBI agent roughing up Barron Trump or Melania Trump in their — in her closet, which we know they went through, and decides to push back? Is there gonna be a gunfight at Mar-a-Lago because the FBI and the Secret Service are going to get into it? I'd also like to point out that picture we showed a couple of times with the classified documents that FBI gave us was fake, staged. Those aren't the documents they found. The documents they found that were classified, didn't have those markings on it.

That is a picture the FBI put together to make it look worse than it was. I can't even begin to tell you how angry I am at what's going on because they can do — Stephen, the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was put in place for this and they're showing us that they are a tyrannical government that we need to be armed to protect ourselves from. Am I wrong?

Media Matters' Matt Gertz previously discussed the MAGA claims regarding FBI guidelines on use of force at Mar-a-Lago:

Over a handful of hours on Tuesday, the right’s conspiracy theory ecosystem concocted a sinister plot by President Joe Biden to assassinate his predecessor out of the banal fact that FBI agents received standard instructions on the use of force before conducting a court-ordered search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in 2022.

Hundreds of pages of filings were unsealed on Tuesday in Trump’s classified documents case, revealing that the former president — who is charged with 40 federal criminal counts related to his alleged willful retention of documents after leaving the White House — had multiple documents marked “classified” in his bedroom that were discovered months after the 2022 search.

Credible outlets reviewed the documents and produced a wave of news stories detailing what a judge described as “strong evidence” of Trump’s allegedly criminal acts. Meanwhile, Trump’s MAGA media supporters ginned up a counternarrative based on a credulous reading of a deceptive argument from Trump’s lawyers that was included in the unsealed documents.

A Fox News reporter has since noted that the same “standard” use of force policy was in place when FBI agents visited the home of President Joe Biden.

Regarding Bolling's claim that the photo at Mar-a-Lago was staged, The New York Times reported in 2022:

On Wednesday, Mr. Trump took to his social media site to say that “the F.B.I., during the raid of Mar-a-Lago, threw documents haphazardly all over the floor (perhaps pretending that it was me that did it!), and then started taking pictures of them for the public to see.”

But the genesis of the photograph appears to be in keeping with standard protocols for how federal agents handle evidence they come across in a search.

The folders were arrayed by agents at Mar-a-Lago after being removed from what the filing indicated was Mr. Trump’s office — they were not discovered scattered on the floor, according to two federal law enforcement officials.

The Justice Department would not comment on the specifics of the photograph. But it is standard practice for the F.B.I. to take evidentiary pictures of materials recovered in a search to ensure that items are properly cataloged and accounted for.

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right-wing media are attacking Judge Tanya Chutkan, who will preside over Donald Trump’s pending criminal case in Washington D.C.

Chutkan was randomly selected to preside over the case. Appointed by former President Obama, she has been described as a “tough Jan. 6 sentencer”of defendants who participated in the insurrection, though she has “avoided some of the most pointed criticisms of Trump that some of her colleagues on the federal bench in D.C. have delivered.”

Media figures on the right have leveled numerous attacks and charges against her, describing her as politically motivated, and calling for her recusal in the case against the former president.

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BOLLING (HOST): The Vatican is promoting a study calling for radical inclusion LGBTQ plus communities. Now, let's bring in host of the Eric Metaxas Radio Show and author of Is Atheism Dead. Eric, you know, every time I have you on I'm bringing you on for a different story and I'll ask you the same question. With these stories -- what we're seeing now in culture and life in America --are we approaching the end of times? I mean, the Vatican. Promoting LGBTQ plus ideology.

ERIC METAXAS (GUEST): That sounds logical, doesn't it? It sounds like the end of time. I'm not joking. When you hear about something like this, you think to yourself, listen, I don't care who you are,I don't care if you're the pope, you do not have the right to change fundamental doctrine. You don't change fundamental doctrine. Any faithful Catholic knows that once somebody says, we're not merely being inclusive -- this is the term they're throwing around -- they're basically blurring the line between what is good and what is evil. And when you start saying that we're promoting -- what's the spirit -- it's the spirit of the age, it's the world in which we live. The job of the church is to stand against the spirit of the age, to speak eternal truth. So when I hear something like this, it's hard not to be shocked, and it's hard not to say what you just said.It sounds like we're in the end times. No joking

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when Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel announced in April that the GOP would no longer participate in debates sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates, she said that her party was committed to identifying “newer, better debate platforms” to replace “the biased CPD.” For a glimpse of what they may be after, look no further than the motley collection of right-wing election deniers, anti-vaxxers, and conspiracy theorists selected to moderate recent Republican primary debates.

Right-wing commentators spend a lot of time complaining about purported liberal media bias, using regular salvos to work the refs and make excuses for their failures. Those complaints typically crescendoed every four years with the presidential debates. Republican politicians and conservative media figures would rage about the purported unfairness of the CPD-selected moderators, even as the party’s Fox News propaganda arm maintained a slot in the moderator rotation.

Debates for down-ballot races are generally more sedate affairs, typically moderated by anchors or reporters from local television affiliates, public radio stations, or print outlets. But this year, GOP primary candidates have also turned to national right-wing outlets, talk radio hosts, and fringe pundits.

Newsmax, a far-right cable network which infamously tried to seize market share from Fox by going all-in on then-President Donald Trump’s lie that the 2020 election had been stolen from him and currently faces lawsuits from multiple election technology companies in connection with that fraudulent reporting, has already hosted at least two high-profile Republican primary debates this cycle.

Eric Bolling moderated a New York gubernatorial primary debate for the network in June. Bolling, a former host for Fox and Sinclair Media Group, is a notorious bigot who lost his Fox gig after reportedly sending an unsolicited and unwanted photo of male genitalia to at least three female colleagues. He emerged in recent years as a key vector of conspiracy theories about COVID-19 vaccines who also regularly spread lies about purported fraud in the 2020 election.

Greta Van Susteren, who previously hosted shows at MSNBC, Fox, and CNN before joining Newsmax in May, also moderated a Pennsylvania GOP Senate debate that month.

Mark Levin, who hosts a weekly TV show for Fox, a streaming show for BlazeTV, and one of the right’s most popular syndicated talk radio broadcasts, will moderate two congressional primary debates in Florida this month. Levin, who was selected by the Republican Party of Florida, apparently helped mastermind the Trump plot to illegally reject electors from key states that supported Joe Biden and thus subvert the election to keep Trump in office and has a long record of bigoted commentary.

“I have Mark Levin that's going to moderate those. Obviously, he's a great guy, very smart," Gov. Ron DeSantis said at a press conference about the events. DeSantis touted Levin’s support on his campaign website when he first ran for governor in 2018.

While Levin and Newsmax have national presences, in other cases, debate organizers have turned to lower-profile right-wing figures from the area. In Wisconsin, three GOP candidates for governor participated in a debate moderated by local right-wing radio host Joe Giganti last month.

These events don’t always accomplish their intent of promoting the candidates without the sinister involvement of the “liberal media.” Lara Logan, a former CBS News correspondent-turned-Fox-personality, toured the internet fever swamps this year touting an array of increasingly bonkers conspiracy theories. She also moderated a GOP primary debate for a Texas congressional race in February, and while her questions were firmly embedded in far-right talking points, she drew criticism from viewers for her rambling, discursive monologues.

Here is one of Logan’s questions from that debate:

LARA LOGAN (MODERATOR): So speaking of the right to privacy and the Fourth Amendment, it didn't just – it wasn't just written for search and seizure in the Patriot Act. It was written also because what did the British do? They quartered in people's homes and they took everything from them and they prevented them from meeting and they prevented them from organizing and they prevented them from communicating. And what is happening in this country today, if you went to the Capitol on January 6, you can't even have a bank account in certain places in this country. And what that leads us into very neatly as well is Big Tech, you know? You know what happens? Everybody says, “Oh, we don't support Big Tech. We don't support Section 230 liability,” and yet we don't see anything change. Ted Cruz, he goes up there, he makes these grand speeches and they have fabulous. And you know what changes? Nothing. So I want to know how many of you have taken money from Google or Facebook or Twitter or any of them, if you would take money from any of them if they offered it to you? A lot of it because that's how they roll. And also, what would you do to break up these monopolies? Strip them of their Section 230 protections and stop the people in this audience and all over this country every single day being censored, every single day,because it is happening on a scale that is unimaginable and underreported. And the order for that is a high order crash. Are you sure? Twice in a row. Christian just. He just went first. Morgan, it's you first.

And sometimes the events fail to materialize. In Pennsylvania, four GOP gubernatorial candidates signed a letter to “the Pennsylvania press” demanding a Republican debate moderator. While they skipped a debate when such a moderator was not provided, they all ultimately folded and participated in at least one subsequent forum.

It’s hard to identify where Republicans might draw a line against having total loons moderating their debates. Last week, Jim Hoft published a press release on his Gateway Pundit website inviting the four leading candidates for the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate in Missouri to participate in a July 11 debate moderated by himself and Real America’s Voice host Gina Loudon.

It’s difficult to imagine that this will come together. Hoft is a far-right conspiracy theorist who is also perhaps the dumbest man on the internet, while Loudon is a charlatan and her outlet has provided a home for QAnon conspiracy theory content. And yet, given the trajectory of the GOP’s moderators, it’s not unthinkable.

There’s long been an incestuous relationship between the Republican Party and the right-wing media. GOP candidates try to stand out from their peers in hopes of attracting attention from the dominant players in the conservative echo chamber and ride that wave to victory. The most successful candidates were often those who sounded most like right-wing media figures – or those who actually were former right-wing media figures themselves.

Now GOP candidates aren’t just preening for the attention of propagandists like Levin and kooks like Logan – those are the people the party wants moderating its debates.

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Lara Logan was once a mainstream television journalist who was known for her work as a “60 Minutes” correspondent and her reporting for CBS News, an association that lasted from 2002 to 2018. But after leaving CBS News, Logan reinvented herself as a far-right MAGA pundit — fully embracing QAnon and pushing outlandish conspiracy theories. Right-wing Fox News distanced itself from Logan after she compared Dr. Anthony Fauci to the infamous Nazi, Dr. Josef Mengele, and now, the 51-year-old Logan is so extreme and unhinged that even Newsmax is banning her.

Newsmax prides itself on being more right-wing, more MAGA and more pro-Donald Trump than Fox News and Fox Business, but according to the Daily Beast’s Justin Baragona, comments that Logan made during a Wednesday, October 19 appearance onEric Bolling’s Newsmaxshow were too much even for that hyper-MAGA cable news outlet.

“Nearly a year after she was kicked to the curb by Fox News for essentially calling Dr. Anthony Fauci a Nazi,” Baragona explains in an article published on October 20, “Lara Logan was on Newsmax’s primetime airwaves pushing QAnon tropes, invoking blood libel, and fear-mongering about a ‘global cabal’ planning to ‘dilute the pool of patriots’ in the United States with ‘100 million illegal immigrants.’”

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Baragona continues, “Logan, a one-time award-winning reporter for CBS News, has embraced baseless conspiracy theories in an apparent effort to remake herself as a far-right pundit. Her increasingly unhinged rhetoric, though, eventually resulted in Fox News distancing itself from her and the loss of her series on the network’s streaming service. In recent weeks, however, Newsmax has showcased the former ‘60 Minutes’ correspondent, featuring her prominently on ex-Fox News host Eric Bolling’s primetime program.”

Bolling brought Logan on his October 19 show to discuss the Latin American migrants who Republican governors have been bussing from the U.S./Mexico border to parts of the northeastern U.S., and the interview quickly went off the rails when she claimed, with zero evidence, that the Biden Administration “is desperate to incite some kind of event” that will “incite people to act” and “will prove the lie of White terrorism and White supremacy in America today and give them an excuse to crack down.”

“They need a Reichstag fire,” Logan told Bolling. And she went on to claim that the migrants are part of a United Nations conspiracy to destroy the U.S.

Logan told Bolling, “This is a spiritual battle…. The fallen angel, otherwise known as Satan, doesn’t get to prevail in the world…. God believes in sovereignty, a national identity, of the sanctity of family and all the things that we’ve lived with from the beginning of time. And He knows that the open border is Satan's way of taking control of the world through all of these are people who are stooges and his servants.”

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During her rant against the UN and the World Economic Forum, Logan invoked the anti-Semitic blood libel conspiracy theory — and now, Newsmax is distancing itself from her.}:

In an official statement, Newsmax told the Beast, “Newsmax condemns in the strongest terms the reprehensible statements made by Lara Logan, and her views do not reflect our network. We have no plans to interview her again.”

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https://www.mediamatters.org/climate-deniers/right-wing-media-are-outraged-biden-spent-tenth-his-un-speech-climate-change

Right-wing media are expressing outrage that President Joe Biden mentioned climate change during his September 21 speech at the United Nations General Assembly.

Biden’snearly-30 minute speech, which focused mainly on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, also included calls for global cooperation on important issues including food insecurity, human rights, and climate change. The climate part of his speech lasted roughly 3 minutes and included celebrating the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act. He also touched on recent climate disasters and the need for global emissions reductions, as well as promising billions of dollars in international climate finance.

Despite the relatively modest amount of time he spent on climate change, many in right-wing media were outraged that he even mentioned climate at all. Their comments included climate denial and falsehoods about the importance of climate change to the global community.

Right-wing media falsely claimed that the global population doesn’t care about climate change

Climate change is a serious concern around the world. For example, a January 2021 survey found that a majority of people around the globe want greater climate action. And a September 2021 Pew poll found that the world’s population increasingly views climate change as a personal threat. In August of this year, another Pew survey found that a “​​median of 75% across 19 countries in North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region label global climate change as a major threat.”

Additionally, people from the global south — those who have contributed the least to the climate crisis but disproportionately suffer its effects — are often some of the loudest voices for climate action. Around the same time that Biden gave his UN speech, indigenous peoples from around the world were protesting in New York for climate justice. The president of Kenya made climate change a key part of his UN speech, and the prime minister of Pakistan, a country that has seen over 30 million displaced due to climate-fueled monsoon flooding, thanked Biden for “highlighting the plight of the flood victims.”

Climate change and poverty, meanwhile, are inextricably linked, as are climate change and global hunger. These facts, however, were still not enough to convince right-wing commentators in the U.S. that climate change is a significant threat to the global population.

For example, on the September 22 edition of Newsmax’s Wake Up America, host Rob Finnerty stated that “there's 193 sovereign nations in that room right there. … And nobody cared about that part of the speech. They needed a lot more from the American president, with everything going on in the world right now, and they get climate change.”

On Fox News’ Fox & Friends, co-host Steve Doocy insinuated that people living in poverty don’t care about climate change, stating, “Suddenly he’s talking about climate change. And, you know, there are 675 million people living in poverty around the world. And for the president of the United States to be talking about climate change rather than trying to figure out a way to feed them.”

Doocy also entirely missed the fact that Biden did discuss food in his speech; he mentioned the term “food insecurity” 6 times, while also mentioning “feeding the world.”

The editorial board of the right-wing New York Post also claimed that the world's poor don’t care about climate change. They referred to climate change as part of a “laundry list of left-liberal shout-outs,” before writing that the speech focused “on climate change, which Biden claimed lists first among the ‘challenges that matter most to people’s lives.’ The planet’s 674 million people living in abject poverty don’t agree, Joe.”

Right-wing media also dipped into one of their favorite overused talking points when it comes to climate change: U.S. action is worthless because China is the biggest polluter

There were also criticisms claiming China does not care about climate change. Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade remarked about Biden’s climate comments that “climate change is unbelievable. The fact is that China could not care less.” On Wake Up America, The Daily Caller’s Briana Lyman took this China criticism a step further, stating that if “you want to talk about climate change, then you need to talk about China because China is responsible for more than double the emissions of the United States. … I think it's a dereliction of duty when he doesn't tie China and climate change together.”

Kilmeade’s comments ignore the fact that China is by far the largest market for clean energy in the world, and that its pledge to become carbon neutral by 2060 came about a year before the U.S. passed major climate legislation. Yes, its coal plants (and emissions) are a huge problem, but to say that the country doesn’t care about climate change (especially when an unprecedented heat wave just hit the country) is absurd.

Regarding Lyman’s comments, Biden did mention that the United States “will work with every nation, including our competitors, to solve global problems like climate change.” Immediately after this, he referenced China and said the U.S. will not seek out conflict with them.

Lyman also touched on a longtime right-wing trope about climate change: that countries like China are the problem because they currently emit the most carbon, and because of this, it’s foolish to think that the U.S. should act on climate change. But the United States is the largest historical emitter; per capita emissions in the U.S. vastly outweigh those of China; and many of our products are manufactured in China.

Solely blaming China while absolving the U.S. for its own pollution problems and its outsized role in spreading climate denial does nothing for solving climate change in the long run.

Right-wing media also exaggerated the time Biden spent talking about climate change, and they threw in some good-old-fashioned climate denial

Three minutes out of 30 is arguably not enough time to devote to a problem that has led to a summer of destructive extreme weather across the globe. But it was still enough to annoy right-wing media figures.

Again on Wake Up America, host Rob Finnerty stated that “the president spent a lot of time talking about climate change during his speech. … This, of course, coming at a crucially important time. We’re seven months into the worst war in Europe that we've seen since World War II, and the president took the opportunity to campaign for Democrats and talk about climate change.” Additionally, on the September 21 edition of Kudlow, guest Steve Moore falsely claimed that “he spent half the time talking about climate change.”

Perhaps the worst reaction came from Newsmax host Eric Bolling, who went on a climate denial rant on the September 21 edition of **Eric Bolling The Balance**. He called climate change “another made-up crisis lurking just around the corner,” adding, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” He then blamed Al Gore for supposedly inaccurate predictions about climate change and chastised former President Barack Obama for buying a house near the sea despite being concerned about rising sea levels.

The right-wing blow-up over Biden’s climate comments is not surprising. To these figures and outlets, any action on climate, big or small, is akin to a radical socialist takeover of the U.S. economy. In particular, the right has increased its climate denial and criticism of climate policies in recent months. As climate change worsens and global citizens come together to clamor for climate action, right-wing media will continue todouble down on denial and lies to protect their polluting interests.

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Newsmax host Eric Boiling is appealing to Fox News' Tucker Carlson to refrain from circulating Russian propaganda during his news segments. During Boiling's Tuesday broadcast, he insisted that Carlson has gone too far with his support of Russian President Vladamir Putin and the invasion of Ukraine, per HuffPost.

“My compadre continues to push falsehoods that Putin and his propagandists are exploiting to show that, yes, some Americans do indeed side with Russia in this war,” Bolling said.

“Is that the side of history ... you want to be on?” he said as he addressed the Fox News primetime host. “There are far too many wars right here in our own country.”

While he did agree with the conservative host's sentiment that “most Americans don’t want to get further involved in Ukraine,” he also noted that it is possible to argue that point without publicly siding with Putin. “But isn’t it possible to make that point without seeming to be on Putin’s side?” he asked.

Boiling's latest appeal to his former Fox News colleague comes after weeks of Carlson's pandering of Putin and his repeated attempts to circulate Russian propaganda. On April 6, Boiling also verbalized his concerns about Carlson's actions. During that segment, he initially addressed the issue.

“I want to be very clear for our audience,” Bolling cautioned. “I’m anti-war and I believe we should always secure America’s interests first and foremost, and that of the lives of our own citizens, of American citizens, should matter more than any other. Sorry, but that’s true.”

Boiling also noted that the unrest in Ukraine should be the breaking point as it deserves to be condemned, worldwide.

“Blatant and horrifying war crimes committed by Russians against Ukrainian civilians have made it very clear that, yes, this war is in fact more black and white now than ever,” he said. ”If we say anything otherwise then we are on the wrong side of history.”

Watch here via Mediaite.

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eric Thomas Bolling[1] (/:{ˈboʊlɪŋ:(style="border-bottom:1px dotted"):}:/; born March 2, 1963) is an American television personality, conservative political commentator, author, and financial commentator. He has occupied numerous roles as a commentator on financial issues for television, most notably for Fox News. He hosted Fox Business Channel's Cashin' In and Fox News Channel's The Five before leaving that show to co-host Fox News Specialists in May 2017. An outspoken supporter of**Donald Trump**, Bolling has published two books: Wake Up America (2016) and The Swamp: Washington's Murky Pool of Corruption and Cronyism and How Trump Can Drain It (2017).

In September 2017, Bolling was ousted from Fox News, after the network conducted an independent investigation after an article published in the HuffPost reported that Bolling had sent unsolicited lewd photographs and text messages to three female colleagues. Bolling denied the allegations. He later hosted the television shows America on TheBlaze and America This Week produced by Sinclair Broadcast Group and carried by their stations as a Sunday morning talk show.

He currently hosts an hour-long afternoon televised program, Eric Bolling The Balance, on Newsmax TV which premiered Wednesday July 28, 2021 and airs every weekday thereafter from 4 to 5 p.m. ET.[2]

Early life

Bolling was born in Chicago and attended grade school at Queen of All Saints Basilica school and high school at Loyola Academy.[3] In 1984 he graduated from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, with a BA degree in economics. While at Rollins, Bolling played baseball. He was drafted in 1984 by the Pittsburgh Pirates. His baseball career was cut short by a torn rotator cuff injury.[3]

Wall Street career

Bolling was a commodities trader on Wall Street.[3] For five years,[4] he was a board member of the New York Mercantile Exchange,[5] later becoming a strategic advisor to the exchange.[4]

Career as political commentator

CNBC

Bolling was one of several analysts who appeared on CNBC's Fast Money[6] as a panelist.[7]

Fox News

Bolling joined Fox Business Network in March 2008 as a financial analyst.[8] In 2008, Bolling was named a co-host (joining Cody Willard and Rebecca Diamond) of Happy Hour, a market commentary show in the 5 p.m. time slot.[8] After hosting Fox Business Channel's Follow the Money with Eric Bolling, he became the host of the channel's Cashin' In in 2013, replacing Cheryl Casone.[4] The program ran on Saturdays.[9] Bolling also co-hosted Fox News Channel's The Five.[4]

In June 2011 on the Fox Business Network, Bolling criticized President Barack Obama's decision to meet with Gabon's president, Ali Bongo Ondimba, in the White House. Bolling remarked, "Guess who's coming to dinner? A dictator." He then went on to also criticize Obama for allowing rapper Common to appear in the White House a few weeks before, exclaiming "it's not the first time he's had a hoodlum in the hizzouse." Progressive group Media Matters criticized Bolling, saying "Calling the president of Gabon and Common 'hoods in the hizzy' is not colorful commentary, it is overt racism." Bolling first defended himself on Twitter before later apologizing, saying, "We got a little fast and loose with the language, and we know it's been interpreted as being disrespectful, and for that, I'm sorry."[10] Media Matters also criticized Bolling for his on-air promotion of citizenship conspiracy theories about Barack Obama ("birtherism") and conspiracy theories about the murder of Seth Rich, as well as for his claim in 2011 that "liberal Hollywood was using class warfare" in a**Muppets movie**"to brainwash our kids" and his claim in 2012 that "Every terrorist on American soil has been a Muslim."[11]

In 2017, Bob Beckel said that Bolling and Roger Ailes saved his life after performing the Heimlich maneuver on him at a restaurant.[12]

While at Fox, Bolling was a guest host on several Fox News opinion shows, such as The O'Reilly Factor,[13][14][15][16] and Fox and Friends.[17]

In April 2017, as part of prime-time lineup changes with Bill O'Reilly's exit, Fox announced that The Five would be moving to the 9 p.m. time slot. Fox News Specialists was created to replace The Five in the 5 p.m. time slot, with Bolling serving as a co-host alongside Katherine Timpf and Eboni Williams. The program premiered on May 1, 2017, but was cancelled when Bolling departed the network.[18][19]

Trump support and political commentary

Bolling describes his commentary as "really right wing, hard-core conservative commentaries" and has said, "I think this is what my brand personally is all about."[20] Bolling has been an outspoken and longtime supporter of Donald Trump,[20] vocally supporting him since the launch of his presidential campaign in 2015.[5][21] Trump and Bolling first met on the set of The Apprentice about ten years before Trump's 2016 presidential campaign; the two were introduced by Mark Burnett, a mutual friend, and went on to develop close ties.[21] In November 2016, after Trump's election but before his inauguration, Bolling was considered by Trump for an appointment in theU.S. Department of Commerce,[5][22] and the following month, Bolling described himself as "fortunate enough to have a close relationship with the incoming administration."[21] Bolling's promotion to hosting his own show on Fox News, effective at the beginning of May 2017, was seen as a victory for the Trump White House.[5] Bolling interviewed Trump more than six times over his presidency.[23]

Sexual harassment allegations and ouster

On August 4, 2017, HuffPost reported that several years before and on separate occasions, Bolling allegedly sent unsolicited lewd text messages and lewd photos to three female colleagues at Fox News or Fox Business Network.[24] He is also accused of making "wildly inappropriate" comments to female employees.[25] After the article was published, Caroline Heldman, a former Fox News guest, alleged that Bolling made numerous unwanted sexual advances towards her.[26]

Bolling denied the allegations against him.[26] The day after the article was published, Bolling was suspended from Fox News pending an investigation, which the network commissioned the law firm Paul, Weiss to conduct.[27][28][29] A few days after the article was published, Bolling filed a summons[30] and "notice of an intent to file a defamation lawsuit" in New York state court for $50 million against freelance writer Yashar Ali, who wrote the story for HuffPo.[31][32] Bolling's summons did not specify the statements he contended were defamatory,[33] and he did not bring an actual complaint against Ali.[34] Ali and HuffPo stood by the accuracy of the article;[30][35] Ali's lawyer, in a letter to Bolling's lawyer, wrote that any lawsuit would be frivolous because Bolling is a public figure, because "Mr. Ali conducted a thorough investigation and verified his information with 14 independent sources," and because "truth is always a defense to defamation."[33]

On September 8, 2017, the same day as his son's death, Bolling was ousted from Fox News.[27][36][37] In a statement, the network said that "Eric Bolling and Fox have agreed to part ways amicably." As a result of his departure, Fox News Specialists was canceled by the network.[38]

Career after Fox

Bolling atCPAC 2018

Blaze Media

Bolling joined theConservative Review's CRTV in the summer of 2018. CRTV merged with TheBlaze to form Blaze Media in 2018; in December 2018, Bolling signed an agreement to stay with Blaze Media through 2021.[39] Bolling hosted the television show America on TheBlaze.[40]

Sinclair Broadcast Group

Bolling began hosting America This Week, which is produced by Sinclair Broadcast Group and carried by their stations as a Sunday morning talk show, in 2019.[41][42] At Sinclair, Bolling repeatedly promoted Trump's campaign to discredit voting by mail and baselessly suggested that mail-in voting was prone to fraud.[43]

In 2020, Bolling conducted an interview for America This Week with Judy Mikovits, a discredited researcher featured in the video Plandemic.[44] The video included the suggestion that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government's chief infectious disease scientist, "manufactured" COVID-19.[44] In the segment, Bolling also interviewed Mikovits's lawyer, the right-wing conspiracy theorist Larry Klayman.[44] During the interviews, Bolling made no meaningful attempt to challenge Mikovits or Klayman on their claims.[44] After the plans to air the segment on local Sinclair stations across the U.S. generated an outcry, Sinclair postponed the segment to "rework" it[45] before dropping the segment entirely two days later.[46] Bolling said he did not endorse Mikovits' claims.[46] In January 2021, Sinclair announced the cancellation of the show.[47]

After his Sinclair program was canceled, Bolling launched a podcast co-hosted with former football player Brett Favre.[23]

Consideration of congressional runs

In June 2017, Bolling publicly mulled running as a Republican for U.S. Senate after his contract with Fox expired; Bolling opined that some Republicans were insufficiently right-wing.[20] In early 2021, Bolling considered a congressional run in 2022, looking into a possible Republican primary challenge in South Carolina to either Representative Tom Rice (who voted to impeach Trump over his role in the 2021 United States Capitol attack) or Representative Nancy Mace.[23]

Personal life

Bolling lives in Boca Raton, FL. He and his wife Adrienne had one son, Eric Chase Bolling, who died on September 8, 2017, at age 19, from an accidental drug overdose.[31][48][49]

Books

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"Eric Bolling articulates a clear vision for the nation in Wake Up America:{:{. Our nation has gone adrift in the last seven years, and this book is the road map to get us back on track. An incredible work which should be required reading for our leaders. A must-read for every patriot who wants to retake our nation!" --Sean Hannity}:

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"Eric does an amazing job taking his personal experiences climbing the ladder of success to create a personal life manual for conservatives of any age. If this book doesn't fire you up, nothing will!" --Mark Cuban

"This is a book that needs to be read aloud in the faculty lounge of every college and in the newsroom of every newspaper in America. Count this a win over the PC Police." --Mark Levin}:

About the Author

Eric Bolling is the host of "America" on CRTV, and the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of The Swamp and Wake Up America. A native of Chicago, he lives in New Jersey.

"Wake Up America is a HUGE book. It will help to Make America Great Again." ―President Donald J. Trump:{

The }:New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly:{ Bestseller!

Grit, merit, providence, individualism, thrift―and above all, pride in our country: These qualities, among others, are the reason that hundreds of millions of people worldwide look to America for hope, inspiration, and opportunity.

But it’s precisely these virtues that now are under attack by the radical Left of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and their followers. America as we know it is eroding before our eyes and becoming what Fox News Channel personality and co-host of “The Five” Eric Bolling calls a “politically correct nanny state.” The rewards for individual achievement and hard work, our basic constitutional rights, religious faith, national identity, and capitalism itself, are being replaced by a dangerous socialistic ideology that is the polar opposite of what our Founding Fathers intended America to be.

Wake Up America identifies the nine core virtues of our nation and demonstrates why each one is so important to our history and our future. It’s time for us to wake up and heed the clear-cut warning signs that America is heading in the wrong direction--before we’re too far gone.

A celebration of America that is informed by Eric Bolling's personal story, Wake Up America is an urgent call to arms for America's citizens to preserve what makes us great.}:

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The Instant New York Times and USA Today Bestseller!:{

When Washington D.C. was first built, it was on top of a swamp that had to be drained. Donald Trump says it's time to drain it again.

In }:The Swamp, bestselling author Eric Bolling presents an infuriating, amusing, revealing, and outrageous history of American politics, past and present, Republican and Democrat. From national political scandals to tempests in a teapot that blew up; bribery, blackmail, bullying, and backroom deals that contradicted public policies; cronyism that cost taxpayers hundreds upon hundreds of millions of dollars; and personal conduct that can only be described as regrettable, The Swamp:{ is a journey downriver through the bayous and marshes of Capitol Hill and Foggy Bottom.

The presidential election of 2016 was ugly, but it exposed a political, media, industry, and elite establishment that desperately wanted to elect a politician who received millions of dollars from terror-funding states over a businessman willing to tell the corrupt or incompetent, “You’re fired.”

The book concludes with a series of recommendations for President Trump: practical, hard-headed, and concise ways to drain the swamp and force Washington to be more transparent, more accountable, and more effective in how it serves those who have elected its politicians and pay the bills for their decisions.

Last year President Trump declared }:Wake Up America to be a "huge" book; Eric Bolling's second book is sure to build on that success. Entertaining and timely, The Swamp is the perfect book for today's political climate.

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