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Newsmax host says Alex Pretti and Renee Good were “basically terrorists”
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Published 10/23/26
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ROB SCHMITT (HOST): Another restaurant run by a leftist is also closing. Post Modern Times in Minneapolis made headlines for giving away free meals to all customers except ICE agents earlier this year after anti-ICE agitators and basically terrorists Renee Good and Alex Pretti were shot. The freeloaders then poured in, including homeless vagrants and drug addicts, all coming for the free food. They scared away anybody that was willing to pay for any food, and they ended up $70,000 in debt, and they're also closing that restaurant in Minneapolis. Who could have seen this coming?
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Right-wing media's crusade against diverse judges: racist attacks, calls for banning, and even calls for deportation
Right-wing media have accused naturalized judges of having “obvious loyalties outside of this country,” Muslim judges of having “terrorist buddies,” and Black judges of being “dumb” “DEI judges”
Written by Torri Lonergan
Published 07/29/26
Right-wing media figures have spent years lobbing racist insults at judges who are naturalized U.S. citizens or people of color — mocking their names, questioning their loyalties, and falsely identifying American-born judges as immigrants. Some have gone so far as to demand that immigrants and Muslim Americans be barred from serving as judges, while others have pushed for naturalized and even some American-born judges to be stripped of their citizenship and deported.
Right-wing media’s yearslong campaign has now gained support from some congressional Republicans, who recently introduced both a bill and a constitutional amendment that would require all American judges “to be natural-born citizens.”
Republican elected officials are supporting efforts to prohibit naturalized US citizens from serving as judges
In May, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) introduced a constitutional amendment that would require “members of Congress, federal judges and Senate-confirmed officers to be natural-born citizens of the United States.” In a July 4 Newsweek op-ed attacking D.C. District Court Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, who was born in Trinidad and Tobago, Mace fearmongered about “foreign-born officials holding power in this government who have proven time and again their loyalty is not to America.” Mace asked, “How did we get here? To a place where foreign-born officials get to decide the laws Americans live under?” [U.S. House of Representatives, office of Rep. Nancy Mace, 5/20/26; Newsweek, 7/4/26]
In February, Rep. Pete Stauber (R-MN) introduced a bill that would “require all American judges to be natural-born citizens.” He argued that the legislation would safeguard the United States “against potential foreign influence in judicial decisions.” [U.S. House of Representatives, office of Rep. Pete Stauber, 2/20/26]
In April, Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) called to “put more teeth in the denaturalization process” and said he would “absolutely” support banning immigrants from serving as judges or members of Congress. Appearing on The Benny Show, he said, “I don’t think our Founding Fathers ever intended for individuals from hostile nations serving and leading the nation.” [YouTube, The Benny Show, 4/13/26]
Criticizing a ruling by Sooknanan in June, Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) posted, “If judges can stop Presidents, they should not also be citizens of foreign nations.” [Democracy Docket, 6/23/26]
Right-wing media figures have called to bar naturalized citizens and Muslims from serving as judges, and even pushed to deport judges who are immigrants or American-born people of color
MAGA podcaster Laura Loomer called for President Donald Trump to sign an executive order “banning judges who were not born in this country,” saying, “If you want to be a judge in this country, you should come from the blood and soil of this country.” She asked, “Isn't it crazy too how we have so many foreign judges?” and insisted, “It's an abomination. I just think it's a total disgrace on our country.” [Rumble, Loomer Unleashed, 5/27/25]
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Loomer also insisted that “Muslims need to be prohibited from holding positions of power” and demanded that an American-born Muslim judge be deported. Referring to D.C. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui — who was born in the United States — Loomer said, “We don't need to be having debates about whether this judge is right or whether he's wrong. He's a Muslim. He shouldn't be a judge in America. He's from Pakistan.” She added, “Denaturalize him, denaturalize his family members, and send him back to the sharia shithole.” [Media Matters, 5/8/26]
Right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson said the Founding Fathers should have specified that “you have to be a native-born American in order to hold a judgeship or be in Congress or serve in a federal capacity.” He said “it would’ve been smart” to apply to the judiciary the same “rules that were put upon our president, meaning you had to be born rightwise in the United States of America to rule over us as Americans.” Johnson added, “Nine out of the 13 colonies said you must be a Bible-believing, Christ-professing Christian to serve in any office anywhere, including, of course, being a judge.” [YouTube, The Benny Show, 6/23/26, 6/23/26]
On The Benny Show, Article III Project founder Mike Davis said of New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan: “I want to throw his Third World, Marxist trash ass in prison and then revoke his citizenship and send him back” to Colombia. Laura Loomer also called on Trump to “strip Juan Merchan of his citizenship and deport him back to the Third World hellhole he came from.” Merchan has lived in the United States since he was 6 years old. [YouTube, The Benny Show, 1/10/25; Rumble, Loomer Unleashed, 6/4/24; CNN, 4/15/24]
The Millstone Report host Paul Harrell insisted that “foreign-born” judges “need to recuse themselves” from cases related to immigration and the U.S. military “at the bare minimum, if not step down altogether.” [Rumble, The Millstone Report with Paul Harrell, 3/26/25]
Right-wing media figures have long hurled racist insults at judges they think are immigrants, Muslim, or people of color
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
Fox host Tomi Lahren said Jackson “may be the worst DEI hire of all time.” [Fox News, Jesse Watters Primetime, 7/8/25]
Daily Wire host Matt Walsh claimed that Jackson is the “perfect illustration of the Black woman privilege,” because “Black women who can barely read or speak — like Ketanji Brown Jackson — are elevated to the most prestigious positions solely because they are Black women.” He argued, “There's really no group in the country more privileged now than Black women” and insisted, “Ketanji Brown Jackson is not qualified to be, like, a high school principal, let alone a Supreme Court justice.” [The Daily Wire, The Matt Walsh Show, 1/14/26]
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Benny Johnson accused Jackson of “getting totally nominated because of your skin color” and “proving again and again that you're too dumb to be on the Supreme Court, that you're too dumb to probably navigate the subway, to parallel park, to get Uber Eats.” He also claimed Jackson's “not a real Supreme Court justice — I don’t believe that she is actually lawfully on the Supreme Court.” [YouTube, The Benny Show, 4/2/26]
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Johnson later claimed Jackson “has most likely a functionally retarded, like, 70 IQ,” calling her “the single dumbest person to ever hold any office anywhere at any time.” [YouTube, The Benny Show, 5/28/26]
US District Judge Amir Ali
On War Room, Mike Davis claimed that “Judge Ali apparently wants the president to fund Ali’s Hamas buddies, his terrorist buddies, so they can kill Americans.” [Real America’s Voice, War Room, 3/19/25]
On Infowars, attorney Andrew Branca described Ali as “culturally Egyptian” and insisted that “he's barely an American citizen — he’s certainly not culturally an American citizen,” saying, “There's a difference between a cultural American citizen and a technical, naturalized American citizen who's still culturally a member of his own, you know, foreign nationality.” Branca complained, “He wasn’t born in America. He was born in Canada. He was born in Canada to Egyptian migrant parents.” [Infowars, War Room, 12/16/25]
US District Judge Tanya Chutkan
Laura Loomer complained that Chutkan “is an immigrant. She's an immigrant! Here we have an immigrant imposing a gag order. She's not even from this country!” She continued, “This is how backward things are in our country. You have immigrants who are now imposing gag orders on presidents of the United States of America, OK? She is the poster child for why we need an immigration moratorium.” [Rumble, Loomer Unleashed, 10/26/23]
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US District Judge Melissa DuBose
Fox host Laura Ingraham described DuBose as “a classic far-left pick who satisfied the racial bean counters.” Ingraham called DuBose an “unmitigated disaster” and dismissed her qualifications as “total hogwash.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 5/1/26]
Conservative radio host Howie Carr repeatedly described DuBose as “a lesbian, Black judge,” saying, “She’s one of the last judges that Biden slithered in. He wanted to get one more Black lesbian in.” He reiterated, “She’s a lesbian. She’s Black. She’s written about her Marxist phase — sounds like the Marxist phase never ended.” He added, “She made it on a 51-48 vote. Fifty-one — all these terrible, atrocious DEI judges and U.S. attorneys under Biden, they were all approved narrowly like that.” [Rumble, The Howie Carr Show, 5/1/26]
US District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong
Criticizing Frimpong — who was born in Los Angeles — Matt Walsh claimed, “Watching all this domestic terrorism, judges with foreign names are of course taking the side of the terrorists.” [The Daily Wire, The Matt Walsh Show, 7/15/25; CA.gov, 11/17/25]
Former Infowars host David Knight mocked Frimpong’s name, saying, “Oh, yes, a good classic American name. Just the type of person who I would want sitting as a judge. I'm sure they can be trusted.” [Rumble, The David Knight Show, 7/15/25]
US District Judge Myong J. Joun
Laura Loomer mocked Joun’s name, saying, “Can't have a normal name, right? Got to be a foreigner.” Loomer said the judge’s name “sounds like some kind of an electrical technical glitch” or “maybe like a noise my dog would make if she was super hyperactive.” She complained, “Where do they come up with these names? I'm sure Media Matters is going to clip this and say that I'm being racist toward Asians. Whatever. I don't care.” [Rumble, Loomer Unleashed, 5/27/25]
US District Judge Mustafa Kasubhai
While criticizing Kasubhai’s ruling on gender-affirming care for minors, X22 Report host David Marc Fishman noted the judge’s Muslim background and claimed that “very strict Muslim countries” are “very much in line with the trans groups,” saying, “The trans groups go after children to have sex, and when you look at a lot of the Muslim nations, they allow sex with children.” Fishman read a Libs of TikTok post complaining that “Biden-appointed Muslim Judge Mustafa D. Kasubhai struck down HHS Secretary RFK Jr.'s directive to stop taxpayer-funded sex change surgeries for kids.” [YouTube, X22 Report, 4/22/26; Media Matters, 6/25/24]
US District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan
Speaking to The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro, Newsmax host Rob Schmitt accused Sooknanan of having “obvious loyalties outside of this country.” He complained that judges like Sooknanan “see this as just a wealthy land that should be pillaged by the rest of the world. That's how they feel about the United States, because I don't think they have America's best interests at heart.” [Newsmax, Rob Schmitt Tonight, 9/3/25]
War Room host Harrison Smith said Sooknanan “shouldn't even be in this country.” Smith complained that “we have foreign judges named Sparkle deciding that the law is whatever she feels like it should be, not what is actually the law,” arguing, “That’s obviously a major problem we have in our country.” He added, “These are people that do not love America. They don't even like America. They constantly organize against America. They do not renounce their old countries. They do not drop their loyalty to their former countries. So why do we take them in? Why are we obligated to give them any benefit of the doubt? Because the likes of Ben Shapiro don't give a damn about the browning of our country.” [Infowars, War Room, 6/24/26]
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The Charlie Kirk Show co-host Andrew Kolvet complained that Sooknanan is a “foreigner” from “Trinidad, a country known to be the most wonderful representative of democracy in the world.” [Rumble, The Charlie Kirk Show, 6/23/26]
US District Judge Indira Talwani
Rob Schmitt said Talwani “is the daughter of two immigrants, which is a very American story, but in this case it’s very obvious this judge’s loyalties do not lie here.” He complained that one-third of district court judges in Washington, D.C., “were born outside of this country” and claimed, “They all have the same politics — disciples of the left-wing crusade to open up the United States for global looting.” [Newsmax, Rob Schmitt Tonight, 4/15/25]
Referring to Talwani, former Infowars host Owen Shroyer asked, “You think she was born here?” then told his viewers, “Place your bets now where she was born.” After looking it up, Shroyer read that Talwani was born in New Jersey but specified: “Well, her parents are from Punjab, India.” [WIN Network, Owen Report, 10/31/25]
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Haaris Syed
Newsmax host Carl Higbie reacted to Syed’s appointment by saying, “Islam — I’m always warning people that it could take a hold, especially in our legal system.” He continued, “We have seen some stuff from guys like this. What happens when you start seeing, I don’t know, a sharia-style viewpoint incorporate itself into U.S. law that is not in favor of our Constitution?” Former Assistant Attorney General Theo Wold agreed with Higbie and claimed that in Great Britain, “One of the reasons why the rape gangs were able to do what they did and proliferate like that [is] because a lot of Islamic judges control the local family courts in that country.” [Newsmax, Carl Higbie Frontline, 7/6/26]
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Ahead of COP30, right-wing media misrepresented Bill Gates' memo to declare climate change is over
Climate scientists question why Gates is pitting poverty reduction against climate action
Special ProgramsClimate & Energy
Written by Allison Fisher
Research contributions from Ilana Berger
Published 11/14/25
- Ahead of COP30 — the United Nations climate summit which began November 6 in Brazil — Bill Gates released a memo targeted at the international climate community which argued that “although climate change will have serious consequences—particularly for people in the poorest countries—it will not lead to humanity’s demise” and called for a “strategic pivot” on climate change to prioritize “human welfare.”
Bill Weir, CNN’s chief climate correspondent, correctly predicted how right-wing media would respond: “This will be used by detractors and denialists to say that the story is shifting.”
On *CNN News Central’*s day one coverage of COP30, Erica Hill laid out some of the impact of Gates’ memo at a time when the United States is already turning its back on the “world’s largest climate summit”:
- > President Trump, of course, has called climate change a, quote, con job. That's despite the overwhelming evidence of its reality and the very real threat it poses. President Trump seemed to get an assist recently from Bill Gates, who argued that resources actually should be shifted away from the battle against climate change. It's a move that experts have said is just flat out wrong.
- In fact, in response to Gates' memo, Trump posted on Truth Social that “I (WE!) just won the War on the Climate Change Hoax” because Bill Gates had “finally admitted that he was completely WRONG on the issue.” Gates said that Trump and other right-wing media reactions that echo his remarks are a “gigantic misreading of the memo,” while he has also pushed back at “climate scientists who said he was setting up a false dichotomy pitting climate efforts against foreign aid.”
- ## Right-wing media celebrate Bill Gates’ shift on climate, misrepresent his memo to downplay the climate crisis
- The Associated Press reported that Bill Gates remarked: “If you think climate is not important, you won't agree with the memo. If you think climate is the only cause and apocalyptic, you won't agree with the memo.”
But there it seems Gates was wrong. Right-wing media figures, who regularly downplay the climate crisis are likely among those who “think climate is not important,” and they are not disagreeing with the memo. They have celebrated it and used it to further downplay the climate crisis, attack climate science as “fraudulent,” and advance right-wing narratives and misinformation related to global warming, including denying sea level rise, suggesting that current climate change is unremarkable because the climate has been changing for billions of years, and pushing the “global cooling” myth.
- The New York Post editorial board concluded, “If Gates wants any credit for belatedly seeing the light, he needs to put maximum effort into getting the left’s climate warriors to wake up, too.” NY Post, [10/28/25]
- Former Fox News host John Stossel used Bill Gates’ memo to push his climate change denial content on social media, writing, “Welcome to the club, Bill. Here 3 climate scientists debunk several of the doomsday myths.”Stossel shared one of his videos featuring three climate skeptics, Willie Soon, David Legates, and Patrick Michaels, from an event at The Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank that has received funding from fossil fuel interests. Twitter/X, [10/28/25; Media Matters, 1/16/24, 8/14/25; NPR, 9/12/20; Desmog; accessed 11/10/25]
- Hannity.com: “CLIMATE KOOK FLIPS! Bill Gates Suggests Rethinking Climate Change 'Doomsday Outlook'”Hannity.com, [10/28/25]
- Fox host Jimmy Failla claimed that Gates’ memo proves climate change is a “grift” and pushed the misleading narrative that the climate is always changing. Failla continued:“What an about face. And it really gives up the whole entire grift we always knew it was. It drives me crazy because, you know this, the movement has not only changed again but changed in name three times before we got here. We were going to freeze to death in the ‘70s. Can you give me some money? We were going to melt in the ‘80s. Can you give me a few bucks? Then they were like, we're not freezing or melting, but the weather changes every day. How about a couple of bucks.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [10/29/25; climatefactcheck.org,
- Glenn Beck, founder of TheBlaze, wrote on his website that Gates did a “strategic pivot” because “the ruling class” finds AI “more useful than fear of the weather.”“Climate alarmism gave elites a pretext to centralize power over energy. Artificial intelligence gives them a mechanism to centralize power over people,” he later wrote. [Glennbeck.com,
- In an interview with Newsmax’s Rob Schmitt, conspiracy theorist and U.S. Agency for Global Media senior adviser Kari Lake said, “When we get documents declassified on the climate hoax, he’s probably trying to get ahead of what happens then.”Newsmax, *Rob Schmitt Tonight,* [10/29/25; Media Matters, 12/12/24]
- OnAmerica’s Newsroom, co-host Bill Hemmer used the memo to falsely claim that “rising sea levels just ain’t happening.” “He says it will not lead to the humanities demise. … Maybe an asteroid will, but the rising sea levels just ain’t happening as Al Gore warned us back in 2005.” The World Economic Forum has said that “rising sea levels caused by climate change are impacting 1 billion people worldwide,” while “2024 saw an unexpectedly fast rising of sea levels, which are already unprecedented.” Fox News, *America’s Newsroom*, [10/29/25; World Economic Forum, 3/25/25]
- OnOutnumbered, Fox News contributor Kaylee McGhee White said “climate change doomerism” was a ploy to “drive young adults … to leftist activism.” “This is the least surprising development ever. I think that the climate change doomerism, it was always a ploy, the real purpose of which was to drive young adults my age into leftist activism, that is all it was a vehicle for. And you know, what’s frustrating about this is Bill Gates is suddenly switching his position, but there is no new science behind." Fox News, *Outnumbered*, [10/29/25]
- Fox’s Will Cain hosted Alex Epstein, author of the petroleum-promoting bookFossil Future, and suggested that fossil fuel advocacy is the “potential explanations for the change of heart of Bill Gates.” He claimed, “It is really most of the thoughtful scientists and thinkers through the last several hundred years who have understood the power of fossil fuels and economic growth in helping the vast majority of people across the world. Maybe that finally broke through to Bill Gates. Maybe just seeing the writing on the wall in modern America and under President Donald Trump.” Fox News, *The Will Cain Show*, [10/29/25; Media Matters, 11/4/25]
- OnThe Five, Greg Gutfeld claimed that “people were told to stop having kids” and that Gates' shift is akin to admitting the “climate models … are fraudulent.”Gutfeld said, “It was a lie that impacted the mental health of generations and the physical health of a civilization. People were told to stop having kids. If you had kids you were hurting the planet. But it is hopeful that Gates and others are ceding to reality. We saw it happen already. Nobody is talking about data anymore because the data, the climate models, they are finally admitting are fraudulent, they were retrofitted so that they matched the results they were getting, and now that is out in the open.” Fox News, *The Five*, [10/29/25]
- Fox host Joey Jones claimed that Gates’ memo meant that Trump “won the climate change war.”“I think Trump has won another war. He won the climate change war now. Americans are coming around. You want to talk about petroleum products, think about how much oil is used to make all of those syringes for all of those vaccines during Covid. I mean just the impact and imprint of petroleum on our lives is endless,” Jones claimed. Fox News, *The Five*, [10/29/25]
- Contributor Katie Pavlich told Fox Business’Kudlowthat she wants “reparations for damage this guy [Bill Gates] did on the climate change front.”She claimed, “There were years of groups that were funded by Bill Gates, foreigners doing fact checks on conservative web sites like TownHall, demonetizing us for talking about climate change and that it’s not going to destroy humanity and in fact a lot of the science has been bought and paid for and has been debunked on this issue. I would get laughed at when I would point out I am from Arizona, and you can find sea shells, fossils at the top of the Grand Canyon because yes, climate change has been happening for billions of years.” Fox Business, *Kudlow*, [10/29/25]
- Frequent Fox guest and climate denier Marc Morano on Fox Business’The Evening Editsuggested that Bill Gates “knew” all along that climate change was nonsense.“Bill Gates knew in the year 2000 that the climate agenda was complete bleep. He knew in 2010 it was nonsense, he knew in 2020 it was nonsense, but only in 2025 is he willing to tell the truth. And the reason is he needs connections. He needs energy.” [Fox Business, The Evening Edit,
10/30/25; Washington Post, 9/16/16; Media Matters, 12/17/12; 5/22/19]
Newsmax host Rob Finnerty falsely claimed that Gates is “saying that it’s [climate change] not real.Finnerty said, “Now think about what Democrats have done to all of us in reaction to the climate hysteria created by people like Bill Gates over the last five decades: wind farms, electric cars, carbon footprint, bike lanes, electric buses, eating less meat, renewable energy. We could go on all night and all of it was total garbage. … Bill Gates, who's been right there with always-wrong Al Gore warning us of impending doom for years now, saying that it's not real.” Newsmax, *Finnerty*, [10/31/25]
Right-wing streamer Zack Hoyt, known online as Asmongold, told his audience that Bill Gates no longer believes in climate change and quotes Trump’s Truth Social Post.“You know who else doesn't believe in climate change recently? Bill Gates. Bill Gates has dramatically changed his position on climate change, acknowledging for the first time that there is no doomsday risk for, of global warming. … We just won the war on the climate change hoax. Bill Gates has finally admitted that he was completely wrong on the issue.” [YouTube, AsmongoldTV,
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- Fox & Friends Weekendguest and Republican strategist Mehek Cooke claimed Gates shifted on climate change because he realized “we're not going to pay for this green climate change hoax.” She said, “We're not all going to die at the end of the day. So farmers can increase their herd share, I can eat more meat. I mean, all the things that Bill Gates said to the American people, he realized he was losing because we're not going to pay for this green climate change hoax. I also think he's listening to President Trump. It's about innovation and not more regulation.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends Weekend*, [11/2/25]
- Power The Future Founder and frequent right-wing media guest Daniel Turner wrote that Bill Gates’ “climate crusade was always a grift.” Twitter/X, [11/3/25; Media Matters, 5/8/24;
- ## Climate scientists push back on Gates pitting poverty reduction against efforts to reduce carbon emissions
- During a segment on CNN News Central, Bill Weir highlighted concerns from “the chorus of top climate scientists who spent the week trying to debunk the billionaire's confusing new message that rich cities will be immune from the worst effects and that technology can save us.”
Additionally, The Guardian pointed out that a number of climate scientists have criticized Gates for using “‘straw man’ arguments about the threat to humanity and ‘false dichotomies’ between spending on climate or aid for the poor.”
- In comments to NBC, Jeffrey Sachs, who leads Columbia University’s Center for Sustainable Development, “called the memo ‘pointless, vague, unhelpful and confusing,'" adding that there’s “no reason to pit poverty reduction versus climate transformation.’" NBC, [10/28/25]
- Climate scientist Michael Mann has been outspoken about Gates’ memo, pointing out that it coincided with the landfall of the climate-driven Hurricane Melissa and that it was defended by former Fox News star Megyn Kelly. Mann also wrote a rebuttal of the memo in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, making the point that “Gates’ latest missive … plays like a game of climate change-diminishing bingo, drawing upon nearly every one of the tropes embraced by professional climate disinformers.” Twitter/X, [10/28/25, 10/29/25; The Bulletin, 10/31/25; The New York Times, 11/6/25]
- Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California Los Angeles, said of the memo: “Despite agreeing with some points therein, I still think its framing is fundamentally flawed and thus also its key conclusions.” Twitter/X, [11/3/25]
- Climate scientist Zeke Hausfather wrote: “There are a lot of things I agree with in Bill Gates’ new memo on climate change. … But in other areas I feel that it needlessly sets up a conflict between laudable goals.” Hausfather said that “we can both mitigate emissions and alleviate poverty, disease, and hunger. While there are some tradeoffs it is more a question of policy priority than a zero sum game. Similarly, I feel that Gates is a bit too cavalier in his treatment of climate risk.” The Climate Brink, [11/5/25]
- Katherine Hayhoe, chief scientist at the Nature Conservancy, also criticized Gates’ memo. She said, “‘I have not seen a single scientific paper that ever posited that the human race would become extinct … it’s a straw man, the way he’s proposing it.” The Guardian, [11/6/25]
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In their thirst to speak of anything but damning emails further linking President Donald Trump to the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein, right-wing influencers were desperately grasping at everything.
New York Times reporter Ken Bensinger describes pundits’ ‘thunderous silence’ at one of the most exciting media explosions in weeks.
“For hours, Fox News made nary a mention of the tranche [of incriminating documents], whose contents suggested, among other things, that the president knew more about the abuses perpetrated by Mr. Epstein, a former friend, than he had admitted,” said Bensinger. “Prominent podcasters like Ben Shapiro and Megyn Kelly focused on H-1B visas, the government shutdown and a proposal for 50-year mortgages on their shows and social media.”
The online troll account known as “Catturd,” which posts “dozens of times every day to its nearly four million followers on X,” spent the aftermath of the email release attacking Michelle Obama, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California and former FBI Director James Comey.
“But as time wore on, right-wing media figures began coalescing around another approach: focusing on a single redacted name in the emails,” said Bensinger. “They argued that Democrats on the House Oversight Committee — who had released three emails early on Wednesday — had created a false narrative by hiding the name of one of Epstein’s victims in one of the messages. The redaction, the theory went, was meant to cover up that the victim, Virginia Giuffre, previously said she had never witnessed Mr. Trump involved in sexual abuse of minors.”
“This was done intentionally,” posted Newsmax anchor Rob Schmitt. He then followed that up with a selfie-style video in a gym. “This is how sick and twisted these people are,” Schmitt said. “They are vile creatures. This is what we’re up against.”
Right-wing media figures are in a difficult position, said Bensinger.
“The unified response to this week’s [email] disclosures shows how closely aligned right-wing media voices are with elected Republicans and the degree to which the two share story lines — and provide each other political cover,” said Bensinger. “Indeed, the core message that ended up emanating from conservative media this week originated [from Republicans] within the Oversight Committee itself, [who] jumped on the redaction question less than an hour after the three emails dropped.”
“Why did Democrats cover up the name?” Bensinger said committee Republicans posted on X. “Democrats are trying to create a fake narrative to slander President Trump.”
The White House seized that same line of thinking, pointing out that the redacted Epstein victim in the emails never claimed Trump had personally touched her.
Other MAGA influencers are now trying to ride that train as far as it can go, said Bensinger, with podcasters Benny Johnson and Tim Pool joining countless others in unified argument, all trying to raise suspicion over why Giuffre’s name was redacted.
Bensinger points out that it is the policy of the Oversight Committee to redact the names of victims in its revelations, and that Republicans committed an “apparent violation of the committee’s policy” when they released the unredacted version.
Read the New York Times report at this link.
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The split in the right over SNAP and food stamps: Some attack the program and its recipients, while others try to use cuts as a cudgel against Democrats
Written by Jason Campbell
Research contributions from Helena Hind & Jane Lee
Published 10/29/25
The 42 million Americans who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will not receive assistance in November, and some right-wing media are using the opportunity to attack the program and its recipients while others are using SNAP recipients as a cudgel against Democrats.
The $8 billion in congressional appropriations for the benefits, known as food stamps, lapsed with the October 1 government shutdown, and there is no indication that Congress will appropriate funds for the program. The Department of Agriculture, which administers the program, has further said it will not shift funds around to keep the program operational despite SNAP having having some contingency funds available and the department's own "shutdown-funding plan," which was struck from its own website, that indicated emergency funds could be used.
About 1 in 8 Americans rely on SNAP benefits, receiving an average of $187 a month in food aid. The vast majority of households which receive SNAP benefits include children, an elderly person, or someone with a disability.
Right-wing pundits are calling the program too generous, with some attacking recipients — who now are also being attacked online with fake racist AI-generated videos.
- The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh: “If you look at what food stamp recipients are saying in their own words ... you come away with the impression that many of these people are simply entitled, lazy, barely literate, and, like, some of them are just frankly bad people."
- While discussing SNAP benefits, Newsmax’s Rob Schmitt denied that there is food insecurity in the U.S. and asked, “Why is it that we are subsidizing food for people that weigh 300 pounds?” He also said, “The entitlement of the people on these programs is through the roof."
- Podcaster Steven Crowder insulted SNAP recipients in some pretty ugly ways typical of his program.
- While discussing SNAP, Newsmax host Carl Higbie said that “our welfare programs are out of hand” and “these programs should definitely sunset."
- The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro: “It is insane that there are 42 million Americans on food stamps. That is a wild statistic. And the amount of government dependency in this country is just way too high, period. But they are, in fact, dependent on food stamps."
While some right-wing pundits are claiming that too many people are receiving SNAP benefits, others are arguing that SNAP is an essential benefit and blaming Democrats for taking it away.
- Fox & Friends host Ainsley Eardhardt said if Democrats “really care about families, and people in need, and people who can’t afford to go to the grocery store, then open up the government."
- Turning Point USA’s Alex Clark posted, “So when people claim they’re starving and have no food remember it was the democrats, not Trump, who did this to you."
- And Fox anchor Harris Faulkner said that “we have food insecurity in this country” and blamed Democrats for keeping the government shut down.
During the Obama administration, many right-wing media pundits attacked the SNAP program, often calling for it to be discontinued, while others attacked food assistance recipients.
The gleeful enthusiasm with which some right-wing media personalities suggest food should be taken away from their fellow countrymen is truly disturbing — and ultimately in line with the cruelty which defines so much of the MAGA movement.
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Why the right-wing media apparatus is suddenly yelling about Jack Smith supposedly spying on GOP senators
Written by Matt Gertz
Published 10/07/25
Republicans and their right-wing media allies yesterday spun out frothy allegations about former special counsel Jack Smith purportedly “spying on Republican senators” in order to forestall tough questions about the state of the Justice Department. But their dark conspiracy theory immediately collapses under scrutiny.
Attorney General Pam Bondi was slated to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday for what seemed fated to be a grueling hearing. Potential avenues for congressional oversight could include the unprecedented weaponization of her department as an extension of President Donald Trump’s will; the ongoing Jeffrey Epstein saga, including the location of the Epstein “client list” she once claimed to possess and a potential presidential pardon for the notorious sex offender’s chief accomplice; and the legal authority for the deployment of the U.S. military on American streets.
But FBI Director Kash Patel, his deputy Dan Bongino, and the stenographers at Fox News were happy to try to help her out of that tough spot. On the afternoon before the hearing, Fox News Digital reported that “former Special Counsel Jack Smith was allegedly tracking the private communications and phone calls of nearly a dozen Republican Senators as part of his investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots.” The October 6 article was based on a document “recently discovered by FBI Director Kash Patel and exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital,” which states that an FBI special agent “‘conducted preliminary toll analysis’ on the toll records associated with” eight senators and one member of the House as part of Smith’s probe, which at the time was called Arctic Frost. The story also included quotes from Bongino, whom the report said would be meeting with the affected members of Congress that day.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, subsequently posted the document on social media, saying that it “shows the Biden FBI spied on 8 of my Republican Senate colleagues.” He added, “BIDEN FBI WEAPONIZATION = WORSE THAN WATERGATE.”
Their allegations were quickly promoted by MAGA media outlets and on Tuesday morning were highlighted by Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee as they sought to shield Bondi from criticism.
But legal reporters explained that there’s not much to the story — the FBI needed to review the toll records of senators in order to establish who Trump and his alleged co-conspirators were trying to contact before and during the January 6 insurrection.
Smith’s final report cites such toll records in a footnote for its statement that “at around the same time as he issued his 6:01 p.m. Tweet [telling his supporters occupying the U.S. Capitol to leave], Mr. Trump tried to reach two U.S. Senators, and he also directed Co-Conspirator 1 to call Members of Congress and attempt to enlist them to further delay the certification” of the electoral votes, as MSNBC’s Ken Dilanian reported.
“It actually seems sort of obvious that if you’re investigating a former president of the United States for trying to subvert an election, you’d probe some of contacts he and alleged co-conspirators had with people he was trying to enlist/pressure to overturn the results,” Politico’s Kyle Cheney noted.
“In other words, if you start from the premise that the entire probe was political, then seeking lawmakers’ toll records would be inherently bad,” Cheney added. “But if you view the probe as righteous or justified, then it’s not hard to see why those records would be pertinent.”
You won’t have trouble guessing which side the MAGAsphere came down on. Trump gave clemency to all the January 6 defendants, including those convicted of assaulting police and seditious conspiracy, still falsely claims to have won the 2020 election, and clearly believes that the only thing wrong with his election subversion plot was that it was unsuccessful. On Monday, his loyal propagandists at Fox and Newsmax leaped into action to promote the purported FBI bombshell.
On Fox, Newsmax, “stunning” story shows Smith conducted an “enemies list investigation,” is “going to go to jail
Just minutes after Fox News Digital published its story, Fox host Will Cain declared it “pretty stunning.” He went on to claim that Democrats had engaged in “projection when it comes to authoritarianism. But if this doesn't fit the bill, this doesn't fit the definition, what is the definition of authoritarianism?”
His guest, Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX), replied, “This is the quintessential definition of it.”
Later that night, Fox host Jesse Watters claimed that the story shows that “Biden's FBI was spying on Republican senators.”
His prime-time colleague Sean Hannity hosted right-wing journalist John Solomon, who declared that “Arctic Frost is starting to look like an enemies list investigation” and “a really troubling diagram of how the deep state was working under Joe Biden. The FBI, the DOJ working hand and glove to spy, pry, into the lives, the conversations, and the data of Republicans.”
Solomon went on — somehow maintaining a straight face — to accuse the FBI of potentially “intruding on a constitutionally protected event” because, in the time period for which the bureau sought the toll records, Congress had been certifying the election (except when they were evacuated in the face of a violent mob of Trumpists).
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The rhetoric was similarly over-the-top in the prime-time hours of Fox competitor Newsmax.
“Jack Smith, bad guy, and I think he's just been busted in something really bad,” host Greg Kelly said at the top of his segment on the report. He described the FBI’s actions as “illegal,” adding, “Jack Smith, I think you’re going to go to jail.”
Fellow host Rob Schmitt didn’t seem to understand what the story was actually about, even as he promoted it to his audience. He told Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), “You had your phone tapped by Jack Smith,” and asked the senator to “illustrate to us how big a deal this is.” Johnson gently corrected Schmitt, saying that investigators had only obtained “metadata,” before claiming that the report “should shock and outrage every American.”
(Newsmax quickly updated its chyron from “FBI: JACK SMITH TAPPED PHONES OF GOP SENATORS” to “FBI: JACK SMITH SNOOPED ON GOP PHONES.”)
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How right-wing media sow distrust and confusion around vaccines and science
As Florida ends school vaccine requirements and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s leadership comes under fire, the right has repackaged anti-science talking points as well-meaning skepticism
Written by Gideon Taaffe, Isabella Sherk, Jack Wheatley & Jack Winstanley
Published 09/18/25
Amid the rise of the so-called “Make America Healthy Again” movement, right-wing media figures have employed a variety of tactics that sow doubt and confusion around vaccine efficacy and science more broadly. These efforts to capitalize on existing distrust of public health institutions and pharmaceutical companies have gained renewed momentum following Florida’s elimination of vaccine requirements for schools and comments made by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during a contentious Senate hearing.
MAHA acolytes have challenged well-studied topics by “just asking questions,” described vaccination requirements as impediments to freedom and parental choice, and exploited post-pandemic mistrust of public health infrastructure and pharmaceutical companies.
The MAHA movement is fueling mistrust in medicine amid a CDC leadership shake-up and Florida's elimination of vaccine requirements
- In early September, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced the state is working to eliminate all vaccine requirements for children in public schools, an announcement which quickly came under fire by doctors and public health experts. In his statement to the public, Ladapo said of vaccines, “Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery.” The American Medical Association released a statement opposing the move, stating: “This unprecedented rollback would undermine decades of public health progress and place children and communities at increased risk for diseases such as measles, mumps, polio, and chickenpox resulting in serious illness, disability, and even death.” NBC News, [9/3/25; The American Medical Association, 9/3/25]
- After the firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced scrutiny from both sides of the aisle at a contentious Senate hearing where many called for his resignation.Monarez’s firing spurred other top CDC officials to step down and caution the public over the state of the organization’s scientific independence. This, along with criticism for canceling $500 million in funding for mRNA research that produced the lifesaving COVID-19 vaccine, contributed to a dramatic hearing where senators sparred with Kennedy. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), who voted for Kennedy’s confirmation, said the Food and Drug Administration’s recommendation that only people at high risk for complications and those over 65 need the vaccine effectively denies people access to the shot. NPR, [9/4/25; BBC News, 8/5/25; CBS News,8/28/25]
- At a September 17 Senate hearing, Monarez testified that Kennedy had told her “that the ‘childhood vaccine schedule would be changing starting in September’ and that she ‘needed to be on board with it.’” According to NPR, Monarez told the senators that Kennedy “just wanted blanket approval” adding, “Even under pressure, I could not replace evidence with ideology.” NPR, [9/17/25]
- The New York Times used AI to analyze 38 MAHA figures and organizations featured in around 12,000 videos and podcasts, concluding that these influencers amplify frustration with the health care system to reel viewers in “using wellness content as a trojan horse for conspiracy theories.” The Times noted that some of these figures are using these platforms to sell a product rather than to meaningfully address public health problems like poverty or lack of access to nutritious food and health care. One interviewee who got pulled down the MAHA rabbit hole said, “I thought if my daughter got vaccinated, she would die in her sleep that night.” The New York Times, [9/9/25]
- ## Tactic 1: “Just asking questions” about established science as a means to sow doubt
- Right-wing media figures have presented uninformed, speculative questions about the safety of vaccines as legitimate criticism of the science, saying there’s nothing wrong with “wanting to ask questions” and often presenting their own queries as evidence that established bodies of research should be approached skeptically. In an essay for Big Think, Warren Berger argued that people falsely equate “questioning with critical thinking” and added that conspiracy theorists “act as if their uninformed, speculative questions demand that someone else provide answers.” Kelly Weirich, professor of philosophy at Pierce College, also stated that “while questions technically don’t make claims, they do affirm claims in a subtler way through the assumptions embedded in them.” University of Dayton lecturer Megan Donelson noted that the right’s tactic of “just asking questions” in this way “serves to undermine public trust in science and medicine.”
- Fox & Friends co-host Lawrence Jones attacked Democrats questioning Kennedy, saying, “I guess the most frustrating thing about the entire hearing is there seems to be zero curiosity on why we're such a sick nation.” Jones continued, “I do have some genuine curiosity about the science about each vaccine. And it didn't seem like they were trying to get to the bottom of that or even hear him out.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [9/5/25]
- Fox & Friendsco-host Brian Kilmeade asked, “When do you give the vaccines? Are you giving them all at once? Does that play into autism?” He claimed that in a few weeks, Kennedy “will announce the cause of autism, or the likely cause, which I think is extremely beneficial for us.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [9/5/25]
- Jones later said that “there is something wrong with some of the vaccines,” adding that “not all of them are bad, but there are questions that Americans have about it.” He continued, “They should be able to give us answers. But we're not conducting our own studies. We depend on foreign people to do the studies, and there’s questions there.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [9/8/25]
- OnThe Five, co-host Lisa Kennedy Montgomery claimed, “I disagree with him [Kennedy] on a lot of stuff but at least he makes me think about vaccines.” She added, “I think that is the best thing we can do as a society. And have these honest discussions about how we look and what we are putting in our bodies, and the solutions we are giving our children when we are failing them — when all of these institutions are failing them.” Fox News, *The Five*, [9/4/25]
- Fox host and former Trump White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said she doesn’t agree with everything Kennedy says but likes his “healthy skepticism for the science, wanting to ask questions about your children, what we are putting in their bodies.” Fox News, *The Five*, [9/5/25]
- Fox News’ Sean Hannity asked MAHA podcaster Gary Brecka, “Are we overprescribing generally as a society and overvaccinating?” Brecka responded, “We are the most over-medicalized nation in the world,” describing the U.S. as “the sickest, fattest, most disease-ridden nation in the world.” Fox News, *Hannity*, [9/4/25]
- Newsmax host Rob Finnerty asked if it's possible that former President Joe Biden is “vaccine-injured” and suggested vaccination caused his cancer. Newsmax, *Finnerty*, [9/2/25]
- Fox News host Laura Ingraham noted that “Kennedy and others have raised questions about the number of new vaccines added to the recommended pediatric schedule.” Citing the supposedly “staggering” increase in recommended vaccinations, Ingraham argued that it “makes total sense” to change COVID vaccine approvals. Fox News, *The Ingraham Angle*, [9/4/25]
- ## Tactic 2: Presenting vaccine requirements as impediments to freedom and parental choice
- Criticisms against public health policy surged at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, and rhetoric equating vaccine mandates to government overreach has persisted within the right-wing media ecosystem. The Nations Health, an outlet of the American Public Health Association, has highlighted several recent examples of the “medical freedom movement” undermining public health by removing fluoride from tap water and promoting alternative medicines. Additionally, the new CDC recommendations will make it more difficult for those who wish to get vaccinated for COVID-19, as the vaccines may no longer be covered by insurance companies.
- On his radio show, Fox host Sean Hannity celebrated the Florida mandate rescission, which he claimed was “giving people freedom and giving people choice, which I think is great.” Premiere Radio Network, *The Sean Hannity Show*, [9/4/25]
- Hannity: “Masks may be coming back to California while the free state of Florida is moving to end draconian vaccine mandates for your children in school.” Fox News, *Hannity*, [9/4/25]
- Right-wing influencer Benny Johnson wrote that “vaccine mandates are wrong” and “Florida is absolutely right to remove them,” adding, “Parents should have the final say over kids’ health, not the government.” Twitter/X, [9/4/25]
- Dr. Simone Gold, an anti-vaccine activist and January 6 participant, celebrated the FDA’s move to end Emergency Use Authorization for the COVID-19 vaccine, stating, “Mandates are dead. Freedom wins.” Twitter/X, [8/27/25, ABC News, 6/12/22]
- Fox & Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt emphasized parental choice while talking about COVID vaccines, saying, “As a mom, I’m going to decide what my child gets.”Earhardt: “There were a handful of us that didn't want our kids to have the COVID vaccine. That was my choice as a mom, because we interviewed so many kids — the kid who played soccer out on Long Island, who fell and had a heart problem, can’t play anymore, and his parents thought it was because of the vaccine. I just heard so many stories like that, I made the decision for myself.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [9/5/25]
- ## Tactic 3: Exploiting distrust of public health organizations, experts, and pharmaceutical manufacturers
- The MAHA movement and Kennedy — who according to NPR’s Selena Simmons-Duffin “seems to assume bad intent among experts” and who has accused public health agencies of “deliberately manipulating the truth” — have seized on a wider sense of mistrust and confusion following the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a report from Politico, “An increasing number of families are projecting their attitudes toward the Covid-19 vaccine onto shots for measles, chickenpox, meningitis and other diseases,” and “parents who were hesitant to vaccinate their children before the pandemic have now been joined by people who think the government mishandled the crisis.” Now, despite evidence suggesting that the COVID-19 vaccine saved millions of lives, Kennedy and his MAHA acolytes are exploiting this distrust in public health institutions to appeal to a base that “felt angered by a lot of early pandemic policies” and “felt betrayed by the government.”
- Fox News contributor Dr. Nicole Saphier claimed, “The CDC lost all credibility throughout the COVID pandemic when they continued to universally recommend the COVID vaccine, even after the science changed.” She continued, “The problem here we have is that all of these vaccines are being lumped as though that they are created equally and they have the same benefit, and the reality is that's not true. So while removing all vaccine mandates for school-aged children is swinging that pendulum from one extreme to the other extreme, truly Americans — and especially our children — deserve more of a nuanced discussion about this.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [9/4/25]
- Right-wing podcaster Liz Wheeler wrote that fewer people now believe the government should “forcibly vaxx kids” because “70+ shots added to the schedule, an insane epidemic of autism, ADHD, cancer, neurological issues, & autoimmune diseases among CHILDREN.” She continued, “A generation of children have been hurt, and we all know it. If you think Bobby Kennedy doesn’t have America’s support, you’re crazy.” Twitter/X, [9/4/25]
- Wheeler reposted a video of Kennedy onFox & Friendsclaiming the CDC was hiding vaccine safety data from him. She wrote, “I wonder why?” Twitter/X, [9/7/25]
- The Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles claimed the CDC “lost their credibility during COVID,” adding, “They lied to us about vaccines.” He continued, “They lied to us about the efficacy of the vaccine. They lied to us about the safety of the vaccine. They lied to us about everything regarding the vaccine.” The Daily Wire, *The Michael Knowles Show*, [9/2/25]
- Newsmax’s Rob Finnerty claimed, “Hundreds of millions of people were forced to get the vaccine” during the COVID pandemic, adding, “People have had adverse reactions to this vaccine we were told was safe that was forced upon us.” Newsmax, *Finnerty*, [9/4/25]
- TownHall writer Scott Morefield shared a Truth Social post from President Donald Trump in which he asked pharmaceutical companies to “justify the success of their various Covid Drugs,” adding, “This kind of spotlight on the efficacy of the mRNA jabs could cause the whole house of cards to come crashing down.” Morefield celebrated Trump’s post, stating, “I didn’t think Trump’s ego would ever allow him to do this, but he continues to pleasantly surprise me,” and ending with “Bravo!” Twitter/X, [9/1/25]
- Fox News host Jesse Watters questioned the vaccine recommendations for children, saying the “people at the CDC recommending it are at the CDC because the vaccine industry put them there,” and he accused senators of “blindly defending vaccine companies like it's their job.” Watters: “Why does a baby get 18 shots before they are 18 months old? It used to be eight — now it's 18. Why does a kid have 76 shots before they are old enough to vote? We never used to get that many, but the CDC recommends this. And the people at the CDC recommending it are at the CDC because the vaccine industry put them there. Maybe 76 is the right amount. Maybe it could be a little less or a lot less. We don't know. RFK is just trying to get a fresh set of eyes on it and look at the data. And senators are blindly defending vaccine companies like it's their job.” Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [9/4/25]
- Watters suggested that people advocating for vaccinations are doing so to keep getting “pharma cash.” Watters: “If Kennedy isn’t recommending healthy 18-year-olds get COVID boosters, then there's less pharma cash to spread around to the politicians. If a baby gets eight vaccines instead of 18, less cash to spread around to the politicians. If doctors tell patients to eat healthy and exercise instead of get the fat shot, less cash to the politicians. Same thing with sex changes, diabetes medication, and antidepressants. Did you know that the American Academy of Pediatrics, some of their biggest donors — vaccine makers? Take the COVID vaccine. Nothing they said about the COVID vaccine turned out to be true.” Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [9/4/25]
- Newsmax's Rob Schmitt described comments from senators questioning Kennedy as “enraged insults from politicians who have either been bribed to protect Big Pharma or those who have fully drunk their Kool-Aid.” Newsmax, *Rob Schmitt Tonight*, [9/4/25]
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June 30, 2025, edition of Newsmax'sRob Schmitt Tonight
ROB SCHMITT (HOST): And we couldn't even get the turn -- you needed 60 to get the illegals off of Medicaid today, right? So that didn't happen. That was a big loss, right? I mean, that's going to be a very expensive, I think, mistake by the parliamentarian.
SEN. RON JOHNSON (GUEST): Well, again, we can complain about the parliamentarian, but we have a job to do here. And, you know, the good news is that $651 billion shortfall could be easily solved. All we have to do is vote for Rick Scott's amendment. He's an expert in health care. He's proposed the most damaging part of Obamacare. That's the, what they call Medicaid expansion. But what that is — traditional Medicaid pays one, for every dollar state puts in traditional Medicaid, federal government puts in, on average, about $1.33. For the Medicaid expansion, the single adults that should be working, could be working -- for every dollar the state puts in, we put in 9. That is creating all kinds of distortions. The states are scamming the system. Providers are scamming the system. That's what we're trying to correct. So Rick Scott would just say we're going to cap Medicaid expansion enrollment sometime in the future. That literally could save $500 billion if we do it on January 1, 2029. Give these providers plenty time to rearrange their budgets so it's not really dependent on that scam.
SCHMITT: Yeah. But I just -- you know what's really frustrating is that, I mean, you look at these programs, I mean, at some point every entitlement needs to be looked at. And the moment that you even talk about it, you get lambasted by the media and the other side as if they're not aware of the deficit disaster that we already currently have. I mean, you even just hint at Medicaid reform because there is so much waste. There's so many people pulling from that that shouldn't be. And they immediately say, you're going to kill somebody's grandma.
JOHNSON: Again, that was the design of Obamacare. You know, let's go to single-payer system. Let's bring up single adults who should be working, getting health care through their employer. But we incentivize them not to work. Your earlier segment was saying, we can't get people to fill these jobs. Well, we pay them not to work --
SCHMITT: Pay them not to work.
JOHNSON: So this is a huge problem. Nobody wants to take Medicaid away from children. It's Medicaid expansion. Those single adults who get, again, reimbursed $9 to 1 that's crowding out to those vulnerable populations from even providers.
SCHMITT: It's not an easy job that you guys have. And I have to say that I have respect for the ones like yourself and others that are willing to at least consider the debt and the deficit in this country, even if it gets you catching hell from even the president at some point. It's, you know, you're speaking for the people that don't have a voice in Washington, and that is appreciated.
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June 25, 2025, edition of Newsmax's Rob Schmitt Tonight
ROB SCHMITT (HOST): The Big Beautiful Bill, there's a word that potentially by Friday this thing could get through. It has $150 billion for the deportation agenda. I know that's money that you desperately need to get this job done. You got a lot on your shoulders here. Money to finish the wall. More ICE and border agents.
The parliamentarian, though, who's been around since Harry Reid put her in place like 13 years ago, is striking down a lot of parts of this bill that deal with immigration. Some say that she's a partisan actor. The ability to defund sanctuary cities, she's taking that out. Where are you at with that? What's your perspective on that? And are you still going to get enough to do your job as you see it now?
TOM HOMAN (GUEST): Well, she ought to pay attention to current affairs. We got — what Biden did in four years is the biggest national security vulnerability this country ever has. We got over 20 million illegal aliens in this country. We got over 2 million known gotaways that escaped, didn't want to be vetted, didn't want to be fingerprinted, didn't want to give away program, a free flight, free hotel, three meals a day and free medical care. That should scare the hell out of everybody. This should be a nonpartisan issue. We got 20 million illegal aliens. We got 2 million gotaways. We got less than 5,000 deportation officers. There are concentrating on the worst of the worst. Fund us. We need more agents. We need more beds. We need more transportation contracts. We need more targeting. This is a national security issue. Everybody should be on the same side on this.
SCHMITT: I got 10 seconds left. That bill gets through, about how long are we looking at until we have what would be considered a completed wall system for the areas that need it at the southern border? Is there an estimation?
HOMAN: I don't have an estimation. The quicker we get the money, the quicker we can get going. So the more money we get, the more we can do. But I can tell you, the border wall is a big part of this administration's efforts. That would be a priority.
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After Israel launched airstrikes at Iranian nuclear and residential infrastructure on June 12, right-wing media figures rushed to fearmonger that supposed Democratic “open border” policies allowed Iranian “sleeper cells” into the country that might now execute terrorist attacks on U.S. soil.
Israel announced it had initiated a series of strikes aimed at Iran’s nuclear facilities and missile factories which have reportedly killed top Iranian military commanders and civilian scientists. In response, Iran vowed retaliation against what it called the country’s “foolish act.” President Donald Trump called the attack “excellent” and warned that there would be “more to come.”
Some right-wing media figures have already started fearmongering about the possibility of Iranian sleeper cells committing terrorism on U.S. soil in response to the Israeli strikes. Several have also blamed former President Joe Biden for this threat due to his alleged “open border” policies.
Right-wing figures fearmonger about the possibility of “terror attacks” from Iranian sleeper cells supposedly let into the U.S. under Biden
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk warned his followers: “Keep your head on a swivel. Biden let millions of people into America. Iran might activate some sleeper cells against Americans. Stay armed.”
Trump ally and self-proclaimed “proud Islamophobe” Laura Loomer urged people to be “very careful today and this weekend in American cities and tourist locations” because “Iran has many sleeper cells in the US. Iranian proxies from HAMAS and Hezbollah will likely retaliate on US soil to kill Americans in acts of Islamic terror as a form of retaliation to the Israeli air strikes.” She also claimed “there are millions of jihadi sleeper cells in our country thanks to the Democrats open border polices.”
On former Trump adviser Steve Bannon’s War Room, MAGA media influencer Jack Posobiec also suggested that the U.S. is “very vulnerable” to attacks planned inside the country because “under four years of the Biden administration, … the border was completely open,” adding later that the U.S. is “vulnerable to this type of attack from sleeper cells from any of our adversaries or potential sabotage teams around the world.”
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On The National Report, Newsmax host Jon Glasgow said, “We’ve had millions of people pour in over the borders. Is there a possibility of some sleeper cells here in the United States that Iran might try to activate?” Newsmax host Rob Astorino replied, “There's no question. I mean, that's been their plan the whole time.”
Appearing on Newsmax’s Rob Schmitt Tonight, retired Army Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer claimed that Israel “could well have essentially limited all options that the Iranians have, except for potentially some sleeper cells, which we are definitely still worried about here in the United States.” Newsmax host Bianca de la Garza responded, “As we have to be. Joe Biden opened borders for four years.”
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June 12, 2025, edition of Newsmax's Rob Schmitt Tonight
ROB SCHMITT (HOST): You know, Washington was embarrassing enough. We really didn't need this one. But a stunt so stupid today, it's becoming impossible to believe that the Democrat Party actually has any real organic support today.
Today, Alex Padilla, a dimwitted first term senator from California, decided to burst into the middle of Secretary Kristi Noem's press conference when she was live on national television, literally as she was speaking, and have himself a viral moment. Padilla knew full well he was going to be restrained. He knew exactly what he was doing. He is a mediocre, relatively unknown politician who was not wearing a suit, who burst into a room aggressively and started yelling at the secretary of Homeland Security, barking like a random, unstable guy that just jumped in off the street wearing street clothes too. He's not wearing a suit. His full intention was to be accosted by security, as you can see here, and to go viral. We're going to play it out for you so you can enjoy the entire thing uninterrupted.
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SCHMITT: This nimrod is on every cable channel tonight. He's doing an interview right now on MSNBC. Of course he is. You see him fighting with the guards, pushing back, shoving his way through. He knew he needed to find a way to get detained because that was the key to getting on MSNBC tonight. After he was tackled and then verified to actually be a U.S. senator — because he could have been lying. He could have been somebody there to kill Kristi Noem. After all of that, he actually still got a 15 minute meeting with the secretary of Homeland Security. After such a ridiculous stunt, she still met with him. A credit to her. Right? And then right after that meeting, what did he do? Well, he ran outside, jumped on TV and literally cried, portraying himself as the victim of an unconscionable assault by a fascist regime.
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SCHMITT: I was just there to ask a question. So like any normal person, I just burst into the room and ran straight towards the Homeland Security secretary screaming, because that's what normal people do when they have a question for somebody. They just burst into the room when they're on TV and start screaming. And then I was handcuffed. Losers. He's such a loser. From the L.A. Times — this is how the media is going to spin this, by the way. They're going to turn this into the greatest tragedy you've ever seen. The L.A. Times — first they came for the immigrants, then they took down our Latino senator. This is how fake it is. We are living in The Twilight Zone.
Democrats, of course, exploded getting together to march for Padilla at the Capitol. Quote, we're marching to Senator Thune's office. There must be accountability for the detainment of a U.S. Senator. This is not normal. That's from Congressman Maxwell Frost, a guy who couldn't even get an apartment in Washington because his credit was so bad. So these are the kinds of people and the quality of people that are going to stir this up. And of course, the media is going to play along perfectly. You're going to be hearing about this forever. Maxwell Frost couldn't wait to jump on the bandwagon for this publicity stunt, demanding accountability for the detainment of a senator. That's what he said. Just one problem - even Padilla says he wasn't detained.
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May 14, 2025, edition of Newsmax's Rob Schmitt Tonight
ROB SCHMITT (HOST): A major political party is calling for killing all the white people in the country. This is what asylum is. We have seen thousands of attacks on these people. Your thoughts?
:{:{VICTOR DAVIS HANSON (GUEST): Yeah. It is. And most of the people who were among the ten thousand who came in were not refugees over the last four years. So — and then, you know, ever since the Hart-Celler Act of 1965 that Ted Kennedy helped push through, we've had almost no immigration from Europeans or the former British Commonwealth. They've been mostly people from Latin America, Africa, and China, which is fine. But we've got so acculturated to the idea that so-called white people will not be immigrating to the United States, that we've created this — I don't know what you call it, a covert racism and that gets explicit when it when it actually is actualized.}:
And most of these people who are coming from South Africa were born after the end of apartheid. I mean, we're talking about forty, thirty years ago. And most of them, you know, it's — this idea of collective guilt that every single person there was a member of a racist society is not true. And it's a new South Africa. They passed a law, and as we know last year that said that the government could appropriate farmland without compensation. And then everybody in the West on the left said, well, they're only going to do it for public purposes, but public purposes could cover almost anything. Ss they — and I think what South Africa is looking at is they're looking at Zimbabwe, Rhodesia where they expropriated the land and it went from one of the greatest food exporter per acre in the world —}:
SCHMITT: To famine.
HANSON: Starving.
SCHMITT: Yeah, to starving.
HANSON: Yeah.
SCHMITT: And that's exactly the point. Zimbabwe is — that's 25 years ago. They can't even look that far to see it. The politicians don't understand. I think that the end of apartheid in South Africa is going to end up being a liability. The irony of that for the country. But do you think that the — do you think that the white farmers are largely going to flee the country? Because if that happens, the country collapses?
HANSON: Most of them have been there nine and ten generations. They have been there then the majority of the population that came in, you know, from other countries that were not white. They've been there since the 17th century.
SCHMITT: Right.
HANSON: And I don't think nine generations, a lot of them are not going to leave. They're going to stay to the bitter end. But some of them that are younger probably will that are not tied to the land or they don't own farms or they're in businesses because it's — let's be honest, we went from white racist apartheid to Black racism in South Africa. And everybody knows it's true. And when Don Lemon and the people on The View talk like they do and somebody hears them, they have no idea how they sound, but they sound like utter racists. He's angry because of the color of the skin, of the people who are threatened. And he didn't say a word when 10,000 people came in because they weren't white. So he's a racist and he knows he is. So are the people in The View that have commented on this. I think it's incumbent upon everybody to tell the truth and say that these people are racists.
SCHMITT: Yeah they are. They're just allowed to be — that's the difference. They're allowed to be.
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A top Trump administration official said those demanding due process for a wrongly deported Maryland dad might themselves be accused of “aiding and abetting criminals and terrorists.”
Appearing onRob Schmitt Tonight on Newsmax, Donald Trump’s senior director for counterterrorism, Sebastian Gorka, suggested critics of Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s incarceration in a Salvadoran megaprison might even be committing a federal crime.
He said: “It’s not left and right, It’s not even Republican or Democrat. There’s one line that divides us: Do you love America or do you hate America? It’s really quite that simple.”
Bondi Says Deported Dad’s Family Better Off Without HimPLEADING FOR HIS RETURN
Gorka, born in the U.K. to Hungarian parents, suggested in the Tuesday interview that Democrats who argue that Abrego Garcia should be returned to the U.S.—per the Supreme Court’s orders—don’t “love America.”
The former Newsmax host added that those who dissent against the Trump administration’s actions are “on the side of the cartel members, on the side of the illegal aliens on the side of the terrorists.”
He went even further, saying: “And you have to ask yourself, are they technically aiding and abetting them? Because aiding and abetting criminals and terrorists is a crime in federal statute.”
Bolton Slams Trump’s Latest Cabinet Pick as a ‘Con Man’NO CONFIDENCE
Gorka failed to mention that Abrego Garcia’s alleged links to the MS-13 gang—used to justify his deportation—have been disputed and are based upon an allegation made in a field interview report from 2019, and a confidential informant supposedly telling police he was a member of the organization.
Gorka said critics of Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s deportation and apparent incarceration in an infamous supermax prison are “aiding and abetting” terrorism.Newsmax.
The cop who penned the field report was suspended in wild circumstances soon after he interviewed Abrego Garcia, yet his allegation is among the scant evidence the government has produced to support its MS-13 claim.
The informant reportedly claimed the father was part of the “Westerns” clique of MS-13. This is despite the fact that group operated out of Long Island and Abrego Garcia had never lived anywhere other than Maryland while in the U.S.
Additionally, Abrego Garcia’s lawyers were unable to interview the cop who supposedly spoke to the informant because of his suspension.
The government has also tried to justify the deportation of Salvadorian migrants based on their tattoos, using a point-scoring system to determine whether their ink relates to gang affiliation.
When he was arrested in 2019, ICE officers also reportedly pointed towards his Chicago Bulls hat and hoodie as potential gang involvement indicators.[dollar over ears?]
The El Salvador native had fled his home country in 2011 at age 16 after gang members threatened to kill him. He was arrested while undocumented, found hanging around outside a hardware store looking for day labor work.
He was handed over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement without being charged with any crimes.
At his deportation hearing in 2019, ICE stated that he was a danger to the community because he had been detained “in connection with a murder investigation,” and local police had “verified” he was a gang member.
The Trump administration has ignored judges’ orders to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran migrant who was deported to El Salvador on March 15, to the United States.Abrego Garcia Family/Handout via Reuters
Abrego Garcia applied for asylum and was granted a “withholding of removal” order, a legal form of protection that says the government won’t deport someone to their home country if the person is “more likely than not” to face persecution there.
Since he was picked up by ICE again in March this year, the Department of Justice has not presented any evidence in court showing gang affiliations.
Government lawyers have even “abandon[ed]” their earlier position that Abrego Garcia was “a danger to the community,” a federal appeals court found.
But despite, this, top government officials continue to brand him as a danger and a “terrorist.”
His attorney, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, told NBC News that these claims “endanger his life.”
A60 Minutes investigation discovered that at least three-quarters of the 250 men shipped to the infamous Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) had no criminal records at all. The facility is notorious for human rights abuses.
The Trump administration has admitted it deported Abrego Garcia after an “administrative error,” but still refuses to bring him home.
In fact, it has doubled down. In a Wednesday X post, the Department of Homeland Security again branded him an “MS-13 gang member,” and revealed a protective order his wife took out against him in 2021.
Sharing the documents, DHS officials echoed comments from White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt who said on Tuesday that he was “not the father of the year.”
“Kilmar Abrego Garcia had a history of violence and was not the upstanding ‘Maryland Man’ the media has portrayed him as,” the post said.
“According to court filings, Garcia’s wife sought a domestic violence restraining order against him, claiming he punched, scratched, and ripped off her shirt, among other harm. This MS-13 gang member is not a sympathetic figure.”
Abrego Garcia’s wife—Jennifer Vasquez Sura—addressed the restraining order in a statement to Newsweek.
“After surviving domestic violence in a previous relationship, I acted out of caution after a disagreement with Kilmar by seeking a civil protective order in case things escalated,” she said. “Things did not escalate, and I decided not to follow through with the civil court process.”
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Newsmax host says US elections are “a huge liability. It weakens our country in a lot of ways because we're always thinking about the next election”
Rob Schmitt: “XI Jinping doesn't have to worry about elections. That's a huge benefit. Trump talks about that a lot. He's jealous of that.”
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ROB SCHMITT: Two billion a day, he says. Two billion a day in tariff revenue. That's about 700 billion a year. More than 700 billion a year. Just to give you a reference, that's a third of what our government brings in from all income taxes, everything we all pay in income taxes — that would be about a third of that number. That's quick to get to those kind of numbers. And by the way, that number, 700 billion is going to increase sharply at midnight because China has a lot of that. Likely forcing China with its very weak economy to the table to cut a deal that will benefit our country, our workers, to some unknown extent. Based on our tremendous deficit, which you can see here behind me, just how much more China sends us than they accept from us, China's retaliatory tariffs just don't hit as hard as they need them to. That's the problem when there's this huge disparity. China exports far more to us than they import from us. The White House has the winning hand in many different ways here.
China's only upside is, of course, political. XI Jinping doesn't have to worry about elections. That's a huge benefit. Trump talks about that a lot. He's jealous of that because imagine what you could do if you could not have to worry about every two years, you got to get everybody reelected. I mean, that's a huge liability. It weakens our country in a lot of ways because we're always thinking about the next election. It's hard to ever do the right thing like they're doing right now. This is why most politicians never do the right thing. They just always think about the next election. But for the next year, Trump and Republicans don't really need to worry about this election either. And again, China's situation is pretty bad. And if they pull this off, if the White House pulls this off and these deals all do come together and they get China and have some kind of a win with China, and our market goes soaring again and our industrial base improves in a way that Americans can feel over the next couple years, look out.
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March 10, 2025, edition of Newsmax's Rob Schmitt Tonight
ROB SCHMITT (HOST): When Americans voted Donald Trump into office, they voted for massive change. And we're now starting to feel the turbulence that comes from such change. It is both political. It is also economic. The markets tanked today. Investors worried as Trump works to reimagine the American economy and our foreign policy economically. Massive government cuts, tariffs and the mass deportation of cheap, illegal American labor — all of that is instability, and Wall Street hates instability.
But it is important to remember as you look at the markets, that as most Americans were gutted by inflation these last three years, those same markets as indicators were skyrocketing. So perhaps stocks need to take a nosedive so the working man can get a little relief from all of this inflation.
Most Americans have little engagement with Wall Street. Maybe a modest 401 K, which, at this rate, will cover a few years of their retirement if they're lucky. Right now, Trump is attempting to reimagine our entire economy because it's not working too well when you really think about it. If this plan works, labor in this country will cost more as workers see better pay, less outsourcing, and fewer illegals plunging the pay scale. Deportations could also bring relief on home prices as well. Less demand for housing means the price of housing goes down. All of these that I just listed off are bad things for Wall Street. Every single one of them is bad for Wall Street, but they are great for Main Street.
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October 31, 2024, edition of Newsmax'sRob Schmitt Tonight
ROB SCHMITT: (HOST): Do you know what a furry is? Did you see that episode of Entourage years ago? If not, Google it because the president might be one. At his final White House trick-or-treat event last night -- trick-or-treat event last night, Joe walked out with his wife, Dr. Jill, who for some reason was dressed completely as a panda bear. She's never looked better. And then, as usual, Joe got weird with the kids after that. There's the picture. I can't get enough of it. Go back to the biting of the leg. Can we go back? I've been laughing at that all day. That might be the picture of the year. Whenever they give out the photog awards, mainstream media. I think that might do it. Biden then decided to put another baby's foot in his mouth, something he did three times -- foot in the mouth, a baby's foot in the mouth. That can't be healthy. A nice high-res shot of that moment. Headline from Newsweek - Joe Biden bites several babies at Halloween event. There it is. We're not making it up. And it's not the first time that Joe Biden has done this, of course. So let him bite some babies. What the hell? He's got two months left.
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October 22, 2024, edition of Newsmax's Rob Schmitt Tonight
ROB SCHMITT: (HOST): I want to just read to you what may indeed be one of the October surprises in this election, which is a piece from The Atlantic that has just come out -- just come out today and is really just starting to explode on X as we speak. The title of this piece is, "I need the kind of generals that Hitler had." They're claiming that as a quote from Donald Trump.
And in it, at a time when Trump is up 11 points with Hispanic voters, something that I think threatens Kamala Harris in every single swing state and could decimate her chances at the White House, comes the absolutely perfect story from The Atlantic to try and — to cut that back, which is a claim from this article that after a Hispanic soldier was killed in action, Trump had promised to pay for the funeral and got a bill for something like $60,000. And this article claims that Trump said — he said it doesn't cost $60,000 to bury a f-ing Mexican. So this is from the Atlantic. And this is, I mean, we've heard how they've claimed that he talks about, you know, troops in action and our fallen heroes. I want to get your reaction to this one.
REP. CARLOS GIMENEZ (GUEST): Look, it's — now they're pulling out all the stops, right? So they know they're losing, so they're going to throw everything up on the wall. Doesn't matter if it's a lie. And I'm sure that these are all just bald-faced lies. And so anything to try to gin up some kind of controversy, anything to gin up that somehow he hates Hispanics. And I can tell you, you know, I've known Donald Trump for over eight years, close to ten years, and, you know, there's not a racist bone in his body. He loves America. He loves Americans. And Americans means all Americans, including Hispanics. So again, it's a bunch of hooey and again, more made up stuff. And again, just to hurt his chances.
SCHMITT: Yeah. And just — and I just saw a tweet from one of the sources that was used in the article was, it was somebody from, from the staff who said he was asked by the Atlantic if he heard the comment, and his response to the Atlantic was Trump did not say that. And in the article they quoted him as saying, I didn't hear Trump say that. So right there, you just — you see that they lie, they know how to lie. And this — you could not have created a better stony at a time when he's crushing it with the Hispanic community. How do we make that go away? Oh, here's the perfect story. And who knew they'd figure it out on October 22nd, of all the times?
GIMENEZ: Well, look, there's going to be other stories coming out, I'm sure some more outrageous stuff, and they're just going to keep getting more and more outrageous as they get more and more desperate because they're going to lose. And, you know, what's happening with the problem with them now is that, you know, we don't believe any of the stuff that comes out because, you know, who the sources are. We know they've been lying to us for years and years about Donald Trump.
SCHMITT: Yeah.
GIMENEZ: And so we're not going to believe — it's not going to help them. Actually, it may actually help Donald Trump.
SCHMITT: Right.
GIMENEZ: In a way because he said, oh, more lies about him. Yeah. We're going to show you and we're going to elect Donald Trump.
SCHMITT: We all remember the suckers and losers and how ridiculous that one was. And it just — it didn't make any sense. It just doesn't make any sense. Why would somebody say that in front of — nobody would ever say that. Somebody that had paid for so many funerals for soldiers over the years. So yeah, I got —
GIMENEZ: What did he say say? That I need Nazi generals? They lost the war.
SCHMITT: Yeah, exactly. Congressman —
GIMENEZ: Why would I want them?
SCHMITT: Exactly. So it doesn't make any sense at all.
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Right-wing cable news networks have pushed false claims about non-citizens voting relentlessly
In the past three weeks, Fox News, Fox Business, and Newsmax together have made at least 141 baseless claims pushing falsehoods about noncitizen voting
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Research contributions from Rob Savillo, Tyler Monroe, Ben Van Bloem & Lis Power
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Fox Business, Fox News, and Newsmax have peddled the false conspiracy theory that noncitizens vote en masse at least 141 times since House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) unveiled the text of the SAVE Act messaging bill. Fox anchor Maria Bartiromo and her shows have been some of the biggest propagators of the claims.
- On September 6, Johnson unveiled a continuing resolution to fund the federal government that included the text of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, “legislation backed by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump requiring proof of citizenship to vote.” As The Washington Post’s Philip Bump put it, the SAVE Act is “a Republican effort to combine election denialism and border alarmism” that “would make Americans’ lives more difficult in service of addressing a problem that is not demonstrably significant.”
Since then, conservative cable news networks’ false claims have included suggesting that Democrats have actively encouraged noncitizens to vote in order to swing election results, stating that there have been thousands of instances of noncitizen voting, and highlighting extremely rare, individual instances of voter impersonation in order to suggest the practice is widespread.
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- Right-wing media and Republicans have pushed false claims that noncitizens are widely voting in elections for years — even though it has long been illegal for noncitizens to make a false claim of citizenship on a voter registration form or to vote in federal elections — and states have many measures in place to prevent noncitizens from voting. Additionally, studies have shown that voting by noncitizens is extremely rare and does not impact the final outcome of elections. But that hasn't stopped the networks from disseminating the lie.
- From September 6, when Johnson unveiled a continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown that included the text of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, through October 2:
- Fox Business, Fox News, and Newsmax together made at least 141 claims falsely suggesting or fearmongering about noncitizen voters in the 2024 elections.
- Newsmax led all networks with the most false claims (65), which was followed by Fox News (42) and Fox Business (34).
- Two of Maria Bartiromo's three shows — Fox Business' Mornings with Maria and Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo — were among the top five shows with the most claims, with 20 and 11 claims, respectively. The other top shows spreading false claims about noncitizen voting were Newsmax's Rob Schmitt Tonight (16), The Chris Salcedo Show (11), and Wake Up America (10).
* Among the top offenders was Newsmax host Rob Schmitt, who had the most claims (10), followed by Newsmax host Chris Salcedo (7), Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) (5), Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) (5), and Fox anchor Maria Bartiromo (4).
- In total, 52 of the 141 claims (37%) came from Republican members of Congress.
- By relentlessly pushing baseless and false claims about noncitizen voting, right-wing media are once again priming viewers to deny results of the election.
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Newsmax guest lobs a racist slur at Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY)
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ROB SCHMITT (HOST): I mean, let's just say what this what they really are. I mean, this is the Marxist group. These are the communists in Congress. And I mean, that's why Bernie's there. And sure, hating the Jews right now is the fashionable thing in this group. But this -- what they believe is so much more vile and dangerous than that. And they're spreading that rapidly and they get so much attention from the media because the media is so stupid. They love having these people on, and it's all of them. It's the Rashida Tlaib and it's the Ilhan and it's the Cori Bush, and it's all of these -- I mean, they're insufferable people. They're very unintelligent and they're beloved by the media that just thinks it's so sexy to be communist in a capitalist country.
MICHAEL SAVAGE (GUEST): Well, Bernie Sanders is the head of the snake of that organization. We all know that. He's the one who trained these puppets to speak the way they speak. They are naked and absolute Bolsheviks. If you want to call them communists, Bolshevik, it doesn't really matter. If they had the power, they would put you and me in a reeducation camp or execute us. That's who these Bolsheviks are. But the worst of them all is Bernie Sanders.
I have been on to him since he came along. Bernie Sanders brainwashed these people. Bernie Sanders looks like a benign Jewish grandfather in a crumpled suit with a tuna fish stain on his lapel from riding the subway and not having enough money to buy a hot dog on a cart. But this man is a vile, evil American of the worst kind, Bernie Sanders. We shouldn't lose the focus on who is behind these people. It's Bernie Sanders. He's worthy of our attention and our contempt. But he certainly is not up for reelection. He is a man who espouses hatred for capitalism and owns three or four houses that we know of. His wife bankrupted a college in Vermont and then walked off with a big amount of money.
These are gangsters. These are classic Bolshevik gangsters, very much like their boss in the White House, who you very clearly spoke about so succinctly in two segments ago. So, we're dealing with criminals who are also Bolsheviks, and they're very dangerous. So we can celebrate. Yes, Bowman is gone. The ghetto thug is gone. He's probably going to have a great career on MSNBC tomorrow. They probably -- the paper was probably waiting for him. I don't think he'll be hired by by Newsmax. I suspect he's not going to be a competitor for this slot.
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Rob Schmitt is among the fastest-growing names in cable news. Hosting a primetime program that bears his name, Schmitt has reached millions across the nation and continues to do so in a no-nonsense style with common sense perspective.
Appearing on the fastest-growing news network in the country, Newsmax, Schmitt has had a long and accomplished career in broadcast journalism. Hailing from the heartland — Carmel, Indiana, to be precise — Schmitt brings a unique foundation and news judgment to his program, which is in line with the Newsmax slogan: Real News for Real People.
“I was born and raised in the Midwest and I think that a vast majority of the people that are watched on the news just do not relate to the average American anymore,” says Schmitt. “Many of the major networks were raised outside of a major city and consider where I am from to be nothing more than a flyover state.”
“I am the son of an immigrant from Iran and was raised in Central Indiana, which gives me a very interesting vantage point,” says Schmitt. “And the area I grew up in was filled with good natured, good hearted, conservative people. I think that understanding people like us is imperative to what we do in news, because many others who are in journalism live in Washington, D.C., or New York bubbles, and are disconnected with the reality of how most of America lives.”
Although now based in Newsmax’s New York headquarters, Schmitt has reported on news in various parts of the country. He anchored shows for various local affiliates in major media markets, including with ABC Miami, WNBC-4 New York and CBS Los Angeles before his tenure in national news began.
In 2016, Schmitt was named the co-host of FOX News Channel’s morning show, Fox & Friends first. Spending four years at the post, Schmitt joined Newsmax just before the 2020 presidential election, which then launched Rob Schmitt Tonight.
“I came to Newsmax when we were a very small media company, but as we covered the 2020 election, our presence grew rapidly,” he says. “We have quickly turned into a network with larger audiences than Bloomberg, CNBC and a number of other household networks.”
In some ways, Schmitt is making news by reporting on the news that matters most to Americans across the country. It was duringRob Schmitt Tonight that reports emerged of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s declaration of war and launch of a military offensive against Ukraine. While the world watched, it was Schmitt who relayed the breaking news, of interest to American national security, to the country.
Schmitt was responsible for delivering factual reporting on this issue of importance to an anxious America — a situation that still develops to this moment.
“The situation in Ukraine was one that was very complicated to report on, especially as someone who had visited there in the past,” he says. “Ukraine was a real place, with good people, who don’t deserve to be in this situation. I tried to relay this reality in reporting on it that evening.”
“The United States has become so comfortable that we get angry about things that offend us, or that does not matter — while just a flight away, there is a grandmother learning how to use a firearm to protect herself from a military trying to take over her country,” he says.
Outside of live reporting on Ukraine, Schmitt has interviewed many high-profile individuals, and most notably, former President Donald J. Trump.
“Interviewing President Trump is a big interview in many ways — when he walks into a room, everything stops,” he says. “I have met plenty of celebrities, but none of them have the presence of Donald Trump, he’s a larger-than-life person who has had a huge presence in this country and media for over the last 30 years.
“President Trump is one of the misunderstood people in the world, and I have never met anyone else like him,” he continues. “He has always been warm, gracious and personable to me and is an all-around interesting guy. He’s got more street smarts than anyone I have met in Washington, and while this does not mean that he is always right, when everyone is guessing, I see why people trust his guess more often than not.”
Schmitt now considers himself a New Yorker. Spending most of his time in Manhattan, he also owns a home on the East End in the quaint hamlet of Wainscott.
“I bought a house there in 2020 that needed a lot of work, so I have spent a lot of time there working on it,” he says. “More recently, even during the winter months, I spend mostly every weekend on the East End. In the summer months, I love being by the pool, or playing tennis — really, I enjoy the escape from the city.”
He frequents many East End hot spots, like Gurney’s, East Hampton Grill, American Hotel in Sag Harbor and Murf’s.
“People in the Hamptons, unlike elsewhere in the country, do not shy away from talking about politics and I have found that it is much less of a liberal bastion than you would expect,” he says. “Even the city dwellers, I find that, politically speaking, they are moving back to the center — aligning more with Kennedy than de Blasio or Biden. I enjoy that the people on the East End come from all across the political aisle and they embrace their politics and speak their mind.”
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ROB SCHMITT (HOST): I mean, again, this trial was so meaningless. In the grand scheme of what this family's been doing, this is the psyop. Here it is.
MONICA CROWLEY (GUEST): Yeah exactly. I mean, it's not meaningless in the sense that it was a head fake. It's meant to distract the American people with Hunter's shiny little object of a gun away from the much larger crimes of the Biden crime family, and that is influence peddling and making bank by selling America out to some of our worst enemies, including the --
SCHMITT: China, Russia.
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ROB SCHMITT (HOST): This week, the Department of Justice announced an investigation into Congresswoman Cori Bush. Bush, a defund the policer who brags about wasting a fortune of your money on her own private security, has evidently been funneling much of that money to her husband. Earlier this month, the DOJ indicted New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez, another Democrat. Menendez is the most visibly corrupt person in Congress. His scheme is more obvious than Joe Biden's. He was found with gold bars in his home, accused of using his power to do the bidding of Egypt and Qatar. And then, of course, Hunter Biden, now being charged with tax crimes by the same DOJ official who helped him conceal those crimes for many years. Charges Hunter's father, by the way, can make disappear like that.
Now, these moves by the DOJ are the perfect way to keep the wool over the eyes of millions of unawake Americans, the ones still convinced to ignore a story when they all scream conspiracy theory. And the media, which of course does the bidding of our government, is fully exploiting these Democrat indictments. From New York Mag, Biden's weaponized Justice Department goes after another Democrat, sleepy Joe is doing a terrible job targeting his enemies, they say sarcastically. And over at CNN, more of the same, take a look.
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Another example of the media pretending to be very gullible for your benefit, they would say. A wonderful psyop by the Department of Justice is happening in this election year. The DOJ going after some high profile news-making Democrats to dupe everybody into thinking that what's happening to former President Trump is somehow normal, and credible, and not strange. But at the end of the day, the DOJ is exactly what you think it is.
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Former Fox host Tucker Carlson is platforming disgraced climate denier Willie Soon, an aerospace engineer known for accepting over $1 million from fossil fuel companies for writing publications he referred to as “deliverables.”
Carlson invited Soon, a former researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, on his exclusive program on X (formerly Twitter) for an interview on January 9. The two amplified long-debunked hypotheses about what is causing climate change, and clips from the interview have already been viewed over 1 million times on TikTok, likely by a young audience that might not be familiar with Soon’s controversies, which came to light back in 2015.
The spread of these videos highlights TikTok’s ongoing climate misinformation problem, even as it has begun implementing a new policy banning content that “undermines well-established scientific consensus, such as denying the existence of climate change or the factors that contribute to it.”
Though experts dismissed Soon’s false claims, clips of his interview with Carlson have gained traction on TikTok, a social media platform popular with young users
- Clips of Carlson’s interview with Soon have been viewed over 1 million times on TikTok. Media Matters identified six videos that have collectively accrued more than 1.1 million views. According to a January 2023 report from Morning Consult, over 60% of Gen Z adults use TikTok at least once daily. TikTok, [1/10/24, 1/10/24, 1/10/24;1/10/24; 1/10/24, 1/10/24;Morning Consult, 1/2023]
- Climate scientists continue to highlight and debunk Soon’s disinformation.“Soon's science is based on faulty assumptions & his conclusions are invalid & that's likely why FF [fossil fuel] companies pay him," wrote Gavin Schmidt, head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Twitter/X, [9/10/23, 1/10/24,1/10/24]
The interview is part of a larger trend of major right-wing media outlets relying more on long-debunked climate deniers
- :{:{Discredited climate deniers like Judith Curry, Patrick Moore, Anthony Watts, and Gregory Wrightstone, who have been vocal for decades, received renewed attention in 2023 from right-wing media figures. After years of relative obscurity, these figures found a reliable home on shows like}: :{Newsmax’s Rob Schmitt Tonight}::{, and also appeared on Fox News programs such as Jesse Watters Primetime and The Ingraham Angle. On social media, they’ve increased engagement on X. Media Matters,:(style="background-color:#e0e000ff"):}: [11/28/12, 2/17/14, 12/22/23; DeSmog, 5/15/22; StateImpact Pennsylvania, 3/27/19]}:
Willie Soon has been exposed for unethically promoting flawed science
- In 2015, a joint investigation by Greenpeace and the Climate Investigations Center found that Soon had accepted over $1.2 million in funding from fossil fuel companies for his research. Soon’s work was funded “almost entirely” by the fossil fuels industry, including Exxon Mobil, Southern Company, the American Petroleum Institute, and the Charles G. Koch Foundation. The Guardian, [2/21/15]
- Soon described his papers as “deliverables” to his corporate funders. Emails revealed that one of the country’s largest utility holding companies, Southern Company, paid Soon to publish research examining the sun’s role in driving climate change. At the time, Southern relied heavily on coal. Scientists have long recognized that solar activity cannot be responsible for the rapid warming that the planet has experienced in recent decades. The New York Times, [2/21/15; Inside Climate News, 2/21/15; NASA, accessed 1/11/24]
- The investigation also found that Soon failed to disclose his relationship with Southern Company in some of his research papers, violating ethical guidelines upheld by scientific journals. Despite accepting more than $400,000 from the company, Soon insisted he had no conflicts of interest, raising the alarm for academics and scientists. His papers, which have been published in top scientific journals, push a “range of climate-denial perspectives.” Inside Climate News, [2/21/15]
Soon has for years been a go-to source for media and lawmakers keen on protecting fossil fuel interests
- Soon and his work have been used by the GOP in their efforts to block climate action.Climate denier and former Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe has cited Soon in press releases and on the Senate floor. In 2013, Soon testified in support of an effort to repeal Kansas’ renewable energy standard in front of state legislators, claiming that climate change isn’t a problem. DeSmog, accessed [1/11/24; Energy and Policy Institute, 8/28/15; U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works, 5/14/08, 7/29/03]
- Soon has worked with right-wing think tanks that influence climate policy. Soon has spoken at conferences hosted by the Heritage Foundation, the Texas Public Policy Institute, and the Heartland Institute. In 2014, he was awarded the “Courage in Defense of Science Award” by the climate denier organization now called CO2 Coalition. DeSmog, accessed [1/11/24, 1/12/24; Heartland Institute, accessed 1/12/24]
- Since Soon’s interview with Carlson, several well-known conspiracy theorists praised his ideas.Jimmy Corsetti, a YouTuber who has pushed the idea that a polar shift is responsible for climate change impact, and The Vigilant Fox, a figure known for spreading anti-vaccine misinformation, and many more, praised him on social media. Twitter/X, [1/9/24, 1/9/24; Media Matters, 5/24/23; Forbes, 11/26/22]
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:{:{In 2023, as climate-driven disasters plagued countries around the world and the COP28 climate change conference saw the adoption of a historic (though reportedly “loophole”-ridden) agreement referencing a transition away from fossil fuels for the first time, right-wing media remained committed to hindering progress}:
. Three concerning trends emerged in their strategies, which included facilitating comebacks for long-discredited climate deniers, cheering on violence against climate activists, and attributing deadly climate-driven events to conspiracies or religious calamity.}:
Right-wing media facilitated comebacks for long-discredited climate deniers.
Discredited climate deniers like Judith Curry, Patrick Moore, Anthony Watts, and Gregory Wrightstone, who have been vocal for decades, received renewed attention in 2023 from right-wing media figures, who seemed to be turning to views that stray further and further from established science.
Judith Curry, former chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech, consulted for oil and gas companies during her time in academia. She resigned from Georgia Tech in 2017 citing climate “craziness” and has been called out by other climate scientists for taking public positions reliant on debunked climate change denialarguments.
Patrick Moore is a former nuclear energy consultant and climate change denier who falsely claims he is a co-founder of Greenpeace. Anthony Watts runs a junk science climate denier blog and is a senior fellow at the fossil fuel-funded Heartland Institute. Gregory Wrightstone is a geologist who worked for the natural gas industry for 20 years, started a consulting firm for energy companies, and is now the executive director of a climate change denial non-profit.
- Climate deniers found a reliable home on Newsmax’s Rob Schmitt Tonight.Media Matters found that Curry and Moore appeared as guests on Newsmax’s Rob Schmitt Tonight combined at least 7 times in 2023 alone.
- In 2023, these climate deniers appeared on cable news for the first time in years. Wrightstone appeared on One America News, seemingly making his first cable news appearance since 2019. Moore and Curry both appeared on Fox News for the first time since 2019, and Watts appeared on Fox News for the first time, according to Media Matters’ records. Moore and Curry were guests on Jesse Watters Primetime and Watts was a guest on The Ingraham Angle. As predicted, Jesse Watters continued Tucker Carlson’s legacy of climate denial on Fox News. Media Matters, [7/17/23]
- On X (formerly Twitter), bad actors found support and saw their audiences grow as climate scientists fled the platform. In the past year, Curry’s account grew by approximately 31,600 followers while Moore’s account grew by more than 32,500. Media Matters previously reported that climate deniers and contrarians have benefited from Elon Musk’s takeover of the platform. “Yes the number of my followers is increasing much more rapidly than over the past year or so,” Curry said in a November 2022 tweet. Moore also expressed contentment with his account growth in April 2022. Social Blade, accessed 12/15/23; Twitter/X, [11/11/22, 4/6/22; Media Matters, 12/8/22; The Guardian, 8/15/23]
Right-wing media attempted to justify violence against climate activists engaging in non-violent direct action.
In 2023, activist groups doubled down on demands for a global transition away from fossil fuels. Their tactics included throwing paint or food on famous works of art and property, infiltrating cultural events, and obstructing busy roads, provoking outrage from right-wing media.
- Right-wing media escalated a yearslong campaign to frame protesters as violent, aggressive, and mentally ill to justify state efforts to criminalize civil disobedience.Right-wing influencers described climate activists as “enemies of humanity” and compared nonviolent direct actions, such as blocking roads, to “firing a gun into the air at random targets” and committing violent crimes. This framing has also been reflected in charges filed in Georgia, where authorities repurposed a state anti-terrorism law to target environmental activists as part of a crackdown on what they claim to be violent extremism. Media Matters, [2/1/23, 11/10/23; Drilled, 12/6/23; Grist; 1/27/23]
- Right-wing pundits have called for disproportionately severe punishments for those who have engaged in controversial and disruptive — but peaceful — acts of protest.The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh and former Daily Caller writer Greg Price have suggested that activists who have thrown food and paint at famous works of art should be dismembered, “beaten with a bullwhip,” or forced into “labor camps where they spend all day drilling for oil.” Media Matters [8/7/23; Media Matters, 2/1/23]
- When motorists responded to protests with violence, right-wing media repeatedly excused and even condoned the behavior.In November, Matt Walsh and other right-wing influencers blamed two government protesters in Panama for their own deaths after a U.S. citizen allegedly killed them for blocking the road. In Europe and in the U.S., violent motorists were praised and celebrated for beating up protesters who obstruct traffic. Media Matters, [11/10/23, 8/7/23; Media Matters, 2/1/23]
Conspiracy theorists and right-wing Christian media figures spread misinformation about extreme weather events, often suggesting they were planned or indicative of a religious event.
Conspiracy theorists spread misinformation about the causes of extreme weather events, often suggesting they are orchestrated occurrences. In parallel, conservative Christian media figures reject the scientific consensus on human-driven climate change, attributing such events to divine will and interpreting them as “demonic attacks,” manifestations of biblical prophecy, or signs of the End Times.
- Conspiracy theorists and right-wing media fabricated evidence that the fires that devastated the historic town of Lahaina, Hawaii, in August were planned. Claims that the fires were started by a direct energy weapon as a ploy to raise property prices or accelerate the construction of a “smart city” circulated online, and accounts used doctored images to back up these claims. YouTube and Meta allowed these posts to be monetized. Media Matters, [8/23/23]
- TikTok was a hotbed for misinformation about climate-driven events. TikTok videos falsely claiming that catastrophic wildfires plaguing Canada over the summer were started deliberately via helicopter, drone, or “Directed Energy Weapons” proliferated across social media, garnering millions of views. The fires received little coverage in U.S. media until smoke reached the East Coast, blanketing major cities in smoke and resulting in unhealthy air quality. Media Matters, [6/14/23]
- Right-wing Christian media figures and TikTok influencers dismissed climate change and instead cited biblical prophecy, the End Times, or “demonic attack” as explanations for extreme weather events. As concern about climate change declined among young evangelicals, Christian programs and news outlets such as FlashPoint and Charisma News attributed this summer’s heatwaves and wildfires to “God’s anger” and a “decline of morality.” TikTok accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers claimed the events were signs of the return of Jesus Christ. Even more mainstream right-wing media figures like Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson and Pete Hegseth suggested that only God controls the weather. Media Matters, [12/11/23]
- Climate change drove extreme wildfires in 2023.An August study found that human-induced climate change made Quebec’s 2023 fire season at least twice as likely and roughly 20% more intense. In the U.S. this year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration tracked 25 weather or climate disasters with losses exceeding $1 billion each. World Weather Attribution, [8/22/23; NOAA, 12/8/23]
2024 will be another crucial year for climate action, with the U.S.’s climate leadership and goals hinging on the election. While a recent CNN poll found that two-thirds of U.S. adults are concerned about the impacts of climate change in their communities, we can expect to see right-wing media assist GOP efforts to delegitimize and derail Biden’s landmark climate policy, the Inflation Reduction Act. In tandem, bad actors will also likely continue to shift the focus from these devastating impacts in order to vilify those speaking out about them, creating the potential for even more violence.
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After a Minnesota commission unveiled its finalist pick for a new state flag to replace a racially offensive design, right-wing media insisted that the new design resembled one from a state in Somalia. Conservatives used the redesign to promote the racist “great replacement” conspiracy theory, claiming that Minnesota has been “conquered” by Somali immigrants. Right-wing media claimed the design’s green and white stripes, which a state commission ultimately chose to remove from the final design, resembled Somalia’s flag.
Minnesota’s new flag design incorporates the state's shape, motto, and natural resources, replacing an old “genocidal” design
- The selected flag design incorporates Minnesota’s shape, motto, and natural resources. Minnesota Public Radio reported that the winning entry from a group of finalists includes an eight-point star in the design to reflect the state’s motto “L’etoile du Nord” (“Star of the North”), as well as an “abstract shape of Minnesota at the flag’s left edge.” The Minnesota resident who submitted the winning design also explained to MPR: “Each color was chosen to symbolize a different important aspect of Minnesota and its identity. For the stripes, white represents snow/winter, the green stripe represents our beautiful nature and the importance of agriculture and the light blue stripe represents the several significant meanings of water to our state: as the land of 10,000 lakes, the birth state of the Mississippi River and the origins of our state’s name —which came from the Dakota language— which translates to ‘a place of sky-tinted water.’” A separate report from Axios noted that “various elements, such as colors, the shape of the star and the number of stripes, could still change.” Minnesota Public Radio, [11/28/23; Axios, 12/15/23]
- The final flag design eliminated the white and green stripes. MPR published an updated article describing the final design selected by the State Emblems Redesign Commission: “A new flag with a shape that resembles — well, itself — along with an eight-point North Star and a single, light blue block to the other side.” According to the article, “a pair of designers” recommended eliminating the stripes on the right and limiting colors to shades of blue and white, suggestions which the commission accepted. Minnesota Public Radio, [12/19/23]
- The old Minnesota state flag has white nationalist overtones. MinnPost described Minnesota’s state seal, which is displayed on the current state flag, as including “many images, but the central theme is of a farmer tilling a field with a Native American on horseback riding in the distance.” The article added, “While the pre-statehood-designed seal and flag might be subject to interpretation, a poem written by the wife of the designer says this about the image: ‘We claim his noble heritage/And Minnesota’s land/Must pass with all its untold wealth/To the white man’s grasping hand.’” MinnPost, [6/8/23]
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- The state lawmaker who was the prime sponsor of a bill to replace the Minnesota state flag and seal called them “a cluttered genocidal mess.” MinnPost additionally reported that the currently existing Minnesota state flag ranked close to last in a survey of state flags and “falls into the grouping that populates the bottom of most rankings.” MinnPost, [6/8/23]
- ## Right-wing media claimed that the new flag resembles a Somali flag and that Minnesota has been “conquered” by Somali immigrants
- Conservative radio host Charlie Kirk and guest, former Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), ranted that the new Minnesota flag shows that Somali immigrants are “conquering” the state: “It is a great replacement.” Kirk and Bachmann went on a racist rant about Somalis, claiming they have “a fraud culture” and that Muslims are “conquering” Minnesota and want to turn it into ”Minnesota-stan" and an “Islamic state.” Kirk asked, “Why are we allowing ourselves to be replaced by third world Muslim foreigners?” and later said that Democrats will use immigration to “change the body politic. ... It is a great replacement by other means.” Salem Radio Group, *The Charlie Kirk Show,* [12/18/23]
- YouTube streamer Tim Pool alleged that the new flag “looks an awful lot like the flag of Jubaland in Somalia.” Pool added: “When … they make it look like a flag of Somalia, and it’s the state with the largest Somali population, a lot of people are going to feel like you are being subverted, that your cultural values are being taken away from you by minority populations and non-American populations.” *TimCast IRL*, [12/18/23, via Twitter/X]
- Pool posted in response to a post about the flag: “Yall are conquered.” Twitter/X, [12/17/23]
- Antisemitic streamer Stew Peters wrote on X, “Somalia is raising its flag over Minnesota” adding that the state “has officially been conquered by double digit IQ savages.” Twitter/X, [12/18/23]
- Right-wing influencer account End Wokeness wrote on X: “Minnesota is home to the largest Somali population in the West. Rep. Ilhan Omar (Minnesota) is from Puntland. Minnesota just unveiled their new flag. I'm sure this is just a coincidence.” Twitter/X, [12/17/23]
- Right-wing social media personality Amuse suggested on X that “an entire US state had been conquered,” citing the new Minnesota flag design. The account posted: “What if we woke up on day and realized an entire US state had been conquered? Take a look at the new flag Minnesota is considering. It looks a lot like the Somali flag (MN has the highest percentage of Somali refugees thanks to Obama).” Twitter/X, [12/17/23]
- PJ Media published an article declaring that “the new flag’s adoption of Somali flag colors strongly implies that this community of new Minnesotans … is in the driver’s seat.” The article lamented that “instead of expecting the new Somali arrivals in Minnesota to become American … the new flag appears to be signaling that Minnesota has become Somalia,” and “the North Star state is likely to get more and more Somali as the days and years inexorably pass.” PJ Media, [12/18/23]
- Newsmax’s Rob Finnerty said on Wake Up America: “So the new flag, it is very similar to the flag of Somalia. And just so you know, 43,000 Somalians live in Minnesota.” Finnerty continued, “This flag is directly to appeal to the Somalian population in the state of Minnesota. And by the way, something like 60,000 Somalians across the southern border under Joe Biden's time in office.” Newsmax, *Wake Up America*, [12/19/23]
- Newsmax host Rob Schmitt stated that the flag redesigning commission “was a big conglomerate of who can be the wokest. And they said, ‘You know what? Let's get really, really woke and turn Minnesota's flag into the Somalian flag.’” He also used the story to call Somali American Rep. Ilhan Omar an “America-hating refugee.” Newsmax, *Rob Schmitt Tonight*, [12/18/23]
- One America News host Kara McKinney claimed on her show that Minnesota — “the conquered state” — had spent thousands of dollars to “spit on their cultural heritage and to instead seemingly raise a foreign flag above American soil.” McKinney cited a racist X post that suggested that Somali immigrants had “conquered” Minnesota, which the post described as “a state with historic Scandinavian ties … and generous welfare on offer.” McKinney also said the new design reminded her of an incident in which “a gang of migrant youth” reportedly attacked a man dressed as Santa Claus in Germany, before claiming that “large, roving migrant rape gangs preying on young women and girls, no-go zones, and rampant terror attacks” had turned “historically safe parts of Europe into dangerous hellholes.” She added, “Can’t wait to see what Middle East or African-inspired flags their historical flags get morphed into.” One America News, *Tipping Point with Kara McKinney*, [12/18/23]
- Far-right X account Right Angle News Network on the flag design: “We are being replaced and they aren’t even trying to hide it anymore.” The account added: “We must resist guys. It’s not racist to want to exist.” Twitter/X, [12/17/23]
- Conspiracy theory website World Net Daily suggested that “Somalis living in Minnesota … have brought their flag with them.” The article was titled “American state's new official flag looks like one from terror hotbed.” World Net Daily, [12/18/23]
- The Western Journal wrote: “The similarities between it [the proposed flag design] and the state flag for the Somalian state of Puntland are certainly undeniable.” Western Journal, [12/17/23]
- The Gateway Pundit published a story headlined “Revamped Minnesota State Flag Looks a Lot Like the Jubaland Somalian Flag for Some Strange Reason.” The Gateway Pundit, [12/18/23]
- Headline from TheBlaze: “Redesign of Minnesota state flag draws controversy as some say it resembles Somalian state flag: 'Yall are conquered.'” TheBlaze, [12/18/23]
- ## Right-wing media have long record of pushing racist “great replacement” rhetoric
- Right-wing media figures have spent years pushing the “great replacement” theory, which warns of a nefarious plot to erode the political power of white people by replacing them with nonwhite immigrants. The blood-soaked conspiracy theory has inspired a number of horrific events, including: the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017; the 2019 El Paso, Texas, shooting; the 2022 shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, and others. Media Matters, [6/30/22]
- Some right-wing figures have echoed the “great replacement” theory in their rhetoric attacking the Somali community in Minnesota. In 2020, the now-defunct right-wing group Project Veritas falsely accused Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and the Somali community in Minnesota of engaging in a “pay-for-votes” scheme. In 2021, former Trump official Ken Cuccinelli said “the Somali experience in Minnesota is not a good one for America.” Media Matters, [10/7/20, 9/16/23]
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- ## Police suffered injuries at the hands of the rioters and allowed some movement in an attempt to de-escalate
- The police union has said 140 police officers suffered injuries from January 6.The Washington Post, [1/27/21]
- Police battled to keep rioters out of the Capitol but in some cases stood by because they were outnumbered or engaged politely to try to de-escalate.CNN reported:
The claim that the rioters were invited into the Capitol is false. ... There were hours-long battles between police and rioters near some entrances. CNN obtained footage from police body-worn cameras showing how dozens of officers engaged in hand-to-hand combat with rioters in a desperate effort to keep them out of the building. There are plenty of instances where rioters waltzed into the Capitol without a fight, but only after they had stormed past barricades and, in some cases, even stepped through broken windows. In some areas, police were so outnumbered by the mob that they retreated, stood aside or tried to politely engage with rioters to de-escalate the situation rather than fighting or making arrests, but that is clearly not the same as welcoming rioters into the building. CNN, [1/4/22]
- Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger stated that Capitol Police “did their best to use de-escalation tactics to try to talk rioters into getting each other to leave the building.” In a memo to staff, Manger disputed “outrageous and false” claims that Capitol Police served as “tour guides” for Jacob Chansley, aka the QAnon Shaman. Manger wrote that “Capitol Police were badly outnumbered on Jan. 6” and that “those officers did their best to use de-escalation tactics to try to talk rioters into getting each other to leave the building.” The Washington Post, [3/7/23]
- Capitol Police officers testified to the January 6 Committee that the day was “nothing short of brutal,” that there was “carnage” and it was a “war scene.” The committee also aired body camera footage from the officers that showed rioters shoving officers and pushing down barricades outside the Capitol. NPR, [7/27/21, 6/23/21, The Associated Press, 6/10/22]
- Police onsite were massively outnumbered by rioters, with an estimated 2,000 people entering the Capitol building and under 200 officers at the Capitol building itself. Forbes, [12/16/21, ABC7, 1/6/22]
- ## Right-wing media claim police allowed protestors to enter the Capitol and suggest that means it wasn’t a violent insurrection
- Newsmax host Greg Kelly stated that it is “actually not true” that rioters broke into the Capitol and instead “some people were invited inside, and the police officers seemed to welcome them there.” While showing footage of protestors entering, Kelly also asserted that “this blows open the preferred January 6 narrative.” Newsmax, *Greg Kelly Reports*, [11/17/23]
- Newsmax host Eric Bolling said the footage shows Capitol police “escorting the protestors.” He asked his guest Rudy Giuliani, “I mean, does that look like an overthrow of the United States government to you, sir?” Newsmax, *Eric Bolling The Balance*, [11/17/23]
- Also on Newsmax, host Rob Schmitt claimed that protesters in the Capitol looked like they were taking “a tour,” adding that the “QAnon Shaman was actually escorted into the Capitol by police.” Schmitt acknowledged that there was some violence but nevertheless told his audience, “This is a much different day than it was portrayed by the media and by your members of Congress” and called the footage “an important reminder to always, always question what you are told by your government.” In fact, as The Associated Press reported in March, court documents and video footage from the attack show that the QAnon Shaman “entered the Capitol without permission, was repeatedly asked to leave the building and was not accompanied at all times.” Newsmax, *Rob Schmitt Tonight*, [11/17/23; The Associated Press, 3/7/23]
- Conservative podcast host Kyle Becker called the footage “bizarre” for showing rioters “casually walking the halls.”He posted, “This newly released J6 video is BIZARRE. All of these dangerous ‘insurrectionists’ casually walking the halls... right next to Capitol Police and FBI agents in full riot gear. WHAT is going on here? 👀” Twitter/X, [11/18/23]
- Right-wing personality Liz Wheeler claimed that Capitol police were “directing the insurrectionists” with a “handshake & pat on the back.” She posted, “Capitol police directing the insurrectionists who to insurrection with a handshake & pat on the back. Mark my words, the key to alllll of this lies with Nancy Pelosi.” Twitter/X, [11/17/23]
- Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk asserted that “the J6 Committee’s violent insurrection narrative has crumbled” and called for the immediate release of rioters. He posted, “And just like that the J6 Committee’s violent insurrection narrative has crumbled. The Capitol Police facilitated the protesters passage through the building. The vast majority of J6ers should be immediately released.” Twitter/X, [11/17/23]
- Conservative commentator Benny Johnson noted police “were giving handshakes to protestors” and determined that “this is not an insurrection.” He posted, “Capitol Police were giving handshakes to protesters. Now ask yourselves this; In which ‘insurrection’ or ‘Rebellion’ in history would this have happened in? None — because this is not an ‘insurrection.’” Twitter/X, [11/17/23]
- Conservative commentator Rogan O'Handley, also known as DC Draino, posted, “Wow what an ‘insurrection’! Watch as J6ers slowly walk past Capitol Police who just watch. Democrats said this was worse than 9/11.” X, [11/17/23]
- Right-wing conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer dismissed concerns of right-wing violence at the Capitol because Capitol police were “fist-bumping” rioters. She said: “Oh, if these cops are so concerned, and this was really worse than 9/11 and Pearl Harbor combined, and, you know, it's like a modern day Nazi rally in our nation's capital, why is it that the Capitol Police are fist-bumping these people?” Rumble, *Loomer Unleashed*, [11/17/23]
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15 nonsensical comments made by right-wing media during 2023’s summer of climate-fueled extreme weather events
Special PROGRAMS
CLIMATE & ENERGY
WRITTEN BY ALLISON FISHER
PUBLISHED 08/07/23
July 2023 was the earth’s hottest month on record, punctuated by record-shattering extreme heat events, catastrophic floods, and historic wildfires. While major media outlets sounded the alarm on the climate crisis, climate denial and downplay reached a fever pitch among right-wing media outlets and influencers.
Many in the right-wing media have downplayed the record heat — suggesting that it’s normal summer weather, despite clear evidence that the intensity of this summer’s heat waves would not have been possible without climate change — or dismissed its lethal impact by arguing that more people die of cold than heat. Others have said those linking July’s extreme weather to climate change are weaponizing these events to push a radical climate agenda or call for climate lockdowns.
Here are 15 other examples that illustrate the lengths to which right-wing media are going — often deploying nonsensical arguments or outright lies that attempt to ignore the fact that there is scientific consensus that carbon emissions are heating our planet— to maintain climate denial in the face of climate-fueled catastrophes:
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response to extreme weather that grounded planes in the Northeast, Fox host Rachel Campos-Duffy said the left is “trying to control the weather” and “trying to be God.” [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 7/3/23]
Responding to calls for climate action, Newsmax host Eric Bolling denied that human activity is responsible for warming: “Real scientists, meaning those not purchased by the kings of propaganda, well, they’ll tell you there is actually no such thing as climate change.” [Newsmax, Eric Bolling The Balance, 7/11/23]
Fossil fuel shill Steve Milloyon Newsmax’s Rob Schmitt Tonight: “The Earth is greener than ever before. Have we affected the planet and wildlife? Yeah, sure. But you know, in the end, it's been, I think, positive. The Earth is carrying more life now than ever before thanks to warming, thanks to CO2, thanks to fossil fuel use.” [Newsmax, Rob Schmitt Tonight, 7/11/23]
Newsmax host Greg Kelly said that “LGBTQ+IA whatever has been kind of pushed so relentlessly. … I think climate change and the whole phony debate about it has something to do with it,” suggesting the goal is to decrease population in order to reduce climate impacts. [Newsmax, Greg Kelly Reports, 7/11/23]
Fox host Jesse Watters suggested that U.S. special presidential envoy for climate John Kerry made it “impossible” to believe in climate change because according to Watters he lied about using a private plane. [Fox News, Jesse Watters Primetime, 7/13/23]
Conservative radio and Fox News host Mark Levin on his radio show said climate change is a religion not based on science: “This is a religion. This is an ideology. This isn’t science. ...Don't you see how hot it is in Nevada? In the middle of the damn summer? It's what we have air conditioning for.” [Westwood One, The Mark Levin Show, 7/13/23]
Far-right media host Steven Crowder claims that carbon dioxide is not pollution because plants use it: “Is carbon dioxide the — basically, you know, the neurotoxin atmospheric poison that people make it out to be? Because you just pointed out plants thrive on it.” [Rumble, Louder with Crowder, 7/15/23]
Fox host Greg Gutfeld attempted to downplay the record-breaking heat with bizarre logic: “The problem with using weather — like saying, ‘This place broke records’ — how many states, how many countries didn't break records? Nobody ever provides you the context. They’re going, ‘Three countries had record-breaking heat waves.’ It’s like, well, how many countries are there?” [Fox News, The Five, 7/17/23]
The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh claimed that the record heat is not a result of human activity but the sun: “The sun … that’s what calls the shots on Earth. It determines the temperature. It determines everything in terms of weather. … And until you can figure out a way to literally control the sun, there is basically nothing we can do to intentionally and significantly raise, lower, or otherwise affect the temperature on Earth.” [The Daily Wire, The Matt Walsh Show, 7/18/23]
The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro: “Thank God we have this thing called air conditioning. … You know what’s a great cure for being super-duper hot outside? Being a first world country.” [The Daily Wire, The Ben Shapiro Show, 7/20/23]
Fox Business host Larry Kudlow on America Reports: “This is not an overly hot July. ... Hot weather happens in some places; cooler weather happens in other places. We do not have a climate catastrophe.” [Fox News, America Reports, 7/21/23]
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk on climate science and why carbon dioxide is not pollution: “The science is not solid. The science is debated. They look at science as if it is religious, irrefutable dogma.” Kirk added, “The built-in premise of the climate hoax is carbon is bad. OK, well, carbon is life, actually. … Don’t plants thrive on carbon dioxide?” [Real America’s Voice, The Charlie Kirk Show, 7/24/23]
On The Ingraham Angle, American Majority founder Ned Ryun called climate change a “hoax”: “It is nothing more than an attempt to manipulate people into a state of fear to have them give more control over to a ruling elite who would take this hoax and enforce it through a whole host of means.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 7/27/23]
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Rob Schmitt: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
By Erin Laviola
Updated Dec 11, 2019 at 10:00am
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Rob Schmitt is the co-anchor of Fox & Friends First, which airs at 5 a.m. on weekdays, along with Jillian Mele. Schmitt joined Fox News in June 2016 after honing his reporting skills at local TV stations.
Schmitt is not shy about how much he shares on social media. The 36-year-old Indiana native has posted several shirtless photos of himself on vacation. What he does keep quiet are details about his dating life. If Schmitt has a girlfriend, he is keeping her under wraps. He has never been married.
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Here’s what you need to know.
- Rob Schmitt Grew Up Near Indianapolis & His Mother Was an Immigrant From Iran
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Rob Schmitt was born August 13, 1983. He was raised in the suburb of Carmel, located just north of Indianapolis.
He shared in a Fox News segment in 2017 that his mother’s family immigrated from Iran in the early 1970s. His mother, Farzaneh, met his father, Robert, in Cincinnati. They got married in 1976.
Schmitt stayed relatively close to home after graduating high school. He attended Indiana University in Bloomington, which is about 70 miles south of his hometown. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the Ernie Pyle School of Journalism in 2005.
- Schmitt Worked at a Golf Club in High School & Still Enjoys the Sport
Rob Schmitt loves to golf and he’s been playing the sport for the majority of his life. His mother shared that when she was pregnant with Rob, his father went out and bought a plastic golf club.
Schmitt said he learned to golf alongside his father at the Brookshire Golf Club in Carmel. He then got used to early morning hours when he got a job at the golf club in high school. In the Fox News segment referenced above, Schmitt’s father recalled that he used to ride his bike to the golf club at 5 a.m.
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Schmitt has kept up with the sport and has taken to the links alongside co-anchor Jillian Mele, who also enjoys golfing. They both participated in the Ray Pfeifer Foundation Golf Classic in June 2018 at Lake Success, New York. The annual event raises money to help September 11th first responders, firefighters and police pay for medical expenses that aren’t covered by insurance.
- Rob Schmitt Has Never Been Married & Keeps His Dating Life Under Wraps
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Rob Schmitt’s marital status is single. He has never shared any photos or dropped any hints on social media about his dating life.
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But Schmitt’s not shy about sharing photos of himself being goofy with his friends. And he’s not bashful about posting photos of himself without a shirt. His social media photos include multiple comments from fans praising him for his good looks.
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8 days with my mother in Italy ??- should be very interesting #florence #italy #tuscany
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In September 2017, he went on vacation to Italy with his mother. One commenter teased Schmitt about it, writing, “Finally, a pic of you with a beautiful woman.”
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Day 1 with Jillian – she hasn’t killed me yet. If you’re not an early bird.. flip on Fox News when you wake up to pee. 5am EST ??
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Co-anchor Jillian Mele is also single, leading to speculation that perhaps the two coworkers have a relationship that is more than just professional. Commenters on social media have posted messages about a possible “showmance.” But neither Schmitt nor Mele has indicated they are anything more than friends.
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Rob Schmitt (born August 13, 1983) is an American television personality who served as a co-host on Fox & Friends First. He stopped appearing on the network in August 2020 and currently hosts the nightly program Rob Schmitt Tonight on Newsmax.
Biography
Schmitt was born on August 13, 1983 and raised in Carmel, Indiana, the son of Farzaneh and Robert Schmitt (German descent).[1] His mother is an immigrant from Iran.[1] In 2005, Schmitt graduated with a B.A. in journalism from Indiana University.[1]^
In 2008, he accepted a position as a weekend anchor at the ABC affiliate WPLG-TV in Miami, Florida.[1] In 2011, he accepted a position as an anchor with CBS Los Angeles and in 2013, as an anchor at WNBC-TV in New York City.[1] In 2016, he moved to Fox News where he served as co-host on Fox Nation with Carley Shimkus[2] and worked as a co-anchor of Fox & Friends First with Jillian Mele.[1] In August 2020, Schmitt ceased appearances on Fox and started appearing in Newsmax content.[3] His nightly program, Rob Schmitt Tonight, premiered on Newsmax on December 21, 2020. Schmitt resides in the East Hamptons.
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