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Here are the right-wing media figures endorsing “despicable” ad from Ohio Republican gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy

The ad features Democratic nominee Amy Acton’s estranged mother, who defended her husband’s reported sexual assault of Acton when she was a child

Written by Zachary Pleat

Research contributions from Gideon Taaffe

Published 10/21/26

Multiple right-wing media figures are promoting an ad released this week by Ohio Republican gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign targeting his Democratic opponent, Amy Acton, featuring her mother calling her a liar. However, Acton has been estranged from her parent since the age of 12 in 1978, when her mother defended the candidate’s stepfather against accusations he had sexually assaulted Acton for two years, then fled the state with him as he became a fugitive from charges of child sexual abuse.

In Ramaswamy’s ad, which right-wing media personalities praised as “brilliant” and “absolutely hilarious,” Acton’s estranged mother accused her of lying about her past. But court records accessed by ABC affiliate News 5 Cleveland back up Acton’s story, with the outlet reporting, “Mahoning County Court records we obtained show that Cledith Arthur was arrested and charged with sexually abusing Acton, then 12 years old. The abuse went from ages 10-12, she said.” The article continued: “After pleading not guilty, he posted bond and fled, becoming a fugitive of the state until his death in 2004. Police tried to find him for numerous years, documents state. He and Acton's mother moved to Pennsylvania, according to public records.”

Acton’s brother, Philip Stearns, issued a statement following the Ramaswamy ad’s release, saying, “It’s not surprising that Vivek Ramaswamy has stooped to such a despicable low as to attempt to turn the sexual abuse Amy endured at twelve years old from our birth mother’s husband into a political talking point. … After he was arrested and Amy and I were removed from their custody, our birth mother stayed married to Amy’s rapist until he died.”

Yet some right-wing media personalities are celebrating the ad, which Ramaswamy campaign manager Jonathan Ewing said “is a campaign-ending moment for Amy Acton.” Ramaswamy also shared commentary on the ad and Acton more generally from right-wing podcaster Megyn Kelly.

Daily Wire host Michael Knowles praised Ramaswamy’s ad as “brilliant, brilliant.” Knowles added: “I think it's a very, very effective ad. It's brutal.” [The Daily Wire, The Michael Knowles Show, 10/20/26]

Newsmax host Greg Kelly: “Everybody in Ohio and the country should be listening to Amy Acton's mom.” Kelly repeatedly praised Acton’s mother, saying, “The mother speaks with love here. I believe the mother loves Amy.” He continued: “And she seems like a very nice lady, actually.” Kelly concluded: “Wow, that's some — the mother, I believe her.” [Newsmax, The Greg Kelly Show, 10/20/26]

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From the October 20, 2026, edition of Newsmax's Greg Kelly Reports

Podcaster and former FBI deputy director Dan Bongino said of Ramaswamy’s ad: “This is the most destructive political ad I have ever seen.” Bongino added: “How do you vote for this lady? It's her mom. That's mom dukes. Ma, mommy, mom, ma. My kid goes, Ma. How do you vote?” [Rumble, The Dan Bongino Show, 10/20/26]

Trump political operative Roger Stone used the ad to smear Acton, saying, “Turns out she’s been lying for personal gain.” Stone claimed that Stearn’s statement “seems like a poor explanation.” [Red Apple Audio Network, The Stone Zone, 10/20/26]

Gateway Pundit’s Wayne Allyn Root called the ad “absolutely hilarious.” Root used the ad to say, “The more you meet these Democrat candidates, they’re all crazy. They’re all covering up for the fact that they’ve had mental illness their whole life. They’re crazy, whacked-out people.” [The Gateway Pundit, War Zone with Wayne Allyn Root, 10/20/26]

Newsmax host on Vivek Ramaswamy attack ad featuring Amy Acton's estranged mother: “Everybody in Ohio and the country should be listening to Amy Acton's mom”

10/21/26 8:56 AM EDT

Daily Wire host praises “brilliant, brilliant” attack ad featuring Amy Acton's estranged mother: “Incredible stuff is going on”

10/21/26 9:00 AM EDT

Dan Bongino praises Vivek Ramaswamy attack ad on Amy Acton: “This is the most destructive political ad I have ever seen”

Dan Bongino rails at Republicans condemning attack ad featuring Amy Acton's estranged mother: “What kind of freaking party is this? Holy Moses, man, take the freaking gloves off.”

10/21/26

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Greg Kelly claims CNN “deserve” their ban from the White House grounds

09/23/26

Newsmax host Rob Finnerty: “A press pass to the White House is a privilege and definitely not a right”

09/23/26

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Newsmax host Greg Kelly: “These are exciting times. There’s no reason to feel down. We are winning in Iran. Gas prices were higher under George W. Bush 20 freaking years ago! It is amazing what they have pulled off.”

09/18/26

Fox & Friends keeps pushing Trump to expand the Iran war to Yemen

09/18/26

MAGA media's broken promises about higher gas prices

09/18/26

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Newsmax host says he was “out of line” during Peter Navarro interview for interrupting the “totally brilliant” “MAGA royalty” “hero”

Greg Kelly: “I'm usually in a listening mode. Woke up on the wrong side of the bed, had a chip on my shoulder that night. I don't know what, but I was interrupting."

Written by Media Matters Staff

Published 09/14/26 1:17 PM EDT

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From the September 11, 2026, edition of Newsmax's Greg Kelly Reports

GREG KELLY (HOST): Counselor to the president, Peter Navarro — the man is MAGA royalty. Totally brilliant, PhD. He's also a guy who just follows the truth. He doesn't let prevailing conventional wisdom get in the way. No, the man is brave. He has been arrested, right, for his integrity. Remember that whole fiasco about January 6? Whether it was COVID or trade, he's made great, great points about election integrity. The man is a hero, OK?

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Folks, I got to tell you, I'm usually in a listening mode. Woke up on the wrong side of the bed, had a chip on my shoulder that night. I don't know what, but I was interrupting. Folks who watch this show know I don't like to interrupt. But I did. And maybe I got it in my head, oh, well, Peter, maybe, did he leak something? No, he didn't leak anything. He was spot on, and I was out of line.

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I wanted to kind of clear this up, and I also wanted to — why am I clearing it up? Well, September 11. This is the 25th anniversary, right? And who out there can procrastinate, right? I'm the worst. I tell you, I can get things done that are super duper important, that must be done, deadlines and all that stuff.

But when it came time to apologizing to Peter Navarro, right, I got it in my head, first of all, well, wait a second, I don't have to, I, you know [unintelligible] — I don't know. I had to apologize. I saw a tweet from somebody and they said, wow, it's really nice that Peter Navarro let Greg Kelly talk. It's supposed to be the other way around. So also I noticed the thing that a lot of us have — I know I have. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. I'll write him a letter. I'll send him a book. I will — and it becomes this whole thing. And it becomes another way of not doing what you have to do. Apologizing. And I apologized to Peter Navarro, and it was my fault. He didn't deserve that, and it felt good to apologize. And it felt even better when he accepted my apology.

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Newsmax attacks Fox for ousting Maria Bartiromo

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Newsmax host claims Minnesota Senate candidate and Native American Peggy Flanagan “is not an Indian”

08/13/26

Senate candidate and Native American Peggy Flanagan “is not an Indian”

Flanagan is a member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe. Newsmax's Greg Kelly says “she passes herself off as an Indian — I have my doubts.”

Written by Media Matters Staff

Published 08/13/26

Peggy Flanagan, the lieutenant governor of Minnesota, has spoken openly and repeatedly about how she is a citizen of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe. She is also the daughter of the famed Native land rights and sovereignty activist Marvin Manypenny.

August 12, 2026, edition of Newsmax's Greg Kelly Reports

GREG KELLY (HOST): She passes herself off as an Indian — I have my doubts. Is this Pocahontas 2? Sacagawea? Alright. Who is this person? This is Peggy Flanagan. She was the, or is the lieutenant governor up there in Minnesota. She is now the Democrat nominee to be the next U.S. senator.

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KELLY: So this is a person who identifies as a Chippewa Indian, alright? But it's the same person I saw win last night, the primary, Peggy. Peggy is not an Indian, I don't care what they say, right? This is a — I mean, you know what it reminds me of a little bit? Pocahontas, right? Pocahontas 2. I think the name for, what's her name again? Peggy? Peggy. Sacagawea, can we call her Sacagawea? I don't know, maybe she's got 10%, 2%, 5%, it really shouldn't matter. And all of the advantages you get on certain applications. I wonder, I wonder, I wonder.

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Newsmax's Greg Kelly: “This arrangement with Meta is going to be great for us, for them, and for you. And I think for me too, actually. I have a stake in this, big time.”

07/29/26

July 28, 2026, edition of Newsmax's Greg Kelly Reports

GREG KELLY (HOST): Newsmax and Meta, the parent company of Facebook, joining forces. A new partnership has been signed between these two great companies. Now, it will give Meta access to Newsmax's extensive content. This is a really big deal. Meta is one of the biggest online companies. And, again, yes, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram. Newsmax sees this partnership as just the beginning of its move into AI, and we are proud to be partnering with Meta. If you like more information, go to newsmaxinvest[dot]com, and you can find out what's happening here. The New York Stock Exchange — you know, we're sold publicly now. And this arrangement with Meta is going to be great for us, for them, and for you. And I think for me too, actually. I have a stake in this, big time.

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  1. ### Newsmax host: “E. Jean Carroll, you're never going see a lick of that money, and I think you're going see prison”

05/29/26

May 28, 2026, edition of Newsmax's Greg Kelly Reports

GREG KELLY (HOST): So, political enemies, political enemies. What — does that make you special? It really doesn't. It doesn't. The Constitution has a few things to say about all of this stuff, and it has a lot to say about the president's power. And the Department of Justice, they think they're very, very special. Right? The Department of Justice. Have you ever heard them talk about themselves, like, as if they are, I don't know, better than everybody else, as if they're their own branch of government?

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KELLY: It sounds wholesome in a way. Right? The people's lawyer, the people's lawyer. No. The Department of Justice is a component within the executive branch. The executive branch. You guys are not independent. You're not. You shouldn't be. This is a fiction, post-Watergate fiction, and it's gone into hyperdrive with President Trump. President Trump.

The executive branch is President Trump. 77.3 million votes in the 2024 election makes him the executive branch of government. This is a building. It's the Department of Justice. It's part of the executive branch. The people who work there are employees of the executive branch. And let's pretend they all quit. They all quit. They just walked out. All those career prosecutors, if they quit, and let's say all of the good guys suddenly got sick or the CIA poisoned them and nobody could come to work. President Trump, according to the Constitution, could actually walk in to a courtroom and submit paperwork saying, I believe this guy is guilty, and this is my affidavit. It's — there's nothing wrong with that. It is — now, they have regulations, and they have their customs, and they have their norms, but you can't find norms in the Constitution. It's the Constitution, baby, and he's on solid ground.

And E. Jean Carroll, you're never going see a lick of that money, and I think you're going see prison.

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  1. ### Newsmax host on Democrats: “I want the DOJ to crush these people. ... I want revenge. ... I want my tax dollars to wreck these people.”

05/29/26

May 28, 2026, edition of Newsmax's Carl Higbie: Frontline

CARL HIGBIE (HOST): Well, when Democrats do unprecedented things, you have to counter with unprecedented means. If you take a swing at the king, libs, you better not miss, and you missed in a major way.

:{Look, I don't really care. The DOJ buried the little guy with their sham January 6 investigation, and I am totally fine with going tit for tat here. Don't give me the oh, when does it stop? We didn't start this. They did. It stops when we get even. Even. Like, Old Testament even. Because then, they will know that there is a cost for doing the stupid things that they did, especially with this — you can't just lie about somebody raping you and use it as a political talking point to sway a national election.

They should be going after Christine Blasey Ford too, if you remember. Her — no specifics lady who accused Brett Kavanaugh of raping her. She had even fewer details than E. Jean Carroll. Three, four decades later, mysteriously just pops out of nowhere when he was up for a Supreme Court seat. He didn't remember who she was. Then he gets confirmed, and now where is she? No charges. Just vanished. Lady, if it was such a big deal that you went wall-to-wall media interviews, Kavanaugh was such a bad guy. She didn't file any charges, not all not only leading up to that for 40 years, but nothing after he got confirmed. She just let it go? OK.}:

I want to see every single one of those people charged, tried, and locked up for this. Because if we don't, years from now, when Trump is gone, they're going to do it all over again to somebody else, and they may not have billions of dollars of their own money to back it up. Democrats will do whatever they want because there's apparently never any consequences. Remember when they use these bogus cases as a justification to literally remove Trump from the ballot in places like Colorado and Maine. You want to talk about unprecedented, Trump's unprecedented. Dude, you guys took the guy off the ballot. Libs couldn't throw him in jail, they couldn't beat him at the ballot box, so they literally removed him from the ballot until SCOTUS stepped in.

:{I want to — I want the DOJ to crush these people. I'm fine with my tax — I'll pay more taxes for that. And if you can't find them guilty, no problem. Just do what they did. I don't know. What did they do to the January — oh, that's right. The January 6 people. They locked them all up, and some of them didn't get a trial. They were in solitary confinement for years. They tried to bury those people. You know what? And if you can't do that, just bury him in legal expenses like they did to Mike Flynn. That's right. They charged him with things and things and more things, and then he had to sell his house, and he was out of money and had to plead out of it. Like, I don't care anymore.

We the people, reelected Donald Trump despite all the mudslinging by the left because we want it, and I'm just going to call it what it is. I want revenge. I do. OK. Dems violated every norm. Now I want my tax dollars to wreck these people. You can call me petty from whatever ivory tower you sit in, but I don't care. I will tap dance on your political grave with a smile on my face because I am just like probably almost every one of the other 80 million people on the Republican side that is sick and tired of this stuff.}:

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05/05/26

https://www.mediamatters.org/greg-kelly/newsmaxs-greg-kelly-says-hysteria-about-high-gas-prices-artificial)

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A tale of two right-wing networks on Joe diGenova

Written by Matt Gertz

Published 04/21/26

While Newsmax hosts celebrate GOP lawyer and conspiracy theorist Joe diGenova’s appointment to a post overseeing investigations of President Donald Trump’s political foes, their counterparts at Fox News — which apparently banned diGenova from appearing years ago — have mentioned the news just one time, in passing, on Sunday afternoon.

Newsmax hosts celebrate as the DOJ hires Joe diGenova}:

News broke over the weekend that Trump’s former personal lawyer and acting Attorney General Todd Blanche had appointed diGenova, a figure in numerous right-wing pseudoscandals over the last three decades who represented Trump’s 2020 campaign in election fraud lawsuits, as his counselor and tasked him with overseeing the Justice Department’s “Grand Conspiracy” probe. That investigation unifies a hodgepodge of “deep state” conspiracy theories touted by right-wing media into a single framework seemingly intended to defeat statutes of limitations and target a vast swathe of Democratic politicians and former federal law enforcement officials.

On Newsmax, where diGenova has appeared regularly in recent years, hosts cheered the news.

“We have congratulations to share with Joe diGenova," Newsmax’s Greg Kelly said on the network’s flagship prime-time show. “Good luck, Joe. Did you hear? He's got a big gig at the Department of Justice. One of our favorite guests on this show will be counselor to the attorney general. That is a big-deal role.”

“He knows what they did to President Trump,” Kelly claimed. “And he wants justice. He has said it many, many times right here on this show. I think it's part of the reason why he may have the job now. It's so awesome.”

Kelly also praised diGenova as a “superstar” and someone who “thinks creatively, ethically, honestly, but creatively” and claimed the lawyer “is so fired up for this role."

On-screen text during the segment read, “A regular on the show gets a new job."

Newsmax’s Carl Higbie likewise touted the news, calling diGenova a “friend of this network” who will be overseeing what Higbie called “the DOJ probe into this Russian origin thing.” (Trump and his media allies argue that the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election was corrupt and its perpetrators should be prosecuted; previous attempts to turn their conspiracy theories into federal cases failed after a three-year special counsel probe by a Trump-appointed U.S. attorney.)

While Newsmax’s stars throw a parade over diGenova’s appointment, their Fox counterparts have been largely silent. Thus far, the entirety of the network’s coverage since the news broke late Friday has been a single passing mention on Sunday afternoon.

“The Trump administration is dismantling the deep state,” host Tomi Lahren said at the top of a segment on The Big Weekend Show. “The DOJ has now tapped former Trump attorney Joe diGenova to spearhead the probe into ex-CIA Director John Brennan and others over the Russian hoax."

The news went unmentioned on Monday, including on the network’s flagship “straight-news” program, Special Report, and the scandal-happy programs hosted by Laura Ingraham, Jesse Watters, and Sean Hannity.

Fox is in a strained position, because while the network spent years feverishly demanding and supporting the prosecutions of Trump’s enemies over dubious premises, its leaders are seemingly also aware that diGenova is not credible.

DiGenova made more than 100 appearances on Fox News weekday programs in 2018 and 2019, and dozens more on its sister channel, Fox Business — but both networks appear to have banned the GOP lawyer in late 2019. He has not appeared on Fox News weekday programs since October 8, 2019, according to our database.

DiGenova and his wife and legal partner, Victoria Toensing, disappeared from Fox News following a sequence of events that demonstrated their lack of credibility.

    1. DiGenova used a Fox appearance to call then-Fox senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano “a fool” for suggesting earlier that day that Trump had committed a crime by soliciting campaign aid in a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
    1. A few days later, diGenova and Toensing lashed out at then-Fox anchor Chris Wallace for reporting that they had been working “off the books” with Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer, on his effort to smear Joe Biden over Ukraine.
    1. The day after diGenova’s final Fox interview, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman — who had been working alongside diGenova, Toensing, Giuliani, and conservative columnist John Solomon on the Ukraine disinformation plot — were arrested by federal law enforcement en route to Vienna, Austria, to reportedly help set up an interview between Hannity and Viktor Shokin, the corrupt former Ukrainian prosecutor at the heart of the disinformation campaign.

Their appearances on Fox Business, however, continued for a few more weeks — until diGenova used one to utter a widely condemned antisemitic screed, at which point the couple stopped appearing there as well.

Then in February 2020, The Daily Beast reported on a 162-page internal Fox News research briefing book detailing the “unrelenting disinformation campaign originating from Ukraine.” “Notable are the roles of Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing in spreading disinformation and their parroting of beneficial narratives while employed by [pro-Russia Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry] Firtash,” the document noted. It also highlighted their “non-disclosure of financial motives and representation of Firtash while spreading false and misleading stories."

DiGenova and Toensing subsequently became Newsmax contributors.

Now someone Fox’s own research division panned for “spreading disinformation” will be running the Trump administration’s latest efforts to criminalize their opponents. The network has spent years feeding the flames of the conspiracy theories that diGenova will now be investigating — but highlighting his new role might force the network to confront what it means that someone it’s apparently deemed unreliable is leading that charge.

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  1. ### Newsmax's Greg Kelly on Joe diGenova's DOJ appointment: “One of our favorite guests on this show will be counselor to the attorney general”

04/21/26

  1. ### Newsmax's Greg Kelly on the threat of measles: “Chillax a little bit”

04/21/26

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  1. ### Newsmax's Greg Kelly says Zohran Mamdani “almost looks like Saddam Hussein here. He doesn't look like a nice man.”

03/12/26

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Right-wing media figures are getting briefed on the Iran war before Congress

Benny Johnson and Brian Kilmeade appear to have more information than just about any elected representative

Written by John Knefel

Research contributions from Sophie Lawton

Published 03/02/26

A defining feature of President Donald Trump’s second term is its symbiotic relationship with media allies, both at traditional right-wing outlets like Fox News and among the newer cohort of MAGA podcasters and online influencers — in some cases, these figures know more about Trump’s upcoming policy decisions than members of Congress. That dynamic was fully on display in the lead-up to the unprovoked bombing campaign the United States and Israel launched against Iran on February 28.

Prior to Trump’s initiation of the war, MAGA streamer Benny Johnson and Newsmax host Greg Kelly appeared to have insider information about when the first round of strikes would occur. Beyond them, Fox News host Brian Kilmeade and contributor Jack Keane claimed to have been involved in high-level briefings on the campaign.

Johnson, who was fired by Buzzfeed for plagiarism in 2014 and later disciplined by the Independent Journal Review for publishing false information, appears to have had unusually close access to officials in the Trump administration responsible for the decision to go to war.

On February 21, Johnson told his audience, “We are going to war with Iran. … I've been asking — I think that the cake's been baked.” It was unclear at the time whether he had inside information or was speculating, as he later added, referring to the publicly reported military build up, “the maps don't lie, OK? It’s happening.”

Johnson returned to the subject on February 27, just hours before the U.S.-Israeli campaign began. He began his show saying he’d just been “on the phone with top-level — let’s just say very high-level administration officials — moments ago to discuss what the plan is” for attacking Iran. Later in the same episode, Johnson claimed that he’d been talking with someone who is at the “top, top level of the administration, and we were yelling at each other — not yelling, but having polite conversation — about, like, what’s about to pop off in the Mid East.”

Ultimately, Johnson told his audience, “This is not a drill. It is actually happening,” adding: “I think in the next 24 hours we are going to see the world change. It may be the next 24 minutes, we're not exactly certain."

Newsmax host Kelly was even more precise. “A very well-informed person told me” the attack on Iran will happen Friday “after Wall Street closes,” Kelly said February 26.

By contrast, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), who sits on both the Senate committees on intelligence and on foreign relations, told reporters on February 28 that he was “learning like you are as the news unfolds exactly what's happening." The Trump administration reportedly briefed some congressional staff the following day, with a full briefing to Congress scheduled for March 3.

Johnson and Kelly weren’t the only right-wing media figures enjoying extraordinary access to high-level information. Over at Fox, Kilmeade — a weekday Fox & Friends host who came in to cover a weekend shift — said on March 1 that he “was fortunate enough to be in a briefing with high-ranking Trump officials” a day earlier.

The same morning, Keane offered more granular detail, implying a high degree of insider information. “The [Persian] Gulf states are adequately defending themselves,” said Keane, a retired general and former Army vice chief of staff. “Three of them are preparing for combat, offensive operations. One has already started and two others are about to get going. I'm not going to talk about who they are, but that is being coordinated with Adm. Cooper and Central Command. These will be coordinated, selected targets, and they will contribute to the offensive nature of what’s taken place."

Keane’s comments on Fox the next day suggested he’d been provided with high-level briefings that everything is going smoothly. “The military has got a plan here that I have been privy to understand and it is very comprehensive,” Keane said. “And we're going to stick with that plan until the conditions of these military objectives are met. So far, the plan is exceeding all expectations."

The access to White House war plans that Johnson, Kelly, Kilmeade, and Keane appear to have is even more noteworthy given that the Pentagon tightly controlled its first press briefing of the war on March 2 — having already largely replaced the traditional Pentagon press corps with a series of lackeys, grifters, conspiracists, and cranks. According to CNN’s Brian Stelter, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth — formerly of Fox News — “only answered questions from his chosen outlets” and had a “pre-selected list of questioners.” Those approved outlets didn’t include Hegseth’s former employer, whose correspondent was relegated to the back row and not called on for a question.

All administrations leak and try to manage public opinion through press operations. But the alignment of messaging and interests between the Trump White House and its media allies is unlike anything the United States has seen in recent memory. Sometimes that looks like providing right-wing influencers with embeds alongside Trump’s deportation agents; other times it looks like inviting MAGA media trolls to the White House to discuss antifa. Now, it looks like some of the most slavish voices in right-wing media are getting better information more quickly than members of Congress as the United States and Israel unleash yet more destruction in the Middle East.

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## NEWSMAX'S GREG KELLY DEFENDS HOWARD LUTNICK AMID EPSTEIN REVELATIONS: “EVERYONE'S SAYING, WELL, HE LIED. ... I DON'T SEE IT THAT WAY.” 02/11/26 9:26 AM EST

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February 9, 2026, edition of Newsmax's Greg Kelly Reports

GREG KELLY (HOST): The silly bowl. Did you watch? I only watched a little bit. Sorry. It stands for so much — they're trying to destroy America. I do believe the NFL, they have no interest in this country or its culture. They're interested in money.

A couple of weird things just off the top. The Black national anthem. I know they do this in smaller games, but what the hell? I mean, it's crazy. The black, white and — no. Where's the red, white, and blue. It's green, black, and red, which is the pan-African color, apparently. Let's see.

Bad Bunny, bad guy. Why is he jumping up and down on a car? That's like a riot. That's code for rioting or something.

It's bad enough when these guys speak in English. I couldn't understand anything in Spanish. It's hard to tell what singers are singing about sometimes.

I think the whole thing had an LGBT, queer-ish kind of vibe, right? With the colors.

And not for nothing. But, you know, a lot of football players are killing themselves by playing football, right? I know those aren't the right guys, the right team, but CTE, that's a real bad thing. And that Goodell, he doesn't care about any of this. He cares about money mountain.

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As Minneapolis prosecutors resign over pressure to investigate Renee Good’s widow, right-wing media call for her arrest

Megyn Kelly on the ICE killing: “That wife got Renee Good killed — that's the truth. It was more the fault of the wife than the fault of the cop.”

Written by Gideon Taaffe & Reed McMaster

Published 01/13/26

As federal prosecutors in Minnesota are resigning over pressure to investigate Renee Good’s widow, who was present when an ICE agent killed Good last week, some in right-wing media have been calling for Good’s wife to be arrested, saying she committed a “felony” and that Good’s death “was more the fault of the wife than the fault of the cop.”

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  1. ### Right-wing media villainize and blame Renee Good for her own death in Minneapolis ICE shooting

01/09/26 3:53 PM EST

  1. ### A look at how Fox used its coverage of the Minneapolis ICE shooting to push the administration's propaganda

01/08/26 4:14 PM EST

  1. ### Joe Rogan: “I can also see the point of view of the people that say, ‘Yeah, but you don't want militarized people in the streets just roaming around snatching people up, many of which turn out to actually be U.S. citizens'”

01/13/26

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The Trump administration’s chum cycle

Media allies are fed bogus information they use to promise prosecutions of the president’s enemies

Written by Matt Gertz

Published 12/18/25 11:39 AM EST

The promise of President Donald Trump’s second term, according to his MAGA media allies, was that Trump loyalists installed at the heads of federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies would finally reveal the “deep state” corruption behind the myriad investigations into his misdeeds and bring his political enemies to justice. While the administration’s actual document releases have proven little, its strategy of chumming the water with red meat for the MAGA base has worked on the Trumpist propaganda corps, which has taken the bait and used it to demand a wave of arrests and prosecutions.

In the latest such salvo, Fox News Digital reported Tuesday morning that “the FBI did not believe it had probable cause to raid President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in 2022, but moved forward amid pressure from the Biden Justice Department,” citing “newly declassified documents” to which the outlet apparently received exclusive access. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and FBI Director Kash Patel quickly promoted Fox’s story; so did Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), who said he had received the “shocking new docs” that day and alleged they proved that the FBI’s search of the president’s home had been a “miscarriage of justice.”

But as legal reporters who had followed the Trump documents case swiftly noted, the GOP’s spin was nonsense.

The right’s propaganda apparatus nonetheless sprang into action.

MAGA slop artists like Benny Johnson rushed to social media to hype the “massive” story and demand “charges and arrests” in response.

Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon discussed the “blockbuster” story during his December 16 show with right-wing propaganda magnate John Solomon, who suggested the documents were “the most important document to date” and “could lead” to criminal charges or a civil suit from Trump.

That night, Solomon was on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show telling millions of viewers that the news, which Hannity termed “a bombshell revelation,” could trigger “legal consequences.” (Trump himself subsequently posted a clip of the segment on social media, then denounced “the FBI’s CRIMINAL RAID.”)

On Newsmax, host Greg Kelly even declared that “Jack Smith belongs in jail” over the Mar-a-Lago search, a bizarre conclusion given that Smith was prosecuting war crimes in Europe at the time and would not become special counsel until two months later.

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We’ve been seeing iterations of this pattern throughout this first year of Trump’s second term: The Trump administration chums the waters by handing over documents related to one of the myriad past investigations into the president’s actions; the president, top Trump officials, and Republican officeholders say they show a massive scandal; and mainstream reporters point out their narrative is farcical while MAGA media stars call for the indictment, arrest, prosecution, jailing, and perhaps execution of their political enemies.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard triggered a firestorm in July with her bogus claim that former President Barack Obama directed a “treasonous conspiracy” against Trump in 2016. While the documents she cited as evidence, originally provided to Fox, proved nothing of the sort, her claim was nonetheless accepted as gospel by MAGA media figures who spent weeks regurgitating her claims and demanding arrests of a litany of purported culprits. The president himself even posted to Truth Social an AI video featuring Obama being arrested and imprisoned.

In August, the purported “Clinton Plan” emails in a newly declassified annex to special counsel John Durham’s 2023 report supposedly unveiled a “plot” against Trump, leading to calls for Hillary Clinton’s imprisonment (Durham had assessed that the emails in question were forgeries created by Russian intelligence).

Two months later, it was FBI documents purporting to show that special counsel Jack Smith had been “spying” on GOP senators that led to right-wing outrage and calls for his arrest (the FBI had reviewed 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).

And now it’s the Mar-a-Lago search coming under scrutiny based on similarly dishonest readings of documents the administration has released.

Maybe this is all part of the Plan B that DOJ “Weaponization Working Group” head Ed Martin laid out in May — to “name” and “shame” people who the Justice Department proved unable to indict. If that’s the case, a rude awakening may be in store for the right-wing media figures who predicted “justice” was coming — and for the audiences who believed them.

But one can’t put anything past an authoritarian president who has installed loyalists who treat the Justice Department as his personal law firm, purged the law enforcement apparatus of anyone who thinks otherwise, and frequently demands probes into his political foes that his underlings scuttle to carry out.

The constant right-wing celebrations for Trump’s revenge tour can only increase the pressure on law enforcement to try to somehow bring cases against his foes. Indeed, Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered a grand jury probe into Gabbard’s nonsensical accusations in August; three months later, Reuters reported that prosecutors were drafting grand jury subpoenas “to investigate Obama-era intelligence officials.”

We’ll see where that goes in 2026.

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  1. ### Tulsi Gabbard’s Russiagate conspiracy theory can’t even survive a softball Fox News interview

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  1. ### NY Times reported John Durham found the “Clinton Plan” emails were likely created by Russian spies. Right-wing media are running with them as legitimate.

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  1. ### Newsmax host says Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) “does have a great record, but so did Benedict Arnold”

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November 25, 2025, edition of Newsmax's Finnerty

ROB FINNERTY (HOST): You're from Arizona. Why hasn't this happened? Why hasn't Mark Kelly already been court-martialed?

KARI LAKE (GUEST):Well, I hope that what we're hearing from the secretary of war, Pete Hegseth, is true, that they are investigating this and that these considerations are being taken. I'm appalled for the people of Arizona, that we have somebody who acts in such a seditious way who's representing us here in Washington, D.C.

But I'm not surprised. I mean, after all, remember, Rob, this is a guy, Mark Kelly, who went into outer space. I think he left his brain there, but he's been wining and dining off of that accolade for his entire adult life. And then he used it to run for office.

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He sold us out a long time ago in Arizona. So I'm not surprised by this new video, this seditious video for him calling for our military to disobey the commands of the commander-in-chief, President Donald J. Trump.

FINNERTY: And it just seems — go ahead.

LAKE: And I hope that we see some action on this.

FINNERTY: I do too. Mark Kelly tweeted this out. This is very bizarre. But he decided to tweet out all of his military achievements he was — and I'll read some of them. He was an ensign in the Navy. At 22, he served on the USS Midway, had 39 deployments in Desert Storm. He flew four missions to space for NASA. We thank him for his service, but he says he won't stand for anyone questioning his record.

He does have a great record, but so did Benedict Arnold, Kari. Don't you have a good record until suddenly you don't have a good record anymore?

LAKE: Yeah. When you call for — when you behave in a way that's seditious, your record immediately is tarnished. And his record, in my opinion, has been tarnished for some time. It's just that the American people maybe haven't known who he was or known much about it.

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I hope to see some action on this, because if we don't see action on the seditious six, we're going to see more of that kind of behavior and it could evolve into something truly dangerous for our great United States of America.

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the MAGA media response to six Democratic members of Congress reminding their former compatriots in the military and intelligence community of their duty to “refuse illegal orders” reached a fever pitch on Thursday. After President Donald Trump suggested earlier that day that the lawmakers should face the death penalty for sedition, his propagandists chimed in, describing the Democrats as “devious and subversive” and their actions as “border[ing] on treason.”

On Wednesday, Sens. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ), as well as Reps. Jason Crow (D-CO), Maggie Goodlander (D-NH), Chris Deluzio (D-PA), and Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA) released a video in which they urged current members of the military and intelligence community to disobey “illegal orders.” While they did not provide examples, the release came amid debates over the legality of U.S. military strikes in the Caribbean and domestic troop deployments. The video drew a deranged response from many on the right, who accused the lawmakers of committing “treason” and trying to “trigger a military coup.”

The president himself weighed in Thursday morning with a series of Truth Social posts in which he accused the lawmakers of “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR,” described them as “traitors to our Country,” and called for them to be “ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL” for crimes he described as “punishable by DEATH!” The lawmakers in the video and Democratic House leadership both condemned Trump’s posts, while White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed that Trump did not in fact seek the deaths of the members of Congress.

Trump is currently operating from a position of weakness, with his support in polls in a tailspinand his congressional allies having successfully revolted over the Jeffrey Epstein files. He’s previously responded to such circumstances by seeking to reunify his coalition by pointing them at a common enemy, and that seems to be what has happened this week. To the extent that he’s given his most loyal propagandists someone to attack, it’s working.

Fox News prime-time host Jesse Watters claimed on Thursday night that the “Democrats sent a clear message to everybody in the military and CIA: You're free to commit treason.” He described their actions as “devious and subversive,” said they were “planting coup seeds inside the Pentagon and at Langley,” and accused them of “psychological warfare launched by sitting politicians against the American military in peacetime” and “trying to blow up the chain of command.”

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Watters’ colleague Sean Hannity argued the next hour, “The only question tonight [is] will these six Democratic lawmakers be held accountable in a court of law?” He then commented that he’s “not sure” they committed crimes punishable by death because he’s “not a lawyer,” and asked Fox contributor and former Republican congressman Jason Chaffetz to weigh in. Chaffetz assured him that “what they did borders on treason. It really does.” He added that “President Trump was actually exactly right” because “If you do commit treason, guess what? It is punishable by death. That's just the law. He's just reciting the law.”

Their competitors at Newsmax were similarly enraged. Carl Higbie declared that Trump’s posts show he “is done playing around with garbage,” pointed out that “George Washington did hang traitors many times, including Benedict Arnold's British counterpart,” and claimed that the Democrats “should be court-martialed themselves” because “that type of rhetoric from senators and congressmen is sedition.” Greg Kelly commented that “a lot of people” think the lawmakers committed “treason, or mutiny, or something along those lines,” and accused them of “plotting the seeds, I think, of another coup.” And The Right Squad’s Chris Plante said the Democrats were “inciting civil war.”

And Laura Loomer, whose influence in the Oval Office has triggered the firings of numerous administration officials for insufficient loyalty, wrote: “President Trump just re posted a post on Truth Social calling for seditious Democrat Senators to be hung for calling on members of the military to defy President Trump’s orders as Commander in Chief.”

“Trump is right,” she added. “That’s the type of justice Americans want to see.”

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Newsmax's Greg Kelly says the Department of Justice owes Donald Trump one billion dollars

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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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  1. ### Newsmax's Greg Kelly tells Donald Trump: Fox News seems “to be at war with conservatives they don't like. And they gave you a really hard time, at times, over the past, well, nine years.”

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  1. ### Newsmax's Greg Kelly supports Trump's “enemy within” comment: “He has every right to say that, to believe it and to fight against it”

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  1. ### Fox anchor Bret Baier tried to explain away Trump's “enemy within” remark. Trump just proved him wrong — on Fox News.

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Newsmax host on Trump administration's Tylenol guidance: “Since the Democrats are so angrily denouncing it and they're wrong about everything, it's probably more likely to be true”

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  1. ### Newsmax's Greg Kelly on Ghislaine Maxwell: “She just might be a victim. She just might be. There was a rush to judgment.”

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Newsmax's Greg Kelly: “We need another real investigation about January 6, looking at the cops”

05/29/25

May 28, 2025, edition of Newsmax's Greg Kelly Reports A VERB?

GREG KELLY (HOST): Mike Johnson, I'm expecting more out of you.

Speaker Johnson, come on — you said this year that you were going to establish a new select subcommittee for the 119th Congress to continue House Republicans' investigation into all events leading up to and after January 6.

Now, a couple of things about this, folks. He announced his intent. Right? And what does he say there at the end, into all events leading up to and after January 6, right? Up to and after January 6? What's that all about? What about on January 6? You see, he's playing a little bit of a game there. OK. What else? We are establishing this select subcommittee to continue our efforts to uncover the full truth that is owed to the American people. Well, do it already. Do it. He's not doing it. All right, we can. Yeah. Yep, yep. You see, all events leading up to and after January 6 seems a little fishy to me.

All right, one other thing about this January 6 stuff and somebody who might just turn out to be an ally. See you later, Speaker Johnson. Officer Harry Dunn. Now, I don't like him. We were just talking about this guy. I picked up his book and I found something kind of fascinating in the book. Listen to what was different for him about January 6. Check this out. It's pretty wild.

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KELLY: Brand new helmets, OK. Brand new helmets. What's so special about brand new helmets? Brand new helmets on January 6? I'm not raising these questions, Harry Dunn is. Check this out.

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KELLY: I'd just like to know why, that's all. How about that, Harry Dunn? I'd like to know why too. But here's the thing. I know you came to some conclusions there that it wasn't — maybe they didn't know ahead of time. I think a lot of people knew ahead of time that something big was going down on January 6, and some of them wanted it to go down.

We need another real investigation about January 6, looking at the cops, not just underlying issues or questions about the election — about the FBI, about the cops leaving doors open. Ashli Babbitt, Michael Byrd, the whole damn thing. OK?

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April 9, 2025, edition of Newsmax's Greg Kelly Reports

GREG KELLY (HOST): He may have divulged classified information. It's — you can't have that. It's very hard to govern when you may be surrounded by people who could turn around and write a book or a column that does tremendous damage, especially when it's false.

All right, on to the other guy. CISA, he headed CISA, this strange organization. And right after the 2020 election, which, let's face it, was controversial and a disputed election — like days later, they say, we can assure you we have the utmost confidence in the security and integrity of our elections, and you should too. Well, it wasn't up to CISA, all right, to put something like that out. And this guy Krebs, who said that, deeply suspect and he should be investigated. I felt at the time I thought he was way out of line. You can't say this kind of stuff when you're a bureaucrat.

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KELLY: He had a whole other host of responsibilities. He needed to stay the hell out of it. And that gave so many people the excuse. Trump's own administration says that the election was totally solid. There were legitimate disputes about the fairness of the election. And for that guy, a government employee, to use that federal agency to meddle where he shouldn't have been meddling, well, President Trump signed an executive order, and they're going to take a good, strong look at that guy.

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KELLY: Well, the only downside is this probably helps these guys. They're going to be surrounded by law firms from the left and speaking engagements. Guys like Miles Taylor and Krebs, they'll be hailed as heroes because President Trump has targeted them.

This is totally legitimate, a totally legitimate function of the president. He suspects wrongdoing, and he can direct the Department of Justice to look into it. You know, Joe Biden tried to say he didn't when he did. And that was a big part of the deceit, right? He pretended he had nothing to do with it when he was directing it. That's what we believe. Me, actually.

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GREG KELLY (HOST): I am a little bit fearful of her, or at least her being around my kids. Sorry, but the LGBTQ agenda that she is pursuing is radical and weird and I think should be criminalized. So there's this Pride group somewhere. And, by the way, there are some totally decent Pride groups. There are. I think the Pride thing is all kinds of excess, but I don't know. Jamie Michelle, you know that woman — Gays Against Grooming, right? Fantastic people. This to me looks like grooming. She participated in this project. We're going to start with the leader of the little group reading sexualized content to children.

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KELLY: Adults reaching out to children — unless they're your children, that's not a good idea. Without parental consent. They're talking about going around the parents and getting to children they believe or are hoping are LGBTQ. Or maybe they want to convince them to go LGBTQ. This strikes me as grooming, people. And Elissa Slotkin is part of it. Take a look.

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KELLY: Yeah, but this is not about colors. Alright? This book is about to take a deep and dark and sexualized turn. And that's Elissa Slotkin right there. Not too long ago, participating in a video like this might get you thrown in jail. Now it gets you a number one speaking spot in the Democrat Party. Keep going.

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KELLY: The family would be confused because the family would know, right? They're talking to kids and trying to get them to fall prey to this crazy, warped ideology. They have no business doing that. They don't even know the children they're reading to. It's dangerous. And a U.S. senator is involved. A couple more.

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KELLY: If the inside is really as important as you say, why are you focused on children's sex organs and sexuality? This is crazy stuff. I'm tempted to call the cops, or at least the — I don't know, the sergeant at arms on this person. This should be a major scandal. Instead in the Democrat Party, this gives you a prime time speaking spot post-President Trump, right? This is up-and-comers. They have big plans for Elissa Slotkin. Well I think we have big plans in stopping this hideous agenda. And it's being stopped.

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Right-wing media figures rushed to defend President Donald Trump’s decision to issue pardons or commutations to over 1,500 people who participated in the January 6 insurrection at the United States Capitol — including those convicted of violence against police.

They offered a number of arguments to support their defense: They baselessly claimed legal efforts to hold participants accountable were “show trials” or unfair compared to legal repercussions for the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, said the pardons are justified because of former President Joe Biden’s pardons, and diminished the violence on January 6 by recasting those criminally charged as “ordinary patriots.”

Other right-wing figures defended the clemency by noting that Trump had campaigned on the issue, declaring, “Promises made, promises kept."

Right-wing media figures spent years urging pardons for January 6 participants, which Trump granted on the first day of his second term

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January 13, 2025, edition of Newsmax's Greg Kelly Reports

GREG KELLY (HOST): Well, I like JD Vance. I like half of that. But actually, some of the people who committed violent acts, actually, well, many of them have gotten a raw deal as well. This has never been adequately investigated because we never had an adequate investigation into the whole damn thing. But, I don't know, what do you do when the police unlawfully provoke violence? And that's what a lot of people believe happened. They did not issue a warning before throwing chemical munitions into a mostly, if not universally peacefully assembled crowd.

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KELLY: Why is this guy throwing these basic hand grenades into a crowd? And people aren't, like, they aren't lunging toward officers or anything like that? You see, this is stirring up a fight, stirring up a fight where there was no fight. So the people who started fighting, I mean, do they not deserve a pardon, too? I think that has to be looked into. I wouldn't rule anything out. The whole thing was a kind of a setup, many of us believe.

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January 29, 2025, edition of Newsmax's *Greg Kelly Reports

GREG KELLY (HOST): I'm a conspiracy theorist, and I hope you are too. Yes, it was made official today. They finally just, for everybody — when they say you're a conspiracy theorist, that means you're a critical thinker. That means you're independent. That means you don't necessarily go with the fake news preferred narrative. You see things for yourself. You are not afraid to take data and come to your own conclusion. This is a free country. It ought to remain so. So this was an interesting moment during RFK's confirmation hearing today. A lot of interesting moments, actually, but I really like what Thom Tillis, the Republican of North Carolina, did here with RFK.

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KELLY: Exactly. If you're onto something, if you are asking uncomfortable questions of powerful interests, it's one of the first tricks they'll try — conspiracy theorists. It won't work anymore. It's kind of like when they started calling everything racist, right? At first. People will do anything to not be seen of that way, and they realize the true racists were the ones calling everybody racists. So conspiracy theorist doesn't work anymore. And if they do call you that, wear it with pride.

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December 16, 2024, edition of Newsmax's Greg Kelly Reports

GREG KELLY (HOST): All right, you probably heard about this. Another mass shooting at a school. Three dead, including the shooter. Six injured, I'm told some of those are really, really critical. Bad news, right? And what's going to happen now? What is happening right now? A sick, lame and lazy conversation about gun control.

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KELLY: Well, whatever it may look like, it's a violation of the Constitution. You want to have that conversation again? Everybody's sick of it. All right? Even the gun control advocates, I think they know deep down inside they don't know what they're talking about. Why can't we talk about psychotropic drugs? Notice it never really comes up. We have millions and millions and millions of kids on lithium, all kinds of — whatever it is.

I mean, there are all kinds of drugs, and those drugs have side effects, right? They tell us in the commercials, you know, watch out for this ideation. Watch out for that. Some of the side effects are pretty intense, really intense.

But we don't — does anybody know that this is actually when it all started? The first school mass shooting — a lot of people consider this the first school mass shooting, when Brenda Ann Spencer shot at a middle school right across the street where she lived. She was 16 years old at the time, and that might have been the first modern day school shooting. What was going on in the 80s? The pills, the pills, and more pills. This country has always been awash in guns. We're a gun culture. We are pioneers. It's not the guns. It's a lot of other things.

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December 11, 2024, edition of Newsmax's Greg Kelly Reports

GREG KELLY (HOST): So Pete Hegseth is the nominee for secretary of defense. And, yeah, I don't think he's qualified. And I actually don't think he's going to get that job because -- well, because of a lot of things, but mostly this - he suggested we watch the Megyn Kelly interview. So, well, I did.

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KELLY: OK. That's blackmail. He was blackmailed, and that's a problem. And that's why he can't be secretary of defense. I'm sorry. He's a very talented guy. I said that last week. Big future doing something, but it can't be secretary of defense. It's obvious.

Donald Trump — love the guy, but he has made mistakes before. And, well, especially when it comes to the Pentagon. He picked General Mattis to be secretary of defense. Turned out to be a traitor borderline, or at least a mutineer. And General Milley selected by President Trump, confirmed by the Senate for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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October 28, 2024, edition of Newsmax's Greg Kelly Reports

GREG KELLY (HOST): Alright, just a couple of other things from the rally. You heard about this comedian, the controversial comedian? I thought he was actually pretty good. I mean, one or two things weren't so hot, but this was definitely funny.

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KELLY: That's good stuff. His name is Tony Hinchcliffe. Politically incorrect? Sure. Bold? Sure. Not liberal? OK. I thought this was great too.

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KELLY: Yeah, they liked it when he made fun of the left. When he made fun of Puerto Rico it was — alright. But this one I thought was well within bounds.

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KELLY: It's funny. That is the essence of humor. I'm totally OK with it. Now, this is the big controversial line, the one about Puerto Rico that did not go over so well in the room, I'll add. There were people groaning when he actually made this joke, which, yeah, wasn't the best.

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KELLY: You see the room reacted negatively to the slam on Puerto Rico, but it's possible that not everybody — I didn't really get the joke, but there's something to it. Let's see.

Did you know that there's a great big island of garbage in the Pacific Ocean? And it's been a thing for a long time. Yeah, we actually have a picture of it. It's been floating around out there for a long time. In fact, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now so huge and permanent that a coastal ecosystem is thriving on it, according to scientists.

Now, if you ask ChatGPT, you know what they say to this joke that he made? The joke, while intended to be humorous, is a form of satire based on a mix-up between environmental issues and political commentary. It plays on the fact that there is a massive garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean, a well-known environmental concern — not by everybody — by suggesting that Puerto Rico, a US Territory, is a floating island of garbage, it can be seen as a satirical commentary on the neglect or mistreatment Puerto Rico has historically faced, especially following serious weather events.

I'm alright. I think we'll be OK. You know, if he referred to San Francisco as Garbage City, I think everybody would kind of be OK with that, right? Everybody would understand. Puerto Rico has gone through some very, very hard times. They've been lagging economically for an incredibly long period of time. And take a look at this, if you don't mind, from the Council on Foreign Relations, Puerto Rico continues to be ravaged by a sustained recession. Annual economic growth fell by roughly 12.5% overall between 2004 and 2020, while Puerto Rico's population shrunk by more than 16%. That is a crisis. I think, maybe, he was just — it's a joke.

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Contrary to the whining from Newsmax host Greg Kelly, then-President Trump did choose to promote Ret. Gen. Mark Milley to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Trump also picked Ret. Gen. Mattis to be Defense Secretary and Ret. Gen. John Kelly as his Homeland Security secretary and later as his chief of staff. All of them — along with others like Trump's former Defense Secretary Mark Esper — are now sounding the alarm about Trump being unfit for the office of the presidency.

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GREG KELLY (HOST): Alright. Welcome back. I think this is a very reasonable proposal. Take their medals away. These treacherous guys, they are hideous, all of them, and many many more. The culture of deception, these political animals. They're supposed to be fighting men. They're not. They're careerists, and they're out for a buck.

And, well, number one, these are not Donald Trump's generals. I hate that. I hate it when they say that. Donald Trump's own generals are saying such and such. No. These are not his own generals, his own generals. You've seen the headlines. Right? Trump's own generals calling him this, that, and the other thing. Trump's generals are trying to save the world starting with the White House. Trump's generals, they're not his. They never were his generals.

So if you go to a restaurant and they present you a menu, are you responsible for the quality of the food? You hope for the best. And that's what happened when President Trump got to the swamp in 2017. He trusted too many people. They came recommended by other people in the swamp, but literally they're not Trump's generals. Each of the generals, you know, we're doing this because Kelly is making, all kinds of noise again, but Milley's been at it and so has Mattis, all of these guys. This is when they became generals. 2008, 2003, 1997. That's a long time before Donald Trump showed up. He did not promote these guys.

Gotta stop saying it's Trump's generals. And when they lie about him and when it's provably false, Trump needs more backup. I'm sorry. The surrogates who are out there, they're nice guys, but maybe they're too involved in the swamp. This is what I mean. You're gonna see Lindsey Graham and another guy named Urban. Before they push back, they gotta let everybody know that they like these generals. They're friends. They're this. They're that. Stop it. They're out for a buck, and maybe so are you guys. I don't know.

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GREG KELLY (HOST): It's fascinating. Donald Trump, twice now, the victim of an assassination attempt. And they give him a hard time when he says this.

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KELLY: Nervous. They're so nervous that The New Yorker magazine -- President Trump is talking about the enemy within, within the United States. And absolutely — antifa, the woke crazy mob, and prosecutors who use the law in a corrupt way to take down a president. I think he's on pretty solid ground to say enemy within. Remember the assassination attempt again? Enemy within, sure enough. And the guy has been arrested, what, five times? Enemy within. He has every right to say that, to believe it and to fight against it. They're even trying to cancel him over this. Anyway, he's uncancellable. He is unstoppable, especially with his wingman, Vance.

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September 16, 2024, edition of Newsmax's Greg Kelly Reports

GREG KELLY (HOST): So you may have noticed something. You know, you could say, technically, these folks are not threatening the president of the United States, President Trump. They're complaining about what a threat he would pose. But that's where — they're too cute by half. They think they're getting away with it. They're not getting it by me. They are trying to justify — they're trying to authorize, I do believe, the assassination of President Trump. It's — can I show you something? This is Judge Luttig, very strange guy. He was a conservative. The Bushes loved him for a long time. Then he felt snubbed. He didn't get to the Supreme Court. Now he's just bitter and mean and wrong and all kinds of things. But listen to what he said during the January 6th hearings about President Trump and you and me. Listen carefully, please.

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KELLY: Wow. So Donald Trump and his allies and supporters, that's us, we are a clear and present danger to American democracy. What does that mean, clear and present danger? It sounds, like, really serious, but if you look it up, it actually means that they can break the law and they can suspend portions of the Constitution to deal with the threat. This gets very, very creepy. I do believe that the government has, essentially, authorized itself to do what should be the unthinkable against President Trump.

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July 31, 2024, edition of Newsmax's Greg Kelly Reports

GREG KELLY (HOST): Speaking of President Trump, he went to the National Association of Black Journalists today in Chicago, and everybody lost their mind when Donald Trump spoke the truth. Now one thing first, the National Association of Black Journalists, NABJ, I don't like it right off the top. Let's see here. It was founded in 1975, stated purpose is to provide quality programs and services and advocate on behalf of Black journalists. I just -- something that divides us.

I mean, I don't know. The National Association for White Journalists, can you conceive of such a thing? No. Nobody could. White people don't have anything really in common. Black people don't have anything in common. We don't look at it that way. Faith, sports, neighbors, jobs, a million other things bring us together or divide us actually other than race. So, and in my experience, Black, white, Asian, the media, they're pretty much all jerks. OK? It really doesn't matter.

Just before Donald Trump took the stage, I had a feeling things were gonna go south because this person here, Rachel Scott is her name from ABC News, laid down the ground rules.

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Oh my gosh. You can't fact check political speech, rhetoric, I mean, opinion. You can't fact check it. And as we know, Google and all the search engines have now been rigged against conservatives. It sounds great. You hear the audience going crazy. It's not. Fact-checking is fake, and it's actually kinda dangerous.

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GREG KELLY (HOST): And Chef Andrés -- is that his name? The swamp favorite. Some of his people were lost in Gaza, you know, last week. Well, I'm sorry but his attitude and his attention-seeking may have helped lead to their demise.

Newsmax host Greg Kelly talked more about José Andrés in a subsequent segment.

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BEN SHAPIRO (HOST): The reason that Israel is making all of these concessions to the Biden administration, such as a military pullout, appears to be just severe pressure from the Biden administration on Israel. That pressure is being brought about by the kinds of protesters who are shouting death to America in Dearborn, Michigan.

Make no mistake, those are the revolutionary vanguard, and they are the leaders. And all they require is a little bit of cover from supposed moderates, from celebrities like chef José Andrés. So chef José Andrés is the head of the World Central Kitchen when he is not doing his chefing. The World Central Kitchen does a lot of good work in bringing food into very hard-hit areas in terms of war. Also, he is a political radical. He's been a political radical for quite a while. Those two things are not in particular contradiction. You can do good things and you can do bad things. Life is filled with these sorts of things.}:

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It is not true that Israel is in a war with, quote, unquote, humanity itself. Were it war with humanity itself, the World Central Kitchen never would have been coordinating with the Israeli Defense Forces in the first place. It's an incredible statement from a guy whose organization has been coordinating with the military that is currently engaged in a war with another entire entity to get aid in to the civilians of the other side. That's a crazy statement. That's like the Red Cross working with the Americans during World War II to try to bring aid to German civilians, and then the Red Cross turning around saying America is doing war on humanity. In any case, here's chef José Andrés, who again is a political radical on the left.}:

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SHAPIRO: That is a lie and it's a disgusting lie. If it were a war humanity itself, Israel — as I've said a thousand times, has complete air superiority over the Gaza Strip, they could have just killed literally hundreds of thousands of people. Even according to Hamas statistics, which are largely falsified, Israel has killed somewhere in the neighborhood of 32,000 people. According to Israeli statistics, that includes at least 13,000 terrorists. And one of the things about being a terrorist in the Gaza Strip is that many of the people who are considered non-terrorists are 18-year-old men who put down a gun for five minutes, and now they're non-terrorists, and then they pick up the gun, and now they're terrorists again. What happened with the World Central Kitchen is indeed a tragedy. Israel has not only acknowledged that, Israel has fired the officers who were in charge despite the confusion about what actually happened.

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In the years since the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, which was spurred by then-President Donald Trump’s attempt to retain power, right-wing media figures have repeatedly whitewashed the violent attack, pushed misinformation and conspiracy theories about it, and defended its participants.

As a result, the initial consensus of the horrors of the day has disappeared, with Republicans reportedly “now less likely to believe that Jan. 6 participants were ‘mostly violent,’ less likely to believe Trump bears responsibility for the attack, and … slightly less likely to view Joe Biden’s election as legitimate.”

The following right-wing media personalities have been critical in the push to downplay January 6, and they have continued their apologia for the violent crowd that sought to overturn an election.

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Darren Beattie

Beattie was a speechwriter and policy aide for then-President Trump who was fired in 2018 for attending a white nationalist conference two years before. In 2020, he founded right-wing site Revolver News, with Trump himself praising the outlet’s commentary. Beattie has repeatedly pushed the baseless conspiracy theory that the FBI, in connection with an undercover agent named Ray Epps, helped to incite the January 6 riot.

2021: Beattie spread a conspiracy theory that Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick’s death was not a result of injuries sustained in the attack, calling his claims “the most important story Revolver has ever run.” Fox’s Tucker Carlson also highlighted the story, calling it an “exhaustive and fascinating new analysis.” [Media Matters, 2/12/21]

2022: Beattie and his news outlet, Revolver News, were crucial in pushing the false claim that Capitol rioter Ray Epps was an undercover FBI agent who duped the crowd into entering the Capitol building. Epps has sued Fox News, and his suit describes Beattie as “the principal person driving the false story that Epps was a federal agent planted as a provocateur to trigger the Capitol violence on January 6th.” [Media Matters, 1/19/22; The New York Times, 7/12/23]

2023-present: Beattie has continued to falsely allege that Epps was a federal agent, claiming he was treated leniently for that reason. In posts on X from September, Beattie claimed that “charging Ray Epps now for ‘disorderly conduct’ is not going to make the Feds' credibility problem go away.” Beattie additionally called the government’s case against Epps “a phony charge” that “will only make things worse for the Fed narrative.” He also suggested that the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing was a false flag and said that the Justice Department and FBI should “at least do us the courtesy of a high effort cover up like you did with OKC” for January 6. [Media Matters, 9/21/23; Twitter/X, 9/19/23, 9/19/23, 9/19/23, 9/19/23]

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Julie Kelly

Kelly is a prolific conspiracy theorist who has written for a number of conservative outlets, mainly American Greatness, National Review, and The Federalist. Then-Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) gave Kelly and former Trump adviser John Solomon special access to security camera footage from the Capitol attack, as she claimed that conservatives were being unjustly persecuted.

2021: Kelly called January 6 Metropolitan Police Department officer Michael Fanone a “crisis actor.” [Media Matters, 7/27/21]

2022: On One America News, Kelly pushed a conspiracy theory that the FBI fabricated pipe bombs that were discovered at the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C. the night before the January 6 riot. Kelly also published a book where she claimed that the Biden administration is weaponizing January 6 to persecute conservatives and criminalize political protest. [One America News, Tipping Point with Kara McKinney, 2/16/22; Google Books, accessed 1/5/23, Post Hill Press, accessed 1/5/24]

2023-present: Kelly repeatedly spread the Epps conspiracy theory, and when Epps was charged, she questioned why he wasn’t charged with more crimes, posting, “No obstruction felony? No civil disorder charge? Not even a trespassing on restricted grounds misdemeanor?” Kelly also claimed that the Biden’s Justice Department has “successfully criminalized political speech and activity.” In May, then-Speaker McCarthy reportedly gave Kelly special access to security camera footage from the Capitol attack. [Media Matters, 9/21/23, 5/31/23; The Washington Post, 6/6/23; Premiere Networks, The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, 3/23/23]

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Tucker Carlson

As a Fox prime-time host, Carlson relentlessly downplayed the January 6 insurrection and promoted the conspiracy theory that Ray Epps, whom he posited was a federal agent or FBI informant, incited the riot. Carlson also repeatedly hosted Beattie and Kelly to push misinformation about the attack.

2021: Carlson put out a revisionist January 6-focused series that suggested the attack was a “false flag.” In an interview with Kelly, Carlson said the left used officer Brian Sicknick’s death “as a political weapon” and that his state funeral was “fake.” “Completely fabricated,” agreed Kelly. Carlson also hosted Beattie and cited an article in which he suggested the January 6 attack may have been orchestrated by FBI operatives. [Media Matters, 11/2/21, 11/4/21, 6/16/21, 6/17/21; Fox News, Tucker Carlson Tonight, 11/1/21]

2022: Carlson defended the rioters as “passionately patriotic Americans” “who genuinely love America” and on the one-year anniversary of January 6 he downplayed the violence as “just barely” a riot. As a guest on Carlson’s show, Beattie also called January 6 “a clear hoax” planned and carried out by “the feds.” [Fox News, Tucker Carlson Tonight, 6/8/22, 1/6/22, 6/9/22]

Early 2023: Carlson continued to downplay the severity of the January 6 riot, calling the rioters “nonviolent … protesters” and “patriotic Americans.” He also said January 6 was “probably second only to the 2020 election as the biggest scam in my lifetime.” [Fox News, Tucker Carlson Tonight, 3/21/23, 3/14/23]

April 2023-present: After Carlson was fired in April from Fox, he appeared on a Spaces live chat on X (formerly Twitter) and continued to downplay the insurrection. [Twitter/X, 12/12/23]

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Steve Bannon

Since he left the Trump administration in 2017, Steve Bannon has hosted War Room — a podcast for Real America’s Voice — where he has frequently defended those involved in the insurrection. Bannon has also hosted both Beattie and Kelly to also push conspiracy theories about January 6.

2021: Leading up to the January 6 insurrection, Bannon bragged on his podcast about his role in working to undermine the results of the 2020 presidential election. [Media Matters, 10/29/21]

2022: Bannon defended the Proud Boys ahead of one of Congress’ January 6 hearings, referring to the organization, whose leaders have since been convicted for their role in the January 6 attack, as a “rag tag beer drinking group.” Bannon also repeatedly made false claims that U.S. Senate sergeant-at-arms Michael Stenger’s death was an intentional homicide, comparing it to older right-wing conspiracy theories around the suicide of Clinton administration official Vince Foster. [Real America’s Voice, War Room, 6/9/22; CNN, 9/1/23; Media Matters, 6/29/22]

2023-present: Bannon is still hosting his podcast, War Room, where he has continued to downplay the insurrection, including dismissing Trump's role by stating that Trump was “doing his duty” to “make sure that the 2020 election had been fairly decided” and continuing to insist that the 2020 election was stolen. [Real America’s Voice, War Room, 8/2/23]

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Charlie Kirk

Charlie Kirk, who co-founded the right-wing organization Turning Point USA, has repeatedly downplayed the insurrection and accused Ray Epps of being a federal agent.

2021: In the immediate aftermath of January 6, Kirk downplayed the attack, saying that “just because you do something that is regrettable does not mean that you are planning an armed insurrection against the United States government." [Newsweek, 1/12/21]

2022: Kirk pushed the Epps conspiracy theory, posting to X that Epps “texted his nephew ‘I orchestrated it’” and claiming that he is the “only man caught on camera actively calling for people to enter the Capitol and riot.” In another post, Kirk said, “If the FBI knows who Ray Epps is, why haven't they arrested him yet?” [Twitter/X, 1/11/22, 12/30/22]

2023-present: Kirk continues to run Turning Point USA and has repeatedly promoted far-right talking points, including false claims about January 6. On his eponymous show, Kirk has primed his audience to prepare for “another January 6” over Trump’s various indictments and called on a future administration to “get some pardons done” for the January 6 insurrectionists. [Media Matters, 9/22/23, 11/21/23; Real America’s Voice, The Charlie Kirk Show, 1/3/24, 12/7/23, 7/28/23, 1/6/23; Twitter/X, 9/19/23]

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The Gateway Pundit

The Gateway Pundit, a right-wing website that frequently pushes conspiracy theories and hoaxes, and Editor-in-Chief Jim Hoft have repeatedly claimed that the January 6 insurrection was a false flag operation organized by federal law enforcement.

2021: The Gateway Pundit was reportedly a favorite source for Donald Trump in the lead-up to January 6. According to The Washington Post, “In the weeks before he left office in 2021, Trump brandished printouts of Gateway Pundit articles questioning the results of the election.” In May 2021, a few months after the insurrection, Hoft published an article claiming that someone inside the Capitol unlocked the doors for the rioters, citing an anonymous member of the Oath Keepers — a group with several members who have since been convicted for their roles on January 6. [The Washington Post, 1/3/24; The Gateway Pundit, 5/24/21; Politico, 1/23/23]

2022: Hoft doubled down on the claim that “someone inside the security booth at the US Capitol opened the doors” in a Gateway Pundit article titled “WE WERE RIGHT. ” In another article, Hoft claimed that instead of investigating the Oath Keepers’ involvement in January 6, “the FBI would have better luck if they looked at their trained operatives instead who were leading the charge on the Capitol building.” [Twitter/X, 6/13/22; The Gateway Pundit, 1/29/22, 8/24/22]

2023-present: Hoft and The Gateway Pundit remain a source of conspiracy theories about January 6. Hoft has penned several stories alleging that Ray Epps’ criminal charges and sentencing are proof that he was a federal agent and said President Joe Biden “will use the J6 anniversary to accuse Trump supporters of being white supremacists.” [The Gateway Pundit, 1/2/24, 9/19/23, 1/3/24]

Laura Ingraham

Fox News host Laura Ingraham has used her prime-time platform to repeatedly claim that January 6 was a “false flag operation” orchestrated by “antifa” or federal agents.

2021: Ingraham suggested “antifa sympathizers” were behind the January 6 attack, citing a Washington Times article that was later debunked. [The New York Times, 3/1/21]

2022: Ingraham cited Darren Beattie’s Revolver News on her show on Fox to argue that “Epps may have led the breach team that first entered the Capitol on January 6.” [Media Matters, 1/19/22]

2023-present: Ingraham has used her prime-time slot on Fox News to continuously defend Trump and attack those who are involved in the legal cases against him over his alleged role in attempting to overturn the 2020 election. She has also whitewashed the Capitol insurrectionists as “old ladies walking through the halls of Congress taking selfies.” [Media Matters, 11/01/23; Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 10/10/23, 8/7/23, 3/29/23]

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Infowars

Prolific conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his Infowars co-host Owen Shroyer were part of the crowd on January 6. Shroyer has since celebrated the insurrection while Jones has claimed that any violence that occurred was caused by antifa or federal agents.

2021: Jones responded to the FBI’s investigation into his involvement in the insurrection by claiming that “we know who did it: antifa with some paramilitary groups all together, which are going to turn out to be feds with idiots they provocateured to be part of it, the Q people,” calling it “the modern Reichstag 2.0.” Shroyer stated that “we should have been proud of what happened on January 6.” [Infowars, The Alex Jones Show, 1/14/21, 5/17/21]

2022: Jones claimed that when investigated by the January 6 committee, he pleaded the Fifth Amendment “almost 100 times.” [Texas Tribune, 4/28/22]

2023-present: Jones celebrated Tucker Carlson’s revisionist history of the insurrection, claiming the footage Carlson aired showed that “January 6 was an inside job.” In the days before Shroyer was sentenced to two months in prison for leading a portion of the crowd on January 6, Jones claimed that the government was “asking for prison time for a man that did nothing and was there with me trying to stop people going to the Capitol because he still says he thinks the election was stolen.” [Media Matters, 2/28/23; Infowars, The Alex Jones Show, 9/6/23; PBS, PBS NewsHour, 9/12/23]

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Newsmax’s Greg Kelly

In the wake of January 6, Newsmax prime-time host Greg Kelly has repeatedly whitewashed the violence at the Capitol on his show, claiming that Trump supporters were allowed into the building or set up by federal law enforcement and unfairly prosecuted.

2021: Kelly claimed that the insurrection was “a trap to make Trump supporters, the MAGA movement, look bad,” and alleged that police were “not doing anything” and had ushered insurrectionists into the Capitol. Kelly later claimed the insurrection was a “false flag operation” staged by federal law enforcement. [Newsmax, Greg Kelly Reports, 9/16/21, 11/3/21]

2022: Kelly continued to claim that Capitol Police and other federal agents “stood by” and that insurrectionists were “let in” to the Capitol. He also claimed that the rioters who called for Vice President Mike Pence to be hanged were “speaking metaphorically” and downplayed the makeshift gallow that were erected nearby. [Newsmax, Greg Kelly Reports, 6/16/22]

2023-present: Kelly doubled down with the claim that January 6 insurrectionists were invited into the Capitol by police, claiming that it is “actually not true” that rioters violently breached the Capitol. He has also repeatedly defended Trump’s increasingly hostile campaign rhetoric, dismissing comparisons of the former president to Adolf Hitler and saying he is “a madman, and that is a good thing.” [Newsmax, Greg Kelly Reports, 11/17/23, 11/13/23, 10/19/23]

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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]

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

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

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

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KELLY (HOST): More and more I'm hearing that January 6th had to be some sort of a set up, a trap to make Trump supporters, the MAGA movement, look bad. I think there's a lot to that, I really do. Has anybody been able to explain this? This cop enthusiastically waving people in to pass the barricades. Look at that. Come right on in, this way, this way. By the way, look at how small those gates are. Those are called French gates and they're measly. They're not going to keep out crowds even if you wanted to. Also, you know, you've seen crowds pushing the doors at the Capitol. But how about this? The doors that were wide open and the cops standing on either side of the hallway, not doing anything. Why were they not doing anything? Did they have orders to not do anything? I find that very, very strange.

Also, while Ashli Babbitt was being shot for getting too close to the Congress, even though she was unarmed,on the Senate side, this cop seemed to be directing them into the Senate. Right this way, and they went in there. I'll never forget the guy who was desperately pleading for help to those cops asking them to call for backup. You remember this?

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KELLY: And they just stood there. We should have a commission to look into these issues. And they want to look into – they want to blame it on Trump. That's all they want to do, and they want to ignore the evidence that shows that Trump had nothing to do with this, that he urged for a peaceful and patriotic demonstration. I think we need an apology, actually, from the FBI. They had some information. They're not there yet. They're busy apologizing for another catastrophic mistake.

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newsmax host Greg Kelly facing network investigation over controversial tweets that may 'appeal to racists'

Meaghan Ellis

June 15, 2021

Newsmax host Greg Kelly is now at the center of an investigation being conducted by the conservative news network following a string of tweets he posted and deleted on Sunday about racism and the U.S.

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Four chilling signs Trump's attempted coup is escalating

Bob Brigham December 18, 2020

President Donald Trump continues to refuse to concede that he lost the 2020 election to President-elect Joe Biden.

There were four major signs on Thursday evening that the Republican effort to overthrow the election is escalating.

The first sign was when former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn suggested on NewsMax Trump could use "military capabilities" to overturn the election in swing states hold do-over elections.[mart law used 64x]

The second sign occurred a short time later on Fox News when White House advisor Peter Navarro said President-elect Biden would be an "illegal and illegitimate president."

The third sign was when White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany argued on Fox News that Congress could use "alternate slates" of electors to steal the election.

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The fourth sign was Trump's Twitter account.

Trump complimented Senator-elect Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) for saying he would back Trump's efforts to overturn the election in Congress.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1339758142381551629

Trump then falsely claimed he won Wisconsin and that the vote was rigged.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1339759289234317312

And then Trump complained about the United States Supreme Court refusing to go along with his efforts to overturn the election.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1339759289234317312

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https://www.alternet.org/2020/12/greg-kelly

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Not  even the Electoral College vote has stopped some of the conspiracy theories and misinformation being circulated by right-wing media sites and news outlets. While Newsmax has admitted Joe Biden is the President-elect of the United States, the network also insists: "We also recognize President Trump continues to contest the results and we will cover aspects of that news story."

And on his recent broadcasts, network host Greg Kelly's is digging in his heels on Trump's contestation by refusing to move on and accept the election results. The network saw a rating surge after Biden was declared the winner of the election on November 7 — and Kelly has made it a point to continue sowing false seeds of hope.

On Monday evening after Electoral College voting concluded, Kelly, the network's most-watched host, adamantly disagreed with conservative members of the media who began acknowledging Biden as the president-elect.

Kelly said, "Now, I do know that there are smart, informed people who are saying that Joe Biden is the president-elect. Now, I disagree with them, and it's not just a hunch that I'm going on, it's the Constitution." god term, no explan?

Despite the Trump campaign having more than 50 lawsuits tossed out of court due to no substantial evidence to back claims of voter fraud, Kelly is still arguing that justification is needed. "At this point, there is some political and some historical justification for them to do so at this point.I personally feel they're wrong."

During the same segment, Kelly criticized Biden's address following the Electoral College vote as he insisted that there is still a "significant chance" Trump could be the candidate inaugurated in January 2021.

"Hey, remember Joe Biden's speech yesterday when purportedly, he clinched the Electoral College? He didn't do too much talking," Kelly said. "He did more coughing, it seemed like. A small sample of the coughs and I'm concerned because the way it's looking for Joe, his health, I don't think he's gonna make it for Donald Trump's second inauguration."

He added, "Yes, on January 20th, I do believe that there is a significant chance that Donald Trump could be inaugurated."

Repeatedly, Kelly continued to spread dangerous misinformation as he argued that the election is still "not over."

"Hey, it is not over," Kelly said, adding, "It's not, actually. You can look it up in the Constitution. See what happens folks."

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following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to reject Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's election lawsuit, NewsMax host Greg Kelly quickly fired back with a delusional rebuke of the court's ruling.

To make matters worse, he dangerously continued to perpetuate a sense of false hope for his viewers by declaring that the election is still "not over," according to The Daily Beast.

On Friday evening, Kelly opened "The Greg Kelly Show" with remarks about the court's ruling. "First off, it's not over," a distressed Kelly began. "The Supreme Court did turn down the Texas case." Before offering details about the ruling, Kelly focused on what he believes is a slight glimmer of hope.

"We have the situation in Pennsylvania that has not been settled. We have Georgia that has not been settled, we have Michigan that has not been settled, independent of this lawsuit from Texas."

During the show, NewsMax White House Correspondent Emerald Robinson also agreed with Kelly's claim about the election not being over. What appears to have been most surprising for conservatives is the fact that all three of the Trump-appointed Supreme Court Justices' —Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh, and Neil Gorsuch— ruled against the case. [vid]

apparently, they assumed the Trump-appointed justices would automatically side with the president even without evidence. Since they opted to uphold the Constitutional oath they took to protect America's democracy, Kelly and Robinson surmised that they must not "understand the gravity of the situation."

"What I'm hearing from a lot of conservatives is that they wonder if Justice Gorsuch, Justice Kavanaugh, and the new justice, Amy Coney Barrett, actually understand the gravity of the situation," Robinson said.

She added, "The president put three Supreme Court justices on the bench during his first term, yet none of those that he put on the bench—at the recommendation of the Federalist Society—were with the team, or with Alito and Thomas, in actually deciding to hear the case. They chose not to. They sided with the liberal judges."...

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Nov. 17, after nearly all of the major television networks, including Fox News, called the election for Biden, Newsmax host Greg Kelly said the conservative network had not called the election. He also made his political stance very clear. Instead of siding with the Republican Party, Kelly emphasized that he is "pro-Trump."

"I am pro-Trump, and I make that quite clear. This is an opinion-based show," Kelly said. "I lean conservative, I like Donald Trump because of his policies, and I also like Donald Trump because of his style. Yup, I do. I like the tweets."

He went on to criticize mainstream media's use of the term "president-elect" despite the reference being used when Trump won in 2016.

"This is Newsmax, where we have not called the election," Kelly said, at the time. "Why would we? We do not know who has won. This whole idea of a president-elect? It is a media fabrication." Kelly said as an on-screen displayed at the bottom of the screen read: "NewsmaxTV: It's not over (obviously)."

Then, on Nov. 20, Kelly falsely claimed that mainstream media is "almost always" wrong when it comes to Trump. "A good rule of thumb to remember: The mainstream media, they are almost always, always wrong about this guy," Kelly saaid' [twt]

since the election, Newsmax's has focused elevating Trump's false claims of voter fraud and continues to insist there is a chance of a second Trump term. As Slate reports:

"President Trump has encouraged this exodus with tweets and retweets urging his fans to dump Fox News and turn to networks less encumbered by the facts. Newsmax TV, which has made much of its refusal to accept Biden's electoral victory, fits the bill."

Newsmax Media CEO Chris Ruddy has defended the network's peddling of false information since it has seen a post-election surge in viewership.

"At the end of the day, it's great for news. The news cycle is red-hot, and Newsmax is getting one million people per minute, according to Nielsen, tuning into Newsmax TV. I think it's good."

Although Trump and the Newsmax network refuse to acknowledge the outcome of the election, the numbers do not lie. Contested states have conducted recounts and multiple states have also began certifying election results for Biden.

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press conf: rudy: votes counter in Germany and ---- smartmatic owned by biz partner of Soros, maduro and chavez Kumer?  soros #1 donor blm, antifa and dems

[radiolab math  ]  globalist dictators, corps everyone against us except trump;

dominion maCHINE, smartmatic software, we need paper copy (which we have in GA? counting the same fraud ballots b/c sep from outer envelope) mayor daley held votes, broward cty

10 dem corrupt cities, pols went to jail for decades

big tech censors us

lawyers drop out b/c of death threats

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz6bzv1TMl8

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https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/trump-lawyer-rudy-giuliani-repeats-unsubstantiated-claims-of-broad-vote-fraud

11/20/20

wASHINGTON (AFP) – With hair dye streaming down his cheeks and Donald Trump watching on television, the president’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani unleashed eyebrow-raising claims on Thursday (Nov 19) that George Soros, China and a dead Venezuelan dictator conspired with Democratic “crooks” to hand America’s election to Joe Biden.

In an extraordinary 90-minute press conference at the Republican National Committee in Washington, Mr Giuliani and other members of Mr Trump’s legal team left no doubt they were refusing to acknowledge President-elect Biden’s win, arguing instead that a broad “national conspiracy” to deny Mr Trump re-election was underway.

Mr Giuliani opened with a frontal attack on “corrupt” Democratic-led cities like Detroit he accused of purposely flipping thousands of votes to Mr Biden, spoke of “a plan from a centralised place to execute” voter fraud, and warned of an “iron curtain of censorship” denying the American people facts about the election.

Then it turned bizarre.

“Did you all watch ‘My Cousin Vinny’?” asked Mr Giuliani, who proceeded to deliver his best Joe Pesci impersonation, copying the actor’s mafioso persona from the hit 1992 movie.

“How many fingers do I got up?” he groaned, apparently complaining about how far away election monitors were kept from the ballot-counting in swing states like Georgia.

Patting his beading brow with a handkerchief, and with sweat mixed with hair dye dripping down from his temples, Mr Giuliani’s attacks veered towards the outlandish.  “You should be more astounded by the fact that our votes are counted in Germany, and in Spain by a company owned by affiliates of Chavez and Maduro,” Mr Giuliani lectured reporters, referring to Venezuela’s notorious strongman Hugo Chavez, who has been dead for seven years, and the country’s current leftist President Nicolas Maduro.

The company in question is elections software firm Smartmatic, founded in 2000 in Florida by two men born in Venezuela.

Smartmatic’s chairman Mark Malloch-Brown is on the board of the Open Society Foundation begun by billionaire philanthropist George Soros, a recurring bogeyman of Republican politicians.

The company’s chairman “is a close associate and business partner of George Soros, the biggest donor to the Democratic Party, the biggest donor to Antifa – and the biggest donor of Black Lives Matter,” Mr Giuliani said.

“My goodness. What do we have to do to get you to give our people the truth?” he said.

Accusing Mr Biden’s aides of orchestrating the alleged fraud, Mr Giuliani asserted: “They made significant mistakes, like all crooks do, and we caught them.”

‘Craziest’ press conference?

As Mr Giuliani repeated conspiracy theories and discussed the various “pathways to victory” for his boss,Mr Trump reveled in the lawyer’s message as he looked on from the White House, tweeting of “an open and shut case of voter fraud".

Important News Conference today by lawyers on a very clear and viable path to victory. Pieces are very nicely falling into place. RNC at 12:00 P.M.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 19, 2020

The president’s claims of mass cheating have been debunked by a cybersecurity agency in Mr Trump’s own administration that declared November’s election “the most secure in American history.”

That agency’s head, Chris Krebs, was fired this week by Mr Trump. Like the president he too was watching Mr Giuliani’s performance.

“That press conference was the most dangerous 1hr 45 minutes of television in American history. And possibly the craziest,” Mr Krebs said on Twitter.

mr Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, took a dig at a big city rival when he claimed that New Jersey residents crossing state lines to vote in Pennsylvania was “as frequent as getting beaten up at a Philadelphia Eagle football game.”

He and fellow lawyers Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis and others crowded into a room at RNC headquarters, maskless in the midst of a runaway coronavirus pandemic that has killed 250,000 Americans.

They spent considerable time detailing complaints made in multiple affidavits that allege malfeasance, including from one registered Democrat in Detroit who blew the whistle on fraud she was allegedly asked to perpetrate.

The poll worker who submitted that affidavit, Jessy Jacob, “was basically trained to cheat,” Mr Giuliani said, after holding up copies of the affidavit and challenging journalists to read and report on the legal challenges.

“I don’t know, maybe you could say she’s lying? But you can’t say there’s no evidence,” he added.

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https://en.panampost.com/jose-gregorio-martinez/2020/11/20/former-chavez-guard-to-be-trumps-witness-in-his-fraud-allegation-against-smartmatic/

former Chávez Guard to Be Trump’s Witness in his Fraud Allegation against Smartmatic

Trump attorney Sidney Powell claims to have evidence of the vulnerability of Smartmatic - used for years in Venezuela - changing votes without being detected, according to the confession of a former high-ranking Chavista military officer. Journalist Joshua Goodman said it would be Leamsy Salazar.

Spanish – The hours of uncertainty for Venezuelans to know the election results during the Chavista era became longer for Americans who had to wait days to have at least one projection this year. The sudden turn of electoral tendencies during the vote count also became common in Venezuela. The case of the 2004 recall referendum against Hugo Chávez was the first and most bitter experience. Now Venezuela and the United States have two things in common: Smartmatic and the ghost of fraud.

It was just these two irregularities that set off the alarms in the Republican Party. President Donald Trump led the results in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan in the early morning of November 4. In all of them, the scrutiny was extended for days. In all, the trend suddenly reversed, and Democrat Joe Biden was projected as the winner. Trump’s legal team soon put together the pieces that pointed to Venezuela. Smartmatic was exposed as a company linked to the Chavista regime that has a technology that changes votes without being detected. This is what Chávez asked for, and this is how it was executed.

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The results requested by Chávez

This is the complaint made public on Newsmax by former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell, a lawyer for President Donald Trump’s campaign. Citing an affidavit from a high-ranking ex-military officer of the Chavista regime, Powell claimed to have evidence of the vulnerability of the voting system. This technology used this year in 28 states of the American Union is the same that for almost two decades has guaranteed the permanence in power of Chavismo in Venezuela with rigged elections.

“Designed in a way that the system could change the vote of each voter without being detected. Chávez wanted the software itself to function in such a manner that if the voter were to place their thumbprint or fingerprint on a scanner, then the thumbprint would be tied to a record of the voter’s name and identity as having voted, but that voter would not be tracked to the changed vote. He made it clear that the system would have to be set up but not leave any evidence of the changed vote for the specific voter, and that there would be no evidence to show, and nothing to contradict that the name and the fingerprint or thumbprint was going with a changed vote. Smartmatic agreed to create such a system and produced the software and the hardware that accomplished the result for President [Hugo] Chavez,” said the witness.

Sidney Powell explained on Newsmax that Smartmatic’s system was created so that Hugo Chávez would not lose an election. And that’s how it was. He was in power until his death. She added that it was later exported to Argentina and other South American countries until it reached the United States. During her interview on the TV channel, she recommended reading the statement on her Twitter account.

From Chávez’s escort to Trump’s witness

Later, the Associated Press (AP) correspondent for Latin America, Joshua Goodman, revealed who this Chavista military member could be. Although he clarified that the name is reserved, he said, “it seems that the witness is Captain Leamsy Salazar.”

Lieutenant Commander Leamsy Salazar was part of the Military House, in charge of presidential custody. For nearly ten years, he was head of security and personal assistant to Hugo Chávez. Then the second in command of the regime, Diosdado Cabello, requested his services after Chávez’s death.

Salazar fled to the United States in December 2014 as a protected witness from Washington. This made him the highest-ranking active military officer who broke with Chavismo to reveal the criminal activities related to drug trafficking of the Chavista high command, reported ABC.

Data manipulation in real-time

In the affidavit, the Venezuelan witness -specifically because of the litigation in Georgia– explains how the manipulation of the vote is done from a secret ballot center in real-time, taking the case of Venezuela as an example.

“All of the tabulations of computer-controlled voting is done in a closed environment so that the voter and any observer cannot detect what is happening unless there is a malfunction or other event that causes the observer to question the process. I saw first hand that the manipulation and switching of votes can be done in real-time, in the secret ballot center that existed in Caracas, Venezuela. For me, it was something very surprising and disturbing.”

The informant confesses that Smartmatic’s performance in Venezuela allowed him to realize that “it does not matter what the voter decides or what the ballot says. It is the operator of the software and the software that decide what counts.”

The informant also refers to the electoral frauds committed in Venezuela. According to the source, after being implemented in the country, Smartmatic’s electoral system closely observed elections in which the result was manipulated and changed as in the 2006 presidential election of Hugo Chávez against Manuel Rosales and in the 2013 election of Nicolás Maduro against Henrique Capriles.

The links between Dominion and Smartmatic

On November 12th, the former mayor of New York and also the lawyer of President Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, alleged in an interview with Fox Business that Dominion Voting Systems is owned by Smartmatic.

“Smartmatic was founded in 2004. It was formed by three Venezuelans, who were very close to the dictator Hugo Chávez. It was created to arrange elections. That is the company that owns Dominion. Although Dominion is Canadian, all its software is from Smartmatic,” added Giuliani.

Dominion has denied its connection to Smartmatic. However, the former Chavista military member assures in his statement that he is aware of the partnership between both companies and explains how they are related. “I would like to point out that the software and fundamental design of the electronic electoral system of Dominion and other electoral tabulation companies are based on software that is a descendant of the Smartmatic Electoral Management System.

Highlighting that Dominion is one of the top three vote tabulation companies in the United States, he adds that this company uses the same methods and fundamentally the same software design for data storage, transfer, and calculation of voter identification and voting data.

“Dominion and Smartmatic did business. The software, hardware, and system have the same flaws. Fundamentally, it has multiple opportunities to corrupt data and masks the process in a way that the average person cannot detect any fraud or manipulation. The fact that the voting machine displays the result the voter wants and then prints a ballot that reflects it does not matter. It is the software that counts the digitized vote and reports the results. The software itself is the one that changes the information electronically to get the result that the software operator and the vote-counting system intend to generate. This is how it is done”.

The votes that traveled to Europe

President Trump’s legal team – led by Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani, and Jenna Ellis – held a press conference Thursday to report on the status of the fraud investigation into the November 3 presidential election.

Giuliani added to the puzzle a fact he had already advanced on Wednesday in an interview with Fox Business: the votes of the 28 states where Dominion operated were counted in Germany and Spain by Smartmatic.He also noted that high-ranking Dominion personnel support the radical leftist group Antifa,which has been involved in violence in several cities since May 25, following the death of George Floyd.

When asked about the competence of the FBI to verify the allegations, the former mayor of New York harshly questioned the actions of this body. “I don’t know where the FBI has been for the last four years. I don’t know where the FBI was when our votes were counted in a foreign country by a company controlled by friends of an enemy of the United States.”

Soros and left-wing globalism

The network of left-wing globalism would be behind the plan to impose the Democrat on the White House. And when it comes to globalism, all roads lead to Soros. Trump’s lawyer warned that the irregularities detected in the presidential election constitute a national security problem, where many foreign interests are involved.

He highlighted the fact that the votes were counted in Germany and Spain by a Venezuelan company, which would be linked to George Soros, the chief promoter of globalism, whom he pointed out as the key financier of the Democratic Party and the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.

The violent character of BLM and Antifa has been widely documented. A recent U.S. Crisis Monitor study states that between May 26 and September 12, 637 riots were reported in the United States, and 91% of them involved BLM. In the violent protests that took place in several cities after the death of George Floyd, Antifa emerged as a protagonist in the looting, destruction, and assassinations.

Smartmatic, from Chávez to Biden

Rudy Giuliani closed his speech by emphasizing that no other choice should be made with the participation of Dominion and Smartmatic. He reiterated that what happened with the presidential election was a massive attack on the integrity of the voting system.

Adding to Smartmatic’s discredit is the fact that Democrat Joe Biden, projected by the media as the winner of the election, included in his transition team Peter Neffenger, a retired U.S. Coast Guard Vice Admiral who currently serves as Smartmatic’s Chairman of the U.S. Board of Directors.

Smartmatic’s name has been heard in Venezuela since 2004. That year, the same year in which the company was formed, its technology was used for the first time on the occasion of the recall referendum against Hugo Chávez. The experience was a bitter one. An electronic voting system that promised speedy results ended up being slower than manual counting. At that time, the result took about 10 hours. The exit polls had guaranteed Chavez’s defeat by a 20% difference.

In 2017, after lending itself to the election of the illegitimate National Constituent Assembly (ANC) in which only Chavista candidates participated, Smartmatic admitted that the announced result was manipulated., as reported by BBC Mundo.

Between the certification and the election

During the press conference that lasted more than an hour, Sidney Powell insisted that they have evidence that a large number of Trump’s votes were simply discarded. “They were thrown away,” she said.

In Michigan, one of the states being challenged, two Republicans refused to certify the election in Wayne County, where Detroit City is located. The deadline for certification in this state is November 23, as it is in Pennsylvania. In Georgia, the deadline is this Friday, November 20.

Certification is a process before the appointment of statewide voters to the Electoral College. It is these representatives from the 50 states who actually elect the president at the December 14 vote.

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