{"id":3479,"date":"2026-07-17T07:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T07:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3479"},"modified":"2026-07-17T07:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T07:06:15","slug":"maga-turning-on-the-mediocre-former-journalist-driving-trumps-inane-revelations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3479","title":{"rendered":"MAGA turning on the ‘mediocre’ former journalist driving Trump\u2019s inane revelations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Donald Trump\u2019s policies and public relations approach are in large part shaped by a journalist who has long had a reputation for being unreliable.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSolomon\u2019s decades-old reputation for letting down his audience is starting to reach conservatives,\u201d wrote The Bulwark\u2019s Will Sommer on Thursday, referring to right-wing influencer John Solomon. \u201cPopular conspiracy theory blog Conservative Treehouse has grown skeptical of Solomon\u2019s promises, even adding a bolded warning label of sorts to a preview of Trump\u2019s Thursday speech so readers wouldn\u2019t get too excited.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sommer quoted a popular conspiracy theory blog, Conservative Treehouse, which warned readers about Solomon by saying \u201ccaution should be noted as newly appointed Special Government Employee John Solomon is responsible for the content.\u201d<\/p>\n

Similarly an anchor from MyPillow founder and right-wing conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell\u2019s channel, Emerald Robinson, expressed skepticism about Solomon\u2019s record.<\/p>\n

\u201cLOL why would anybody trust John Solomon based on his record?\u201d Robinson posted on the social media platform X.<\/p>\n

Sommer noted wryly, \u201cWhen you\u2019ve lost Lindell\u2019s crew\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

In advance of Trump\u2019s speech, Sommer cited reporting that indicated Solomon was likely a major influence on Trump\u2019s rhetoric and approach.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhatever Trump does, it\u2019ll be because of John Solomon\u2014a star conservative reporter who is, somehow, also a White House staffer,\u201d Sommer wrote. \u201cFor nearly a decade, Solomon has had a hand in the creation of nearly every major MAGA grievance narrative, from the Russia investigation to Ukraine to 2020 election fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cSolomon has a pretty clear M.O.: He\u2019ll spin a story that seems like a massive expos\u00e9, getting it trumpeted on Fox News and throughout the right-wing media ecosystem before it has a chance to deflate under scrutiny, as it usually does.\u201d<\/p>\n

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While working on a short-term basis for the Trump White House, Sommer described Solomon as a man who tries to help Trump find information about the president\u2019s perceived political enemies and his upcoming attempt to delegitimize the 2026 midterm elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cYet this narrative impresario and his brand of quasi-journalism remain largely unknown outside the world of right-wing media,\u201d said Sommer who covers MAGA-related news in addition to other topics for Bulwark. \u201cIn 2007, when Solomon was an investigative reporter at the Washington Post, the Columbia Journalism Review was already complaining that his stories amounted to the \u2018John Solomon special\u2019: front-page revelations that, when scrutinized, turned out to be little more than a \u2018steady stream of mediocrity.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Sommer wrote, \u201cNow, thanks to his role in the Trump administration, Solomon has a chance to work that magic on a much larger scale.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among Solomon\u2019s various controversies, last year he hosted a phone interview with Trump in which he agreed as the president spread misinformation about the investigation into his ties with Russia, his coup attempt after losing the 2020 election and his baseless allegations of Chinese interference in American elections. Back in 2019, he spread debunked conspiracy theories that Ukraine had interfered in the 2016 election, coming under heavy criticism from the company which published those pieces, The Hill, which promptly investigated all of his work on Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Then-Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), a staunch Trump supporter, ran interference for Solomon at the time.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018The Hill\u2019 told its staff yesterday that it would conduct a review of Solomon\u2019s Ukraine reporting \u2014 and this is just three days after a Democrat on this committee told a Hill writer that she would stop speaking to The Hill because it had run Solomon\u2019s stories,\u201d Nunes said. \u201cAnd she urged the writer to relay her concerns to The Hill\u2019s management. So now that Solomon\u2019s reporting is a problem for the Democrats, it is a problem for the media as well!\u201d<\/p>\n

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