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The pro-Trump news outlet Newsmax surged in visibility during Donald Trump's presidency, and its CEO, Chris Ruddy, cultivated his brand as a "Trump insider" throughout it all and wanted to frame the outlet as a bulwark against the mainstream media narrative on the former president. But now, his efforts have landed him in legal jeopardy, The Washington Post reports.

"Far more so than Fox, Newsmax promoted Trump's lie of a stolen election, and carried on with that message through and beyond Jan. 6, when a violent mob stormed the Capitol," the Post's Sarah Ellison, Jonathan O'Connell and Josh Dawsey write, alluding to the storm of defamation lawsuits voting tech companies have unleashed against pro-Trump outlets and figures who perpetuated conspiracy theories about mass voter fraud.

Former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Wednesday accused Facebook of "political motives" after the company's oversight board decided to uphold former President Donald Trump's ban on the platform.

"This board has decided for the most part on free speech," McEnany told a Fox News panel. "In fact, four of the first five decisions that they issued were in favor or reposting content. And some of that content involved adult nudity, hate speech."

Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on Wednesday lashed out at Facebook after its oversight board upheld the decision to ban former President Donald Trump from the platform.

Meadows made the statements to Fox News where he was appearing live when the decision to uphold the ban on Trump was announced.

Washington Post reporter Cat Zakrzewski disputed Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) on Tuesday after he suggested that she was trying to "cancel" him.

Hawley made the remarks during a live interview with Zakrzewski after she asked about his official objection to President Joe Biden's win in 2020.

There was a contentious interaction on CNN on Monday as anchor Don Lemon took the reins from Chris Cuomo.

Lemon said he was "furious" that former GOP Sen. Rick Santorum did not apologize for his racist comments about Native Americans that have resulted in calls to boycott CNN.

Fox News host Todd Piro on Monday expressed outrage at criticism of a nonconsensual kiss between two cartoon characters.

Over the weekend, Katie Dowd and Julie Tremaine of SFGATE argued that Disneyland's new Snow White ride is problematic because it depicts Prince Charming giving the princess "true love's kiss" while she's sleeping.

Fox News staffers called on the network to fire Tucker Carlson over his call to harass parents and children for wearing masks, but the highly rated host is "invincible."

Current and former employees were embarrassed and outraged when Carlson urged viewers to call child protection services on parents whose children wear masks in public, but they told The Daily Beast the top-rated prime-time host is "untouchable" and will never "suffer any repercussions" for his openly white nationalist comments or other statements that might lead to violence.

Former White House adviser Stephen Miller said on Sunday that he is suing the Biden administration to prevent Black people from having an unfair advantage over other races.

While speaking to Fox News host Maria Bartiromo, Miller argued that a COVID-19 relief law is unfair to white people because it allocated $5 billion to Black farmers who were denied federal aid due to discrimination.

Fox News host Maria Bartiromo claimed over the weekend that China is secretly "sending" doctors and scientists and engineers across the U.S.-Mexico border.

Bartiromo made the claim during an interview with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) that aired on Sunday.

Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday challenged Sen. Bill Cassidy (R) of Louisiana over his opposition to government child care services despite the high rate of child poverty in his state.

During an interview on Fox News Sunday, Wallace noted that President Joe Biden has proposed $225 billion in spending for child care programs.

In a scorching column for the Daily Beast, former CNN contributor Wajahat Ali called out the cable news network for purging many of its political commentators at or near the end of the Donald Trump administration -- and replacing them with doctors and scientists -- and leaving former Republican Senator Rick Santorum in place despite his racist comments.

Ali, who admits that he enjoyed his time with the network despite getting four warnings about comments he made on-air, noted Santorum's comments made recently at a conservative conference where he stated that white European Christians "came [to America] and created a blank slate; we birthed a nation from nothing."

Fox News personality Jeanine Pirro on Saturday had a strange start to her Fox News program.

During the intro, she can be heard saying off-camera, "I don't have as much..."

One day after Newsmax admitted there was "no evidence" to back up their election fraud conspiracy theories, former Trump acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney appeared on the far-right cable network to complain about mainstream media organizations.

Newsmax issued the public apology after being sued for defamation.