All posts tagged "John Solomon"

FBI Director Kash Patel pledged to investigate agents who caught Russians trying to frame Democrats before 2020, a new report reveals.

According to national security writer Marcy Wheeler, an unsigned, undated letter attributed to Patel is the "centerpiece" of a propaganda push, and she flagged in a Wednesday post on her legal blog emptywheel that it was notably not written on FBI stationery.

In the letter, Patel says he "immediately disbanded" the bureau's Foreign Influence Task Force upon taking over as director, and that his team is now probing whether the unit improperly zeroed in on informants tied to the Bidens....

Legal experts flagged a newly declassified memo that the White House called deep-state proof, even though it was about Trump's FBI.

During an interview on "All Rise News," legal journalists Adam Klasfeld and Allison Gill dissected the declassified FBI memo that the White House touted as proof of a "deep state" plot against President Donald Trump, even though it actually revealed that the FBI investigated him during his first term as a possible Russian asset.

"It's just one gunshot to the foot after another," Gill, who chronicled the probe by Department of Justice special counsel Robert Mueller, said. The memo was released by former reporter John Solomon and is dated the day before Mueller's May 2017 appointment....

Trump's declassification chief floated a Venezuela vote-fraud theory his own newly released CIA note flatly contradicts, a legal expert found.

The co-leader of President Donald Trump's declassification task force, John Solomon, made the slip-up moments after Trump wrapped up his primetime address on the renewed unfounded election meddling claims related to his 2020 election loss, legal reporter Adam Klasfeld said in an episode of Legal AF.

During an interview on MS NOW, Solomon was pressed by Vaughn Hillyard over whether votes were changed in the 2020 election. Solomon acknowledged that intelligence officials have zero evidence a foreign actor flipped a vote in 2020, 2022, or 2024, Klasfeld explained....

A political analyst on Friday pointed out a stunning moment when a top adviser to President Donald Trump admitted that no votes were changed in the 2020 election.

Vaughn Hillyard, MS NOW senior White House reporter, described why the admission from disgraced journalist John Solomon was so significant during a panel with host Katy Tur.

"I've gotten used to White House officials, campaign officials for Donald Trump over 5 1/2 years refusing to say that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election," Hillyard said. "And that is why I was, frankly, so stunned in that moment to hear John Solomon, the guy that was brought in to try to help prove the 2020 election was bunk, say specifically that there was no intelligence that Donald Trump won the 2020 election. And I think, why is that so stunning and head-turning in 2026 is beyond us, but the fact is, that's reality." ...

A right-wing journalist apparently favored by President Donald Trump revealed he was under consideration for a "special government employee" position with the White House, according to a report from The New York Times on Friday.

John Solomon, who reported on the federal investigation into potential connections between Trump's campaign and Russia in the 2016 election and questioned the intelligence community, confirmed he was in talks to join the Trump administration. He created the website Just the News in 2020, where he has worked as editor-in-chief.

"I am currently being vetted for a short-term S.G.E. job, and it’s an honor to be considered," Solomon told The Times. ...