Matt Gertz is a Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America. He covers a range of topics including conflict and war, geopolitics, and current affairs, with a focus on culture and society. His insights and analysis have been featured in prominent outlets such as MSNBC, Yahoo News, and RealClearMarkets.
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By: Matt Gertz
President Donald Trump typically muscles through his unqualified selections with the help of Fox News. But early signs suggest that the propaganda network isn't on board with Trump's bid to install Bill Pulte, the administration's director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, as acting director of national intelligence.
By: Matt Gertz
Fox News' Special Report has devoted only about five minutes of airtime to stories about alleged influence peddling by President Donald Trump's family members in the 13 months since its anchor, Bret Baier, told an interviewer that the press “100%” had an obligation to report such stories with the same vigor with which they had pursued Republican allegations about the business interests of former President Joe Biden's son Hunter.
By: Matt Gertz
President Donald Trump called in to his old stomping ground of Fox News' Fox & Friends on Thursday morning, using the surprise interview to denounce the “crooked” media's coverage of the war he started with Iran, praise Fox's own positive coverage, and listen to the program's co-hosts urge him to escalate further by deploying U.S. ground troops on Iranian soil.
By: Matt Gertz
First Assistant” U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli is on a right-wing media tour claiming to have evidence of election fraud in California that will lead to prosecutions soon. Essayli is encouraging people to send in tips to help the Department of Justice investigate the supposed election rigging. Essayli's comments have right-wing media outlets in a frenzy pushing unverified claims of fraud.
By: Matt Gertz
The aimless war Fox News hosts helped convince President Donald Trump to launch against Iran may be careening closer to an end.
By: Matt Gertz
The right-wing media's debate over the reported memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran provides a test of whether, ten years after President Donald Trump first took power, his supporters are still capable of independent thought. Some of the biggest names in MAGA propaganda are failing it.
By: Matt Gertz
The right-wing media's hawks recognize the reported memorandum of understanding that President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D.
By: Matt Gertz
Right-wing media figures and outlets, including many that have been all-in on President Donald Trump's war on Iran, are in open revolt against his proposed memorandum of understanding that seeks to deescalate the conflict.
By: Matt Gertz
The right-wing hawks who applauded Donald Trump for launching the war with Iran earlier this year are adopting a new argument to avoid criticizing the president as he fumbles toward enacting a weaker, piecemeal version of the Obama-era Iran nuclear deal
By: Matt Gertz
President Donald Trump’s Fox News propagandists would like to use this summer’s celebration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence to smear Democrats as unpatriotic. But if Wednesday night’s launch of the Great American State Fair in Washington, D.C. — a poorly-attended campaign-style Trump rally — is any indication, the strategy's fatal flaw is the president’s catastrophic unpopularity.
