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John Solomon (political commentator)

Solomon speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C.

John F. Solomon is an American journalist who was a contributor to Fox News until late 2020.[1][2][3][4] He was formerly an executive and editor-in-chief at The Washington Times.[5]

Although he won a number of awards (including the 2008 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award) for his investigative journalism, in recent years he has been accused of magnifying small scandals, creating fake controversy,[6][7][8] and advancing conspiracy theories.[1][3][9] During the Donald Trump presidency, he advanced Trump-friendly stories including questioning reporting that women who had accused Trump of sexual harassment had also sought payments from partisan political donors[10] and questioning the legitimacy of criminal charges against Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.[11]

He also played an important role in advancing conspiracy theories about unproven allegations of wrongdoing in Ukraine by Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden. Solomon's stories about the Bidens influenced Trump's fruitless attempt to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy into publicly launching an investigation into the elder Biden, an attempt that led to Trump's first impeachment.[4]

In 2020 he launched the website Just the News.[12]

  1. ^ a b Mayer, Jane (October 4, 2019). "The Invention of the Conspiracy Theory on Biden and Ukraine". The New Yorker.
  2. ^ Grinapol, Corinne (July 10, 2017). "John Solomon Joins The Hill as Executive Vice President, Digital Video". Adweek. Archived from the original on August 4, 2017. Retrieved August 4, 2017.
  3. ^ a b Baragona, Justin (November 12, 2020). "Fox News Parts Ways With John Solomon, Architect of Trump's Ukraine Conspiracies". The Daily Beast. Retrieved November 12, 2020.
  4. ^ a b Pearson, Jake; Spies, Mike (October 25, 2019). "How a Veteran Reporter Worked with Giuliani's Associates to Launch the Ukraine Conspiracy". ProPublica. Archived from the original on October 26, 2019. Retrieved October 26, 2019.
  5. ^ Wemple, Erik (December 7, 2015). "John Solomon leaves Washington Times, joins Circa re-launch". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Archived from the original on February 22, 2016. Retrieved February 7, 2016.
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  8. ^ Blake, Mariah (July 2012). "Something fishy?". Columbia Journalism Review. Archived from the original on October 12, 2019. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
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  10. ^ Baragona, Maxwell Tani, Justin (September 28, 2019). "Leaked Memo: Colleagues Unload on Journo Behind Ukraine Mess". The Daily Beast. Retrieved May 11, 2022.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ Solomon, John (June 19, 2019). "FBI, warned early and often that Manafort file might be fake, used it anyway". The Hill. Retrieved May 11, 2022.
  12. ^ Cite error: The named reference :16 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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