NEW YORK (VINnews) — During the 2016 election campaign, one of the most influential media supporters of Donald Trump’s campaign to win the Republican nomination was popular conservative site The Drudge Report, named for its founder Matt Drudge. Rivals complained of the report’s pro-Trump bias and journalist Carl Bernstein called Drudge’s backing “an influence unequaled” in Trump’s ascendency to the GOP nomination. Later Drudge put its full resources behind Trump’s bid for presidency and radio commentator Rush Savage boasted after the election that he and Drudge were the “two people on earth” who had done the most to get Trump elected.
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At the beginning of Trump’s term Drudge romanticized about “this young Trump administration” and called the president “one of the most fascinating Americans that has ever lived in the modern era.” Trump also acknowledged Drudge’s contribution to his political fortunes, calling him a “great gentleman” and hosting him at the White House.
However in recent times Drudge has changed his tune, becoming progressively more critical of the president due to his foot-dragging on his promise to build a border wall, which was apparently a major reason behind his original backing of the president. During the impeachment procedures Drudge did not make efforts to defend Trump and even queried whether “Trump would ever quit.” The site ran headlines like: “Republican criticism [of Trump] mounts …” “It took [a] long time for Republicans to abandon Nixon …”
Conservatives have been dismayed and angered over Drudge’s political about-face. Fox News’ Tucker Carlson claimed Friday during an interview with Drudge biographer Matthew Lysiak that “Matt Drudge is now firmly a man of the progressive left” and called his report a “propaganda outlet posing as a news company.” Another Fox anchor, Jesse Watters, compared Drudge Report to Trump’s most strident critics on the left, claiming that although the site is “very fair, very aggressive, very bold” with regard to its approach to Trump: “that’s what you log on to CNN for.”
Trump himself reportedly fumed “What’s going on with Drudge?” and sent his son-in-law Jared Kushner to try and investigate the changes in the site’s policies. However Lysiak, whose biography of the veteran journalist is entitled The Drudge Revolution, suggests that Drudge has simply concluded that it is more financially lucrative to target Trump than to try and defend him. As Rush Limbaugh put it when asked about Drudge’s apparent change of heart: “And I tell people, ‘Have you heard of clicks?'”
The Fox host then reiterated that Drudge’s site has undergone a “remarkable change”
But before Lysiak could confirm this relationship, his feed dropped and Carlson moved on.
“I’ve recently stopped visiting the Drudge Report because if I want Liberal talking points, I just go on Huffington Post” Michael Stein, a longtime reader of Drudge Report, told VINnews.com
“I think it’s a shocking story that no one has picked up, the biggest conservative blogger starts leaning left and actively tries to make the Republican in office lose? If that’s not a story, what is?” Stein concludes.
Here are some past screenshots that show Drudge’s bias against the Republican president:
Yup, I stopped reading Drudge since this about face happened…. for liberal lies and distortions I can read CNN.
He needed money for whatever reason. So he sold his soul to the devil.
i haven’t looked at Drudge report in months – he’s after the benjamins, not for America.
I haven’t read him in nearly two years
His tune and tone changed drastically after the election guess you make more money by turning left then staying the course
Except he lost many followers
I used to hit the Drudgereport about 10 times a day, Now I barely look at it.
It’s been at least two and a half three years or so that I’ve looked at Drudge report. It was my understanding that he actually sold the site.
There is nothing progressive about the left. They have all one thing in common. Anti semitism.
You, with the 2 names:
If Trump is a lunatic, we need 4 more years of him, what with the great things he’s accomplished in such short a petiod of time.
Also _ Trump is now the Republican Party.
The George Will’s of the world are dinasaurs : globalists, snobby elites and worse.
HEY.. THAT’S WHY we elected him. And will reelect .him . That’s what some of you don’t get. That Trump will clean house of what is called the Swamp_ including RINOs.
The deficits are Democrat Congress made. They presented him with this wild Omnibus bill for example, but he was forced to sign it because it had Veteran aid. Not much for the wall. These RINOS , except for a very few, did not fight alongside Trump , especially Ryan the Weasel.
Every 2 days now , Pelisi wants more zillions and she has the votes. Don’t blame Trump. You’re talking to adults , not leftie loonburgers.
STOP LYING ABOUT FAIR TRADE. TRUMP DESTROYED NAFTA AND EVENEND THE PLAYING FIELD WITH CHINA.
STOP YOUR LIES ALREADY.
You all realize of course, that a poster(s) here is spewing communist disinformation and outright sheker about President Trump.
The question is , does he believe his own turd ? Wow .. I mean outright falseshoods
Only CNN NBC NY Slimes and now Fludge write like this.
Somebody paying you ?.
It was the demented lunatic Fauci who ad ised Trump initially that it was like the flu.
I’ve almost never seen so much chutzpah lying in almost any thread like this one.
Incredible.
Well, get a load of our Pravda poster here .This is why the Great 45 will be re-elected in a landslide BEH.
Because most Americans absolutely know that they’re being lied to by a fake press , which this commenter above tries to ape.
Nobody believes your swine wash.
And the desperate polls are a sorry effort to demoralize. Don’t believe any of them.
You got some nerve. Your Party is actively supporting looting, murder, mayhem, anti Semitism , a coup d’etat against our president, shutting down freedom of speech and loosing criminal felons unto our neighborhoods, and you’re writing a babble against Trump ?
Are you ok ?
Drudge secretly sold the site. Not hard to figure out.
Followed Drudge for years. Noticed that his tune about POTUS did certainly change. I also observed that his reporting became inflammatory. What really got me to stop visiting his website was the reporting on Covid. I felt that he was inciting panic. I did hear that he actually sold his website and that is why the change. However I don’t know if that is true Information but it certainly would explain the abrupt turnaround.
Re:
Will & Krystol abhor Trump.
Hey Einstein ! We know. That’s why we voted Trump , in great part to stick it to these Bushie lip flappers. In fact , word on the street is that these 2 clowns are on suicide watch.
MAGA
So ya think if you regurgitate Goebbel lies it makes it true ?
Give your blab a rest, boychik.
It’s MAGA , man.
So you anti Trumpists want sleepy Joe and his Jew hating lunatic fringe to take over. They can riot and burn down your neighborhoods and cut your throats. They will disarm you and put you in gas chambers. They will unleash the criminal elements like Debozo and cuomo have done. I as a normal Jew will not go to the slaughter like our grandparents did like sheep. Trump 2020 for Israels sake and Jewish survival.
Trump is a true winner , biden a born loser . Drudge knows it so does the whole world .
Drudge headed for a brick wall.
Working hard to break my 20 year habit of reading the drudge report.
NOBODY has done more for the Jews than Trump. NOBODY has worked harder for the Jews than Trump. NOBODY has been more consistent and reliable for the Jews than Trump. All Trump haters are imbeciles with no point to make. You got nothing on Trump…. Just blind hate. Hell is full of haters like you.
Drudge is DEAD…… You go woke and you go broke……… Money ain’t everything. I hope you enjoy your 30 pieces of silver Jud……I mean, Drudge.
I have not visited the site in months it’s useless leftwing propaganda.
Drudge is what blew up the clinton Monica scandal. What a shame
Drudge is a Conservative icon and hero. Please do not confuse Conservatism with Trumpism and Populism. Drudge is not a Trumpian populist. Tucker Carlson and Trump are not conservatives. They are populist rabble-rousers. True conservatives like George Will and Bill Kristol abhor Trump. Drudge hasn’t changed. Republicans have changed. They have sold out their values for Trump. They no longer care about deficits, they no longer care about free trade, they no longer care about corruption at highest levels of government, they no longer care for leaders of moral standing. The list can go on and on. Drudge is NOT a Liberal Progressive he is an honest Conservative which is something that is lacking among too many Conservatives today.
Leftist policies ?? You’re either joking or throwing you know what. He became more conservative than Reagan.
You sound like one if my loony professors who know didley but spout fabrications to silly 20 year olds. Lol.
Garbage article.
Who is Rush Savage ?
What is likelier?
Matt Drudge sold it to to a leftie who’s using the name. He has norhing to do with the company anymore. The whole article is mere conjecture. Baloney.
I get that Trump has done many things that are positive for the frum community. I get the alternative is one that is not great for Israel and Jewish values. Still, I don’t get how the frum community, by and large, has completely blinded themselves to this moral decay in the oval office and who would turn on us in a heart beat, if it suited his agenda. He’s no conservative and he cares about one thing. The same thing he’s cared about his entire life. Donald Trump. Drudge is a libertarian and fiscal conservative. Not difficult to see why he turned on Trump.
Drudge started leaving Trump just a few months into his presidency, so his excuse about the wall is a lie. I read him every day for years and noticed the trend.
He’s been bought , and the readers noticed.
It is about the constitution and being against corruption. Writing the truth about Trump does not make you a progressive.
The GOP coronavirus bill has $1.75b for a new FBI building in its present location so as to block a potential competitor to the Trump Hotel, and 100% deduction for business meals (which would benefit Trump’s hotels). But not a cent for safe and secure elections this November.
Tip of the iceberg.
FYI according to Trump it is illegal to make criticism of him Trend on Twitter. USA is no longer the leader of the free world.
An hour before Dr. Fauci threw the first pitch at the Yankees – Nationals game, Trump stood in the briefing room and declared that he, too, had been invited to throw out his own opening pitch. There was one problem: Mr. Trump had not actually been invited.
More Baby in Chief.
Today the President of the US tweets
So disgusting to watch Twitter’s so-called “Trending”, where sooo many trends are about me, and never a good one. They look for anything they can find, make it as bad as possible, and blow it up, trying to make it trend. Really ridiculous, illegal, and, of course, very unfair!
Clearly, he knows what is important during a Pandemic. Go vote for him in November and Call Matt Drudge names and Progressive because he recognizes a diseased mind and character.
Trump beat the media once and he’ll do it again. Citizens who watch as media lies about the destruction of cities, tech & universities who chase people from jobs and shut down speech will vote against them.
Safety and freedom will win the day.
Wikipedia states:
> Revenue for the Drudge Report is driven by advertising that was managed for 20 years by Intermarkets, Inc. During the summer of 2019, after many years of being known for “changing nothing” about the website, Drudge advertising shifted to a new company by the name of Granite Cubed. The current ownership, strategy and outlook for the Drudge Report is held close as private information
Drudge turned on Trump because of immigration. Just like Ann Coulter
Drudge propaganda
I used to visit Drudge’s site 5-6 times a day. I was so turned off, that I have not clicked on it – for the last 2 months….
Rush Savage
Matt just decided to do teshuva. Better late than never.
Or maybe like many who voted for Trump, they don’t feel he should be president. There are many former supporters who are turned off by his hostility, lack of acting presidential, his stance on immigration, and lack of leadership. It’s not only about conservative values.
But many of us will ultimately either vote for him or stay home because of the other candidate’s positions.
Being anti-Trump does not make someone a progressive or a leftist — which are two totally different things. Being anti-Trump makes one anti-Republican. And, being a republican is not the same as being a conservative. Up until the teaparty take over of the GOP in 2008-2010 there were liberal Republicans.
And Drudge has more hits than ever before. 2020 will be a reckoning for the rubble that Trump has reduced the GOP to.
It can’t possibly that he supported his campaign and then realized what an absolute lunatic Trump is and stopped repeating Trump propaganda??? Or decided to take a stand on the Trumpian lies about coronavirus how it is just a flu and it will disappear and we should stop testing. He consistently still criticises the left but has woken up to Trump’s lies and mostly leftist policies who the the republicans seem to be all on board with like massive government spending no free trade. If only the left would’ve woken up and realized they got their mostly leftist president in Trump.
As usual the trumpoid lemmings can only read their version of the news. Drudge finally woke up and criticizes the orange yutz for what he is. Many other voters are tired of trump’s blame shifting, chaos, distraction, jate speech and overall total incompetence. Ask any conservative about trump’s attacking free trade, trillion $$$ deficits, attacks on the Constitution. He’s still a carnival barker, tv show celebrity. IMPEACHED.
I get that Trump has done many things that are positive for the frum community. I get the alternative is one that is not great for Israel and Jewish values. Still, I don’t get how the frum community, by and large, has completely blinded themselves to this moral decay in the oval office and who would turn on us in a heart beat, if it suited his agenda. He’s no conservative and he cares about one thing. The same thing he’s cared about his entire life. Donald Trump. Drudge is a libertarian and fiscal conservative. Not diffacult to see why he turned on Trump.
Any real conservative would see through Trump.
Drudge started up with the wrong crowd .