Given the Media Research Center’s history of devising conspiracy theories to claim that Donald Trump didn’t actually lose re-election in 2020 makes it an odd and hypocritical candidate to complain about people arguing that Trump’s 2024 election might not have been on the up-and-up. This happened as early as a May 1 hate-watch of “The View” by Nicholas Fondacaro:
Just over a year ago, in April 2024, ABC News’s The View announced that they had “stopped asking” President Trump to be on the show and said they had banned election deniers. But what if the moderator of the show was an election denier? During Thursday’s opening segment, Whoopi Goldberg suggested that Trump had rigged the 2024 presidential election.
Bitter about Trump posting on social media bragging about investors predicting he would win the election, and trying to gaslight about the Biden economy, Goldberg scolded Trump and warned him to stop lest someone poke around and discover insider knowledge of his impending victory:
[…]Seemingly denying the fact that Trump won the popular vote in 2024, Goldberg suggested that Trump’s economic policies were revenge on the American people.
Fondacaro failed to disclose that his employer denied the fact that Joe Biden won in 2020. Alex christy was similarly blind to his hypocrisy in a June 6 post:
Even by his own standards, former CNN anchor turned Substack podcaster Jim Acosta displayed a stunning amount of hypocrisy on Tuesday when it comes to conspiracy theories about the 2020 and 2024 presidential elections. On 2020, Acosta let former CNN colleague Michael Fanone go on a profanity-laden rant against Speaker Mike Johnson and fellow Republicans while he labeled actress Rosie O’Donnell an “international treasure” immediately after she spread conspiracy theories about 2024.
Christy then acknowledged that there was nothing wrong in the 2020 election — then blamed the media:
The truth is neither the 2020 nor the 2024 election was stolen. If the media covered 2020 fairly, maybe the voters would have acted differently, but there was nothing fishy about the actual vote counts in either case, just as there was nothing suspect about 2000 or 2004.
Did Christy forget what his employer did in 2020? It appears so.
The next day, Christy went off on another former CNN host:, once again demonstrating his hypocrisy:
In June 2023, recently fired CNN host Don Lemon claimed, “I don’t believe in platforming liars and bigots, insurrectionists and election deniers, and putting them on the same footing as people who are telling the truth.” If Lemon really believes that, he should deplatform himself because on Tuesday’s episode of The Don Lemon Show podcast, he and actress Kathy Griffin went all in on 2024 stolen election conspiracy theories.
[…]As Griffin confused kookiness or boldness, even Lemon could see that Griffin had no proof, but nevertheless, he still hyped the idea, “Your gut is telling you something.” Griffin confirmed that interpretation, “My gut is telling me something was up with that.”
Lemon also insisted he had no proof that Donald Trump stole the 2024 election, but he was certain something fishy happened, “You’re not far off. I won’t say that I disagree with you, but, you know, I’m an evidence person. I like to see the evidence. I think something was off, and especially, you know, when someone said, ‘Oh, we got this,’ and, you know, how do you know that? How do you know we got this?”
That’s called “confidence.” No presidential candidate says, “I think we’re going to lose.”
Christy then shifted his election denial to denying there is evidence that Trump will pull the plug on future elections, though there is plenty of evidence he has expressed a desire to do so. He grumbled in a July 8 post:
Jimmy Kimmel Live! guest host Anthony Anderson welcomed the left’s favorite election denier, Stacey Abrams, to ABC on Monday to promote her new book but also to spread a new election conspiracy theory that alleges President Trump is following the ten steps to autocracy that people like Vladimir Putin have also done to ultimately cancel elections. However, Abrams’s evidence was as nonsensical as it was outrageous.
Anderson put the ball on the tee, “Stop stupid or slow it down, brings me to my next question. Over the weekend you went viral for laying out ten steps to autocracy. Run us through those steps so we all know.”
Abrams began by trying to make analogies, “Okay, so this happens in every nation that has become an autocracy, having been a democracy. So whether we’re talking about Brazil with Bolsonaro, or India, or Putin and Russia, the Philippines with Duterte, so start with winning an election. Usually the last one you’re going to get to have for real.”
Bolsonaro was replaced by a left-wing socialist, while Duterte was replaced by a pro-American alternative, so their elections were not the last. Meanwhile, Abrams’s preferred Indian candidates losing does not mean democracy is over, and Putin murders his opponents, so he isn’t the best person to try to use as a comparison for Trump.
Christy seems to have forgotten that Bolsonaro incited a riot at the Brazilian capitol, making him more like Trump that he’d like to admit.
Jorge Bonilla complained complained in an Aug. 31 post:
During an interview broadcast on CBS’s Face the Nation, Senior White House correspondent Ed O’Keefe sat by as Democrat Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker uttered the wildest conspiracy theories about rigged and possibly cancelled elections in the United States. Unfortunately, he does so with no pushback.
Watch as Pritzker suggests President Donald Trump wants to cancel the 2026 midterms before correcting himself, and saying Trump merely wants to rig them:
[…]And this is the point at which Pritzker volunteered that a potential Guard deployment was about “other aims”. When pressed on those aims, Pritzker goes off into his stolen and/or rigged election nuttery before descending into disgusting Holocaust callbacks. O’Keefe does nothing to check Pritzker or otherwise challenge his claims. In fact, O’Keefe enables him by moving on to a question on retaliatory redistricting.
It wasn’t so long ago that the mere suggestion of something not being aboveboard with American elections was considered election denialism and a dangerous threat to Democracy. Such statements with regard to the 2020 election were met with furious pushback, and with editorial “corrections” after the fact. In 2025, though, such statements no longer appear to be anathema to the public discourse or a Danger to Democracy. Something is clearly (D)ifferent.
Like the others, Bonilla failed to disclose that his MRC co-workers pushed conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and refused to apologize or correct the record. So it is not as “(D)ifferent” as he would like you to believe.