For a right-wing news organization that is supposed to despise election interference, Newsmax seemed to sign off on the U.S. interfering in the election in a foreign country. From a June 1 article by John Gizzi:
Although U.S. presidents have sent subtle and not-so-subtle signals about whom they would like to see elected head of state in major countries, few have ever been as open and aggressive about it as Donald Trump and his administration in the race for president of Poland to be decided this Sunday.
In the last few weeks, the president was photographed at the White House shaking hands with Karol Nawrocki, historian and candidate of the nationalist Law and Justice Party. Nawrocki later told reporters Trump said to him: “You will win.”
Days ago, at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) held in Poland, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem strongly endorsed Nawrocki and said of his opponent, liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski: “an absolute train wreck of a leader.”
As he did with another right-wing candidate, Gizzi framed Nawrocki as a “nationalist,” touting a supporter’s claim that he “no longer wants to take in immigrants from Ukraine, even wanting to cut back on the aid they are currently given,” yet “is not pro-Russian by any means.” Gizzi did eventually concede that Nawrocki is a “cultural conservative.” He did not raise any questions about whether the Trump administration’s enthusiastic support for Nawrocki constituted election interference.
After Nawrocki narrowly won the election, Newsmax went into self-promotion mode in a June 3 article touting how Nawrocki retweeted a post by Trump touting a Newsmax article on the win. That was followed by a June 7 TV appearance by former Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, who “praised Karol Nawrocki’s election as the next president of Poland.”