Leaked Memo: Colleagues Unload on John Solomon, the Journo Who Kicked Off Trump's Ukraine Conspiracy

[Tactical Peek]

‘I AM DISTURBED’

Leaked Memo: Colleagues Unload on John Solomon, the Journo Who Kicked Off Trump’s Ukraine Conspiracy

The Trump-friendly scribe and his Biden-Ukraine conspiracies were cited multiple times in the whistleblower memo. Many of his co-workers are ashamed to be associated with him.

Maxwell Tani Media reporter Justin Baragona
Updated 09.28.19 9:00AM ET / Published 09.28.19 5:07AM ET


Beltway-centric newspaper The Hill employs a team of dozens of journalists from a variety of backgrounds. But only one has managed to alienate many of his colleagues, fuel the paranoia of Fox News viewers, and inadvertently play a key role in the whistleblower complaint and President Donald Trump’s potential impeachment.

Over the past several years, John Solomon, a long-time journalist with bylines at the Washington Post, the Associated Press, and Newsweek/The Daily Beast, has pivoted to becoming the Trumpian right’s favorite “investigative reporter.”

[snip] ... Over the past several months, and with the benefit of substantial airtime from Fox News primetime host Sean Hannity, Solomon has peddled a series of Ukraine-based conspiracy theories and allegations that have primarily taken aim at two of Trumpworld’s biggest targets: Biden and Hillary Clinton.

In the process, his questionable reporting, which often seems specifically tailored to stoke the flames of right-wing paranoia, has enraged many of his colleagues at The Hill who have for years seen his tactics and reporting as overtly ideological, convoluted, and often lacking in crucial context.

“He’s a lightning rod of anxiety for us,” one Hill insider told The Daily Beast.


https://www.thedailybeast.com/leaked-memo-colleagues-unload-on-john-solomon-the-reporter-who-kicked-off-trumps-ukraine-conspiracy


He is a useful journalist version of a useful idiot.

[Roland99]

1. Here's some more background on him and the bs he's selling

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212511310

[blm]

2. He's always been a propagandist. He ain't no journalist.

[highplainsdem]

3. Thread on some of what John Solomon was doing in 2017, and more background on him:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029723589

[Cha]

6. You were on to Solomon back in 2017..

Thanks for the link..

This is the first I'm hearing about him today. There always has to be some evil "journalist" gaslighting and spreading propaganda

[highplainsdem]

9. Solomon's "'gotcha' without the gotcha" style (loved the WaPo ombudsman's description of

his dishonest reporting) was so weird it was immediately obvious that he didn't belong at The Hill or ANY reputable news site.

Which of course makes him a perfect fit for Hannity, and for Trump.

[Cha]

10. Solomon certainly does belong on

the Fake "news" fox propaganda station.. or anywhere they make up crap out of thin air.

[ancianita]

4. Is he Trump's official evidence fabricator?

[highplainsdem]

5. Trump's and Hannity's.

[Cha]

7. Thank you, Tactical Peek!

Important information

[UTUSN]

8. K&R

[oasis]

11. Slimy rat traitor.

[certainot]

12. the ukraine story is far from complete if it doesn't include talk radio, the main culprit

doing the unchallenged repetition needed to push the ukraine biden buzz

the kremlin has been using tools like solomon, jerome corsi, breitbart etc to feed limbaugh, hannity and other talk radio gods for at least ten years.

kremlin has horned in on talk radio - it used to be the right wing think tanks, GOP, etc.

imo redacted parts of the mueller report are about russian use of talk radio (why is the name where 'hannity' would be and should be in the glossary redacted, for instance) and if the dem investigations get to it it will finish off trump and the GOP and enable a lot of republican senators to dump trump

[Tommy_Carcetti]

13. Once respectable reporters are not immune from spectacular falls from grace.

Case in point: Robert Parry’s sad final years dishing Kremlin propaganda.