Ingraham is one of the network’s fiercest supporters of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Touting her Catholic faith, Ingraham often invokes religious authority to attack abortion providers, praise crisis pregnancy centers, and dismiss the deleterious consequences of restricted reproductive rights for women. 

• Ingraham compared “a Planned Parenthood cap” to “the modern-day white hood of the KKK,” saying, “That would actually be closer to the truth, right?” [PodcastOne, The Laura Ingraham Show Podcast, 1/22/19]
• Ingraham and co-host Raymond Arroyo called Planned Parenthood “butchers” responsible for a “Black Holocaust.” [PodcastOne, The Laura Ingraham Show Podcast, 4/4/19]
• In the aftermath of the leaked Dobbs opinion draft, Ingraham reassured her audience, saying, “Everyone has to remember tonight, like before everybody freaks out, that this is now going to be determined by you, the people.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 5/2/22]
• Ingraham attacked Democrats: “Nothing is more important to them than preserving abortion-on-demand. It is their sacred allegiance. Their oxygen is depriving the unborn of theirs.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 5/9/22]
• Ingraham defended her radical anti-abortion opinions, claiming that Republicans like her want to protect unborn babies that could “go on to do things like, I don't know, maybe cure cancer one day.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 5/11/22]
• Ingraham praised the Supreme Court overturning Roe: “A triumphant Friday night from New York. Answered prayers.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 6/24/22]
• Ingraham dismissed the electoral impact of abortion issues: “I don’t believe that with the choices between ‘I want more abortions across America’ or ‘I want more money in my pocket,’ people are going to choose they want more abortions. I just don’t think — I think that’s a loser argument.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 9/12/22]
• Ingraham complained that corporate responses to the Supreme Court overturning Roe helped employees “kill more babies.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 10/14/22]
• Ingraham argued that Planned Parenthood profits from “dead, preborn babies” and, “just like the other murderous tyrants of the 20th century, they manipulate language to shape debate.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 12/1/22]

Ingraham has spent years demonizing and mocking immigrants. She has also demonstrated particular vitriol for Muslim people, especially immigrants and refugees. Recently, Ingraham has echoed the “great replacement” rhetoric of her former colleague Tucker Carlson. According to Media Matters’ internal database, Ingraham has also hosted white nationalist and notorious anti-immigrant firebrand Stephen Miller at least 79 times — more than any other Fox host.  

• Ingraham claimed that U.S. judges were “aiding and abetting” human traffickers by applying due process to immigrants. [Courtside Entertainment Group, The Laura Ingraham Show, 4/25/18] 
• Ingraham called child detention centers “essentially summer camps.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 6/18/18]
• Echoing the white supremacist “great replacement” conspiracy theory, Ingraham claimed Democrats oppose a border wall because they are using undocumented immigrants to win elections. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 1/10/19]
• Ingraham said immigrant schoolchildren have led to a “diminished product” in schools. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 2/12/19]
• Ingraham claimed immigration is pushing “Western civilization” toward “tipping over a cliff.” [PodcastOne, The Laura Ingraham Show Podcast, 3/28/19]
• Ingraham stated that Democrats support “replacing the current American population” with “new immigrants.” [PodcastOne, The Laura Ingraham Show Podcast, 6/18/19]
• Ingraham attacked immigration, describing it as the “real insurrection.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 2/8/21]
• Ingraham warned her Fox audience that Democrats “want you replaced” by immigrants. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 3/5/21]
• Ingraham said that immigrants are spreading “tentacles of crime and disunity” into America. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 7/9/21]
• Ingraham warned that immigrants will change “the country forever in ways we have no idea where it’s going to go.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 8/13/21]
• Ingraham claimed that Democrats are replacing “regular Americans” with immigrants who “bring in more crime, more violence, their extended family.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 8/19/21]
• Ingraham said that the Biden administration is providing aid for Afghan refugees because “they actually prefer noncitizens to citizens for a variety of reasons.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 9/13/21]
• Ingraham denigrated immigrants and Afghan refugees as “a mass of humanity” who will “grow dependency on government programs.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 9/16/21]
• Ingraham complained that “the BLM-ification of the border” means “any Black or brown-skinned person should be sent to the front of the line.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 9/23/21]
• Ingraham accused Biden of “encouraging the spread of COVID” through immigration. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 11/4/21]
• Ingraham claimed the government is flying immigrants and “dropping them into communities they hope to change.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 11/4/21]
• Ingraham attacked the Biden administration for supposedly encouraging border crossings “to fundamentally change America.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 5/9/23]
• Ingraham said “an untold number of Americans” will “lose their lives” because of immigration. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 5/11/23]

Ingraham has enthusiastically participated in Fox News’ latest crusade to dehumanize trans individuals and denigrate the LGBTQ community as sexual predators. She has also repeatedly attacked gender-affirming care and same-sex marriage.

• Ingraham compared baking cakes for same-sex couples to baking cakes for white supremacists. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 12/4/17]
• Ingraham complained that “the Hollywood deal” is why “transgenderism” is no longer “called a mental condition” [PodcastOne, The Laura Ingraham Show Podcast, 1/17/19]
• Ingraham said “the goal” of teaching children about they/them pronouns “is to break the bond with the nuclear family.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 5/6/21]
• Ingraham attacked a library for displaying LGBTQ books recently banned by politicians. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 2/15/22]
• During her show in March 2022 discussing Florida’s “Don't Say Gay” law, a chyron read: “Liberals are sexually grooming elementary students.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 3/9/22]
• Ingraham claimed that Disney makes “propaganda for grooming” children. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 3/30/22]
• Ingraham accused Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra of “supporting child abuse” after he testified in favor of trans youth. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 4/6/22]
• Ingraham cited a non-peer-reviewed study to fearmonger about the number of gender-nonconforming students. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 10/11/22]
• Ingraham criticized Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for being a vocal supporter of same-sex marriage. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 7/25/22]
• Ingraham attacked children's hospitals for providing gender-affirming care. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 11/22/22]
• Ingraham said trans activists are “deeply anti-human.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 12/1/22]
• Ingraham called gender-affirming care “satanic.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 12/7/22]

Besides platforming misinformation to undermine climate science, Ingraham’s rhetoric often follows a pattern of tying any climate action to culture wars to create a false dichotomy between personal freedom and a thriving planet. Ingraham also frequently engaged with environmental conspiracy theories, such as the Great Reset theory, climate lockdowns, and fearmongering about 15-minute cities.

• Ingraham dismissed climate change: Receding glaciers are “why we have the Rocky Mountains.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 1/10/20]
• Ingraham claimed antifa arsonists were responsible for California wildfires. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 9/14/20]
• Ingraham focused her opening monologue on “the big climate con,” including misleading arguments against the benefits of climate action, attempts to discredit the role of global cooperation, and claims that the scientific warnings on climate change are not sound. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 4/22/21]
• Ingraham said Democrats were using “perpetually hyped crises,” such as the climate crisis, to “justify the left’s brazen efforts to take more of our money and more of our liberty.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 4/30/21]
• Ingraham pushed explicit denial of settled climate science: “The science is not settled.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 7/14/22]
• Ingraham hosted Tom Harris of the International Climate Science Coalition to falsely claim that climate science is in doubt. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 10/11/22]
• Ingraham insinuated that the climate crisis, much like the pandemic, is made up, and that it will be an excuse for elites to “extend emergency powers” over the population. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 11/1/22]
• Laura Ingraham attacked the World Economic Forum’s focus on climate change, saying, “We're not experiencing a planetary emergency; they’re experiencing a power emergency — meaning, theirs is in jeopardy.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 1/17/23]
• Ingraham platformed U.K. professor Norman Fenton, who claimed 15-minute cities are “absolutely catastrophic” and that “the idea is essentially to stop you — yeah, it’s to stop you going out of the zone, stop you traveling wherever you want.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 4/11/23]

Throughout the pandemic, Laura Ingraham cemented herself as one of Fox News’ leading voices in spreading misinformation about coronavirus. Ingraham has dismissed masks, pushed herd immunity and unproven treatments for COVID-19, attacked health officials and the efficacy of vaccines, and assembled her own medicine cabinet of discredited doctors to validate her COVID-19 misinformation. Even now, despite reports that the vaccine has saved millions of lives, Ingraham continues to claim that it is dangerous rather than lifesaving. 

On top of her influence among Fox viewers, Ingraham also helped craft Trump’s early pandemic response. Not only did Trump live-tweet Ingraham as she pushed unproven cures, he even invited her to the White House on multiple occasions, where she advised him against contact tracing and on using hydroxychloroquine as a cure for COVID-19. The consequences arising from Ingraham’s influence over both Fox viewers and the former president were dire. 

• Ingraham attacked a Department of Veterans Affairs study showing hydroxychloroquine was ineffective and potentially dangerous. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 4/22/20] 
• Ingraham pushed the conspiracy theory that Bill Gates was helping fund vaccine research because he wants “a pretty vast mass surveillance system to be put in place” to fight the coronavirus. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 4/24/20]
• Ingraham claimed that urging people to wear masks is a media plot to keep the public in a state of fear: “The media have been selling panic, panic, panic for weeks and weeks and weeks. They have fewer images to sell hysteria to justify continued lockdowns. The masks, well they’re kind of a constant reminder.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 4/29/20] 
• Ingraham said “there was no real scientific basis” for social distancing. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 5/4/20] 
• Ingraham called for Trump to “pull back” on the FDA warning about hydroxychloroquine. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 5/6/20] 
• In an opening monologue attacking contact tracing, Ingraham compared the coronavirus to gun violence or climate change, saying, “There are always going to be plenty of reasons cited by government bureaucrats or unelected technocrats to justify taking your freedoms away. They'll cite scary things like gun violence, climate change, and now of course COVID, maybe the next virus.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 5/21/20] 
• Ingraham suggested that the “hyperventilation over a second wave of COVID cases” is simply an effort by journalists and the left to hamper the president’s campaigning. She also included Fauci in that conspiracy theory. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 6/15/20] 
• Ingraham questioned why the FDA was allowed to “inject itself” into debate over hydroxychloroquine. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 6/15/20] 
• Ingraham declared, “No more lockdowns. Viruses are a fact of life.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 7/13/20]
• Ingraham pointed to Sweden’s coronavirus approach as a model America should follow despite Swedish doctors and scientists warning against their failed attempt at herd immunity. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 7/21/20]
• Ingraham hosted the authors of the “Great Barrington Declaration,” calling them “brilliant” and expressing her “awe” at their “expertise” and “courage in speaking out.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 10/5/20] 
• As COVID-19 surged in South Dakota, Laura Ingraham hosted Gov. Kristi Noem and hailed the state as a model. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 10/21/20] 
• Ingraham mocked the COVID-19 fatality rate as thousands died daily. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 12/11/20]
• Ingraham encouraged viewers to gather for the holidays: “Of course, act cautiously, but Christmas is meant to be spent with your family — not isolated and locked down.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 12/16/20] 
• Ingraham speculated Democrats put COVID restrictions in place as a way of “conditioning the public” for climate lockdowns. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 5/18/21]
• Ingraham likened Germany's COVID-19 policies to the Nazis. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 12/2/21]
• Ingraham called vaccine mandates “a crime against humanity.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 1/10/22]
• Ingraham said the COVID vaccine was “unnecessary.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 6/6/23]

On her January 6, 2021, broadcast of The Ingraham Angle, Ingraham promoted the false theory that members of antifa were involved in the attack. However earlier in the day, Ingraham had texted Trump’s then-Chief of Staff Mark Meadows that “the president needs to tell people in the Capitol to go home. This is hurting all of us. He is destroying his legacy.”

• Ingraham downplayed the attacks on January 6: “We've had many last year that were far worse than this.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 7/21/21]
• Ingraham called the Justice Department’s investigation of Trump’s role on January 6 a “political vendetta.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 7/26/22]
• Ingraham said that Joe Biden would do more damage to democracy than the January 6 rioters. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 3/2/23]
• Ingraham called January 6 rioters “old ladies walking through the halls of Congress taking selfies.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 3/29/23]

In November 2020, Ingraham — not unlike her Fox News colleagues — peddled election conspiracy theories to sow doubt about the integrity of the 2020 presidential election, including hosting disgraced former Trump attorney Sidney Powell. Ingraham called on Powell to explain the conspiracy theory to her audience, and then commented that despite recent fact checks, Powell is “a really top lawyer.” 

The Dominion Files revealed that Ingraham wrote a text message to Tucker Carlson on November 15, 2020, “Sidney Powell is a bit nuts. Sorry, but she is.” On November 22, 2020, Ingraham again texted Carlson, “No serious lawyer could believe what they were saying.” Despite knowing that Powell was spreading fraudulent claims, Ingraham failed to alert her audience to the incredulity of Powell’s claims. (The Dominion lawsuit filings also revealed that a producer of her show and a Fox executive acknowledged that claims of Dominion engaging in voter fraud were incorrect and absurd.)  

Since the 2020 election, Ingraham has also sown doubt regarding the 2022 midterms and has contributed to doubt about the upcoming 2024 election. 

• Days after the 2020 presidential election, Ingraham claimed there was “precedent for courts overturning the results of elections.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 11/6/20]
• Ingraham attacked the For the People Act, H.R. 1, claiming “its sole purpose is to ensure a permanent Democrat majority.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 3/9/21]
• Ahead of the 2022 midterm, Ingraham cast doubt on Arizona primary election results: “How is it that in the United States of America, we cannot count the votes on election night? ... This is ridiculous in Arizona. It is absurd.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 8/3/22]
• Citing a Washington Examiner article, Ingraham claimed, “Ahead of the 2024 election, the feds are working behind the scenes to demonetize successful conservative media organizations.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 2/14/23]
• Ingraham claimed the FBI is part of a plot to “defeat Republicans” in elections. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 3/1/23]
• Ingraham said that “a lot of Americans” are thinking, “We have the Justice Department's finger on the scale of our political system with this [Trump] indictment.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 6/8/23]
• Ingraham commented that while “the DOJ might, might be able to meddle in another election, courtesy of federal investigations,” there will “soon enough be a critical mass of Americans who simply say, ‘I will not comply.’” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 6/13/23]

Laura Ingraham’s rhetoric on guns dismisses the lethal consequences of the weapons, instead directing her vitriol at mass shooting victims, misdirecting viewers away from the roots of gun violence, and attacking gun law reform. In March 2018, her taunting of Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg caused many advertisers to drop her show.  

• Hours after the Parkland school shooting, Ingraham defended the murder weapon used as “safe.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 2/14/18]
• Ingraham asked, “Why should Parkland students get “special consideration” on gun policy?” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 2/27/18]
• Ingraham called YouTube’s plan to ban videos showing how to modify guns “viewpoint discrimination” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 3/22/18]
• Reacting to the Christchurch, New Zealand, shooting, Ingraham attacked those pointing out conservative influences on the shooter and brought up “radical Muslims.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 3/15/19]
• In June 2021, Ingraham participated in a simulator in which she was a police officer responding to a school shooting. [Twitter, 6/17/21]
• Ingraham blamed “the media” for the Buffalo, New York, shooting. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 5/16/22]
• Ingraham blamed mass shootings on “regular pot use.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 7/5/22]
• Ingraham commented that “Republicans are kind of afraid of the gun issue sometimes because they feel like there will be another mass shooting.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 7/18/22]
• Ingraham dismissed gun reform because the Uvalde shooter could have “built a pressure cooker bomb and killed just as many people.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 5/25/22]
• Ingraham called coverage of Allen, Texas shooting “a bloody electoral strategy” by the Democrats [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 5/8/23]

Ingraham has long contributed to spreading racist tropes at Fox News, most notably demanding that NBA star Lebron James should “shut up and dribble” after he appeared in an interview criticizing then-President Donald Trump. Her racism spreads well beyond the realm of sports — Ingraham has consistently attacked the notion of white privilege, acknowledgments of the United States’ history with slavery and racism, efforts to remove statues of Confederate soldiers, and attempts to institute diversity and inclusion. 

Most recently, Ingraham expressed her distaste for inclusion by attacking critical race theory and diversity inclusion and equity (DEI) initiatives. According to Media Matters’ internal database, she has hosted right-wing anti-civil rights activist Chris Rufo on The Ingraham Angle at least 31 times, more than any other Fox host. 

• Ingraham attacked Lebron James, Kevin Durant, and Cari Champion for talking about Trump's racism: “Must they run their mouths like that?” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 2/16/18]
• Ingraham complained that “bratty players” in the NFL were using racial issues to “disrespect the country.” [Courtside Entertainment Group, The Laura Ingraham, 6/5/18]
• Ingraham claimed that liberals are “agents of a historical and cultural purge” and “hate our American traditions, and a lot of our heritage.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 6/26/18]
• After Ron DeSantis racistly called his political opponent a “monkey,” Ingraham advised him to “demand an apology” for being falsely accused of racism. [Courtside Entertainment Group, The Laura Ingraham Show, 8/30/18]
• Ingraham said that America is plagued by “white-aphobia” [PodcastOne, The Laura Ingraham Show Podcast, 2/28/19]
• Ingraham defended white supremacist Paul Nehlen as one of the “prominent voices censored on social media.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 5/30/19]
• In the summer of 2020, Ingraham instructed media outlets to “stop calling” individuals protesting against racial discrimination “protesters.” She urged outlets to instead call them “violent revolutionaries trying to overthrow our government.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 7/27/20]
• Ingraham said, “It sickens me to hear anyone, especially our president, accusing America of systemic racism.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 2/16/21]
• Ingraham complained that white supremacists are victims of a smear campaign by “woke Asian elites.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 4/14/21]
• Ingraham said that the “big lie” is that systemic racism exists in America. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 4/20/21]
• Ingraham said that monuments to the Confederacy symbolize “all things traditionally American.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 7/6/21]
• Ingraham said she's against universal pre-k because teachers are “brainwashing toddlers” with critical race theory. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 7/15/21]
• Ingraham praised confederate Robert E. Lee for “reuniting the country.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 9/8/21]
• Ingraham warned Democrats are pushing “the great racial reckoning” to increase their power over your thoughts. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 11/16/21]
• Ingraham asked, “What if Jacob Blake, Michael Brown, and George Floyd hadn't resisted their arrests?” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 11/23/21]
• Ingraham said Joe Biden’s “diverse cabinet” is “turning America into the third world.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 5/18/22]
• Ingraham blamed critical race theory for low military recruitment numbers. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 7/20/22]
• Ingraham praised efforts to “protect health care from the radical ideology of antiracism.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 10/6/22]
• Ingraham called “DEI” a “scam” and a “weapon against objective merit and excellence.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 10/6/22]
• Ingraham blamed diversity initiatives for the Ohio train derailment. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 2/17/23]
• Ingraham claimed that “DEI” institutionalized bias and adds risk to “precipitous decline” in America. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 3/21/23]

Ingraham’s rhetoric often focuses on the importance of traditional female roles and laments the supposedly detrimental impact feminism has on men. 

• Ingraham worried that calling out sexual harassment will prevent men from enjoying their jobs. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 11/14/17]
• Ingraham criticized actresses who are “flaunting their bodies” while also fighting sexual harassment. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 1/2/18]
• Ingraham dismissed sexual misconduct in Hollywood: “Are we actually supposed to feel sorry for these folks?” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 1/5/18]
• Laura Ingraham noted that former Trump staff secretary Rob Porter's alleged wife-beating “didn't, however, affect his work, which by all accounts was top-notch” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 2/12/18]
• Ingraham stated that she believed the #MeToo movement is a liberal conspiracy to get rid of Trump. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 2/12/18]
• Ingraham warned about the consequences of a report of sexual assault by Brett Kavanaugh: “This could happen to any of you. Let's focus on men for a moment” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 9/17/18]
• Ingraham blamed "#MeToo militants" for Republicans wavering on Kavanaugh confirmation. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 9/25/18]

Before her career as a conservative commentator, Ingraham was a lawyer and law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Recently, Ingraham has defended conservative justices on the Supreme Court who have been criticized for apparent ethics violations after she previously attacked the first Black woman confirmed to sit on the court. 

• Ingraham called Ketanji Brown Jackson “the epitome of a danger to democracy.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 3/23/22]
• Ingraham claimed the Supreme Court leak of the draft opinion overturning Roe was meant to encourage the murder of a conservative justice to sway the balance of the court. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 5/6/22]
• Ingraham defended Thomas after reports he received lavish gifts from a major GOP donor. [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 4/6/23]
• Ingraham defended Justice Samuel Alito receiving a luxury vacation, which he did not disclose, from a hedge fund billionaire with cases before the Supreme Court [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 6/21/23]