Swift Boat Veterans for Truth was a political organization founded in 2004 to oppose Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry’s run for the White House. The organization’s smear campaign against Kerry’s Vietnam war service record was so dishonest that “swift boating” later became a synonym for unfair or false political attacks.

Stephen Hayes was one of the primary media advocates for the 2003 Iraq War, when he was a senior writer at The Weekly Standard. He later became the conservative magazine’s editor-in-chief until it shuttered in 2018. Hayes was also a longtime Fox News contributor, appearing frequently on Special Report.

Michael Goodwin is a conservative pundit who writes for the New York Post and is also a Fox News contributor. He formerly wrote for the New York Daily News.

Glenn Thrush is a political pundit and a reporter for The New York Times. Thrush formerly covered the White House for the Times but was suspended and moved to other beats after multiple allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced against him in 2017.

David Bossie is the president of Citizens United and a Republican political operative with a history of dirty tricks and smears. He was President Donald Trump's deputy campaign manager, then joined Fox News as a contributor in 2017. He was temporarily suspended for making a racist comment on the air, for which he and Fox later apologized.

Jeff Gerth is a former New York Times reporter who co-wrote a book on Hillary Clinton in 2007 for the 2008 presidential election cycle. More recently, he worked as a senior reporter at ProPublica.

The National Enquirer is an American tabloid magazine that focuses on celebrity stories. The National Enquirer was very supportive of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential run, and it bought stories from women who had affairs with Trump to keep them out of the news during the election.

The Daily Caller has had repeated interactions with white nationalists on its platform, makes light of sexual assault against children, and regularly posts sexist commentary about famous women.

Dana Loesch is the former spokesperson for the National Rifle Association and current host of a nationally syndicated radio program called The Dana Show. She frequently presents misinformation about gun laws to the public in the aftermath of mass shootings.

Mort Kondracke is a Fox News contributor known as a longtime panelist for The McLaughlin Group and Fox News’ Special Report, and he formerly co-hosted the Fox show The Beltway Boys. He was also an editor and columnist for Roll Call and a former Washington bureau chief for Newsweek.

David Brooks is a longtime conservative political and cultural columnist for The New York Times. He joined the Times in 2003, previously working at The Weekly Standard and The Wall Street Journal.

Tom Brokaw was a longtime NBC News anchor, having hosted NBC Nightly News, Today, and Meet the Press at different periods during his decades-long career at the network. In April 2018, several former staffers reported that he harassed them in 1968 and in the 1990s. He denied the reports and still works at NBC News as a special correspondent.