David Fahrenthold has reported for The Washington Post since 2000, and in 2017 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his work on President Donald Trump’s sham charity, the Trump Foundation. He is also a CNN contributor.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders is a longtime Republican Party operative who advised Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. Sanders became a face of the Trump White House and a major distributor of the administration's misinformation through her role as press secretary. In August 2019, she joined Fox News as a contributor.

Paul Joseph Watson is a far-right conspiracy theorist who works for Alex Jones at Infowars and has been promoted by the Trump administration and Donald Trump Jr.

Following the inauguration of President Donald Trump, Yates served as acting attorney general for 10 days. Trump dismissed Yates after she declined to defend his Muslim ban.

Bill Kristol was a major cheerleader for the 2003 Iraq War and is a former Fox News contributor. He has been mostly opposed to Donald Trump's candidacy and presidential administration. He founded conservative magazine The Weekly Standard, which shut down at the end of 2018, and is now editor-at-large at anti-Trump conservative website The Bulwark.

Sean Hannity has been a Fox News host since its launch in 1996 and hosts the prime-time show Hannity. He was a huge promoter of birtherism and has engaged in multiple conspiracy theories to defend President Donald Trump from numerous investigations, including exploiting the tragic murder of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich and amplifying claims of a “deep state” plot to take down the president. Hannity is also a close unofficial adviser to Trump, even appearing at a campaign rally alongside him.

Liz Crokin is a major amplifier of the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory and has also pushed conspiracy theories about the death of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich. Crokin called the 2017 Las Vegas, Nevada, mass shooting a “false flag.”

Pro-Trump MAGA trolls and self-identified members of the “alt-right” include the far-right social media personalities Mike Cernovich, Jack Posobiec, Charlie Kirk, Laura Loomer, and white supremacists that brand themselves with the “alt-right” label.

Heather Nauert worked as a breaking news anchor on Fox & Friends for several years before joining the Trump administration in April 2017 as the spokesperson for the State Department. In late 2018, President Trump named her as his nominee for ambassador to the United Nations, but she withdrew herself from consideration in early 2019.

Jeanine Pirro served as a county judge for three years in the early 1990s and now hosts a weekly Fox News show called Justice with Judge Jeanine. She has been a personal friend of President Donald Trump for decades and acts as a sycophant for him on her Fox show, which premiered in 2011. In 2019, Pirro faced widespread backlash for bigoted remarks on her Fox show about Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).

James Comey was appointed director of the FBI by President Barack Obama and continued to serve until he was abruptly fired by President Donald Trump while overseeing investigations into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia during the 2016 presidential election. Comey was also heavily criticized for his public statements about an investigation into Democratic candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email use so close to the 2016 election, which could have affected its outcome. Comey previously served as a U.S. attorney and deputy attorney general during the George W.

An anonymous user who signs their posts as Q and claims to be a high-level member of the federal government makes cryptic posts on the far-right internet forum 8chan/8kun. Dedicated believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory mine those posts for clues about an alleged master plan by President Donald Trump to take down his “deep state" opponents and pedophilia rings supposedly linked to celebrities and politicians. It has been linked to multiple instances of violence and was flagged as domestic terrorism threat by the FBI.

Eric Bolling provided financial commentary for CNBC and Fox Business, then became a Fox News co-host on The Five and The Specialists until he was fired in 2017 after reports that he sent unsolicited nude pictures to women at the network. While he worked at Fox, Bolling was known for racist, anti-Muslim, and sexist commentary. After leaving Fox, he hosted the BlazeTV show America with Eric Bolling and the show America This Week for Sinclair Broadcast Group.

On January 6, 2021, the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., was attacked by a mob of supporters of Donald Trump, two months after his defeat in the 2020 presidential election. The attack disrupted a joint session of Congress convened to certify the results of the presidential election of 2020, with the goal of preventing Joe Biden, the legitimate president-elect, from assuming office. 

Angelo Carusone is Chairman and President of Media Matters -- a nonprofit organization and the United States' premier media watchdog.

Carusone is a recognized authority on right-wing extremism and frequently provides expert opinion about extremism, online toxicity, and the underlying structures fueling their rise. He has also become a go-to resource for journalists writing about fake news and the ways technology platforms are addressing the issue.