Numerous news stories, government investigations, indictments, and convictions have stemmed from allegations that members of President Donald Trump's campaign, transition team, and administration assisted Russia in its interference in the 2016 presidential election in support of Trump.

James Rosen was a Washington, D.C., correspondent for Fox News from 1999-2017. Rosen left Fox after claims that he sexually harassed coworkers reportedly surfaced. He is now an investigative reporter for the conservative Sinclair Broadcast Group.

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.

Mark Levin joined Fox News in 2017 and has hosted the weekly show Life, Liberty & Levin since early 2018. He also hosts the nationally syndicated radio program The Mark Levin Show and merged his CRTV outlet with Glenn Beck's TheBlaze in late 2018 to form Blaze Media, where he also hosts a BlazeTV show titled LevinTV. Levin has been one of President Donald Trump's staunchest defenders from investigations into his campaign and presidency.

Kessler was an investigative reporter for the Washington Post in the 1970s and early 1980s. Since leaving the Post, he has authored 21 books on the White House, Secret Service, FBI, and CIA.

Mark Hyman is a former executive at Sinclair Broadcast Group who now works as an investigative correspondent for the outlet. Hyman previously hosted right-wing commentary segments called Behind The Headlines and, before that, The Point, which aired on dozens of Sinclair television stations.

Catherine Herridge has worked at Fox News since 1996. She was one of the channel's biggest pushers of debunked myths and falsehoods about the 2012 terror attack in Benghazi, Libya. On October 31, 2019, Herridge left Fox News to join CBS News.

On September 24, 2019, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. The inquiry focused on Trump’s alleged abuse of power in trying to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate his potential 2020 political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden. On December 18, 2019, the House voted to impeach.

 

The Benghazi hoax was a series of false narratives about the tragic deaths of four Americans in a terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya. They were pushed for years by conservative media and endorsed and investigated by Republican lawmakers to harm President Barack Obama's chances of re-election, and then used to attack Democratic 2016 presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) was the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee when President Donald Trump took office and he went all-out to defend Trump from the committee's probe on Russia's interference in the 2016 election by cutting out Democrats from committee business, wrongly accused Obama administration officials of targeting Trump associates, and worked to discredit the FBI's investigations into Trump. He is currently the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee.

Jeff Sessions was a Republican senator from Alabama for 20 years until he joined the Trump administration as its first attorney general in 2017. During his time as attorney general, he cracked down on immigrants and imposed harsher measures against people accused and convicted of crimes. He was also subjected to repeated public attacks by President Trump due to his recusal from the Trump/Russia investigation and the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller, which was spurred by his lies to Congress during his confirmation hearing.

Prior to joining Fox News in 2011, Ed Henry was a CNN congressional and White House correspondent. He joined Fox News as a White House correspondent, but was suspended for four months in 2016. He now works as a national correspondent and co-hosts Fox & Friends on the weekends. In December 2019, Henry was named the new co-anchor of America's Newsroom. In 2020, Henry was terminated from Fox News following an investigation into “willful sexual misconduct in the workplace.”

Caitlin Ginley joined Media Matters as an Assistant Editor in August 2012. Previously, she was a reporter for the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit investigative news outlet.

Stefanie Le is the deputy research director at Media Matters, where she has worked since August 2020. She focuses on open source investigations and disinformation.

Eric Hananoki is a senior investigative reporter at Media Matters, where he has worked since November 2007. He graduated from The George Washington University with a bachelor’s degree in political science.