James Mattis is a former Marine Corps general who served as President Donald Trump's secretary of defense from 2017-2018. Mattis resigned in December 2018 over policy differences with the Trump administration.

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.

Dan Bongino unsuccessfully ran for Congress as a Republican multiple times after leaving his job in the Secret Service during the Obama administration. He then became a pro-Trump right-wing pundit, hosting a show on NRATV, and frequently appeared on Fox News shows such as Hannity and Fox & Friends. Bongino had his own shows on Fox News and Fox Nation before he and the network parted ways in April 2023. In February 2025, Donald Trump appointed Bongino to the deputy director role at the FBI.

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.

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.

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).

Formerly a Washington Post reporter, then executive editor for the right-wing Washington Times and a reporter at Sinclair Broadcasting Group's Circa, John Solomon wrote misleading opinion pieces criticizing the special counsel's probe into President Donald Trump at The Hill, where he was also its executive vice president for video. Solomon's opinion pieces were often promoted by Trump allies such as Sean Hannity.

The Gateway Pundit is a right-wing website that repeatedly falls for hoaxes, pushes conspiracy theories and smears of Democratic officials, and is an ardent defender of President Donald Trump.

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.

Sean Spicer served as both the White House press secretary and communications director under President Donald Trump.