Following the beginning in June of the public hearings by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, far-right network Newsmax made approximately 40 false or misleading claims about the 2020 election, the attack and the committee through the rest of the month, a new report from the nonpartisan media watchdog NewsGuard finds, helping to demonstrate why the high-profile hearings and their explosive claims about former President Donald Trump aren’t swaying his base against him.
The report, which looked at Newsmax’s coverage from June 9, the day of the first House hearing, and June 30, found the network repeatedly pushed false claims either by its anchors directly or by guests, who made untrue statements that went unchallenged and were not refuted by anyone else on air.
There were at least 12 claims of fraud in the 2020 election on Newsmax during the hearings, NewsGuard found—which there is no credible evidence to support—including by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake and former President Donald Trump himself, who asserted on the network that the election was “stolen.”
It also pushed false claims 11 times that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) had blocked Trump from sending the National Guard to the Capitol on January 6—which is not supported by evidence and Pelosi did not actually have the power to do, as the president and not Congress control whether to deploy the National Guard.
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