24 Facts About Ben Domenech

Benjamin Domenech was born on January 1,1982 and is the editor at large of The Spectator World.

Ben Domenech is a television commentator, radio host, and publisher of The Transom, a daily subscription newsletter for political insiders.

Ben Domenech earlier had been a co-founder the RedState group blog.

Ben Domenech joined Fox News as a commentator in 2021.

Ben Domenech is the former managing editor for health care policy at The Heartland Institute and former editor-in-chief of The City.

Ben Domenech created and hosted a daily free market podcast, Coffee and Markets, until 2014.

Ben Domenech later worked as a speechwriter for Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson.

Ben Domenech subsequently worked as a contributing editor for the National Review Online, followed by two years as chief speechwriter for United States Senator John Cornyn.

Ben Domenech then worked as an editor at Regnery Publishing, where he edited books by Michelle Malkin, Ramesh Ponnuru, and Hugh Hewitt.

In March 2006, Ben Domenech was named as a blogger for The Washington Post, hired to contribute to the newspaper's opinion pages from a conservative point of view.

Liberal and left-of-center bloggers protested Ben Domenech's appointment, citing what they regarded as inappropriate comments on his blog.

On March 21,2006, only three days into his appointment Ben Domenech resigned his position after evidence surfaced showing that he had earlier plagiarized the earlier works of others that had originally appeared in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, the National Review, and several other publications.

In early 2006, Ben Domenech was hired by The Washington Post's online arm to write a blog providing "a daily mix of commentary, analysis and cultural criticism".

Domenich launched his column for the Post website, Red America, on March 21,2006, but resigned three days later after having written only six posts, when his fellow bloggers posted evidence online that Domenech had plagiarized the work of other journalists appearing in The Washington Post, The New Yorker, National Review, the humorist P J O'Rourke, the film critic Stephanie Zacharek, the writer Mary Elizabeth Williams, and that of several other publications and writers.

In 2013, Ben Domenech was implicated in a journalism scandal that resulted in the removal of his work from The Washington Examiner and The Huffington Post after it was disclosed that he had received $36,000 from Joshua Trevino, a conservative pundit and lobbyist, in exchange for writing favorable opinion pieces about the government of Malaysia without disclosing the financial relationship.

The payments only came to light when Trevino registered as a foreign agent of the Malaysian government, and disclosed that Ben Domenech was one of several young conservative writers he had paid to write articles favorable to the Malaysian regime to bolster its image in conservative media.

In 2019, Federalist workers, following the staffs of other American media companies unionizing, Federalist co-founder Ben Domenech tweeted that the "first one of you [who] tries to unionize I swear I'll send you back to the salt mine".

In 2020, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled that Ben Domenech had threatened staff illegally and required the company to post notices in its offices and email employees to inform them about their legal rights.

Ben Domenech argued unsuccessfully at the time that the tweet was a joke.

Ben Domenech responded by saying he would produce evidence that the quote was not "fictitious", but was unable to do so.

In July 2018, on the day that the Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election indicted 12 Russian agents, Ben Domenech disseminated information from a hoax version of the indictment documents.

Ben Domenech falsely reported that "much of it [the indictment] is taken up by the numbers of times that people were posting memes on the internet", citing the fake indictment, which claimed that the 12 Russians charged had only engaged in insignificant "shitposting" and the use of memes.

Ben Domenech later deleted his tweets and apologized for "rage tweeting".

Ben Domenech married Meghan McCain, the daughter of the late US Senator John McCain, on November 21,2017.