Michelle Malkin is an American conservative political commentator.
46 Facts About Michelle Malkin
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Michelle Malkin was a Fox News contributor and in May 2020 joined Newsmax TV.
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Around 2019, Michelle Malkin began to distance herself from conventional conservatism and instead publicly support members of the extreme right, including Nick Fuentes, as well as other white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and Groypers, including Identity Evropa leader Patrick Casey.
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Michelle Malkin was born October 20,1970, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Philippine citizens Rafaela, a teacher, and Apolo DeCastro Maglalang, who was then a physician-in-training.
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Michelle Malkin has described her parents as Ronald Reagan Republicans who were "not incredibly politically active".
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Michelle Malkin had planned to pursue a bachelor's degree in music, but changed her major to English.
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Michelle Malkin graduated in 1992 and later described her alma mater as "radically left-wing".
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Michelle Malkin began her journalism career at the Los Angeles Daily News, working as a columnist from 1992 to 1994.
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Since 1999, Michelle Malkin has written a syndicated column for Creators Syndicate.
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In March 2012, Michelle Malkin founded the website Twitchy, a Twitter content curation site.
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Michelle Malkin sold Twitchy, to Salem Communications, the following year.
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For years, Michelle Malkin was a frequent commentator for Fox News and a regular guest host of The O'Reilly Factor.
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Michelle Malkin left CRTV under unclear circumstances when it merged with TheBlaze in December 2018.
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Michelle Malkin later joined competitor Newsmax TV in May 2020, where she began to host the show Sovereign Nation.
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Michelle Malkin published her first book, Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces, in 2002.
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Michelle Malkin released her fourth book, Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies, in July 2009.
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Michelle Malkin's fifth book, Who Built That: Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs, was released in May 2015 and was a response to the "you didn't build that" statement made by President Barack Obama three years earlier, on July 13,2012.
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In December 2008, Michelle Malkin's blog was the largest conservative blog, and in 2011, the people search company PeekYou reported that Michelle Malkin had the largest digital footprint of any political blogger.
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Michelle Malkin has been a contributor to the far-right anti-immigration website VDARE, writing a weekly column since 2002.
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In late 2006 and early 2007, Michelle Malkin was a leading voice among several right-wing bloggers who questioned both the credibility and the existence of Iraqi police captain Jamil Hussein, who had been used as a source by the Associated Press in over 60 stories about the Iraq war.
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Michelle Malkin wrote that this brought into question the credibility of all AP stories citing Hussein.
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HuffPost wrote that "the photographic and other evidence marshalled by Michelle Malkin certainly gives credence to the claims that the mosques were at least 'torched' and 'burned'".
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For 17 years, Michelle Malkin was a featured speaker for Young America's Foundation.
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On November 14,2019, during a YAF-sponsored speech at the University of California, Los Angeles, Michelle Malkin praised white nationalist political commentator Nick Fuentes.
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Michelle Malkin has spoken at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
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Michelle Malkin was a featured speaker in 2019, and her anti-immigration speech, in which she condemned the "ghost" of John McCain, drew controversy.
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In 2020, Michelle Malkin spoke at the America First Political Action Conference, an event organized by Nick Fuentes that was described by Rolling Stone as the "right-wing extremist answer to CPAC".
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Michelle Malkin received press credentials to attend CPAC 2020, but did not speak at the conference.
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Michelle Malkin has been described as far-right by HuffPost in 2019, and Business Insider, Vanity Fair, and the Washingtonian in 2020.
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Michelle Malkin has been described as alt-right by The Bulwark and The Independent in 2020.
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Michelle Malkin has repeatedly argued that she believes Holtzclaw is innocent, saying that the forensic evidence backs his version of events, not the accusers' versions, and that the investigators chose not to perform several tests she characterized as routine.
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Michelle Malkin released her film about the case, entitled Railroaded: Surviving Wrongful Convictions in 2017.
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Michelle Malkin was a featured speaker at the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2019, where she said levels of immigration into the United States amount to an "invasion" and "endanger our general welfare and the blessings of liberty".
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Michelle Malkin condemned politicians, including the "ghost" of recently deceased Senator John McCain, for failing to enact stricter immigration regulation.
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Since 2002, Michelle Malkin wrote a weekly column for VDARE, a far-right anti-immigration website.
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In 2017, Michelle Malkin endorsed alt-right candidate Paul Nehlen in his ultimately unsuccessful primary challenge against Paul Ryan for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district, citing Nehlen's opposition to "elites" who support open borders as the reason for her endorsement.
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Michelle Malkin has advocated for interning Muslims on national security grounds.
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Michelle Malkin defended "racial, ethnic, religious, and nationality profiling policies" used during the War on Terror.
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Amanda Carpenter wrote in March 2020 that Michelle Malkin had begun to "link arms with the most vocal elements of the white nationalist movement".
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In 2020, Michelle Malkin faced criticism for speaking at the America First Political Action Conference, which is hosted by white nationalist Nick Fuentes and featured Patrick Casey, the founder of the neo-Nazi group Identity Evropa.
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Michelle Malkin has supported Gavin McInnes, and has described him and Laura Loomer as friends of hers.
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Michelle Malkin has described herself as the "mommy" of the Groypers, a loose collection of white nationalists who follow Nick Fuentes.
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In 2020, Michelle Malkin appeared on Red Ice, a white supremacist radio program, and cautioned listeners about changing demographics and "multicultural rot".
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In November 2021, Michelle Malkin delivered a speech at the annual American Renaissance Conference, hosted by the white supremacist New Century Foundation.
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Michelle Malkin appeared in a trailer for a film about the movement, which featured Fuentes and Stop the Steal organizer Ali Alexander.
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Jesse Michelle Malkin worked as a healthcare consultant for RAND Corporation.