Traitors Against the Republic
The politicians and pundits who have turned on American democracy, in order.
This page is political opinion and commentary. The facts in each entry link to their sources.
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Photo: Michael Vadon, CC BY-SA 2.0 Donald Trump
45th & 47th President
Tried to overturn the 2020 election he lost, and was impeached for inciting the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. He was indicted on federal charges over his efforts to overturn the election, a case prosecutors dropped after he won in 2024. A jury also found him liable for sexual abuse (see Accusations).
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Photo: Steve Jurvetson, CC BY 4.0 J.D. Vance
Vice President
In 2021 he said that if the courts stopped Trump from purging the federal workforce, Trump should defy them and “stand before the country like Andrew Jackson did.” In the 2024 vice presidential debate, he wouldn't say whether Trump lost the 2020 election.
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Photo: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0 Rudy Giuliani
Trump Lawyer & Former NYC Mayor
Led Trump's legal push to overturn the 2020 election. He falsely accused Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss of fraud, and in December 2023 a jury ordered him to pay them $148 million for defamation. New York and Washington, D.C. both disbarred him in 2024.
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Photo: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 Steve Bannon
Former Trump Chief Strategist
On January 5, 2021, he told his podcast audience that “all hell is going to break loose tomorrow.” He refused to cooperate with the House January 6 committee, was convicted of contempt of Congress, and served four months in federal prison in 2024. In April 2026 the Supreme Court threw out the appeals-court ruling that had upheld his conviction.
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Photo: Fulton County Sheriff's Office, Public domain Sidney Powell
Trump Campaign Lawyer
Promised to “release the Kraken” and filed lawsuits claiming voting machines flipped votes from Trump to Biden. The courts threw them out. Charged in the Georgia election case, she pleaded guilty in October 2023 to six counts of conspiring to interfere with election duties.
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Photo: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 Tucker Carlson
Former Fox News Host
Messages released in Dominion's lawsuit against Fox show that he privately doubted the stolen-election claims while his network kept airing them. In 2023 he aired hand-picked January 6 security footage and described the rioters as “sightseers.”
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Photo: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0 Sean Hannity
Fox News Host
Took the stage at a 2018 Trump campaign rally. His network paid Dominion Voting Systems $787.5 million to settle a defamation suit over the 2020 election lies it aired.
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Photo: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 Mark Levin
Fox News & Radio Host
Spread false 2020 election-fraud claims to millions of listeners and viewers, and defended Trump's fake-electors scheme on air: “You might think it's weird, you might think it's unethical, but it's not a crime.”
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Photo: Savagenationweb, CC0 Michael Savage
Talk Radio Host
Host of The Savage Nation and one of Trump's earliest media boosters. In 2009 the British government banned him from entering the U.K., naming him on a list of people it said were fostering hatred.
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Photo: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 Alex Jones
Infowars Host
Helped arrange funding for the January 6 rally and led a crowd toward the Capitol that day. Juries have ordered him to pay the families of Sandy Hook victims more than $1 billion for claiming the 2012 school shooting was a hoax.
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Photo: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0 Mike Lindell
MyPillow CEO
Spent years and millions of dollars promoting false claims that voting machines stole the 2020 election. In June 2025 a Colorado jury found him liable for defaming Eric Coomer, a former Dominion Voting Systems employee.
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Photo: The White House, Public domain Joe Rogan
Podcaster
Gave Trump a three-hour, largely unchallenged platform on the most popular podcast in America in October 2024, then endorsed him on the eve of the election.
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Photo: Getty Images (embedded) Vincent Oshana
PBD Podcast Panelist
A regular member of the “Home Team” panel on Patrick Bet-David's PBD Podcast, one of the biggest pro-Trump shows online. Bet-David is an outspoken Trump supporter who called the 2020 election “Rigged Lite,” and the show gave Trump a friendly sit-down interview on October 16, 2024, three weeks before the election. Even when Oshana broke with Trump over the Epstein files on the show in July 2025, calling it “horseshit,” he stressed how loyal he had been through every other controversy.
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Photo: Super Festivals from Ft. Lauderdale, USA, CC BY 2.0 Rob Schneider
Actor & Comedian
Performed at Trump's October 2024 rally at Madison Square Garden, an event widely condemned for its racist and misogynistic jokes.
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Photo: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 Roseanne Barr
Comedian
ABC canceled the revival of her sitcom in 2018 after she posted a racist tweet about former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett. She has since become a regular at MAGA events.