Overview
- Prominent conservatives Matt Walsh, Ann Coulter, and Marjorie Taylor Greene challenged pro-war messaging, with Coulter and Walsh posting Sunday on X and Greene following up Monday with fresh attacks on Fox News.
- Coulter compared Fox’s upbeat war coverage to the network’s false 2020 election claims, invoking Fox’s $787.5 million Dominion settlement as a warning about credibility.
- Walsh said pro-war accounts promised there would be no ground troops and warned of a future “shameless gaslighting campaign” if troops deploy in Iran.
- Megyn Kelly cautioned that sending five to 17,000 troops could cost Republicans elections for years, arguing the war goalposts have shifted and now hinge on reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
- Fox continued to air defenses of the campaign, featuring Trump on The Five and a segment by host Mark Levin, even as a Fox poll found most Americans oppose the Iran conflict and rate Trump poorly as commander in chief, which Trump criticized on-air.