Why Did Media Influencer Matt Drudge Turn Against Donald Trump? With Chris Moody and Jamie Weinstein

2020 came around his coverage on Trump changed even in Jared and Ivanka got ignored Chris and what was it did do you guys figure out why why did he turn on Trump well we should emphasize how important the Drudge Report was to the Trump campaign uh Trump had been courting drudge uh even since 2015 actually even few years before that where he would leak uh things to Drudge through certain uh spokespeople uh on Election night um uh uh Bannon and Jared Kushner called drudge on the phone for advice for what to do with the exit polls coming out showing that Trump wasn't doing very well and drudge told them said you know hold the line those are BS polls Trump is going to win and then in the aftermath of course drudge was visiting the White House and was speaking with the president um and his staff quite often people saw him there um certainly more than once so he was a part of of that uh in more uh more cases than just somebody influential in in the media now the reasons that he turned on Trump there's a lot of of different speculation but what we've heard from the Trump White House is that there was talk of U drudge not being happy with Trump on immigration that was a certain policy reason but we also have an interview coming out very very soon with a former Drudge Report editor named Joseph curl who talks about how um members of the Trump White House spoke negatively about uh drudge and it got back to him kind of took him for granted said things kind of like well who needs drudge who needs a blogger that kind of talk and you know drudge has ears everywhere he hears things if you say something about him he will notice it and that got back to him and so it could have been a little bit of policy could have been a little bit personal um but it certainly was a mix that made him turn against uh Trump in the end H I believe the immigration thing because one thing I think think we know is that he's good friends with Anne Coulter and Anne Coulter of course everybody now knows has completely turned on Trump and it's I mean if ever there were a single issue voter it's an on immigration she's it's she's devoted her life to this issue and God she's been proven right every day on her forecasts and um I think she and uh she has Mickey C on all the time I I enjoy her her substack and her submissions but I think she Mickey cow and um drudge share this one issue as a true passion so it would make sense because she was an Ardent supporter of Trumps and what soured her on him it was he didn't build a wall and even though he did more certainly than Biden has done on immigration he didn't really get it done as as we can see everything he got done got undone as soon as he left office Megan just to to follow up on that we actually have an interview with Mickey C who has hasn't aired yet where he talks about a dinner that an drudge he and he had after one of the debates uh in 2016 so there's definitely a Nexus uh he's not a stranger to Drudge either so um you know that that that is certainly part of it but I let me just add one more thing that I think we heard uh to to what Chris said about why he turned on drudge I think those two are crucial the third is I think people mistake drudge for a partisan uh kind of Republican party oper uh operative sometimes and he's not that he likes to be different than what people think uh there's a there's a clip from him on C-Span in in 200 1999 talking about Pap panan entering the race saying oh this would be interesting uh I think he always wants to be interesting I think he wants to go against the grain sometimes and you know after supporting Trump what's more Against the Grain than turning around and showing that he's his own man and doesn't necessarily need to follow Trump and do the same thing four years later let me tell you a story about a guy named Leo gillo Leo was on a road trip trip and came across a doberman this dog was severely underweight and clearly in trouble Leo rescued the dog and named him 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