John Solomon has an inquiring mind. He told an MS NOW reporter he’s still searching to figure out who won the 2020 presidential election.
Solomon chairs the White House Government Transparency Task Force charged with prying proof of election fraud out of the intel agencies.
John’s a journalist, with decades at the AP and the Washington Post, unusual credentials in this White House.
Sure, not everyone’s a fan. One former boss recalls, “He just made stuff up,” and deems Solomon “the worst hire I ever made.” Another went with “Machiavellian snake.”
Nobody’s perfect.
Solomon helped prep the President’s prime-time address accusing China of stealing the 2020 election. The White House promised bombshells. And bomb it did, with Trump delivering stale, recycled intel that didn’t back up any of the claims. Afterward, Solomon had to admit there was “zero evidence that a foreign power flipped a vote in 2020, ‘22 or ‘24.”
Undeterred, Solomon claimed Venezuela’s government rigged elections on machines whose “protocols are the same as America’s.” That would be worrisome were it not for the fact that his own task force helped release a CIA note concluding the opposite.
No fraud? No problem. Solomon’s agile task force simply swapped targets, releasing FBI files to throw shade on Trump’s putative enemies, like Robert Mueller and Jack Smith. The files have nothing to do with clean elections, but Solomon understands that “election integrity” is whatever pleases Donald Trump.
While Solomon’s gig is unpaid, the task force’s “discoveries” land mostly on his own site, Just the News.
Naturally, the ethics snowflakes are melting down. One government watchdog called it “a pretty clear and pretty obvious conflict of interest.” Something about working for the government and covering it at the same time.
The task force wraps up at the end of 2026. But Solomon did his job: He kept the specter of election fraud alive in the MAGA-centric media, even if there was no election fraud to be found.
