{"id":2405172,"date":"2025-02-21T13:05:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T18:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-levin-rips-drudge-mediaite-effort-to-divide-him-trump-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T13:07:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T18:07:44","slug":"mark-levin-rips-drudge-mediaite-effort-to-divide-him-trump-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-levin-rips-drudge-mediaite-effort-to-divide-him-trump-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Levin rips Drudge, Mediaite effort to divide him, Trump &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmark-levin-rips-drudge-mediaite-effort-to-divide-him-trump-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2405172&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/australian-journalist-biden-making-world-more-dangerous-destroying-military-with-wokesters\/\" title=\"Australian Journalist: Biden Making World \u2018More Dangerous,\u2019 Destroying Military With \u2018Wokesters\u2019\">recent broadcast<\/a>, conservative commentator\u2064 Mark Levin expressed his frustration with media outlets like the Drudge Report and Mediaite, accusing them of misrepresenting his views \u2063on the Russia-Ukraine \u2063war and creating \u200bdiscord between him and former President Donald Trump. Levin, a\u200d strong supporter of Trump, clarified that his criticisms of Russian President Vladimir Putin and praise\u2064 for\u2062 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky are rooted in his commitment to America&#8217;s security, not a dissent from\u2062 Trump\u2019s policies. He denounced the headlines from these \u200cmedia sources as misleading clickbait intended to spark\u2064 a rift between him and Trump, which he asserts does not exist. Levin emphasized\u2064 the integrity of his\u200b support for Trump while asserting the need for mature discussions on foreign policy issues. He demanded apologies from the media outlets for their distortions and maintained that his support for America remains steadfast despite \u2064having differing opinions on certain matters.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Mark Levin rips Drudge, Mediaite effort to divide him, Trump<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1997785\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>America&rsquo;s No. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-to-irish-parliament-lets-go-lick-the-world\/\" title=\"Biden to Irish Parliament: Let&#039;s Go Lick the World!\">1 conservative voice<\/a> has stepped up his criticism of the media after several <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">news sites wildly distorted<\/a> his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-who-fatally-ran-over-mom-and-daughter-freed-on-bail-by-soros-backed-judge\/\" title=\"Soros...backed judge grants bail to man who fatally ran over mother and daughter\">oft-spoken view<\/a> of the Russia-Ukraine war into an attack on his friend President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Donald-Trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> and MAGA nation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a great relationship. Nobody&rsquo;s going to get in between it,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marklevinshow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Mark Levin<\/a> told his national radio audience last night.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m probably the biggest, certainly one of the biggest, supporters of this president,&rdquo; added Levin, nicknamed &ldquo;the Great One&rdquo; by his millions of fans on Westwood One radio stations, the <a href=\"https:\/\/cumuluspodcastnetwork.com\/pods\/the-mark-levin-podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><em>Cumulus<\/em> podcast<\/a> of his show, and Fox&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/shows\/life-liberty-levin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><em>Life, Liberty &amp; Levin<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3292730\/all-executive-orders-actions-trump-first-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FULL LIST OF EXECUTIVE ORDERS, ACTIONS, AND PROCLAMATIONS TRUMP HAS MADE AS PRESIDENT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Levin this week was described as being critical of Trump and MAGA by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drudgereport.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><em>Drudge Report<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/news\/mark-levin-defies-trump-by-backing-zelensky-and-trashing-putin-bashes-sick-and-un-american-foreign-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><em>Mediaite<\/em><\/a>, and even the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/02\/20\/us-news\/foxs-mark-levin-criticizes-trump-for-attacking-zelensky\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">New York Post<\/a><\/em>  after repeating his criticism of Russian President Vladimir Putin, blaming Russia for invading Ukraine, and talking up the popularity of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.<\/p>\n<p>His comments came after Trump called Zelensky a &ldquo;dictator&rdquo; and his team of negotiators met with Russians to open talks aimed at ending the war.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Drudge is a liar. Mediaite distorts my comments to attack Trump. Yet again, I&rsquo;ll explain tonight on radio as these aggregation Trump-hating kooks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/project-veritas-strips-cnn-naked\/\" title=\"Project Veritas Strips CNN Naked\">desperately<\/a> create pseudo events. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Owmg784qIU\">pic.twitter.com\/Owmg784qIU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marklevinshow\/status\/1892685340592296438?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Mark Levin Defies Trump By Backing Zelensky and Trashing Putin &ndash; Bashes &lsquo;Sick&rsquo; and &lsquo;Un-American&rsquo; Foreign Policy,&rdquo; headlined <em>Mediaite<\/em>. <em>Drudge<\/em> headlined, &ldquo;FOX LEVIN TRASHES &lsquo;SICK&rsquo; AND &lsquo;UNAMERICAN&rsquo; MAGA POLICIES,&rdquo; and pulled out an out-of-date 2016 story headlined, &ldquo;&lsquo;Count me as never Trump.&rsquo;&rdquo; The <em>Post<\/em> screamed, &ldquo;Fox News&rsquo; Mark Levin criticizes Trump for attacking Zelensky: &lsquo;MAGA doesn&rsquo;t support Putin&rsquo;.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Levin, who has appeared with Trump and who Trump talks to, called the headlines &ldquo;pathetic&rdquo; clickbait.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Mark Levin Audio Rewind - 2\/20\/25\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/6q7iowc4fxeTvsELd4oZ9r?si=773e54a00bcb4994&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;I have my views about a lot of things that don&rsquo;t always sync up with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Ronald-Reagan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Ronald Reagan<\/a> or Milton Friedman or Bill Buckley or Donald Trump. But the difference is, we come at this from the same perspective. We love America. We&rsquo;re concerned about America&rsquo;s security. You know, big people, mature adults, they have discussions about these things. It doesn&rsquo;t mean it&rsquo;s personal. It doesn&rsquo;t even mean it has anything to do with Donald Trump. I gave my opinion,&rdquo; he told his audience at the start of his nightly three-hour show.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is pseudo news, so they desperately want to fight between Mark Levin and Donald Trump. Not going to happen. It isn&rsquo;t happening,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>On X he previewed his comments, writing, &ldquo;Drudge is a liar. <em>Mediaite <\/em>distorts my comments to attack Trump. Yet again, I&rsquo;ll explain tonight on radio as these aggregation Trump-hating kooks desperately create pseudo events.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>On his broadcasts Levin has hit those who strongly support Putin, and he does not count Trump in that camp.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Trump is no &lsquo;Putinoid.&rsquo; That whole <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Russia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Russia<\/a> collusion thing was always a lie. Trump was tougher on Russia than anybody, that&rsquo;s right,&rdquo; he said, adding, &ldquo;He doesn&rsquo;t suck up to Putin, he&rsquo;s trying to do what he said he wants to do, bring peace to the region, and he&rsquo;ll do it his way. And strategically he&rsquo;s absolutely brilliant.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SEE THE LATEST POLITICAL NEWS AND BUZZ FROM WASHINGTON SECRETS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Levin ended the segment demanding an apology from Drudge and <em>Mediaite.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So this has nothing to do with, &lsquo;People have said, well, he&rsquo;s defying Trump.&rsquo; Trump doesn&rsquo;t roll that way,&rdquo; said Levin. &ldquo;Trump has different people around him. Many of them give him different opinions, quietly and personally, that&rsquo;s what he does. I&rsquo;m not an adviser, unless he asks me a question, which he does from time to time, not on this. And that&rsquo;s the way it is. There&rsquo;s nothing else to it. There&rsquo;s nothing controversial. And <em>Mediaite,<\/em> you owe me an apology, and Drudge, I don&rsquo;t even think [Matt] Drudge runs that crap anymore over there at the <em>Drudge Report<\/em>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1997785\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1997785\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Levin criticizes Drudge and Mediaite for misrepresenting his views on the Russia-Ukraine war as an attack on Trump<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2647,"featured_media":2405173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP19281803515602-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[50820,38630,36426,3634],"class_list":["post-2405172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-drudge-report","tag-mark-levin","tag-mediaite","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP19281803515602-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2405172"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2405176,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405172\/revisions\/2405176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2405173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2405172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2405172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2405172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}