Lou Dobbs dead, Conservative political commentator, author and former television presenter

Lou Dobbs on the set of “Lou Dobbs Tonight” on the Fox Business Network on December 13, 2018, in New York City.

Dobbs, who once hosted the highest-rated business show on television, “Lou Dobbs Tonight” on Fox Business Network, made his return Monday night by launching a show with the same name on FrankSpeech.com. This website is managed by Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, who has become well-known for promoting false claims of election fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

“Good evening, everybody, and welcome to Lou Dobbs Tonight,” Dobbs began, addressing his audience with, “and now we resume our conversation that was unexpectedly, and in my opinion somewhat rudely interrupted some three years ago.” Fox had fired Dobbs in 2021, just 24 hours after he and the network were named in a $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit filed by the voting technology company Smartmatic.

“That was then, and this is now,” Dobbs remarked, before noting, “we’re still talking about a rigged election, a stolen election, just as we were three years ago.” This comment highlights Dobbs’s current position, hosting a show from a home office lined with bookshelves on a fringe website that caters to far-right supporters of former President Donald Trump.

During an interview with Trump, the former president reiterated his false claims about the 2020 election, saying, “we had a rigged election, it was rigged, 100 percent rigged,” a statement that Dobbs did not challenge. Dobbs emphasized that he was no longer bound by any pretense of journalistic objectivity. He described the 2024 election as a chance for Trump to overcome “the awesome power of a government that is controlled by the permanent bureaucracy, the deep state…a Marxist Democrat Party, and this corrupt Biden regime who mean to destroy Trump and our Constitutional republic.”

Brian Stelter, the former host of “Reliable Sources” on CNN, commented on the nature of Lindell’s platform, noting its far-right content. He pointed out some of the titles featured on the site, such as “Voter fraud in the swing states,” “Biden at war with supporters of the republic,” “J6 was a conspiracy at the ‘highest level,’” and “What really happened on 9/11?”