A recent report revealed an unsurprising but still infuriating potential conflict of interest involving CBS News debate moderator Margaret Brennan, the one who broke the debate rules to fact-check Senator and 2024 Trump running mate JD Vance, an incident that caused a great deal of outrage during and after the debate.
In the exchange at issue, Brennan said, “Just to clarify for our viewers, Springfield, Ohio, does have a large number of Haitian migrants who have legal status, temporary protected status.” Vance fired back, “Margaret, the rules were that you guys weren’t going to fact-check. And since you are fact-checking me, I think it’s important to say what’s actually going on.” That came despite CBS News having announced before the debate that there would be no live fact-checking in the debate itself, and that the fact-checking would rather occur online.
In any case, the potential conflict of interesting involving Brennan is that her husband, Yado Yakub, worked, in 2020, for the very anti-Trump Lincoln Project Political Action Committee (PAC). His work for that group of RINOs who hate Trump and his Make America Great Again Movement was as a “strategic advisor.”
The Lincoln Project, as background, is made up of supposed Republicans who once worked as strategists for the GOP and who are against former President Donald Trump and his movement, and is largely known for its histrionic objections to the former president and for a sexual misconduct controversy involving its co-founder, John Weaver, in 2021.
Paul Sperry of RealClearInvestigations sounded off on the news about Brennan’s husband on X (formerly Twitter), writing, “BREAKING: Records reveal the husband of CBS debate moderator Margaret Brennan–who last night rudely fact-checked and interrupted Trump running mate JD Vance–worked as a “strategic advisor” for the anti-Trump Lincoln Project in 2020. Yado Yakub also donated to its PAC #MediaBias”. Free Republic, describing what Federal Election Commission (FEC) records reveal,
The husband of one of the two moderators in next week’s CBS News debate featuring vice presidential candidates J.D. Vance and Tim Walz appears to have made two donations of $250 apiece to the controversial Lincoln Project during the 2020 election.
Records from the Federal Election Commission show that Ali “Yado” Yakub, the husband of Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan, contributed on July 2 and Sept. 26 of that year to the anti-Trump super-PAC.
Here are the FEC records found and published by Free Republic showing that Yakub donated to the Lincoln Project not once but twice, in addition to having worked there as a strategic advisor, the information that is raising very justified and very not shocking concerns that Brennan was biased:
Sen. Vance, posting on X right after the debate and focusing on Kamala rather than the biased debate moderators, wrote, “Last night was fun! Remember: Kamala Harris has been in power for the last 3.5 years. She opened the border. She cast the deciding vote on trillions in new spending. The border and affordability crisis is on her. Donald Trump, by contrast, governed with common sense.” Watch Vance and Brennan clash here:
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