Brian Glenn was the one who asked Zelenskyy why he wasnât wearing a suit. RSBN, the ânewsâ outlet he helped build, has taken $192,000 from T
S.V. DĂĄte at HuffPost:
WASHINGTON â The White Houseâs favored new reporter, the one who scolded Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy for not wearing a suit, was the primary voice at a ânewsâ outlet that has taken $192,000 from President Donald Trumpâs political committees, nearly half of which came while he was program director there. Brian Glenn now works for a pro-Trump streaming platform called Real Americaâs Voice, but from September 2020 to May 2024, he was the most visible face at Right Side Broadcasting Network. Over those years, the outlet took $92,000 in âbroadcastâ fees, first from Trumpâs Save America committee and then from Trumpâs campaign, according to a HuffPost review of Federal Election Commission filings. Glenn acknowledged the payments in a brief interview, describing them as âproductionâ costs, and then pointed to the row of television cameras set up in the back of the White House briefing room. âWho pays for them?â he asked, suggesting that the major networks like NBC, CNN and Fox also accept money from the entities they cover. In fact, taking such payments would be considered a serious ethical breach among reputable news outlets. The television networks covering this and previous White Houses, as well as print and radio outlets, all pay their own expenses when covering political events, as does HuffPost. Indeed, the Trump administration, including the White House, has falsely accused legitimate news organizations of corruption because government agencies, even those in the first Trump term, bought subscriptions from them, including some to expensive, lobbyist-oriented trade publications. Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary who had worked on Trumpâs campaign, also acknowledged the payments. âThe Trump campaign paid RSBN for the usage of their live stream,â she said. She did not address HuffPostâs question regarding the ethics of an outlet accepting money from the subject it was covering. Those payments continued after Glenn left RSBN to join Real Americaâs Voice last spring. The campaign gave the online video outlet an additional $100,000 from June 2024 through the end of the year, capped off with a $57,000 payment on Nov. 14, the week following the election.
Right-wing outfit Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN), where Brian Glenn previously worked before high-tailing it over to another right-wing outfit in Real Americaâs Voice, took over $192,000 in payments from pro-Trump committees.















