Mollie Ziegler Hemingway (born August 3, 1974) is an American

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. She is the editor in chief of the online magazine ''

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'' and a contributor for

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. Initially a harsh critic of

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during the

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Republican primary, Hemingway has since become a vocal supporter of Trump and has claimed the 2020 election was rigged.

Early life and education

Mollie Ziegler was born in

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. Her father is a retired pastor of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod and her mother is a retired schoolteacher. She earned a degree in

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from the

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Political and other commentary

In 2002, she moved to

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and

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. She was one of the founding members of ''

''. She has appeared multiple times on C-SPAN. In 2017, she became a

contributor. Her columns have been published in ''

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'', ''

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'',

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, and RealClearPolitics.

Views

Early in the 2016 presidential campaign, she described then-candidate Donald Trump as "a demagogue with no real solutions for anything at all." However, since then, she has been described as pro-Trump, with ''Politico'' describing her as "a reliably pro-Trump commentator", while ''Salon'' called her ''The Federalists "most reliable Trump defender". The ''New York Times'' wrote in 2020 that Hemingway's columns "have earned presidential retweets and affirmation for their scathing criticism of Democrats and the news media, whom she accuses of lying about just about everything when it comes to the president." In May 2017, Hemingway defended Trump's decision to fire FBI Director James Comey. In July 2017, after Comey testified to Congress, Hemingway questioned Comey's character, saying "this is not a choir boy here. omeycould teach masterclasses in how to cover your own behind and engage in typical Washington, DC shenanigans." In February 2018, she argued that Carter Page, a former Trump campaign advisor who had been subjected to intelligence surveillance since 2014, had his civil liberties violated. Hemingway stated, "if the civil rights and civil liberties of Carter Page can be violated, they can be violated for anyone." Page, who had relationships with numerous Russian citizens and held pro-Putin views, had been the subject of attempted recruitment by Russian intelligence since 2013. In April 2019, the Mueller Report revealed that investigators found no direct evidence that Page coordinated Trump campaign activities with the Russian government. In May 2018, Trump tweeted a quote attributed to Hemingway which gave credence to a conspiracy theory initiated by Trump in May 2018 that the Obama administration had placed a

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in his 2016 presidential campaign for political purposes, and stated that the surveillance was "unprecedented and scandalous." '' Vox'' countered statements such as Hemingway's, stating that while an FBI informant did meet with several Trump campaign advisers, the FBI didn't actually intend to spy on Trump, but was instead "most likely part of a legitimate counterintelligence operation targeted at Russia's election interference campaign..." In November 2018, Hemingway described Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election as "a very Stalinist-type approach to criminal justice." In a November 2019, Hemingway named the alleged whistleblower who exposed the Trump-Ukraine scandal. ''The Daily Beast'' wrote that naming the whistleblower "seemingly break the network's policy of identifying the person." In June 2020, she accused the media of fabricating reports that law enforcement used tear gas and excessive force against peaceful protestors to clear a path for Trump to stage a photo op in front of St. John's Church. Law enforcement later acknowledged that it did in fact shoot pepper-based irritants into the crowd. Following the 2021 United States Capitol attack, Hemingway pushed the disproven claim that the attack was unarmed, claiming a "lack of actual arms that were used" despite evidence that offenders carried handguns as well as other weapons including knives and bear spray. She has also disputed its status as an insurrection, tweeting that "people who call the few-hour riot at the Capitol by unarmed protesters an 'insurrection' are bad people who are harming the country."

Reception

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criticized conservative panelists, including Hemingway, for concluding in a discussion that marriage is good for women. In 2016, ''

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characterized Hemingway as "no fan of Donald Trump", despite writing for conservative publication ''

''. Cox characterized Hemingway as surprisingly open on issues of marriage and sexuality for a conservative Christian, saying she "sound a little bit like a feminist in talking about sex..." Charlotte Hays of the

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and

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" and, "a big deal in

-leaning intellectual circles of the nation's capital."

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of ''New York'' Magazine has said that Hemingway's work is becoming increasingly reactionary during the Trump era, adding that she has joined a cadre of conservatives whose "increasingly right-wing character has been mixed with a conviction that Democratic elections are inherently fraudulent, and that extra-legal processes can be justified as countermeasures".

Books

Hemingway has written three books: * ''Trump vs. the Media (Encounter Broadsides Book 51)'' (2017

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) * ''Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court'' with Carrie Severino (2019

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) * ''Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections'' (2021 Regnery Publishing) , and has contributed to four other books, ''Dual Citizens: Politics and American Evangelicalism'', ''The Seven Deadly Virtues: 18 Conservative Writers on Why the Virtuous Life is Funny as Hell'', ''The Christmas Virtues: A Treasury of Conservative Tales for the Holidays'', and ''Conservative Christmas Quotables'', as well as authoring the pamphlet, ''Imprimis - September 2017 - Russian Collusion?''.

Personal life

Mollie Hemingway is married to Mark Hemingway.

In film

In '' Gosnell: The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer'', the reporter Mollie Mullaney is based on both Mollie Hemingway and

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columnist J. D. Mullane.Reporter in 'Gosnell' movie based on LCMS member Mollie Ziegler Hemingway
by Cheryl Magness and Jonathan Lange, ''blogs.lcms.org'': National News, October 26, 2018

References

External links

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