Former fellows at the Claremont Institute included far-right figures such as Ben Shapiro, Laura Ingraham, and “Pizzagate” conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec. The Institute has a track record of defending Donald Trump and his political movement, opining against birthright citizenship, and publishing controversial far-right authors. For instance, in 2022 The American Mind published a piece by an author who had recently published a book with a neo-Nazi publishing house. One Claremont fellow, Michael Anton, formerly Trump’s National Security Council spokesman published a piece in the institute’s Claremont Review of Books compared the prospect of a Hilary Clinton victory in 2016 to the September 11 hijacking of United Flight 93. Michael Pack, Trump’s former CEO of the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) — appointed at Steve Bannon’s recommendation — previously served as CEO of the Claremont Institute from 2015 to 2017.
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Claremont Institute
The Claremont Institute, founded in 1979, is a conservative think tank based outside of Los Angeles, California with the mission to “restore the principles of the American Founding to their rightful, preeminent authority.”
