Byron York
Byron York is an American journalist who contributes to Fox News and serves as the Washington Examiner’s main political correspondent. Since 2000, he has reported on Congress, every presidential campaign, the Bush, Obama, Trump, and now Biden administrations.
How old is Byron?
The American correspondent is 69 years old as of 5 December 2024. He was born on 5 December 1955 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
Is Byron married?
He is married and has not revealed the identity of his wife. He plays guitar and mandolin.
Byron York Salary and Net Worth
York’s annual salary is $250,000 while his net worth is estimated to be $5 million.
What happened to Byron York?
In 2009, York became the main political correspondent at The Washington Examiner. He used to work for National Review as a White House correspondent. He writes syndicated columns as well. York worked as an investigative reporter for The American Spectator and as a news producer at CNN Headline News prior to joining National Review.
In addition, he has contributed to the New York Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, The Atlantic, and The Hill. He has given sporadic commentary to National Public Radio and made appearances on shows like Meet the Press, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, The O’Reilly Factor, Special Report, The Laura Ingraham Show, and Hardball with Chris Matthews. He contributed to The Huffington Post as a blogger for a short time in 2005.
At BloggingHeads.tv, he has participated in conversations with different media figures. York took issue with President Bill Clinton’s 2001 pardon of Susan McDougal, who had been imprisoned for three months for contempt of court stemming from her role in the Whitewater incident.
In his book The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy, published in 2005, York suggested that the Democratic Party was planning to “take down” President George W. Bush. York urged President Bush to fully pardon Scooter Libby in 2007. Libby had been imprisoned for perjury, obstruction of justice, and making false claims in the Plame case.
York asserted in his 2010 opinion piece “Obama has himself to blame for Muslim problem” that President Obama was to blame for the pervasive belief that he was Muslim. York pointed out that Obama’s extended family was Muslim and that he had written about his Muslim grandpa. According to York, the Obama campaign “shouted down even a measured discussion of the topic” and “it sometimes appears to the outside observer that Obama doesn’t practice any faith at all.” When you consider everything, is it any surprise that the public is perplexed?
York has “[led] the inquiries into the alleged deep-state conspiracy against Trump,” according to the Toronto Star. Slate claims that York “[spread] conspiracy theories about the FBI.” York implied that her supposed friendship with former FBI Director James Comey, whom President Trump dismissed, could jeopardize Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
York agreed with Lindsey Graham and Chuck Grassley’s suggestion that Christopher Steele, one of the individuals who worked to reveal Russian meddling in the 2016 election, be charged with a crime. Steele was accused of lying to federal officials. He hasn’t been charged with lying by federal officials, though. When Maria Butina, a suspected Russian spy who attempted to join the Republican Party and the National Rifle Association of America (NRA), was detained in July 2018, York played down the accusations.
York claimed in February 2019 that the “ultimate fishing expedition” was the endeavor by the newly elected Democratic majority in the House of Representatives to force the release of President Trump’s tax returns.
Former President George W. Bush declared it was “time for America to examine our tragic failures.” York condemned this statement during the George Floyd rallies against racism and police brutality in 2020. According to York, it was “remarkable” that Bush “almost completely ignored riots, violence.”
York wrote a piece in the Washington Examiner shortly before the 2020 presidential election, analyzing a findings simulation that suggested Joe Biden would not concede the election if he lost. The simulation also suggested that House Democrats would not accept Trump’s victory and that Biden would pressure Democratic governors to reject Trump’s victory in their states. Additionally, he claimed that if Trump lost, he would give in. In fact, that same situation—albeit with the roles reversed—actually occurred. York is not known to have acknowledged the reversal.
In a column published on January 14, 2025, York accused Special Counsel Jack Smith of hurrying the legal proceedings surrounding his investigation into Donald Trump for crimes related to the Capitol riot on January 6th in order to obstruct the 2024 presidential election and hide his true motivations. Smith’s actions were motivated by the sui generis nature of a criminal case, which the column neglected to mention. If Trump were elected president before the case went to trial, the target of his investigation would be the only person indicted by a grand jury who would have the authority to unilaterally end prosecution, depriving the criminal justice system of the chance to prove criminality in front of a jury. According to York’s essay, Smith’s remarks regarding his investigation are consistent with any reading.