Washington Times: Sun Myung Moon's Influential Newspaper Explained

Showing 6 Washington Times videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

The Washington Times was founded in 1982 by Reverend Sun Myung Moon, the Unification Church leader whose organization funded the paper and used it, according to this material, to become the primary media platform for the pro-Zionist neoconservative movement during the Reagan and Bush administrations. Candace Owens traces this history in an investigation connecting the paper's ownership to Liberty University, alleging that Moon's protégé Ron Godwin, who ran the Washington Times on Moon's behalf, later helped install a controversial administrator at the university years before Jerry Falwell Jr.'s own fall from leadership there. Separately, Congressman Al Green cited a Washington Times headline blaming rising left-wing violence for Charlie Kirk's death during a House floor speech condemning political violence broadly. Charlie Kirk himself referenced the paper among several outlets he says wrongly branded him an antisemite over comments he made questioning Israeli intelligence failures ahead of the October 7th attack, a claim he says was later substantiated by Jerusalem Post reporting. In an unrelated citation, the paper's own reporting on the WNBA's eligibility rules is used to support a debate over transgender athletes.