Dem Presidential Hopeful Flails At Local Newspaper For Daring To Investigate His Record

Democratic Maryland Governor Wes Moore is attacking his state’s largest newspaper, The Baltimore Sun, for investigating his political record and probing potential falsehoods concerning his upbringing and military service.

The Baltimore Sun is collaborating with sister television station Sinclair to scrutinize Gov. Wes Moore as he gears up for reelection and weighs a 2028 run for the White House, Semafor reported.

The investigative series, Spotlight Maryland, includes FOX45 News, WJLA in Washington, D.C., and The Baltimore Sun. These outlets will examine whether Moore exaggerated his military service and investigate the athletic scholarships he received in college.

Reporters with Spotlight Maryland have exchanged tense emails with Wes Moore’s staff, citing frustration over what they describe as a lack of transparency.

“Our news team will continue pursuing this matter until they are satisfied that there is either no story – or until further investigation shows that events did not occur as they should have,” the team wrote in one letter to Moore’s office obtained by Semafor. “If our team finds the latter, they will report that. … We are also prepared to present our findings and concerns to the Secretary of the Army’s office; and if gets to that point, we fully expect it will have become a national level news story requiring the Army Secretary’s attention.”

Moore’s team has complained that the investigation is “needlessly hostile and politically motivated,” according to Semafor.

Then, the liberal governor ran to MS NOW.

“The Baltimore Sun used to be our paper of record,” Moore told former Biden White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki. “It’s now become the paper of the right-wing.”

Moore complained that in 2024, media executive David Smith, the executive chairman of Sinclair Broadcast Group, bought the paper.

“I think we’ve seen how their readership continued to decline, but it’s happened because you’ve had a MAGA billionaire who is now currying favor for the President of the United States,” Moore said.

The liberal governor added that he was “deeply proud” of his military service and claimed nobody in the U.S. Army questions his integrity.

In 2024, The New York Times reported that Moore falsely claimed on a 2006 White House fellowship application that he had been awarded a Bronze Star for his military service while deployed in Afghanistan.

“The soldiers I served with don’t question my integrity,” Moore said. “But we are seeing how the right wing and these right-wing billionaires like David Smith is then using his wealth to be able to manipulate local media.”

Spotlight on Maryland executive producer and managing editor Candy Woodall called out Democrats for “putting in a lot of work to discredit a series before it’s even started running.”

“This is standard journalism to scrutinize the words and records of elected officials and candidates who hold positions of power and public trust,” Woodall said. “If you want to know more, keep reading The Baltimore Sun, a 200-year-old newspaper that has survived many governors.”