Real America’s Voice: How a Tiny Pro-Trump News Network Founded by a Convicted Criminal got so Close to the President

Paolo Confino reports for Fortune:

Real America’s Voice was once an also-ran in the conservative news business. But it is now the key link between President Trump’s company—Trump Media & Technology Group—and his most prominent boosters in the media. With its spot in the White House press pool, RAV has gone from being an upstart TV network founded by a man once convicted of mortgage fraud to walking the halls of power.

“I look at it as a way of assembling the leaders of the MAGA movement, the leaders of the conservative movement that has been all-in on Donald Trump,” said John Pelissero, director of government ethics Santa Clara University’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.

John Pelissero, director, government ethics, quoted by Fortune (paywall).