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Michael Tracey (born August 8, 1988) is an American journalist and political commentator.

Career

Tracey's articles have been published in The Daily Beast, Al Jazeera, Reason, The Independent, The Intercept, The New Republic, The Federalist, The New York Daily News, The Wall Street Journal, Vice, the New York Post, The Nation, Fox News, The Guardian U.S., and other publications. Tracey has been a recurring guest on the Fox News show Tucker Carlson Tonight.

An article published in Tablet in 2020 described him and other journalists, such as Lee Fang, Matt Taibbi and Zaid Jilani, as "left heretics", who "dissent ... on core issues of the progressive media consensus like Russian collusion, the value of identity politics, and the legitimacy of rioting and political violence".

Tracey joined The Young Turks in early 2017 but left the organization by mid-2018.

In 2017, congresswoman Maxine Waters walked away from an interview with Tracey and pushed aside his hand and microphone. The incident was captured on video. Tracey said that Waters had "initiated unwarranted physical contact" and "shoved" him, but that it was "not a violent shove".

Political views

Tracey supported Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic primaries and advocated "conscious abstention" in the 2016 presidential election. He has been highly critical of Bill and Hillary Clinton. In 2020, he supported Tulsi Gabbard's presidential campaign.

Tracey has been critical of the Democratic Party and of allegations of collusion between Donald Trump and Russia. In a March 2019 opinion piece for The New York Times, Ross Douthat described Tracey as one of the "strongest skeptics of the Russiagate narrative". Tracey said that, with Russiagate, "It's seldom clear what, at bottom, is even being alleged. The 'scandal' has become more of a repository of generalized anti-Trump anger than a clearly-defined set of charges that can be investigated and corroborated". He was also critical of Trump, whose "self-defeating actions" on the Russia investigation gave the impression that he had something to hide. Tracey wrote that "the possibility committed obstruction of justice by firing FBI director James Comey is real."

In 2019, Tracey criticized an article by Kevin Poulsen in The Daily Beast, which revealed the identity and criminal history of a man who had allegedly created a modified video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that made her appear drunk.

Personal life

Raised in West Caldwell, New Jersey, he graduated from James Caldwell High School in 2006. He lives in Jersey City, New Jersey.

In February 2009, Tracey was arrested while a student at The College of New Jersey after he attempted to approach Ann Coulter, who had spoken at the college's campus in Ewing. He was charged with disorderly conduct and pleaded guilty to "violating a nuisance ordinance".

References

1. "Why all this trans stuff?" on YouTube
2. Hagen, Tony J. (February 26, 2009). "Amateur video shows TCNJ arrest at Coulter event". nj.com. The video, obtained Wednesday by The Times, shows College of New Jersey student Michael Tracey on the ground and screaming as officers attempt to arrest him following a speech by political commentator Ann Coulter last week.
3. @mtracey (August 9, 2020). "While today is technically my birthday, I now self-identify with a different birthday (TBD). There's a spectrum of birthdays and I won't be held down by the birthday binary. Thank you" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
4. "Michael Tracey". The Daily Beast.
5. "Michael Tracey". Al Jazeera.
6. "Michael Tracey". Reason.com.
7. "Michael Tracey". The Independent.
8. "Michael Tracey". The Intercept.
9. "Author: Michael Tracey". The New Republic.
10. For example, "Never forget the Trump-Russia moral panic: By fearmongering far beyond the evidence, the media and politicians did a huge disservice to the public"
11. "Michael Tracey". vice.com. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
12. Tracey, Michael (February 4, 2021). "How AOC links the personal with the political, stifling dissent". New York Post.
13. "Michael Tracey – The Nation". The Nation.
14. Tracey, Michael (July 8, 2020). "Michael Tracey: Minority businesses suffering in Minneapolis following rioting after George Floyd's death". Fox News.
15. Heer, Jeet (July 12, 2019). "Leftists Shouldn’t Go on Tucker Carlson". The Nation.
16. Siegel, Jacob (September 14, 2020). "Left Heretics and the New Media Collective". Tablet. Retrieved December 31, 2020.
17. Tracey, Michael (January 22, 2017). "A Note On Joining The Young Turks". Medium.
18. @mtracey (July 3, 2018). "Programming note: I've departed The Young Turks. It was an interesting experience. Other things are in the works, but I'm always open to suggestions... get in touch" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
19. ^ Phillips, Kristine (June 4, 2017). "Did Rep. Maxine Waters ‘shove’ a reporter? You decide." The Washington Post.
20. Weigel, David (May 28, 2020). "The Trailer: What we’ve learned from the great mask war". The Washington Post.
21. Douthat, Ross (March 26, 2019). "The Paranoid Center". The New York Times.
22. Ingram, Mathew (June 3, 2019). "Should The Daily Beast have exposed the man behind ‘drunk Pelosi’ video?". Columbia Journalism Review.
23. Annan-Brady, Rita. "West Caldwell man wins journalism award", The Progress, July 9, 2010. Accessed March 20, 2021. "Michael Tracey, a West Caldwell native, was presented with the award for Breakthrough Story or Series at the 2010 Campus Progress National Conference in Washington, D.C., yesterday, Wednesday, July 7.... Tracey, a 2006 graduate of James Caldwell High School, founded The Perspective at TCNJ in August 2009 and since then has helped the publication gain recognition both on campus and in state and national headlines."
24. Tracey, Michael (May 13, 2021). "Charged with a crime for not wearing a mask!". YouTube. M. Tracey. ...and I live in Jersey City, New Jersey...
25. Garcia, Arturo (June 5, 2017). "‘Young Turks’ Correspondent Says Rep. Maxine Waters ‘Shoved’ Him". Snopes.
26. "TCNJ student pleads guilty to disrupting Ann Coulter event". nj. AP. 14 April 2009. Retrieved 10 April 2022.

External links

• Michael Tracey on Twitter
• Michael Tracey on Substack
• Michael Tracey on Medium
• UnHerd author profile

• 1988 births
• Living people
• American male journalists
• American media critics
• American opinion journalists
• American people of Irish descent
• American people of Italian descent
• American socialists
• Former Roman Catholics
• Free speech activists
• James Caldwell High School alumni
• Journalists from New Jersey
• New Jersey Independents
• People from West Caldwell, New Jersey
• The Young Turks people