Lou Dobbs, Former Fox Business Host and Trump Booster, Dies at 78

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Lou Dobbs, the conservative television and radio host who used his platforms at CNN and Fox Business to promote baseless conspiracy theories and who became an ardent supporter of former President Donald J. Trump, has died. He was 78. His death was confirmed on Thursday on Mr. Dobbs’s website and social media accounts after Mr. Trump announced it on the Truth Social platform. No cause of death was given, and it was not immediately clear where or when he died. Mr. Dobbs had been absent from “The Great America Show,” his podcast on the iHeartRadio network, for several weeks. While at CNN in the mid-2000s, Mr. Dobbs was part of a stable of cable hosts, along with Bill O’Reilly at Fox News and Keith Olbermann at MSNBC, who built national profiles as aggressively opinionated talkers. Although CNN sought to position itself as a home for straight news, Mr. Dobbs’s 6 p.m. news program was accompanied with the disclaimer that it would contain “news, debate and opinion.”