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The Drudge Report, once a des­ti­na­tion for those seek­ing a dai­ly dose of fac­tu­al news, truth and con­ser­v­a­tive com­men­tary, has report­ed­ly seen its web traf­fic decline at an alarm­ing rate over the last year, as its founder’s hate for Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump now leads the coverage.

Matt Drudge, who launched what would become one of the internet’s largest sources for news, start­ed with a sim­ple email newslet­ter, and broke major sto­ries relat­ing to the Mon­i­ca Lewisnky scan­dal in the late 1990s.

Drudge quick­ly was not­ed for hav­ing a knack for sto­ry aggre­ga­tion and for his under­stand­ing of the media landscape.