Not that the orange menace has friends in the way normal people do, but he was sort of a middling celebrity on NBC at one time. They got nuttin’ but blather & BS, and it shows.

financing for them?

It's run by John Solomon, the reporter who wrote bogus articles about Joe & Hunter Biden and corruption in Ukraine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Solomon_(political_commentator)

The usual whiny excuses. Seems he's declined so far that even hopping him up on speed isn't working anymore. He's still a blubbering mess.

Too bad. I'm still trying to figure out his connection between bacon consumption and windmills and thought he might enlighten us. Plenty of windmills around here, yet I'm eating bacon as I type this. Go figure.

Overall, we rate Just the News Questionable and Right Biased based on story selection that mostly favors a conservative perspective. We also rate them Mixed for factual reporting due to numerous failed fact checks and the promotion of conspiracy theories and right-wing propaganda.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/just-the-news/

That's TSF's strategy and it will work to some extent. Lowering expectations is pretty normal, whining about unfair coverage is TSF's own special personal twist.