Tag Archives: Jim Hoft

WaPo: How Trump Relies On Homocon Fake News Site

The Washington Post reports: Gateway Pundit has continued trumpeting disproven election fraud stories, even as it faces defamation suits over its coverage of the 2020 election. It has also taken its own legal action against fact-checkers, disinformation researchers and story subjects, while pressing in court to make it harder for social media companies to crack down on misinformation. The outlet’s …

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Trump Boasts That Kremlin Says He Won 2020 Election

Mediaite reports: Donald Trump claimed the 2020 election was stolen from him for the kabillionth time, this time by promoting Marjorie Taylor Greene as the congresswoman pushed Russian propaganda. In the former president’s latest Truth Social binge, he re-truthed Greene’s post about an article from Jim Hoft, proprietor of The Gateway Pundit. Both are well known for peddling fake news …

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Kremlin Fake News Mill Runs Out Of Florida Strip Mall

Talking Points Memo reports: Unlike thousands of TV reporters around the country, Ben Swann is a registered Russian agent. While taking millions of dollars to produce branded content for Russian state broadcaster RT over the past year, Swann has sought to build a media platform that aims to serve as a means of broadcasting January 6 conspiracy theories, RFK Jr., …

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Gateway Pundit Founder: The Threads Logo Is Satanic

Founder Jim Hoft writes at Gateway Pundit: Within hours of its launch Twitter threatened to sue Zuckerberg and Meta. Twitter on Thursday issued a cease & desist letter to Meta over the new social media app ‘Threads.’ Elon Musk threatened to sue Meta over its new “Twitter killer,” Threads, a text-based app that resembles Twitter. Twitter accused Meta of hiring …

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Homocon News Site Faces Jury Trial For Defamation

The Missouri Independent reports: They didn’t know it at the time, but Dec. 3, 2020, was the start of a nightmare for Wandrea Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman. Later that day, the Gateway Pundit, a St. Louis-based site run by brothers Jim and James Hoft, identified Freeman as one of the election workers accused of producing and counting 18,000 …

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Homocon Site Gateway Pundit Falls For Parody Clip

Homocon Jim Hoft writes at The Gateway Pundit: The brainless left was at it again this weekend. Gay activists hung a sign reading “top secret nuclear documents” inside from the Trump Tower in New York City on Sunday. The obedient left will believe anything. Two weeks ago the FBI leaked another fake item to The New York Times that President …

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Federal Court Advances Lawsuit Against Homocon Site

Law & Crime reports: A federal judge in Missouri on Monday pushed a lawsuit filed by two Georgia election workers against The Gateway Pundit back to a Missouri circuit court for additional proceedings. Plaintiffs Ruby Freeman and Wandrea Moss filed the case against James Hoft, Joseph Hoft, and TGP Communications LLC (the business which operates The Gateway Pundit) in December …

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Vance: Biden’s Letting In Fentanyl To “Kill MAGA Voters”

Media Matters reports: On Friday, Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance pushed an anti-immigration conspiracy theory that alleged President Joe Biden was deliberately allowing drug smugglers to import fentanyl to the United States to kill Donald Trump voters. The theory has also been put forward by Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, whom the New York Times recently characterized as running “what may …

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Homocon Fake News Site In Major Feud With Rioter

The Daily Beast reports: Popular far-right website The Gateway Pundit, which played a key role in pushing Jan. 6 “false flag” conspiracy theories, has found an unlikely new enemy in Capitol rioter Tim “Baked Alaska” Gionet. The intra-right-wing drama hit its ugly lows with Gateway Pundit founder Jim Hoft accusing Gionet of being a “fed,” and the far-right streamer’s allies …

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GA Election Workers Sue Homocon Site For Defamation

Reuters reports: Two Georgia election workers targeted by former President Donald Trump in a vote-rigging conspiracy theory have sued a far-right website that trumpeted the false story, alleging it incited months of death threats and harassment against them. The defamation suit against The Gateway Pundit was filed Thursday by Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, a voter registration officer in the Fulton County …

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Arizona’s QAnon “Auditors” Condemn Homocon Site Gateway Pundit For Posting “False Version” Of Report

Talking Points Memo reports: There’s apparently a phony copy of the final report from the sham Arizona “audit” floating around that advises lawmakers not to certify the 2020 election. On Tuesday, a spokesperson for Doug Logan’s company Cyber Ninjas, Rod Thompson, said in an emailed statement that “There is a false version of the Executive Summary of the Maricopa County …

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Google Demonetizes Homocon Site Gateway Pundit

Homocon Gateway Pundit founder Jim Hoft writes: Google censored President Trump for years pushing hit pieces on the 45th President to the top of their search results. Google frequently censored top conservative websites like The Gateway Pundit and just this week news broke that Google-YouTube censored and removed over a million videos on COVID. On Friday we learned that Google …

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How A Homocon Site Fueled Trump’s Election Lies

The Daily Beast reports: The Gateway Pundit’s small role in Trump’s endeavor to weaponize the DOJ against the American electoral process underscores just how easily a discredited far-right media site established a pipeline to the decision-making of the then most powerful person on Earth. It also shows how this one website — founded by a guy repeatedly dubbed the “dumbest …

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Homocon Site To Launch Campaign To Free DC Rioters: They Were Just Peacefully Walking Through The Capitol

“We all know what happened on Jan. 6, and the big story that day was when Vice President Pence turned his back on Trump nation. That’s the biggest story on that day. Nothing else mattered that day. The media’s been making up these lies about this insurrection, where people are peacefully walking through the U.S. Capitol. “We are dealing with …

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Homocon Site Goes Viral With Stupid Lie About Biden

Salon reports: A pro-Trump blog stirred up a bizarre conspiracy theory Wednesday, claiming that President Joe Biden wasn’t actually driving during a Tuesday event in which the 78-year-old took an electric truck for a spin in front of the press. The claim originated on right-wing blog The Gateway Pundit, an outfit known for their rather sticky relationship with the facts. …

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Twitter Bans Homocon Fake News Site Gateway Pundit

The Hill reports: Twitter on Saturday issued a permanent suspension for the account run by Jim Hoft, founder and editor-in-chief of far-right news website Gateway Pundit, for violations of its “civic integrity policy.” A Twitter spokesperson confirmed the news to The Hill, citing “repeated violations” of its policy that bars users from tweeting messages “for the purpose of manipulating or …

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Homocon Site: BLM Activists “Consort” With Demons

From a post on the homocon site Gateway Pundit: Defenders of Black Lives Matter claim the organization is “spiritual.” No doubt about that. It’s spiritual, alright. But demons are spirits, too. “Spiritual” is not the same as “Godly,” and there’s mounting evidence that BLM’s founders consort with evil spirits. Demonologists warn us to never, ever say a demon’s name because …

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Homocon Site Blames Fauci For Herman Cain’s Death

Will Sommer reports at The Daily Beast: Herman Cain’s death, in theory, should have brought home the coronavirus’ seriousness to the hardcore Trump faithful who have refused to wear masks. Instead, The Gateway Pundit knew who was to blame: Anthony Fauci, for opposing hydroxychloroquine! “Is Dr. Fauci to Blame for Herman Cain’s Death?” the far-right website asked. “Herman Cain’s death …

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Homocon Site Posts And Deletes Fake CDC Conspiracy

Media Matters reports: Disreputable right-wing conspiracy theorist Jim Hoft published a conspiratorial article about a deceased CDC scientist, apparently not realizing the scientist had died in 2018. Hoft has largely been using his outlet The Gateway Pundit to defend President Donald Trump’s handling of the novel coronavirus outbreak. On April 14, Hoft published an article at the Gateway Pundit with …

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Homocon Site Calls For Executing Trump’s Opponents

From the homocon fake news site Gateway Pundit: President Trump is too good for the Democrats. He has an ‘America First’ agenda which the traitorous Democrats and elites despise. It’s time that we Americans stand and call this what it is. This is another Democrat attempt to remove a President through any means necessary. It is seditious and treasonous. The …

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