Jared Holt reports Right Wing Watch:
The Internal Revenue Service considers anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist Rick Wiles’ TruNews media operation a church, allowing it to operate tax-exempt and freeing it from requirements to disclose its donors or even file basic financial data required of nonprofit charitable organizations.
Wiles has used TruNews to promote conspiracy theories including “Pizzagate” and to spread an utterly debased message of hate against Jewish and LGTBQ people for years.
Wiles said in a December 2016 interview that no entity called “TruNews” exists but rather that the operation was housed in a ministry called Flowing Streams. As a result, Wiles and his cohort operate with tax-exempt status, and contributions made in the name of TruNews would be considered “offerings” in the eyes of the IRS.
“That’s the way the Jews work. They are deceivers. They plot, they lie, they do whatever they have to do to accomplish their political agenda. This impeach Trump movement is a Jew Coup!”
If anybody wondered why we’re being gunned down in synagogue. pic.twitter.com/uLMrbqChCK
— Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (@TheRaDR) December 2, 2019
Every hour that passes with notorious antisemitic broadcaster Rick Wiles not stripped of his White House press credentials is an hour of shame for this administration. https://t.co/k1brzJYxDl
— American Jewish Committee (@AJCGlobal) November 28, 2019
It seems that legitimate journalists were not very happy about the fact that the anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists from TruNews received credentials to cover the NATO summit in London. pic.twitter.com/dxMk0gd2Nz
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) December 5, 2019
Last week, TruNews spent an entire program saying that impeachment is a “Jew coup” and a plot to kill Christians. Today, it’s correspondent is traveling with the White House press corps covering Trump’s participation in the NATO summit. https://t.co/uzusoEHZLl pic.twitter.com/fgeMXHniig
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) December 3, 2019