Lara Logan Threatens To “Haunt” Reporter At RNC

July 19, 2024 Crackpots, Trump cultists

The Guardian reports:

“Don’t fuck us,” Lara Logan, the former CBS News anchor turned to me and said. “If you use the word conspiracy theorist in your story, I’m going to haunt you when I die.”
It was the third day of the Republican national convention and Logan was standing in the atrium of a hotel that was once the old Pabst Brewery in Milwaukee. She was there to moderate a presentation by Jim Hoft, the founder of the far-right website Gateway Pundit.

Jim Hoft walked the 20 or so attendees – the event was also livestreamed on X – through video footage that purported to show Georgia election workers running ballots through tabulator machines several times. “We think this is important because in my world anyway where I grew up, you kind of count ballots two or three times,” Jim Hoft said. He insisted that nothing the site had published had been disproven.

From a June Business Insider report:

Jim Hoft, the far-right blogger behind the notorious conspiracy theory website The Gateway Pundit, gave a picture of his finances in a bankruptcy hearing Tuesday morning, revealing he purchased a Florida condo in recent years and uses a Porsche SUV as a company car.

Hoft appeared to view the distinction between his personal finances and TGP Communications, the now-bankrupt corporate entity that owns The Gateway Pundit, as little more than a formality.

Both he and his brother, Joe Hoft — a Gateway Pundit cofounder — took loans from the company, he said. He was repeatedly asked about whether the loans were memorialized in writing, what interest rates were being charged, and when the loans were due, and he did not give any clear answers.

According to Business Insider and other outlets, the Gateway Pundit bankruptcy case, like Rudy Giuliani’s, may be tossed, which would allow defamation suits to continue.



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