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“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 …

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. …

Peter Montgomery reports at Right Wing Watch: Former Rep. Michelle Bachmann, who was named dean of Regent University’s Robertson School of Government in December, is hosting an “election integrity” conference Tuesday, March 23, featuring a mix of longtime voter suppression advocates and right-wing pundits who have promoted former President Donald Trump’s bogus “stolen election” claims. She recently told radio host …

Mediaite reports: Donald Trump’s lawyers continue to argue that the former president did not incite his supporters to lay siege to the Capitol, and they did so by citing the findings of…The Gateway Pundit. Despite the fact that Trump told his supporters “if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore” the day of the …

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 …

The Daily Dot reports: Far-right website the Gateway Pundit led its readers to think that if you get an anal swab coronavirus test, you could be left walking like a penguin. Because of their need to be preposterously masculine, they are stoking concerns over the prospects of a COVID-19 anal test coming to the United States with an intensity typically …

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 …

Media Matters reports: Rush Limbaugh has begun promoting anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert Kennedy Jr. latest accusation, claiming that Dr. Anthony Fauci is personally profiting off of efforts to create a vaccine for the coronavirus pandemic. Various such conspiracy theories have circulated for months, accusing Fauci and the NIH of owning patents or other research to either create the coronavirus itself …

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 …

Will Sommer reports at The Daily Beast: It was an image out of a Trump supporter’s fever dream: crates of pipe bombs stashed near the Korean War Veterans Memorial, amid tense protests at the White House and the surrounding streets. The suspects behind the explosives had fled, but federal law enforcement officers were right behind them. The pipe bomb story …

Jared Holt reports at Right Wing Watch: Right-wing politicians and personalities have demanded that the nation’s police engage in extrajudicial acts of violence against people protesting the ​police killing of George Floyd. Cassandra Fairbanks, a far-right media personality, posted messages throughout the weekend calling for protesters to be harmed and killed by the government, expressing her desire for Trump to …

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 …

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump quoted Gateway Pundit conspiracy blogger Jim Hoft during a Fox News town hall to falsely claim that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo refused to purchase 16,000 ventilators in 2015, when no such purchase was considered or offered. “It says ‘New York Governor Cuomo rejected buying recommended $16,000 ventilators in 2015 for the pandemic,’ for a …

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 …

Talking Points Memo reports: After initial reports identified Patrick Crusius as the alleged gunman behind the the El Paso Walmart massacre that left 22 people dead and more wounded, Jim Hoft, founder of the right-wing conspiracy website The Gateway Pundit, presented an inaccurate picture of Crusius to his readers. Selectively plucking information from the reputation management website MyLife, which can …

Media Matters reports: Unsurprisingly, some white nationalists and right-wing media figures defended Trump’s comments. A few praised the comments, and others resorted to gaslighting, insisting that the media and Democrats were misquoting Trump. Neo-Nazi publication Daily Stormer printed the headline “Trump tells brown communist Democrats to leave America, return to their shitholes,” a throwback to Trump’s infamous comments in which …

Courthouse News reports: A Virginia federal judge ruled on Friday a defamation suit can move forward against Alex Jones, former Florida Rep. Allen West and other right-wing commentators who claimed a former State Department official was a “deep state” operative after he posted video online that showed a white supremacist plow his car into a crowd in Charlottesville, Virginia in …

The Hill reports: President Trump on Friday urged Jewish voters to abandon the Democratic Party in favor of a “Jexodus” to the GOP while touting his administration’s record on foreign policy surrounding Israel. Trump and other Republicans have hammered Democrats over alleged anti-Semitism in their ranks in the weeks following controversial comments made by freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who …

Jared Holt reports at Right Wing Watch: Jerome Corsi and one of his lawyers are threatening to sue The Gateway Pundit, an outlet that had been overwhelmingly supportive of Corsi before he began cooperating with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Larry Klayman, the departed founder of Judicial Watch who is representing Corsi as …

PolitFact reports: In the days after 17 people were viciously gunned down at a high school in Florida, the state’s Republican governor called for tighter gun laws and President Donald Trump hosted victims’ families in the State Dining Room. The nation seemed steadfast in seeking answers and finding solutions. But in the shadows, the internet engine of hoaxes and smears …