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From the far-right fake news Gateway Pundit: Freedom Corner started on August 1, 2022, when Micki Witthoeft, the mother of Ashli Babbitt, started holding the nightly vigil from 7 until 9 pm each night. Ashli Babbitt was murdered by Lt. Michael Byrd of the United States Capitol Police, on January 6, 2021, in cold blood when he shot her without …

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 …

“My hope for 2024 is that Trump and Gov. DeSantis of Florida will slug it out for the Republican nomination. Trump has turned into a pitiful figure, continually bemoaning his loss in 2020. Big Republican donors are abandoning him in droves. “DeSantis is shrewd, ruthless and ambitious. He is likely to be the Republican candidate. This could induce Trump, whose …

Homocon nutbag Jim Hoft writes at Gateway Pundit: Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA 14th District) said during an interview on Sunday that she believed Joe Biden was legitimately elected as president. She also distanced herself from the online group QAnon for getting her “sucked into” their conspiracy theories. Green made an appearance on the far left Fox News’ “MediaBuzz” on …

The Washington Post reports: Misleading videos, recirculated months after they were shot, carried unfounded claims that Republican voters were being barred from the polls. Viral tweets spun early-morning mechanical problems with vote tabulators into elaborate claims of systematic fraud. And users on the pro-Trump extremist forum The Donald urged armed intervention at ballot counting centers in Georgia, advising, “If it …

NBC News reports: A since-deleted Truth Social account named after the QAnon slogan “Where We Go One We Go All” posted a picture of a tailgate party outside an Arizona drop box on July 29, when early voting was available in the gubernatorial and Senate primaries. Users on Truth Social then began calling for more “mule parties” across the state, …

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 …

The Daily Beast reports: Enraged after a team of FBI agents searched Donald Trump’s Florida residence, right-wing media has turned to promoting a pro-Trump rally of sorts outside the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Sunday. “Adam Hardage is calling on fellow veterans and Americans of all walks to join him Sunday 8/14 at the FBI HQ in Washington DC …

From the Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo: Shane Jenkins went to the U. S. Capitol in Washington, DC., on January 6, 2021, to peacefully protest what he believes to be election fraud. He is currently being held in the D. C. Department of Corrections without bond and no trial date in sight. Clearly he is a political prisoner. The court appointed …

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 …

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 …

Mediaite reports: A lawyer for former President Donald Trump is attempting to crowdsource videos from the January 6 Capitol riot, requesting footage of “Trump protestors being peaceful” and of “police or anyone else waving/encouraging people to go into the Capitol building.” A statement from the Ticktin Law Group was published this week on conservative website The Gateway Pundit from Peter …

Reuters reports: The Gateway Pundit, a far-right news site, used its Facebook page – with more than 630,000 subscribers – to post fake stories alleging that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump. Some commentators responded with threats of violence. After Gateway Pundit posted a June story on Facebook that included debunked allegations of voter fraud in …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Mediaite reports: At his so-called cyber symposium, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell said that a writer for far right website Gateway Pundit might be a CIA plant trying to undermine his conference … or something? But they are looking into it for sure. Lindell was apparently unhappy about a post at the conspiracy blog that focused on the news of supposed …

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 …

“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. …