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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. …

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 …