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Termin8tor » 24 Mar 2019 12:50 pm » wrote:Two years of lies and smears and baseless speculation about crimes, impeachment, indictment, etc. And all of it was ****.

Termin8tor » 24 Mar 2019 12:50 pm » wrote:What has Gateway done that anywhere near compares to that avalanche of Fake News?

The Gateway Pundit is an American far-right news and opinion website. It has been described as a fake news website.

It was founded after the 2004 United States presidential election, according to its founder, Jim Hoft, to "speak the truth" and to "expose the wickedness of the left."

It came to prominence in 2016 for its favorable coverage of Donald Trump's presidential campaign, and was later granted press credentials in the Trump White House.

The website is known for publishing falsehoods and spreading hoaxes.

(Misty: And still they got press credentials to the WH.)

The Gateway Pundit is known as a source of viral falsehoods and hoaxes.
It has been described as a fake news website.

As a result of a number of lawsuits against The Gateway Pundit over its false stories, it was reported in March 2018 that Jim Hoft had told his writers to be more careful, saying "I don't want any more lawsuits so we have to be really careful with what we put up."

The Gateway Pundit has a record of misidentifying perpetrators of shootings and terror attacks.

In December 2017, The Gateway Pundit published a Reddit post as evidence that Democratic activists were committing voter fraud in the 2017 Alabama Senate special election.
The redditor behind the post later said that the post was intended "as an obvious troll."

On October 30, 2018, NBC News and The Atlantic published articles detailing a scheme to falsely accuse Robert Mueller of sexual misconduct in 1974.

The articles reported involvement by Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl, the latter a writer for Gateway Pundit.

Hours after these reports, Gateway Pundit published on its site "exclusive documents" about a "very credible witness" to support the accusations against Mueller.

Each document had in its header the phrase "International Private Intelligence," the business slogan of Surefire Intelligence, a firm created by Jacob Wohl.

The site removed the documents later that day, stating they were investigating the matter, as well as "serious allegations against Jacob Wohl."

The following day, Gateway Pundit's owner Jim Hoft retweeted a tweet by Wohl that suggested Mueller's office was actually behind the scheme.

Mueller's office had days earlier referred the scheme to the FBI.

Burkman and Wohl convened a press conference outside Washington on November 1st, ostensibly to present a woman who they said signed an affidavit, which Gateway Pundit had published, accusing Mueller of raping her in a New York hotel room in 2010 — on a date he was contemporaneously reported by The Washington Post to be serving jury duty in Washington.

The men accused Mueller's office of "leaking" the eight year-old Post story to discredit their allegations.

The purported accuser, a Carolyne Cass, did not appear at the press conference, with the men asserting she had panicked in fear of her life and taken a flight to another location.

Soon after the press conference, Hoft announced that Gateway Pundit had "suspended our relationship" with Jacob Wohl.

(Misty: We now know that story was a complete hoax.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gateway_Pundit