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You seriously beleive this shit?   Rightists and Russians are stupid as 
shit, which one are you?




What kind of idiot believes GWP?   Gullible rightists with low brain power 
who love trump's lies as well.


Must be a Russian troll.  We'll eventually hunt you down and put a round 
in your butt, then your head.  Maybe we'll spare your family.


You're discrediting the GOP and Russia, so keep it up.



The Gateway Pundit (TGP) is an American far-right[2] fake news website.[1] 
The website is known for publishing falsehoods, hoaxes, and conspiracy 
theories.[31]

Founded by Jim Hoft in 2004, The Gateway Pundit expanded from a one-person 
enterprise into a multi-employee operation that is supported primarily by 
advertising revenue.[32][33] During the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, 
the site received over a million unique visitors per day.[34] Twitter 
permanently suspended Hoft's account (@gatewaypundit) on February 6, 2021, 
for repeatedly publishing misinformation about the 2020 U.S. presidential 
election.[35][36][37] In September 2021, Google demonetized the site for 
publishing misinformation.[38][39][40]
Contents
History

The Gateway Pundit was founded prior to the 2004 United States 
presidential election,[41] according to its founder, Jim Hoft, to "speak 
the truth" and to "expose the wickedness of the left."[42] In 2016, it 
provided favorable coverage of Donald Trump's presidential campaign and, 
after Trump's election, was granted press credentials by the White House.
[43] A 2017 study by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at 
Harvard University found that The Gateway Pundit was the fourth most-
shared source among Trump supporters on Twitter during the 2016 election, 
behind Fox News, The Hill and Breitbart News.[44][45]

The website's name makes reference to the Gateway Arch in the city of St. 
Louis, Missouri, where Hoft resides as of February 2018.[46] He operates 
the site from Ellisville, a western suburb.[47]

A study by the Center for Countering Digital Hate found that The Gateway 
Pundit earned up to $1.1 million in Google Ad revenue between November 
2020 and July 2021.[40][48][49]
White House press credentials

In February 2017, founder Jim Hoft and The Gateway Pundit's Lucian 
Wintrich, a 28-year-old writer and artist, were granted White House press 
credentials by the Trump administration. Wintrich has collaborated with 
Milo Yiannopoulos, the former editor at Breitbart News.[43][50]

As official correspondents, Hoft and Wintrich were able to attend all 
press briefings and address their questions to the White House press 
secretary. In an interview, Wintrich said they would: "be reporting far 
more fairly than a lot of the very left-wing outlets that are currently 
occupying the briefing room. We will be doing a little trolling of the 
media in general here".[43] According to Wintrich, The Gateway Pundit's 
mission in the White House was "to help drain the press swamp" by covering 
the press corps' "very leftist and biased reporting,"[33] and to alleviate 
what he saw as bias among reporters in the White House press corps.[50]

On August 14, 2020, after President Trump called on invited Gateway Pundit 
reporter Alicia Powe for a question at his televised White House press 
briefing, the White House Correspondents' Association president told the 
Washington Examiner that including Powe as a guest was an "outrageous" 
violation of the group's social distancing guidelines during the COVID-19 
pandemic.[51][52]
False stories and conspiracy theories

The Gateway Pundit is known as a source of viral falsehoods and hoaxes.
[10][27][53] It has been described by the Harvard Journal of Law & 
Technology as one of the websites that "primarily propagate fake news",
[18] by Newsweek as a fake news website,[54] and by CNN as a website 
"prone to peddling conspiracy theories".[55] In August 2019, journalism 
professors Erik P. Bucy and John E. Newhagen observed that "The most 
aggressive fake news sites and associated YouTube channels, such as 
InfoWars, The Gateway Pundit, and The Daily Stormer, are routinely sued by 
victims of these published reports for libel and defamation."[17] 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: "I don't want any more lawsuits so we have to be 
really careful with what we put up."[56] Hoft stated that he believes the 
lawsuits "are part of a multi-pronged effort to attack media outlets on 
the right."[56]

In November 2019, the Wikipedia community deprecated The Gateway Pundit as 
an untrustworthy source of information.[57]

A 2020 study by researchers from Northeastern, Harvard, Northwestern and 
Rutgers universities found that among Republicans and older people The 
Gateway Pundit was the most shared fake news domain in tweets related to 
COVID-19, significantly outperforming other fake news domains such as 
InfoWars, WorldNetDaily, Judicial Watch and Natural News. The study also 
found that The Gateway Pundit was the 4th and 6th most shared domain 
overall, in August and September 2020 respectively.[9]

In July 2021, a spokesperson for Google said that the company had 
demonetized The Gateway Pundit's homepage and some of its articles, 
stating: "We have strict publisher policies that prohibit content 
promoting anti-vaccine theories, COVID-19 misinformation, and false claims 
about the 2020 U.S. Presidential election – and our enforcement can be as 
targeted as demonetizing a specific page. We already actioned the majority 
of pages shared from this report back in 2020 or early 2021 and similarly 
stopped serving ads on the site’s homepage last year. We will continue to 
take appropriate action if new content is uploaded that violates our 
policies."[49] In September 2021, Google demonetized the site.[38][39][40] 
A Google spokesman stated: "We gave the Gateway Pundit ample notice to 
address persistent policy violations before we took action. We will not 
serve Google ads on the site until they can comply with our 
guidelines."[38]
2016 election

The Gateway Pundit promoted false rumors about voter fraud and Hillary 
Clinton's health.[43][58][59][60] Specifically, rumors of Hillary 
Clinton's poor health were disseminated via The Gateway Pundit's articles 
entitled, "Breaking: 71% of Doctors Say Hillary Health Concerns Serious, 
Possibly Disqualifying!" and "Wow! Did Hillary Clinton Just Suffer a 
Seizure on Camera?"[58][60] Regarding voter fraud, The Gateway Pundit 
published an unsubstantiated report during the 2016 presidential election 
from the Internet Research Agency, a Russian troll farm, claiming that 
Republicans had accused Broward County, Florida officials of tampering 
with mail-in ballots.[61]
Misidentifying shooters and terrorists

The Gateway Pundit has a record of misidentifying perpetrators of 
shootings and terror attacks.[62]

Shortly after the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, in 
which a person drove a vehicle into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing 
one, The Gateway Pundit falsely identified a young man from Michigan as 
the driver.[63] After the misidentification took place, the family went 
into hiding after receiving several death threats.[64][65] Together with 
his father, the Michigan man filed a defamation lawsuit against the 
publication and other related parties.[63]

In October 2017, The Gateway Pundit published an article falsely 
implicating an innocent person as the shooter in the 2017 Las Vegas 
shooting. The article was promoted by Google as a "top story" for searches 
for his name.[66] The Gateway Pundit asserted that New York Times reporter 
Rukmini Callimachi had reported that ISIS may have evidence that it was 
behind the shooting, but Callimachi denied that she had ever made such an 
assertion.[67]

The Gateway Pundit promoted conspiracy theories about the Stoneman Douglas 
High School shooting.[68] In February 2018, The Gateway Pundit published 
an article erroneously stating that school shooter Nikolas Cruz was a 
registered Democrat, citing a registered Broward County voter with a 
similar name. The website later corrected its mistake.[69][70] Later that 
month, The Gateway Pundit was one of a number of far-right websites that 
pushed the claim that at least one of the teenage survivors of the 
Stoneman Douglas High School shooting was a deep state pawn,[71] alleging 
that David Hogg's gun control activism was being coached by his retired 
FBI agent father.[72]

In July 2018, The Gateway Pundit falsely claimed that a man arrested with 
bomb-making equipment and illegal weapons had been a "leftist antifa 
terrorist". The individual in question was however a conservative whose 
Facebook profile was littered with pro-Second Amendment memes.[73]

In August 2018, The Gateway Pundit falsely identified a Reddit user as the 
perpetrator of the Jacksonville Landing shooting.[74][57]
2020 election

In November 2020, The Gateway Pundit erroneously stated that a software 
glitch during the 2020 United States presidential election led to 10,000 
votes in Rock County, Wisconsin, being "moved" from incumbent president 
Donald Trump to his opponent, Joe Biden; the article was then promoted by 
Eric Trump, President Trump's son and executive vice president of the 
Trump Organization. The article was disputed by the Associated Press, 
which stated that the supposed discrepancy was caused by a technical error 
in AP's reporting of results obtained from Rock County's election website, 
an error that was resolved within minutes and did not pertain to the 
counting of actual ballots. Rock County clerk Lisa Tollefson stated that 
The Gateway Pundit reported incorrect information, and that the county 
stood by the final tally. The Wisconsin Elections Commission later added: 
"The AP’s error in no way reflects any problem with how Rock County 
counted or posted unofficial results. The WEC has confirmed with Rock 
County that their unofficial results reporting was always accurate. [...] 
These errors have nothing to do with Wisconsin’s official results, which 
are triple checked at the municipal, county and state levels before they 
are certified."[75][76][77]

In December 2020, The Gateway Pundit falsely claimed that Georgia 
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's brother "Ron" worked for a Chinese 
tech firm. Raffensperger's brother's name was not Ron and he did not work 
for a Chinese company.[78]

In August 2021, The Daily Beast reported that according to a senior Trump 
White House official, Trump was seen holding printouts of articles from 
The Gateway Pundit during his attempts to overturn the 2020 election, and 
on one occasion handed out an article from the site which alleged massive 
fraud in favor of Biden and told the official to act on it.[57]

Days after the results of the 2021 Maricopa County presidential ballot 
audit were released, The Gateway Pundit published an altered version of 
the auditors' report which falsely stated, "the election should not be 
certified, and the reported results are not reliable." The Gateway Pundit 
wrote that it acquired the altered document from "Byrne." Patrick Byrne, a 
staunch Trump supporter, was a major promoter of and donor to the Maricopa 
County audit. Byrne denied he was the source of the document.[79]

In October 2021, The Gateway Pundit used a study by the Poor People's 
Campaign to falsely claim that Democrats had used low-income voters to 
steal the election; the study had found that about 35% of the 2020 
presidential electorate had household incomes below $50,000. PolitiFact 
rated the claim "Pants on Fire", finding that The Gateway Pundit had 
conflated voter outreach with voter fraud.[80]

In December 2021, two Georgia election workers sued The Gateway Pundit for 
defamation, alleging that the site and its owners had knowingly published 
false stories about them that "instigated a deluge of intimidation, 
harassment, and threats that has forced them to change their phone 
numbers, delete their online accounts, and fear for their physical 
safety."[30][81] In response, the website doubled down on its false claims 
with an article titled: "Ruby Freeman and Daughter Sue Gateway Pundit for 
Posting Video of Her Shoving Ballots Through Voting Machines Numerous 
Times – PLEASE HELP US Fight This Latest Lawsuit."[82]
Other

The Gateway Pundit has promoted the false claim that Barack Obama was not 
born in the United States.[30]

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.[83] The redditor behind the post later said that 
the post was intended "as an obvious troll."[83] When asked by The 
Washington Post, the writer of the Gateway Pundit post declined to say 
whether he had contacted the redditor to verify the information; later the 
Gateway Pundit story contained an update at the bottom: "Liberals say 
these are fake Reddit posts(?) Regardless, the posts are still up on 
Reddit and the posters are still encouraging Democrats to cheat."[83] Also 
in December 2017, The Gateway Pundit published a story falsely saying that 
Facebook had taken down a previous Gateway Pundit story about the Alabama 
election, when in fact a Facebook algorithm had made it less prevalent 
after it had been flagged as fake news.[84]

In April 2018, The Gateway Pundit falsely claimed in a headline that two 
prominent African-American conservative video bloggers – Diamond and Silk 
– had been censored by Facebook.[85]

In July 2018, The Gateway Pundit falsely claimed that then-senator Kamala 
Harris had lied about her school's integration history.[86] The article 
was cited by radio host Larry Elder and others in June 2019 after Harris 
confronted then-presidential candidate Joe Biden over his opposition to 
busing during the first Democratic presidential debate.[87]

In September 2018, after psychology professor Christine Blasey Ford 
alleged that U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had sexually 
assaulted her in the 1980s when they were teenagers, The Gateway Pundit 
published an article[88] erroneously claiming that Kavanaugh's mother, a 
district court judge in Maryland, had once ruled in a foreclosure case 
against Dr. Ford's parents, creating what The Gateway Pundit called "bad 
blood" between the two families.[89] In an update, The Gateway Pundit 
noted, "CBS News reports the case was settled amicably and the Blaseys 
kept their house."[89]

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 The Gateway Pundit. Hours after these reports, The 
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 Wohl. The site removed the documents later that day, stating 
they were investigating the matter, as well as "serious allegations 
against Jacob Wohl."[54] The following day, The Gateway Pundit's owner Jim 
Hoft retweeted Wohl's comment suggesting 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 1, 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.[90] 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 The 
Gateway Pundit had "suspended [their] relationship" with Wohl.[91][92][93]
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