The Gateway Pundit

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The Gateway Pundit
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Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback.
Web address www.thegatewaypundit.com
Type of site
 news blog
Available in English
Owner Jim Hoft
Created by Jim Hoft
Launched 2004

The Gateway Pundit is an American conservative news website created in 2004 by Jim Hoft. Based out of St. Louis, Missouri, the website is one of the Top 100 conservative news websites in the United States, and is featured on actor Kelsey Grammer’s RIGHTNETWORK. It is widely described in the mainstream media as being "far right" and promoting conspiracy theories and fake news.[1]

The Gateway Pundit reports news that is largely unreported in the mainstream media due to claimed bias, such as on left-wing violence in the Trump era, and is often cited in some Conservapedia pages for its reporting, despite allegations of unreliability by "fact checking" sources, such as Snopes and Media Bias/Fact Check.

Major stories

Black Lives Matter moneylaundering

Gatewaypundit exposed Black Lives Matter as a money laundering scheme for the Democratic National Committee.[2] When you click on the “Donate” button on blacklivesmatter.com you are sent to “ActBlue”, the DNC official payment portal. ActBlue claims to be tax exempt organization and all donations to it are tax-deductable. The terms and conditions also link to ActBlue and mention “Campaign Finance Laws”.[3] When you research the expenditures of ActBlue, all of their contributions are directly going to top DNC campaigns.[4] After reaching the BLM homepage, which features a “Defund The Police” petition front and center, if a user chooses to donate, they’re rerouted to a site hosted by ActBlue. Joe Biden is a top beneficiary of the ActBlue’s fundraising efforts.[5] ActBlue contributions comprise 99.64 percent of all funds raised for the “Biden for President” entity and the total is nearly 773 times greater than the group with the second-highest donation sum. As of May 21, 2020, the organization has donated $119,253,857 to the “Biden for President” effort.[6]

Defamation Lawsuit

On December 2, 2021, two Fulton County Georgia elections workers, Ruby Freeman and Wandrea Moss, filed a lawsuit against The Gateway Pundit and owner Jim Hoft. The lawsuit accused Hoft of knowingly publishing and spreading false stories saying they engaged in ballot fraud during the 2020 general election. In the lawsuit, Ruby and Moss claim Hoft perpetuated a debunked narrative, then published the stories and promoted them even after he was aware the stories had been disproven. [7] [8]

Bankruptcy Protection

On April 24, 2024, Jim Hoft posted a notice on The Gateway Pundit website stating, TGP Communications, the parent company of The Gateway Pundit, had decided to seek Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Hoft blamed ‘progressive liberal lawfare attacks’ and ‘the radical left’s efforts to silence The Gateway Pundit through censorship, de-platforming, de-banking, cut-off from advertisers, and other financial strategies’. [9]

Biden-Ukraine collusion scandal

Jim Hoft of the Gateway Pundit was the first to interview Andrey Telizhenko in the Ukrainian collusion sandal.[10] Teleizhenko met with CIA operative Eric Ciaramella in the Obama White House on January 19, 2016, as 2016 presidential election primaries were getting underway. Telizhenko reported that the subject of the meeting was the Obama administration putting pressure on Ukraine to kill the investigation into Vice President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, and the company he worked for Burisma, and to find "new evidence" in a case against Paul Manafort which the FBI had already looked into in 2014 and dismissed.

Criticism

The Gateway Pundit has been condemned by Wikipedia, which describes it as being a far-right fake news website that is "known for publishing falsehoods, hoaxes, and conspiracy theories".[1] The left-wing website Snopes.com, which purports to be a "fact-checking" site, has also condemned the Gateway Pundit as being a site that "traffics in conspiracy theories and misinformation" and ran a hit piece on the site regarding the site's organization of a recent prayer rally at the statue of St. Louis at Forest Park in St. Louis; that rally was attacked by a gang of over 100 violent and bigoted Antifa and Black Lives Matter thugs, led by racist black activist and Crips gang member Terence Page, who viciously assaulted several of the rally attendees[11] and childishly mocked many others,[12] after which Snopes wrote their falsehood-filled article that told one lie after another about the events of the rally. The pro-Internet censorship company, the Center for Countering Digital Hate, has campaigned in favor of deplatforming the Gateway Pundit.

References

  1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gateway_Pundit
  2. ↑ https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/exclusive-donations-including-international-funding-blacklivesmatter-com-go-directly-dnc-money-laundering/
  3. ↑ https://secure.actblue.com/content/fineprint
  4. ↑ https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/expenditures.php?cmte=C00401224&cycle=2020
  5. ↑ https://thenationalpulse.com/politics/biden-black-lives-matter-defund-the-police/
  6. ↑ https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/expenditures.php?cmte=c00401224&cycle=2020
  7. ↑ https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21138453-tgp-petition
  8. ↑ https://apnews.com/article/business-elections-lawsuits-georgia-atlanta-7ccb905dbf54a49d085115693bec59dd
  9. ↑ https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/message-gateway-pundit-founder-jim-hoft-our-readers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=message-gateway-pundit-founder-jim-hoft-our-readers
  10. ↑ FLASHBACK: Gateway Pundit was First to Interview Whistleblower Andrii Telizhenko on Democrat Corruption in Ukraine — And We Were 100% Correct, Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit, November 14, 2019.
  11. ↑ A New Low. Snopes Uses Local Crips Member and Islamist Fanatic in Defamatory Hit Piece Against Gateway Pundit and St. Louis Catholics at the Gateway Pundit
  12. ↑ “Blah-Blah-Blah…” – Hateful Black Lives Matter Protester Mocks, Interrupts Catholics in Prayer at St. Louis Statue at the Gateway Pundit

See also

External links

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