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'''The Gateway Pundit''' (TGP) is a [[Conservatism|conservative]],<ref name=":12" /> [[Far right in the United States|far-right]],<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://uk.businessinsider.com/las-vegas-shooting-mandalay-bay-facebook-twitter-google-2017-10?r=US&IR=T|title=Fake news about the Las Vegas shooting spread wildly on Facebook, Google, and Twitter|work=Business Insider|access-date=2017-10-07|language=en|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171007170509/http://uk.businessinsider.com/las-vegas-shooting-mandalay-bay-facebook-twitter-google-2017-10?r=US&IR=T|archivedate=2017-10-07|df=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/02/media/facebook-google-misinformation-las-vegas/index.html|title=Google, Facebook help spread bad information after Las Vegas attack|last=Darcy|first=Oliver|work=CNNMoney|access-date=2017-10-07|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171005040849/http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/02/media/facebook-google-misinformation-las-vegas/index.html|archivedate=2017-10-05|df=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/here-are-all-the-hoaxes-being-spread-about-the-las-vegas|title=Here Are All The Hoaxes Being Spread About The Las Vegas Shooting|work=BuzzFeed|access-date=2017-10-07|language=en|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171002194536/https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/here-are-all-the-hoaxes-being-spread-about-the-las-vegas|archivedate=2017-10-02|df=}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite news|url=http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/15/media/far-right-blames-fbi-florida-shooting/index.html|title=Far-right says FBI, distracted by Russia probe, missed warning signs in Florida shooting|last=Gold|first=Oliver Darcy and Hadas|date=|work=CNNMoney|access-date=2018-02-15|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|quote=The Gateway Pundit, a far-right website known for peddling misinformation and conspiracy theories}}</ref> pro-[[Donald Trump|Trump]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://apnews.com/d79a7cb4238f4889a10a8d3370f16ed2|title=Fake news is still here, despite efforts by Google, Facebook|work=AP News|access-date=2017-10-16|language=en-US|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171016174700/https://apnews.com/d79a7cb4238f4889a10a8d3370f16ed2|archivedate=2017-10-16|df=}}</ref> website. It was founded after the [[United States presidential election, 2004|United States presidential election in 2004]],<ref name="Gateway Pundit – About">[http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/about/ Gateway Pundit – About] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170126070101/http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/about/ |date=2017-01-26 }}. Gateway Pundit (2013-07-29). Retrieved on 2017-01-25.</ref><ref name="New York Times - Rutenberg">{{cite news|last1=Rutenberg|first1=Jim|title=‘Alternative Facts’ and the Costs of Trump-Branded Reality|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/22/business/media/alternative-facts-trump-brand.html?_r=0|accessdate=1 February 2017|publisher=The New York Times|date=22 January 2017|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170729023743/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/22/business/media/alternative-facts-trump-brand.html?_r=0|archivedate=29 July 2017|df=}}</ref> according to its founder Jim Hoft, to "speak the truth" and to "expose the wickedness of the left".<ref name=":7">{{Cite news|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/13/jim-hoft-conservative-blogger-comes-out-as-gay-aft/|title=Jim Hoft, conservative blogger, comes out as gay after Orlando terror attack|last=|first=|date=|work=The Washington Times|access-date=2017-05-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170502130802/http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/13/jim-hoft-conservative-blogger-comes-out-as-gay-aft/|archive-date=2017-05-02|dead-url=no|language=en-US|df=}}</ref>
'''The Gateway Pundit''' (TGP) is a fringe,<ref name=":6">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/business/media/parkland-shooting-media-conspiracy.html|title=Right-Wing Media Uses Parkland Shooting as Conspiracy Fodder|last=Grynbaum|first=Michael M.|date=2018-02-20|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-02-21|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> [[Far right in the United States|far-right]],<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://uk.businessinsider.com/las-vegas-shooting-mandalay-bay-facebook-twitter-google-2017-10?r=US&IR=T|title=Fake news about the Las Vegas shooting spread wildly on Facebook, Google, and Twitter|work=Business Insider|access-date=2017-10-07|language=en|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171007170509/http://uk.businessinsider.com/las-vegas-shooting-mandalay-bay-facebook-twitter-google-2017-10?r=US&IR=T|archivedate=2017-10-07|df=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/02/media/facebook-google-misinformation-las-vegas/index.html|title=Google, Facebook help spread bad information after Las Vegas attack|last=Darcy|first=Oliver|work=CNNMoney|access-date=2017-10-07|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171005040849/http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/02/media/facebook-google-misinformation-las-vegas/index.html|archivedate=2017-10-05|df=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/here-are-all-the-hoaxes-being-spread-about-the-las-vegas|title=Here Are All The Hoaxes Being Spread About The Las Vegas Shooting|work=BuzzFeed|access-date=2017-10-07|language=en|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171002194536/https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/here-are-all-the-hoaxes-being-spread-about-the-las-vegas|archivedate=2017-10-02|df=}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite news|url=http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/15/media/far-right-blames-fbi-florida-shooting/index.html|title=Far-right says FBI, distracted by Russia probe, missed warning signs in Florida shooting|last=Gold|first=Oliver Darcy and Hadas|date=|work=CNNMoney|access-date=2018-02-15|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|quote=The Gateway Pundit, a far-right website known for peddling misinformation and conspiracy theories}}</ref> pro-[[Donald Trump|Trump]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://apnews.com/d79a7cb4238f4889a10a8d3370f16ed2|title=Fake news is still here, despite efforts by Google, Facebook|work=AP News|access-date=2017-10-16|language=en-US|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171016174700/https://apnews.com/d79a7cb4238f4889a10a8d3370f16ed2|archivedate=2017-10-16|df=}}</ref> website. It was founded after the [[United States presidential election, 2004|United States presidential election in 2004]],<ref name="Gateway Pundit – About">[http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/about/ Gateway Pundit – About] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170126070101/http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/about/ |date=2017-01-26 }}. Gateway Pundit (2013-07-29). Retrieved on 2017-01-25.</ref><ref name="New York Times - Rutenberg">{{cite news|last1=Rutenberg|first1=Jim|title=‘Alternative Facts’ and the Costs of Trump-Branded Reality|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/22/business/media/alternative-facts-trump-brand.html?_r=0|accessdate=1 February 2017|publisher=The New York Times|date=22 January 2017|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170729023743/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/22/business/media/alternative-facts-trump-brand.html?_r=0|archivedate=29 July 2017|df=}}</ref> according to its founder Jim Hoft, to "speak the truth" and to "expose the wickedness of the left".<ref name=":7">{{Cite news|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/13/jim-hoft-conservative-blogger-comes-out-as-gay-aft/|title=Jim Hoft, conservative blogger, comes out as gay after Orlando terror attack|last=|first=|date=|work=The Washington Times|access-date=2017-05-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170502130802/http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/13/jim-hoft-conservative-blogger-comes-out-as-gay-aft/|archive-date=2017-05-02|dead-url=no|language=en-US|df=}}</ref>


Over time, The Gateway Pundit expanded from a one-person enterprise into a multi-employee operation that is supported primarily by advertising revenue.<ref name=":11">{{Cite web|url=http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-advertiser-boycotts-20170610-story.html|title=Advertisers are in the hot seat as activists both for and against Trump call for boycotts|last=|first=|date=|website=latimes.com|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2018-03-17}}</ref><ref name=":10" /> During the 2016 presidential campaign, over a million unique visitors a day visited The Gateway Pundit.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/20/is-trump-trolling-the-white-house-press-corps|title=Is Trump Trolling the White House Press Corps?|website=The New Yorker|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170504044314/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/20/is-trump-trolling-the-white-house-press-corps|archivedate=2017-05-04|deadurl=no|access-date=2017-05-02|df=}}</ref> The website is often linked to or cited by [[Fox News]] commentator [[Sean Hannity]], as well as [[Drudge Report]], [[Sarah Palin]], and other well-known conservative people and media outlets.<ref name="NYT_T100_Gateway_Credentials">{{citation|title=White House Grants Press Credentials to a Pro-Trump Blog|date=13 February 2017|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/business/the-gateway-pundit-trump.html|author=Michael M. Grynbaum|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|accessdate=14 February 2017|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170214031407/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/business/the-gateway-pundit-trump.html|archivedate=14 February 2017|df=}}</ref> The website is known for publishing falsehoods and spreading hoaxes.<!--begin cite bundle --><ref name="references related to hoaxes">* {{Cite news|url=http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/fake-news-gateway-pundit-white-house-trump-briefing-room-214781|title=‘Real News’ Joins the White House Briefing Room|newspaper=POLITICO Magazine|access-date=2017-02-23|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170220092529/http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/fake-news-gateway-pundit-white-house-trump-briefing-room-214781|archivedate=2017-02-20|df=}}
Over time, The Gateway Pundit expanded from a one-person enterprise into a multi-employee operation that is supported primarily by advertising revenue.<ref name=":11">{{Cite web|url=http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-advertiser-boycotts-20170610-story.html|title=Advertisers are in the hot seat as activists both for and against Trump call for boycotts|last=|first=|date=|website=latimes.com|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2018-03-17}}</ref><ref name=":10" /> During the 2016 presidential campaign, over a million unique visitors a day visited The Gateway Pundit.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/20/is-trump-trolling-the-white-house-press-corps|title=Is Trump Trolling the White House Press Corps?|website=The New Yorker|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170504044314/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/20/is-trump-trolling-the-white-house-press-corps|archivedate=2017-05-04|deadurl=no|access-date=2017-05-02|df=}}</ref> The website is often linked to or cited by [[Fox News]] commentator [[Sean Hannity]], as well as [[Drudge Report]], [[Sarah Palin]], and other well-known conservative people and media outlets.<ref name="NYT_T100_Gateway_Credentials">{{citation|title=White House Grants Press Credentials to a Pro-Trump Blog|date=13 February 2017|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/business/the-gateway-pundit-trump.html|author=Michael M. Grynbaum|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|accessdate=14 February 2017|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170214031407/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/business/the-gateway-pundit-trump.html|archivedate=14 February 2017|df=}}</ref> The website is known for publishing falsehoods and spreading hoaxes.<!--begin cite bundle --><ref name="references related to hoaxes">* {{Cite news|url=http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/fake-news-gateway-pundit-white-house-trump-briefing-room-214781|title=‘Real News’ Joins the White House Briefing Room|newspaper=POLITICO Magazine|access-date=2017-02-23|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170220092529/http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/fake-news-gateway-pundit-white-house-trump-briefing-room-214781|archivedate=2017-02-20|df=}}
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* {{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/05/21/gingrich-spreads-conspiracy-theory-about-slain-dnc-staffer/|title=Gingrich spreads conspiracy theory about slain DNC staffer|website=Washington Post|access-date=2017-05-21|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170521155708/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/05/21/gingrich-spreads-conspiracy-theory-about-slain-dnc-staffer/|archivedate=2017-05-21|df=}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-may-come-face-to-face-with-cruz-in-puerto-rico-after-days-of-attacking-the-mayor/2017/10/02/ddddab5e-a790-11e7-92d1-58c702d2d975_story.html|title=Trump may come face-to-face with Cruz in Puerto Rico after days of attacking the mayor|last=Phillip|first=Abby|date=2017-10-02|work=Washington Post|access-date=2017-10-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171007172238/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-may-come-face-to-face-with-cruz-in-puerto-rico-after-days-of-attacking-the-mayor/2017/10/02/ddddab5e-a790-11e7-92d1-58c702d2d975_story.html|archive-date=2017-10-07|dead-url=no|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286|quote=In other tweets, Trump Jr. retweeted an article from a right-wing site known for trafficking in falsehoods, Gateway Pundit|df=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/10/31/how-conservative-media-reacted-to-the-mueller-indictments/|title=‘This is a nothing burger’: How conservative media reacted to the Mueller indictments|last=Rosenberg|first=Eli|date=2017-10-31|work=Washington Post|access-date=2017-10-31|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171031063403/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/10/31/how-conservative-media-reacted-to-the-mueller-indictments/|archivedate=2017-10-31|df=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/janelytvynenko/pro-trump-sites-are-publishing-a-baseless-conspiracy|title=Far-Right Websites Are Spreading A Baseless Conspiracy Theory About Roy Moore Allegations|last=Montgomery|first=Jane Lytvynenko, Blake|website=BuzzFeed|access-date=2017-11-11|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171111045230/https://www.buzzfeed.com/janelytvynenko/pro-trump-sites-are-publishing-a-baseless-conspiracy|archivedate=2017-11-11|df=}}</ref><ref name=":5" /><ref name=":6">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/business/media/parkland-shooting-media-conspiracy.html|title=Right-Wing Media Uses Parkland Shooting as Conspiracy Fodder|last=Grynbaum|first=Michael M.|date=2018-02-20|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-02-21|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
* {{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/05/21/gingrich-spreads-conspiracy-theory-about-slain-dnc-staffer/|title=Gingrich spreads conspiracy theory about slain DNC staffer|website=Washington Post|access-date=2017-05-21|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170521155708/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/05/21/gingrich-spreads-conspiracy-theory-about-slain-dnc-staffer/|archivedate=2017-05-21|df=}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-may-come-face-to-face-with-cruz-in-puerto-rico-after-days-of-attacking-the-mayor/2017/10/02/ddddab5e-a790-11e7-92d1-58c702d2d975_story.html|title=Trump may come face-to-face with Cruz in Puerto Rico after days of attacking the mayor|last=Phillip|first=Abby|date=2017-10-02|work=Washington Post|access-date=2017-10-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171007172238/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-may-come-face-to-face-with-cruz-in-puerto-rico-after-days-of-attacking-the-mayor/2017/10/02/ddddab5e-a790-11e7-92d1-58c702d2d975_story.html|archive-date=2017-10-07|dead-url=no|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286|quote=In other tweets, Trump Jr. retweeted an article from a right-wing site known for trafficking in falsehoods, Gateway Pundit|df=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/10/31/how-conservative-media-reacted-to-the-mueller-indictments/|title=‘This is a nothing burger’: How conservative media reacted to the Mueller indictments|last=Rosenberg|first=Eli|date=2017-10-31|work=Washington Post|access-date=2017-10-31|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171031063403/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/10/31/how-conservative-media-reacted-to-the-mueller-indictments/|archivedate=2017-10-31|df=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/janelytvynenko/pro-trump-sites-are-publishing-a-baseless-conspiracy|title=Far-Right Websites Are Spreading A Baseless Conspiracy Theory About Roy Moore Allegations|last=Montgomery|first=Jane Lytvynenko, Blake|website=BuzzFeed|access-date=2017-11-11|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171111045230/https://www.buzzfeed.com/janelytvynenko/pro-trump-sites-are-publishing-a-baseless-conspiracy|archivedate=2017-11-11|df=}}</ref><ref name=":5" /><ref name=":6">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/business/media/parkland-shooting-media-conspiracy.html|title=Right-Wing Media Uses Parkland Shooting as Conspiracy Fodder|last=Grynbaum|first=Michael M.|date=2018-02-20|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-02-21|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
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== Background ==
== History ==
The website's name makes reference to the city of [[St. Louis|St. Louis, Missouri]], where Hoft currently resides.<ref name=":14">{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/what-is-gateway-pundit-the-conspiracy-hawking-site-at-the-center-of-the-bogus-florida-crisis-actors-hype/2018/02/23/dded562a-174e-11e8-b681-2d4d462a1921_story.html|title=What is Gateway Pundit, the conspiracy-hawking site at the center of the bogus Florida ‘crisis actors’ hype?|last=|first=|date=|work=Washington Post|access-date=2018-03-17|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|language=|issn=}}</ref>
The website's name makes reference to the city of [[St. Louis|St. Louis, Missouri]], where Hoft currently resides.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/what-is-gateway-pundit-the-conspiracy-hawking-site-at-the-center-of-the-bogus-florida-crisis-actors-hype/2018/02/23/dded562a-174e-11e8-b681-2d4d462a1921_story.html|title=What is Gateway Pundit, the conspiracy-hawking site at the center of the bogus Florida ‘crisis actors’ hype?|last=|first=|date=|work=Washington Post|access-date=2018-03-17|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|language=|issn=}}</ref>

Hoft's inspiration to start The Gateway Pundit in 2004 arose in response to the [[Killian documents controversy|CBS News scandal]] in which news anchor [[Dan Rather]] relied on forged documents to air a story about then-President George W. Bush's military service.<ref name=":13">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=66UABAAAQBAJ&pg=PA98&lpg=PA98&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=Making it in the Political Blogosphere: The World's Top Political Bloggers Share the Secrets to Success|last=Haas|first=Tanni|date=2012-11-08|publisher=The Lutterworth Press|isbn=9780718892777|language=en}}</ref>

== Influence on Donald Trump victory ==
The Gateway Pundit is credited as being one of the pro-Trump media outlets responsible for promoting both the conservative agenda and the media's broader agenda at large during the [[National electoral calendar 2016|2016 presidential campaign]]. A study covering 1.25 million stories from 25,000 sources over the course of the election revealed that The Gateway Pundit was the fourth most frequently shared media source for Twitter users that retweeted then-candidate Trump's Twitter messages.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.cjr.org/analysis/breitbart-media-trump-harvard-study.php|title=Study: Breitbart-led right-wing media ecosystem altered broader media agenda|work=Columbia Journalism Review|access-date=2018-03-18|language=en}}</ref>


== White House press credentials ==
== White House press credentials ==
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Following the 2016 [[Orlando nightclub shooting|mass shooting at the gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida]], Hoft came out as gay, blamed [[Barack Obama]] for the massacre and derided “leftwing gay activists” [[Sally Kohn]] and [[Perez Hilton]] for blaming the [[National Rifle Association]] and Christianity for the attack.<ref name=":7" />
Following the 2016 [[Orlando nightclub shooting|mass shooting at the gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida]], Hoft came out as gay, blamed [[Barack Obama]] for the massacre and derided “leftwing gay activists” [[Sally Kohn]] and [[Perez Hilton]] for blaming the [[National Rifle Association]] and Christianity for the attack.<ref name=":7" />


In February 2018, Hoft was scheduled to participate in a [[Conservative Political Action Conference]] panel titled "Social Media Censorship." After CPAC preemptively removed Hoft from the discussion on censorship following his coverage of the recent [[Stoneman Douglas High School shooting|Florida mass shooting]], Hoft stated that CPAC was in effect engaging in its own form of censorship.<ref name=":12">{{Cite news|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/21/cpac-florida-shooting-jim-hoft-gateway-pundit-panel-speaker-420360|title=Speaker pulled from panel alongside CPAC over Florida shooting controversy|work=POLITICO|access-date=2018-03-16}}</ref>
In February 2018, Hoft was scheduled to participate in a [[Conservative Political Action Conference]] panel titled "Social Media Censorship." After CPAC preemptively removed Hoft from the discussion on censorship following his coverage of the recent [[Stoneman Douglas High School shooting|Florida mass shooting]], Hoft stated that CPAC was in effect engaging in its own form of censorship.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/21/cpac-florida-shooting-jim-hoft-gateway-pundit-panel-speaker-420360|title=Speaker pulled from panel alongside CPAC over Florida shooting controversy|work=POLITICO|access-date=2018-03-16}}</ref>


In August of 2013, Hoft contracted a serious strep infection, lost vision in one eye, suffered five brain strokes, and had 12 hours of open-heart surgery. Three months following his treatment and after learning that he would be losing his health insurance, Hoft stated that it was the [[Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act|Affordable Care Act]] that has caused insurance companies to leave the marketplace in his home state of Missouri.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2013/12/13/jim-hoft-deals-with-canceled-plan-under-obamacare.html|title=Plan canceled, patient asks, 'What now?'|last=Thompson|first=Ben|date=2013-12-13|work=CNBC|access-date=2018-03-08}}</ref>
In August of 2013, Hoft contracted a serious strep infection, lost vision in one eye, suffered five brain strokes, and had 12 hours of open-heart surgery. Three months following his treatment and after learning that he would be losing his health insurance, Hoft stated that it was the [[Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act|Affordable Care Act]] that has caused insurance companies to leave the marketplace in his home state of Missouri.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2013/12/13/jim-hoft-deals-with-canceled-plan-under-obamacare.html|title=Plan canceled, patient asks, 'What now?'|last=Thompson|first=Ben|date=2013-12-13|work=CNBC|access-date=2018-03-08}}</ref>

Hoft earned a bachelor's degree in biology from [[Loras College]] in [[Dubuque, Iowa]].<ref name=":13" /> Prior to starting the Gateway Pundit, Hoft was model and actor in both television and print, and was also a corporate executive.<ref name=":13" /><ref name=":14" />


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Gateway Pundit
Type of site
Conservative political blog
Available inEnglish
Created byJim Hoft[1]
EditorJim Hoft
URLwww.thegatewaypundit.com
Launched2004; 20 years ago (2004)

The Gateway Pundit (TGP) is a fringe,[2] far-right,[3][4][5][6] pro-Trump[7] website. It was founded after the United States presidential election in 2004,[8][9] according to its founder Jim Hoft, to "speak the truth" and to "expose the wickedness of the left".[10]

Over time, The Gateway Pundit expanded from a one-person enterprise into a multi-employee operation that is supported primarily by advertising revenue.[11][12] During the 2016 presidential campaign, over a million unique visitors a day visited The Gateway Pundit.[13] The website is often linked to or cited by Fox News commentator Sean Hannity, as well as Drudge Report, Sarah Palin, and other well-known conservative people and media outlets.[14] The website is known for publishing falsehoods and spreading hoaxes.[15][16][17][18][6][2]

History

The website's name makes reference to the city of St. Louis, Missouri, where Hoft currently resides.[19]

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. Wintrich has collaborated with Milo Yiannopoulos, former editor at Breitbart News.[20][14]

As official correspondents, Hoft and Wintrich can now attend all press briefings and address their questions to the White House press secretary. In an interview, Wintrich described how they will "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".[14] According to Wintrich, The Gateway Pundit's mission in the White House is "to help drain the press swamp" by covering the press corps’ "very leftist and biased reporting",[12] and to alleviate what he sees as bias among reporters in the White House press corps.[20]

Activities and recognition

On March 5, 2013, Jim Hoft was awarded the Reed Irvine Award for New Media by the Accuracy in Media watchdog at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).[21][22] In March 2015, it was announced that Americans for Prosperity Foundation had selected The Gateway Pundit's Jim Hoft to receive the Breitbart Award for Excellence in Online Journalism.[23]

On March 4, 2017, Hoft spoke at the Spirit of America Rally in Nashville, Tennessee and announced that he was starting an event, "The Real News Correspondents' Dinner", which would serve to compete with the White House Correspondents' Dinner.[24] The event occurred as planned on April 28, 2017.[25]

False stories and conspiracy theories

The Gateway Pundit has promoted false rumors about voter fraud and Hillary Clinton's health.[14][26][27][28] 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?"[26][28] As to voter fraud, The Gateway Pundit published an unsubstantiated report during the 2016 presidential election from the Internet Research Agency claiming that Republicans had accused Broward County, Florida officials of tampering with mail-in ballots.[29]

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.[30] 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 rejected that she had ever made such an assertion.[31] Shortly after the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, in which a person drove a vehicle into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing one, Gatewaypundit falsely identified a young man from Michigan as the driver. Together with his father, the Michigan man has filed a large defamation lawsuit against twenty-two corporate and individual defendants, including Hoft, alleging that the false identification caused motivated readers to harass him, that the harassment included numerous death threats, which obliged him to go leave his home (pursuant to advice from the police) and causing large damages to his business.[32][33]

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.[34] The redditor behind the post later said that the post was intended "as an obvious troll."[34] 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."[34] Also in December 2017, 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.[35]

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.[36][2] Later that month, Gateway Pundit was one of a number of far-right websites that pushed the claim that at least one of the teenage survivors of Stoneman Douglas High School shooting was a deep state pawn,[37] alleging that David Hogg's gun control activism was being coached by his retired FBI agent father, a claim which had also become the subject of YouTube's number one trending video on February 21, 2018, entitled "DAVID HOGG THE ACTOR."[38]

Jim Hoft

Following the 2016 mass shooting at the gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, Hoft came out as gay, blamed Barack Obama for the massacre and derided “leftwing gay activists” Sally Kohn and Perez Hilton for blaming the National Rifle Association and Christianity for the attack.[10]

In February 2018, Hoft was scheduled to participate in a Conservative Political Action Conference panel titled "Social Media Censorship." After CPAC preemptively removed Hoft from the discussion on censorship following his coverage of the recent Florida mass shooting, Hoft stated that CPAC was in effect engaging in its own form of censorship.[39]

In August of 2013, Hoft contracted a serious strep infection, lost vision in one eye, suffered five brain strokes, and had 12 hours of open-heart surgery. Three months following his treatment and after learning that he would be losing his health insurance, Hoft stated that it was the Affordable Care Act that has caused insurance companies to leave the marketplace in his home state of Missouri.[40]

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  25. ^ a b CNN, Gregory Krieg,. "The new birthers: Debunking the Hillary Clinton health conspiracy". CNN. Retrieved 2018-02-24. More than a month later, pro-Trump blogger Jim Hoft picked up the video and, on his Gateway Pundit site, ran a headline blaring, "Wow! Did Hillary Clinton Just Suffer a Seizure on Camera?" She had not, of course, as had been clear to everyone present. {{cite news}}: |last= has generic name (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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