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Wiles has asserted that the effects of [[Hurricane Harvey]] upon the city of Houston, Texas in September 2017 resulted from Houston's "[[LGBT]] devotion";<ref>{{cite news|last=Pasha-Robinson|first=Lucy|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/gay-people-hurricane-harvey-blame-christian-leaders-texas-flooding-homosexuals-lgbt-a7933026.html|title=Gay people to blame for Hurricane Harvey, say evangelical Christian leaders|work=The Independent|location=London|date=September 6, 2017|access-date=November 27, 2019}}</ref> has described Judaism and Islam as "the [[Antichrist]]"; has called Central American immigrants a "brown invasion" being used by God to punish White Americans for legal [[abortion]];<ref name="Elfrink" /> has claimed that the [[2017 Las Vegas shooting]] was conducted by government death squads from a "gay/lesbian Nazi regime";<ref name="Thebault" /> and, in July 2018, predicted an imminent coup (led by CNN's [[Anderson Cooper]] and MSNBC's [[Rachel Maddow]]) that would result in the nationally televised decapitation of the [[Trump family]] on the White House lawn.<ref name="Elfrink" /><ref>{{Cite news|last=Williams|first=James|url=https://www.newstalkflorida.com/entertainment/florida-talk-show-host-rick-wiles-we-are-72-hours-away-from-an-attack-on-the-white-house/|title=Florida Talk Show Host Rick Wiles 'We Are 72 Hours Away From An Attack On The White House.'|date=July 23, 2018|website=News Talk Florida|access-date=November 30, 2019}}</ref>
Wiles has asserted that the effects of [[Hurricane Harvey]] upon the city of Houston, Texas in September 2017 resulted from Houston's "[[LGBT]] devotion";<ref>{{cite news|last=Pasha-Robinson|first=Lucy|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/gay-people-hurricane-harvey-blame-christian-leaders-texas-flooding-homosexuals-lgbt-a7933026.html|title=Gay people to blame for Hurricane Harvey, say evangelical Christian leaders|work=The Independent|location=London|date=September 6, 2017|access-date=November 27, 2019}}</ref> has described Judaism and Islam as "the [[Antichrist]]"; has called Central American immigrants a "brown invasion" being used by God to punish White Americans for legal [[abortion]];<ref name="Elfrink" /> has claimed that the [[2017 Las Vegas shooting]] was conducted by government death squads from a "gay/lesbian Nazi regime";<ref name="Thebault" /> and, in July 2018, predicted an imminent coup (led by CNN's [[Anderson Cooper]] and MSNBC's [[Rachel Maddow]]) that would result in the nationally televised decapitation of the [[Trump family]] on the White House lawn.<ref name="Elfrink" /><ref>{{Cite news|last=Williams|first=James|url=https://www.newstalkflorida.com/entertainment/florida-talk-show-host-rick-wiles-we-are-72-hours-away-from-an-attack-on-the-white-house/|title=Florida Talk Show Host Rick Wiles 'We Are 72 Hours Away From An Attack On The White House.'|date=July 23, 2018|website=News Talk Florida|access-date=November 30, 2019}}</ref>


Wiles promoted [[antisemitic]] conspiracy theories of [[Antisemitic canard#Accusations of plotting to control the_world|Jewish world domination]] while discussing the 2019 [[AIPAC]] conference.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/far-right-show-trunews-fearmongers-youre-going-to-see-christianity-become-criminalized|last=Jensen|first=Tasia|title=Far-Right Show TruNews Fearmongers: You're Going to See 'Christianity Become Criminalized'|website=[[Daily Beast]]|date=March 28, 2019|access-date= April 5, 2019}}</ref> He said on TruNews in November 2019 that the congressional hearing concerning the [[impeachment of Donald Trump]] are "infested with Jews" and constitute a "Jew coup".<ref name="MacGuill">{{cite news|last=MacGuill|first=Dan|url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rick-wiles-trump-impeachment/|title=Did Pastor Rick Wiles Call Trump Impeachment a 'Jew Coup'?|work=Snopes|date=November 27, 2019|access-date=December 9, 2019}}</ref> He claimed: "That's the way the Jews work. They are deceivers. They plot, they lie, they do whatever they have to do to accomplish their political agenda" and asserted the United States would reach a state of civil war before Christmas. Millions of Christians would be murdered by Jews as a result.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/there-will-be-a-purge-u-s-pastor-warns-of-jew-coup-to-impeach-trump-1.8192950|title='There Will Be a Purge:' U.S. Pastor Warns of 'Jew Coup' to Impeach Trump|work=Haaretz|date=November 27, 2019|access-date=November 27, 2019}}</ref> Of the hoax ''[[The Protocols of the Elders of Zion|Protocols of the Elders of Zion]]'', Wiles said the authors had "accurately predicted what was going to happen in the world."<ref name="MacGuill" /> TruNews and Wiles have also claimed that the transgender rights movement is a Zionist plot to make all of humanity androgynous, and that the supposed plot was inspired by Talmudic and Kabbalistic doctrines. <ref name=“trans”>{{cite web|url= https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/trunews-zionism-is-using-the-transgender-rights-movement-to-make-all-of-humanity-androgynous/|title= TruNews: Zionism Is Using the Transgender Rights Movement to Make All of Humanity Androgynous}}</ref>
Wiles promoted [[antisemitic]] conspiracy theories of [[Antisemitic canard#Accusations of plotting to control the_world|Jewish world domination]] while discussing the 2019 [[AIPAC]] conference.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/far-right-show-trunews-fearmongers-youre-going-to-see-christianity-become-criminalized|last=Jensen|first=Tasia|title=Far-Right Show TruNews Fearmongers: You're Going to See 'Christianity Become Criminalized'|website=[[Daily Beast]]|date=March 28, 2019|access-date= April 5, 2019}}</ref> He said on TruNews in November 2019 that the congressional hearing concerning the [[impeachment of Donald Trump]] are "infested with Jews" and constitute a "Jew coup".<ref name="MacGuill">{{cite news|last=MacGuill|first=Dan|url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rick-wiles-trump-impeachment/|title=Did Pastor Rick Wiles Call Trump Impeachment a 'Jew Coup'?|work=Snopes|date=November 27, 2019|access-date=December 9, 2019}}</ref> He claimed: "That's the way the Jews work. They are deceivers. They plot, they lie, they do whatever they have to do to accomplish their political agenda" and asserted the United States would reach a state of civil war before Christmas. Millions of Christians would be murdered by Jews as a result.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/there-will-be-a-purge-u-s-pastor-warns-of-jew-coup-to-impeach-trump-1.8192950|title='There Will Be a Purge:' U.S. Pastor Warns of 'Jew Coup' to Impeach Trump|work=Haaretz|date=November 27, 2019|access-date=November 27, 2019}}</ref> Of the hoax ''[[The Protocols of the Elders of Zion|Protocols of the Elders of Zion]]'', Wiles said the authors had "accurately predicted what was going to happen in the world."<ref name="MacGuill" /> TruNews and Wiles have also claimed that the transgender rights movement is a Zionist plot to make all of humanity androgynous, that this supposed plot was inspired by Talmudic and Kabbalistic doctrines, and that it involves "putting specific things in food, in drink". <ref name=“trans”>{{cite web|url= https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/trunews-zionism-is-using-the-transgender-rights-movement-to-make-all-of-humanity-androgynous/|title= TruNews: Zionism Is Using the Transgender Rights Movement to Make All of Humanity Androgynous}}</ref><ref name=“permaban”/>


Via Twitter, TruNews said its channel had been suspended by YouTube.<ref name="Rudoren" /> It was removed for violating YouTube's rules on [[hate speech]].<ref name="MacGuill" /> Wiles has denied his rhetoric has antisemitic intent: “It’s hard to say. I don’t know. I can tell you from my heart there is no ill will toward the Jewish people, with all sincerity.” He blamed [[George Soros]] for organizing a campaign against him.<ref name="GrynbaumNYT" />
Via Twitter, TruNews said its channel had been suspended by YouTube.<ref name="Rudoren" /> It was removed for violating YouTube's rules on [[hate speech]].<ref name="MacGuill" /> Wiles has denied his rhetoric has antisemitic intent: “It’s hard to say. I don’t know. I can tell you from my heart there is no ill will toward the Jewish people, with all sincerity.” He blamed [[George Soros]] for organizing a campaign against him.<ref name="GrynbaumNYT" /> In late February TruNews was permanently banned from YouTube. <ref name=“permaban”>{{cite web|url=https://www.newsweek.com/youtube-bans-anti-semitic-channel-trunews-after-founder-calls-trump-impeachment-jew-coup-1488375|title=YOUTUBE BANS ANTI-SEMITIC CHANNEL TRUNEWS AFTER FOUNDER CALLS TRUMP IMPEACHMENT 'JEW COUP'}}</ref>


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Rick Wiles
Born1954 or 1955 (age 68–69)
Maryland, United States
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States
Occupation(s)Radio host, Marketing Manager
Years active1998–present
Employers
  • TruNews: 1998–present (founder)
  • TBN: 1995–1998
  • CBN: 1984–?
  • CNN/ESPN: Early 1980s
Movement
SpouseSusan Wiles
Websitewww.trunews.com

Rick Wiles (born 1954 or 1955) is an American far-right conspiracy theorist and non-denominational senior pastor at Flowing Streams Church in Vero Beach, Florida,[1] radio host and pundit. He is the founder of TruNews, a website that has been described by The Forward and the Anti-Defamation League as promoting racist, homophobic, Islamophobic and antisemitic conspiracy theories.[2][3] Wiles has said that Jews seek to obtain control of countries to kill millions of Christians, and has described Jews as "deceivers" who "plot, they lie, they do whatever they have to do to accomplish their political agenda."[4] The Trump administration has given Wiles's website press credentials on several occasions.[4][5]

History

Before becoming a radio host, Wiles worked in media as a marketing and advertisement sales manager. He worked as a sales manager in advertisement for the cable channels CNN and ESPN in the early 1980s. He was hired in 1984 by the Christian Broadcasting Network as the first National Cable Marketing Manager. In 1995, he was hired as the Marketing Director for Trinity Broadcasting Network. He resigned in September 1998 from the Trinity Broadcasting Network.[6][7]

Wiles previously broadcast his radio show on WRMI (Radio Miami International), but has since adopted the internet as its sole platform, abandoning the short-wave broadcasting station.[8]

TruNews

Wiles founded the organization later to be called TruNews in September 1998, based in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, as a Christian ministry. During later months, Wiles toured America where he spoke of moral decline and aimed to prevent "economic collapse" and "war on American soil". On May 24, 1999, the organisation, then named America's Hope, made its first broadcast. After five years of regular broadcasts, the news station changed its name to America Freedom News for a brief period. Wiles later changed it a second time to its current name, TruNews.[9] It has also been known as Christian News Channel.[3]

Wiles was reported by The Colorado Independent in October 2014 to have said the spread of Ebola "could solve America's problems with atheism, homosexuality, sexual promiscuity, pornography and abortion".[10] In late January 2020, he said the Coronavirus was God's "death angel" and "plagues are one of the last steps of judgment."[11]

TruNews is known for promoting racist and antisemitic conspiracy theories. TruNews frequently described President Barack Obama as a "demon from hell".[12] Obama, he claimed while the former President was in office, was the "jihadist-in-chief" who was "waging jihad against the United States from inside the White House" and murdered Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia as a "pagan sacrifice".[13]

During 2017, Wiles' guests included someone who claimed President Bill Clinton is a flesh eating cannibal leading to his contraction of related diseases. Another asserted that Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom is a "lizard person" who had Diana, Princess of Wales murdered because the Princess was in the process of revealing that the Royal Family was involved in satanism.[7] He has also asserted that Israel and the "Jewish mafia" had President John F. Kennedy assassinated. Another edition of Wiles program claimed Israel and the "synagogue of Satan" are pushing the United States to fight wars on their behalf.[3]

Wiles has asserted that the effects of Hurricane Harvey upon the city of Houston, Texas in September 2017 resulted from Houston's "LGBT devotion";[14] has described Judaism and Islam as "the Antichrist"; has called Central American immigrants a "brown invasion" being used by God to punish White Americans for legal abortion;[7] has claimed that the 2017 Las Vegas shooting was conducted by government death squads from a "gay/lesbian Nazi regime";[12] and, in July 2018, predicted an imminent coup (led by CNN's Anderson Cooper and MSNBC's Rachel Maddow) that would result in the nationally televised decapitation of the Trump family on the White House lawn.[7][15]

Wiles promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories of Jewish world domination while discussing the 2019 AIPAC conference.[16] He said on TruNews in November 2019 that the congressional hearing concerning the impeachment of Donald Trump are "infested with Jews" and constitute a "Jew coup".[17] He claimed: "That's the way the Jews work. They are deceivers. They plot, they lie, they do whatever they have to do to accomplish their political agenda" and asserted the United States would reach a state of civil war before Christmas. Millions of Christians would be murdered by Jews as a result.[18] Of the hoax Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Wiles said the authors had "accurately predicted what was going to happen in the world."[17] TruNews and Wiles have also claimed that the transgender rights movement is a Zionist plot to make all of humanity androgynous, that this supposed plot was inspired by Talmudic and Kabbalistic doctrines, and that it involves "putting specific things in food, in drink". [19][20]

Via Twitter, TruNews said its channel had been suspended by YouTube.[2] It was removed for violating YouTube's rules on hate speech.[17] Wiles has denied his rhetoric has antisemitic intent: “It’s hard to say. I don’t know. I can tell you from my heart there is no ill will toward the Jewish people, with all sincerity.” He blamed George Soros for organizing a campaign against him.[5] In late February TruNews was permanently banned from YouTube. [20]

References

  1. ^ Maule, Will (August 6, 2019). "Pastor Rick Wiles Asks for $100 Million to Set-Up End Times Global Broadcasting Network". ChristianHeadlines.com. Retrieved August 31, 2019.
  2. ^ a b Rudoren, Jodi (November 27, 2019). "Far-Right Pastor Calls Impeachment A 'Jew Coup,' Begs Trump To 'Wake Up'". Forward. Retrieved November 27, 2019.
  3. ^ a b c "TruNews and Rick Wiles: 'End Times' Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism". Anti-Defamation League. January 13, 2020. Retrieved February 7, 2020.
  4. ^ a b Kampeas, Ron (January 23, 2020). "Trump White House Again Credentials Website That Called Impeachment a 'Jew Coup'". Haaretz. JTA. Retrieved January 24, 2020.
  5. ^ a b Grynbaum, Michael M. (January 26, 2020). "Site That Ran Anti-Semitic Remarks Got Passes for Trump Trip". The New York Times. Retrieved February 7, 2020.
  6. ^ Conti, Allie (11 July 2014). "Man Behind Trinity Broadcasting Network Says Gays Are Tryng to Create a "Homosexual Special Race"". New Times Broward-Palm Beach. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  7. ^ a b c d Elfrink, Tim (September 27, 2018). "Trump Takes Question From Racist, Homophobic Florida Conspiracy Website". Miami New Times. Retrieved November 27, 2019.
  8. ^ "WRMI Radio Miami International – Outdated TruNews broadcasting schedule". Facebook.
  9. ^ "About TruNews". TrueNews. Archived from the original on May 14, 2019. Retrieved June 28, 2019.
  10. ^ Martinez, Michael (October 18, 2014). "What's more disturbing than Ebola? The outrageous commentary". CNN. Retrieved November 27, 2019.
  11. ^ Lemon, Jason (January 28, 2020). "Christian Pastor Claims Coronavirus is God's 'Death Angel,' Blames Parent's 'Transgendering Little Children'". Newsweek. Retrieved February 7, 2020.
  12. ^ a b Thebault, Reis (March 29, 2019). "News outlet that covered 'lizard people' and called Obama a demon just interviewed Trump Jr". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 27, 2019. The TruNews archive reads like a greatest hits collection of far-right conspiracy theories, a veritable potpourri of Nazi references and fear mongering about secret cabals.
  13. ^ Malaea, Marika (November 18, 2019). "Florida Pastor Rick Wiles Claims Barack Obama is Anonymous Author of 'A Warning'". Newsweek. Retrieved November 27, 2019.
  14. ^ Pasha-Robinson, Lucy (September 6, 2017). "Gay people to blame for Hurricane Harvey, say evangelical Christian leaders". The Independent. London. Retrieved November 27, 2019.
  15. ^ Williams, James (July 23, 2018). "Florida Talk Show Host Rick Wiles 'We Are 72 Hours Away From An Attack On The White House.'". News Talk Florida. Retrieved November 30, 2019.
  16. ^ Jensen, Tasia (March 28, 2019). "Far-Right Show TruNews Fearmongers: You're Going to See 'Christianity Become Criminalized'". Daily Beast. Retrieved April 5, 2019.
  17. ^ a b c MacGuill, Dan (November 27, 2019). "Did Pastor Rick Wiles Call Trump Impeachment a 'Jew Coup'?". Snopes. Retrieved December 9, 2019.
  18. ^ "'There Will Be a Purge:' U.S. Pastor Warns of 'Jew Coup' to Impeach Trump". Haaretz. November 27, 2019. Retrieved November 27, 2019.
  19. ^ "TruNews: Zionism Is Using the Transgender Rights Movement to Make All of Humanity Androgynous".
  20. ^ a b "YOUTUBE BANS ANTI-SEMITIC CHANNEL TRUNEWS AFTER FOUNDER CALLS TRUMP IMPEACHMENT 'JEW COUP'".
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