A REUTERS SPECIAL REPORT Pro-Trump news site targets election workers, inspiring wave of menace
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The Gateway Pundit, which started as a tiny opinion blog, saw readership surge to nearly 50 million views a month as it amplified Donald Trump’s false stolen-election claims. Reuters documented the impact: 25 election workers targeted by more than 100 violent threats or hostile messages citing the Pundit.
The story had a bombshell headline: “Thousands of fake votes” had been discovered in Madison, Wisconsin, two weeks after Democrat Joe Biden narrowly beat then-President Donald Trump in the state.
The bogus report from the far-right website Gateway Pundit drew attention to a set of initials – MLW – inscribed on what it claimed were “fake” ballots. Then a reader posted a comment on the story correctly identifying MLW: Maribeth L. Witzel-Behl, the Madison city clerk, whose duties include administering elections.
Other commenters soon called for Witzel-Behl’s execution. She found one post especially unnerving. It recommended a specific bullet for killing her – a 7.62 millimeter round for an AK-47 assault rifle.
Witzel-Behl was stunned by the threats and the angry calls that poured into her office. Contrary to the story’s insinuation that the initials meant the ballots were fake, in reality she and her staff wrote her initials on all absentee ballots, before they were given to voters, as a matter of policy.
Witzel-Behl is among 25 election officials and workers …
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Why would her hand written initials be on the ballots...instead of pre-printed?
Gee, I dunno ... do you order your cheques with your signature preprinted on them?
Conversely, why would you self identify on fake ballots? Seems akin to robbing a bank with some personalized stationery for a holdup note...
his designated power of attorney does that...
Maybe because the paper was made of bamboo from China and resists pre-printing and needs to be written in alien Lizard blood that could only come from the baby eating Democrats who voted for Joe Biden? /s
Fucking psycho conspiracy theories, that's all these right wing conservatives have which is truly a sad testimony as to where we are in American politics today.
" a survey conducted by Citizen Data found that 62 percent of conservatives believe in at least one core conspiracy theory born from the (Qanon) movement "
Google is full of shit. Gateway Pundit has been printing demonstrably false stories for 17 years.
I suppose better late than never though.
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you should publish more articles from it here.
He probably would if it werent banned from NT for being a lying rag of shit.
Indeed! However, they don't hold a candle when it comes to your personal array klieg lights.
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If I could I would.
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