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HEARING #7 7/12/22
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President Donald Trump appointed conspiracy-obsessed MAGA media favorites to the highest levels of federal law enforcement, and now those figures are coming under fire from the right-wing fever swamp for failing to confirm their bullshit.
Axios reported on Sunday night that the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation had concluded that there was no evidence convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein “blackmailed powerful figures, kept a ‘client list’ or was murdered.” Those findings repudiated claims that had for years permeated the MAGA influencer ecosystem and been promoted by the stars of Fox News and the broader right-wing media.
The Trump-appointed leaders of both the FBI and DOJ had previously stoked the same conspiracy theories their agencies rejected. “As social media influencers and activists, Kash Patel (now the FBI's director) and Dan Bongino (now deputy director) were among those in MAGA world who questioned the official version of how Epstein died,” Axios noted. Moreover, Attorney General Pam Bondi had claimed in a February interview on Fox News that the purported “client list” was “sitting on my desk right now to review.”
While the Epstein saga is a bit of a sideshow in the grand scheme of things, what it highlights about the underlying dynamics of the MAGA movement is deeply unsettling. It demonstrates that the Trump administration is in hock to some of the most deranged conspiracy theorists imaginable, treating them as among its closest allies and devoting substantial resources to their care and feeding.
The White House brought 15 MAGA influencers in to meet with Bondi in February, sending them home with glossy binders labeled “The Epstein Files: Phase 1.” When those binders did not satisfy the MAGA faithful, the attorney general reportedly tasked “hundreds of FBI employees” with reviewing Epstein investigation documents for release. In May, Patel and Bongino were sent to Fox to make the case, with the fervor of the converted, that Epstein had actually killed himself. And now the FBI and DOJ have produced a memo detailing their findings and released footage taken from outside Epstein’s cell in the hours surrounding his suicide.
The final result left Trump’s most zealous online allies with two options: They could finally acknowledge that they had been peddling nonsense for years — or they could insinuate that the Trump administration itself is part of the cover-up.
MAGA’s Epstein conspiracy theorists lash out at Bondi — and even Trump
In the hours after Axios’ story broke, several prominent MAGA influencers took the latter path, hammering the administration for failing to confirm their Epstein hypotheses.
“This new DOJ memo admits there are countless victims of Epstein on video but no client list or evidence of other rapists they can charge. Oh it claims Epstein wasn’t using videos as blackmail,” Robby Starbuck sneered on X. “NO ONE believes this for very good reason.”
Starbuck put the blame squarely on the attorney general.
“Bondi just made it all worse with this memo,” he wrote. “What a terrible, terrible idea it was to write this memo. It’s also incredibly insulting to our intelligence.”
Noting her prior claim on Fox that she was in possession of Epstein’s “client list,” he commented, “Was she lying then or is she lying now?”
Laura Loomer also blamed Bondi.
“Blondi lied,” she posted on X, using the nickname she typically utilizes for the attorney general. “She was always lying.”
Others were less specific about who was responsible for the cover-up.
“We were all told more was coming,” Jack Posobiec lamented. “That answers were out there and would be provided. Incredible how utterly mismanaged this Epstein mess has been. And it didn’t have to be.”
Tim Pool suggested that the administration was protecting “the adult child rapists who were blackmailed” and floated the possibility that they were protecting “shareholder value” from “the economic fallout if say, hypothetically, Bill Gates was revealed to have been flying around with Epstein and then we got videos of him abusing underage girls.”
And Mike Cernovich suggested that the buck stopped with the president.
“No one is believing the Epstein coverup, @realDonaldTrump,” he wrote. “This will be part of your legacy. There’s still time to change it!”
The right-wing media ecosystem is built to manufacture and distribute conspiracy theories to an audience trained to believe them. Under the incentive structure this ecosystem creates, it makes sense that the Trump campaign relied on conspiracy theorists to bolster its position, that Patel and Bongino boosted their standing within that ecosystem by echoing such claims, and that Bondi kept claiming an Epstein reckoning was imminent.
But eventually, the Trump administration trapped itself. Bondi, Patel, and Bongino were unable to produce the information that the MAGA faithful demanded, and they seem unable to convince them the information does not exist. It is the nature of conspiracy theorists to insist that anything which appears to rebut their claims actually confirms it. And now they’re turning on their erstwhile allies.
The truth about Epstein and Trump
One ironic aspect of the Epstein saga is that while MAGA influencers were apparently certain that the Trump administration was going to implicate a wave of prominent individuals in Epstein’s sex crimes and, perhaps, his death, there are few figures as prominent with ties as close to Epstein as Trump himself.
Consider:
- Trump was quoted in a 2002 profile describing Epstein as a longtime friend and “terrific guy” about whom “it is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
- Trump was among the politicians and celebrities who hitched rides on Epstein’s private plane in the 1990s.
- In 2019, shortly before Epstein’s arrest on sex charges, longtime Trump adviser Steve Bannon prepped Epstein for a potential interview.
- Trump chose for labor secretary in his first term Alex Acosta, who as a U.S. attorney oversaw a sweetheart plea deal for Epstein that a judge later ruled illegal.
- Alan Dershowitz, the Trump supporter who served on the president’s second Senate impeachment trial team, was one of the defense lawyers who helped Epstein secure that plea deal.
- After longtime Epstein associate Ghislane Maxwell was arrested on sex trafficking charges in 2020, Trump told reporters: “I’ve met her numerous times over the years, especially since I lived in Palm Beach, and I guess they lived in Palm Beach. But I wish her well, whatever it is.”
- Trump waffled about whether he would “declassify the Epstein files” during a Fox interview — but the network edited out that portion of his answer.
- Trump appointed as attorney general Bondi, who was “Florida's attorney general 2011-2109 -- a period of time when Jeffrey Epstein's plane records became public, victims' lawsuits were filed and a lot of new evidence against Epstein surfaced –” but she did not take action.
None of this is actually proof that Epstein was killed to cover up the fact that he had possessed evidence that he had sex-trafficked underage girls for Trump. He killed himself, and the idea of a “client list” was, as the reporter who exposed Epstein put it, “a figment of the internet's imagination -- and a means to just slander people.”
But if, say, a similar set of facts linked former President Joe Biden and his associates to Epstein, you can bet that MAGA’s conspiracy corps would treat them as clear evidence. And so it will be interesting to see, as they scrounge for an explanation for the Bondi/Patel/Bongino about-face, if any of them eventually land there.
Why the right’s conspiracy theory engine matters
The Epstein saga is ultimately a minor drama. It is embarrassing for the right that so many of its leading lights pushed the conspiracy theories for so long, and it’s unnerving that some of those conspiracy theorists now occupy the highest levels of government, but on its own terms, the stakes for the public are relatively low.
But this treatment of the Epstein saga is not an anomaly — the right responds in this same fashion to every news event. Its ecosystem is constantly pumping out new conspiracy theories intended to prove the perfidity of the left, its audience is trapped in a bubble in which it is constantly bombarded by such claims, and the consequences can be real and dire.
Following MAGA media’s fervid promotion in September 2024 of the racist, baseless lie that Haitians were stealing and eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, local institutions received bomb threats and residents kept their children home from school out of fear for their safety.
Officials at all levels of government seeking to respond to a devastating hurricane in North Carolina the next month were forced to spend precious time debunking that ecosystem’s deranged lies because those were the sources some victims counted on for their information.
When the Epstein conspiracy theories are firmly in the rearview, everyone involved in propagating them will retain their influence over a Trump administration that is more concerned with placating them than in acting in the public interest. And that is truly dangerous.
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11/21/2024
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As Right Wing Watch has noted multiple times in the past, one of the defining characteristics of Christian nationalists is their willingness to misrepresent history, as time after time they spread blatant falsehoods in defense of their right-wing ideology. Often, this is rooted in their own ignorance about the Founding Era and the creation of the Constitution, and that tendency was on full display during a
of Tim Pool's podcast.
Pool and guest Milo Yiannopoulos were trying to convince conservative journalist Elad Eliahu that the United States was founded as a Christian nation. The debate was largely incoherent and uninformed, as exemplified by Pool's ludicrous assertion that the 4th, 5th, and 6th Amendments in the Bill of Rights were "literally" derived from the biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah.
"Do you know why the Founding Fathers created the 4th, 5th, and 6th [Amendments]?" Pool asked, confidently. "It's the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. It is literally as the spoken word of the Founding Fathers. Benjamin Franklin said, 'It is better that 100 guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer,' which was a play on Blackstone's formulation; it is better that 10 guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer which is literally the story of Sodom and Gomorrah [where God said] 'If but one righteous person exists, I will not destroy this land.' It was literally the Bible, which is why they said we should enshrine this in the Constitution."
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Pool's claim is, of course, nonsense and frankly doesn't even make sense, as it is exceedingly difficult to even imagine how the story of Sodom and Gomorrah could have been responsible for the various due process amendments included in the Bill of Rights:
Fourth Amendment
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Fifth Amendment
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Sixth Amendment
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.
Furthermore, Benjamin Franklin had nothing to do with crafting the Bill of Rights, which was drafted by James Madison before being edited and consolidated by both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Additionally, Madison's draft largely originated from him choosing from among the dozens of amendments suggested by the states during their various constitutional ratifying conventions.
In fact, many of the things contained in Madison's initial draft were versions of thing already contained in state Bills of Rights or were provisions designed to address issues that had outraged American colonists leading up to the American Revolution.
As historian Carol Berkin explained in her book, "The Bill of Rights: The Fight to Secure America's Liberties":
Many of the guarantees Madison laid out conformed to traditions and expectations established by almost two hundred years of Anglo-American political culture. Some reflected an adaptation of the "rights of Englishmen” to the new experiment in republican government. But many of them also revealed the Revolutionary generation's persistent memory of the abuses arising from imperial policies in the 1760s and 1770s.
We have listened to countless professional Christian nationalist activists make a myriad of baseless and misleading statements over the years, but this is the first time we'd ever heard anyone claim that a key portion of the Bill of Rights was rooted in the biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah. Needless to say, if there was even a shred of evidence to support this notion, we are confident that we would likely have heard it first from someone other than Tim Pool.
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The fake whistleblower videos started popping up last fall, the work of a small but prolific Russian group that researchers call Storm-1516.
Much remains unknown about Storm-1516 — one prong of Russia’s propaganda operation — but it has produced some of the country’s most far-reaching and influential disinformation.
The Storm-1516 campaigns rely on faked primary sources — audio, video, photos, documents — presented as evidence of the claims’ veracity. They are then laundered through international news sources and influencers to reach their ultimate target: a mainstream Western audience.
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At least 50 false narratives have been launched this way since last fall, according to a count NBC News assembled with researchers. The narratives aim to diminish Western support for military aid in Ukraine following Russia’s invasion, a contentious issue in Congress. The videos also back the re-election of Donald Trump, who has pledged to halt military aid to Ukraine, while painting the former president as a victim of a “deep state.” And they attack Vice President Kamala Harris.
In one fake video, a Ukrainian troll farm operative reveals the machinations behind a CIA plot to defeat Trump.
In another piece of propaganda, a woman says she was paralyzed as a child — by Harris in a hit-and-run accident.
In a third, a “whistleblower” falsely claims Ukraine’s leaders spent U.S. aid money on yachts.
The claims peddled by the actors and false primary sources in these videos fall apart upon basic inspection. Experts quickly identified Olesya, the Ukrainian troll, as an AI-generated fake. The 2011 hit-and-run never happened, according to San Francisco police, and KBSF-TV, the local news station behind the claims, does not exist.
And the companies that own the yachts told reporters they hadn’t been sold. But the story spread anyway, and this time, far — from small-time right-wing influencers to members of Congress, including Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, now the Republican vice presidential nominee.
Vance did not respond to a request for comment.
“It is very purposeful, very systematic, and it's a process that we see over and over,” said Darren Linvill, co-director at Clemson University’s Media Forensics Hub, whose team uncovered the Storm-1516 campaign last fall.
Russia is the most active foreign threat to the 2024 election, according to U.S. officials. A pair of indictments unsealed in September alleged an expansion of Russia’s influence operation: from crude, fake social media posts and bot networks in 2016 to more ambitious and successful recent campaigns. That includes laundering propaganda through seemingly independent U.S. actors, according to one of the indictments. It was a scheme that entangled several popular right-wing creators, including Benny Johnson, Dave Rubin and Tim Pool, who all said last month they had been unaware their employer was working with Russia.
“It’s a bigger threat than it ever was,” U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said of Russia's influence operation at a recent news conference, where federal prosecutors unsealed indictments regarding two alleged state-sponsored propaganda schemes. “Russia has meddled in our society and tried to sow discord for decades. Really what we're seeing is just more tools in the toolbox.”
Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not respond to a request for comment.
Experts fear Storm-1516 and similar groups have the potential to sway public opinion by undermining the credibility of democratic institutions, influencing U.S. policy and diminishing people’s ability to distinguish fact from fiction.
Russia is increasingly leaning on an advancing technology landscape — including artificial intelligence and more sophisticated bot networks — to spread its falsehoods. But Storm-1516’s most valuable quality is persistence, according to Clint Watts, the general manager of the Microsoft Threat Analysis Center.
“The danger comes with just the sheer volume of claims that they make, and it only takes one person, one influencer with outsized influence, to grab onto a video and amplify it in the United States,” Watts said. “They may miss 99 times, but the 100th time they may get it just right.”
The dozens of Storm-1516 storylines examined by NBC News offer a window into the disinformation pipeline: where the most successful false claims originate and how they spread.
Stage 1: The video
In February, a Russian man falsely confesses on YouTube that Ukraine promised him $4,000 to assassinate Tucker Carlson while he was in Moscow. The man says he was caught before he could detonate a bomb in the underground parking lot of the Four Seasons Hotel there.
Stage 2: The placement
Like a criminal gang’s ill-gotten cash, this video — and its manufactured evidence — is laundered through Kremlin-linked platforms and websites in a quest for legitimacy. First in Russian, then in English.
Stage 3: The spread
Russian propagandists pick up the story. The anonymous account MyLordBebo, known to researchers as a spreader of false stories about Ukraine, first posts the video to X, with English subtitles. Then, a Q-Anon influencer, KanekoaTheGreat, shares it. The videos go viral. no lnx
Stage 4: The mainstream
Simon Ateba, the Today News Africa reporter known for disrupting White House press briefings, posts the video. Right-wing creators and pundits leap on the story, using it to ask whether U.S. funding for the war in Ukraine is being weaponized to kill an American citizen.
Turning Point USA President Charlie Kirk, podcaster Tim Pool, conservative commentator Benny Johnson and comedian Jimmy Dore share the false story with their millions of U.S. followers.
videos storm 1516 4 stages
cheap video, 1/2 fail but a few hits/viral
2 picked up by russ sites jrnl fake bio
3 launder thru telegram and local sites that look legit eg duggan mtg shared w 3 mil followers
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Is This Russian Election Interference Scheme Paying a Pro-Trump Firm?
The Department of Justice alleges that Russian media employees funded a U.S. company to push Russian propaganda.
Russian agents have allegedly been spreading disinformation through a right-wing U.S. media company that houses a few popular MAGA commentators.
The Department of Justice unsealed an indictment Wednesday against two Russia Today employees, Elena Afanasyeva and Kostiantyn Kalashnikov, alleging that the two had illegally acted as foreign agents and funneled roughly $10 million into a U.S. media company to produce propaganda that aligned with the Russian government’s interests.
“While the views expressed in the videos are not uniform, the subject matter and content of the videos are often consistent with the Government of Russia’s interest in amplifying U.S. domestic divisions in order to weaken U.S. opposition to core Government of Russia interests, such as its ongoing war in Ukraine,” the indictment said.
The Tennessee-based media company has posted nearly 2,000 videos that have garnered more than 16 million views on YouTube alone, according to the indictment. The U.S. company failed to disclose to its viewers that it was being funded and directed by R.T., which has been banned in the U.K., EU, and Canada. After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in November 2022, R.T. suspended its activities in the United States, as well.
The indictment doesn’t say the name of the U.S. media company that is responsible for producing Russian propaganda—but it wasn’t that hard to figure out. The indictment says the company is registered in Tennessee and describes itself as a “network of heterodox commentators that focus on Western political and cultural issues.”
As Aric Toler and Alan Feuer of The New York Times pointed out on X, there is only one company that fits this description: Tenet Media, a hub of six pro-Trump far-right commentators, including Dave Rubin, Tim Pool, and Benny Johnson.
Earlier this summer, Pool attacked Kamala Harris by calling her a “Communazi Despot come to put conservatives in concentration camps.” The attack was so over the top that it even drew a reply from white nationalist Richard Spencer, who wondered, “A bit much?”
In addition to MAGA acolytes, it looks like the group members were also—likely unwittingly—Russian propagandists. Maybe they’ll add that to their résumés as they search for new jobs?
The indictment alleges that Afanasyeva and Kalashnikov worked together to “deceive” two of the company’s commentators “who respectively have over 2.4 million and 1.3 million YouTube subscribers.” The commentators mentioned are likely to be Rubin and Pool, respectively, based on their follower counts.
The indictment also lists two “founders” who were made to act as foreign agents, though their names are not listed in the indictment. To hide where the money was coming from, the founders allegedly invented a private investor named Eduard Grigoriann who was sponsoring their work.*
Tenet Media is owned by conservative host Lauren Chen, a contributor to Turning Point USA, which is helping Donald Trump out with his presidential campaign, and her husband Liam Donovan.
According to the indictment, Afanasyeva pushed for content to be covered from an angle that was beneficial to Russia. After a bombing in Moscow in March, for which ISIS admitted responsibility, Afanasyeva directed one of the Tenet founders to have a commentator to “focus on the Ukraine/U.S. angle” and claim that “mainstream media spread fake news that ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack yet ISIS itself never made such statements” and saying it was “suspicious” that the attackers had fled toward the Ukrainian border.
In February, Afanasyeva shared a video of “a well-known U.S. political commentator visiting a grocery store in Russia” to be posted to the site. One producer remarked in the Discord chat that “it just feels like overt shilling” but, after urging from one of the founders, did it anyway.
In June, one of the founders gave Afanasyeva and Kalashnikov permission to post their own content directly onto the company’s channels, according to the indictment.
Afanasyeva and Kalashnikov have been charged with conspiracy to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
* *This story originally misstated who invented the private investor.
More about Trump and Russia:
Former Trump Staffer Reveals How Putin Played Him Like a Puppet
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russia-praising Tim Pool denies knowledge of Russian money to podcast platform
Ellsworth Toohey 7:58 am Thu Sep 5, 2024
Ever wonder why Tim Pool never takes off his beanie? Illo: Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing
The U.S. State department issued an indictment accusing the Kremlin of funneling $10 million to an unidentified U.S. media company, which is widely understood to be Tenet Media, a far-right podcasting platform. One of the podcasters accused of being on Russia's payroll is Tim Pool, a podcaster with more than 2 million followers on Xitter.
Pool denies having any knowledge of Russia being the source of his income, claiming he was never instructed by anyone to say anything on his podcast.
Take a look at this recent Pool podcast and decide for yourself:
"Ukraine is the enemy of this country! Ukraine is our enemy, being funded by the Democrats. I will stress this again. One of the greatest enemies of our nation right now is Ukraine.
"They are expanding this war — now don't get me wrong, I know. You've got criminal elements of the U.S. government pushing them and guiding them and telling them what to do. Ukraine is now accused, a German warrant issued, for blowing up the Nord Stream pipeline — triggering this conflict.
> "Ukraine is the greatest threat to this nation and to the world. We should rescind all funding and financing, pull out all military support, and we should apologize to Russia."
After the DOJ released the indictment, Pool xitted a statement claiming the DOJ indictment was a "leak."
My statement regarding allegations and the leaked DOJ Indictment
Should these allegations prove true, I as well as the other personalities and commentators were deceived and are victims. I cannot speak for anyone else at the company as to what they do or to what they are instructed
He soon deleted the tweet. He really is a total moron, so maybe he didn't know anything, but it sounds like Tenet's founders did:
From Wired:
The indictment claims that the founders were aware they were working with Russian nationals and did not register with the US attorney general "as an agent of a foreign principal, as required by law." For example, the indictment claims the founders referred to the RT employees as "the Russians" in private messages with each other. When the company's fake backer, "Eduard Grigoriann," did not reply to a message about money, one of the founders allegedly Googled "time in Moscow." One of the founders also allegedly worked directly with RT and its German subsidiary.
From The Tennessean:
It appears Tenet Media was created by Lauren Chen, a Canadian-born YouTuber and blogger, and a man named Liam Donovan, who appears to be her husband, based on information from several sources. Donovan identifies himself as the president of Tenet Media in his bio on X and as Chen's husband in his bio on Instagram.
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MAGA personalities
Charlie Kirk
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk posted in response to the DOJ election threats task force: “The regime is ramping up its fear campaign ahead of November” and in a separate post, “It's 2016 all over again.” [Twitter/X, 9/4/24, 9/4/24]
TimCast
Timcast co-host Ian Crossland suggested that the situation may be a “psyop within a psyop.” [YouTube, Timcast, 9/4/24]
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CitationFrom the September 4, 2024 edition of Timcast IRL
Jack Posobiec
MAGA personality Jack Posobiec wrote, “Crazy how all the Russia collusion stuff reappears the day after Trump says he is going to declass the Epstein client list… Really makes you think.” [Twitter/X, 9/4/24]
Dan Bongino
Right-wing radio host Dan Bongino wrote, “Trust absolutely NOTHING emanating from the DOJ or FBI that even remotely whiffs of politics.” He added, “Especially before an election, where they have a deep and troubled history of election interference in defense of their democrat allies.” [Twitter/X, 9/4/24]
Rogan O'Handley
MAGA commentator Rogan O'Handley, also known as DC Draino, wrote a long post claiming the Justice Department is weaponized against MAGA, writing, “Today’s DOJ indictment mentioning prominent MAGA Youtubers is just a preview of what the weaponized Kamala regime will do to every prominent voice in the Patriot movement.” He added, “The regime knows it’s being rejected by the American people and is desperately lashing out" and “No more distractions, no more purity tests for Trump, no more BS - we ALL have to fight like hell to get him elected or most of us are going to end up targeted by the Deep State.” [Twitter/X, 9/4/24]
By ERIC TUCKER, MATTHEW LEE and DAVID KLEPPER
Updated 6:58 PM PDT, September 4, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration seized Kremlin-run websites and charged two Russian state media employees in its most sweeping effort yet to push back against what it says are Russian attempts to spread disinformation ahead of the November presidential election.
The measures, which in addition to indictments also included sanctions and visa restrictions, represented a U.S. government effort just weeks before the November election to disrupt a persistent threat from Russia that American officials have long warned has the potential to sow discord and create confusion among voters.
Washington has said that Moscow, which intelligence officials have said has a preference for Republican Donald Trump, remains the primary threat to elections even as the FBI continues to investigate a hack by Iran this year that targeted the presidential campaigns of both political parties.
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“The Justice Department’s message is clear: We will have no tolerance for attempts by authoritarian regimes to exploit our democratic systems of government,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said.
One criminal case disclosed by the Justice Department accuses two employees of RT, a Russian state media company, of covertly funding a Tennessee-based content creation company with nearly $10 million to publish English-language videos on social media platforms including TikTok and YouTube with messages in favor of the Russia government’s interests and agenda, including about the war in Ukraine.
The nearly 2,000 videos posted by the company have gotten more than 16 million views on YouTube alone, prosecutors said.
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The two defendants, Kostiantyn Kalashnikov and Elena Afanasyeva, are charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering and violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act. They are at large. It was not immediately clear if they had lawyers.
The Justice Department says the company did not disclose that it was funded by RT and that neither it nor its founders registered as required by law as an agent of a foreign principal.
Though the indictment does not name the company, it describes it as a Tennessee-based content creation firm with six commentators and with a website identifying itself as “a network of heterodox commentators that focus on Western political and cultural issues.”
That description exactly matches Tenet Media, an online company that hosts videos made by well-known conservative influencers Tim Pool, Benny Johnson and others.
Johnson and Pool both responded with posts on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, calling themselves “victims.” Calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a “scumbag,” Pool wrote that “should these allegations prove true, I as well as the other personalities and commentators were deceived.”
In his post, Johnson wrote that he had been asked a year ago to provide content to a “media startup.” He said his lawyers negotiated a “standard, arms length deal, which was later terminated.”
Tenet Media’s shows in recent months have featured high-profile conservative guests, including RNC co-chair Lara Trump, former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake.
In the other action, officials announced the seizure of 32 internet domains that were used by the Kremlin to spread Russian propaganda and weaken international support for Ukraine. The websites were designed to look like authentic news sites but were actually fake, with bogus social media personas manufactured to appear as if they belonged to American users.
The Justice Department did not identify which candidate in particular the propaganda campaign was meant to boost. But internal strategy notes from participants in the effort released Wednesday by the Justice Department make clear that Trump was the intended beneficiary, even though the names of the candidates were blacked out.
The proposal for one propaganda project, for instance, states that one of its objectives was to secure a victory for a candidate who is currently out of power and to increase the percentage of Americans who believe the U.S. has been doing too much to support Ukraine. President Joe Biden has strongly supported Ukraine during the invasion by Russia.
Intelligence agencies have previously charged that Russia, which during the 2016 election launched a massive campaign of foreign influence and interference on Trump’s behalf, was using disinformation to try to meddle in this year’s election. The new steps show the depth of those concerns.
“Today’s announcement highlights the lengths some foreign governments go to undermine American democratic institutions,” the State Department said. “But these foreign governments should also know that we will not tolerate foreign malign actors intentionally interfering and undermining free and fair elections.”
The State Department announced it was taking action against several employees of Russian state-owned media outlets, designating them as “foreign missions,” and offering a cash reward for information provided to the U.S. government about foreign election interference.
It also said it was adding media company Rossiya Segodnya and its subsidiaries RIA Novosti, RT, TV-Novosti, Ruptly, and Sputnik to its list of foreign missions. That will require them to register with the U.S. government and disclose their properties and personnel in the U.S.
In a speech last month, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said Russia remained the biggest threat to election integrity, accusing Putin and his proxies of “targeting specific voter demographics and swing-state voters to in an effort to manipulate presidential and congressional election outcomes.” Russia, she said was “intent on co-opting unwitting Americans on social media to push narratives advancing Russian interests.”
She struck a similar note Thursday, saying at an Aspen Institute event that the foreign influence threat is more diverse and aggressive than in past years.
“More diverse and aggressive because they involve more actors from more countries than we have ever seen before, operating in a more polarized world than we have ever seen before, all fueled by more technology and accelerated by technology, like AI, and that is what we have exposed in the law enforcement actions we took today,” she said.
Much of the concern around Russia centers on cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns designed to influence the November vote.
The tactics include using state media like RT to advance anti-U.S. messages and content, as well as networks of fake websites and social media accounts that amplify the claims and inject them into Americans’ online conversations. Typically, these networks seize on polarizing political topics such as immigration, crime or the war in Gaza.
In many cases, Americans may have no idea that the content they see online either originated or was amplified by the Kremlin.
Groups linked to the Kremlin are increasingly hiring marketing and communications firms within Russia to outsource some of the work of creating digital propaganda while also covering their tracks, the officials said during the briefing with reporters.
Two such firms were the subject of new U.S. sanctions announced in March. Authorities say the two Russian companies created fake websites and social media profiles to spread Kremlin disinformation.
The ultimate goal, however, is to get Americans to spread Russian disinformation without questioning its origin. People are far more likely to trust and repost information that they believe is coming from a domestic source, officials said. Fake websites designed to mimic U.S. news outlets and AI-generated social media profiles are just two methods.
Messages left with the Russian Embassy were not immediately returned.
Associated Press writers Dan Merica and Alanna Durkin Richer in Washington, Ali Swenson in New York and Alan Suderman in Richmond, Va., contributed to this report.
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The then-leader of the conservative policy blueprint known as Project 2025 appeared on a podcast in July produced by a company the Department of Justice accused Wednesday of being run by Russian agents.
with podcaster Tim Pool on Tenet Media called, "The Media is Lying About Project 2025." Dans, who was director of Project 2025 at the time, alleged "a very sophisticated group" was working to undermine the effort to set a policy agenda for the next Trump administration.
Project 2025 is a sweeping policy blueprint that the Heritage Foundation spearheaded that envisions increased presidential power. At least 31 of 38 authors are tied to former President Donald Trump. Democrats, including their House campaign arm and Vice President Kamala Harris, have criticized its policies and sought to tie it to Trump.
The Department of Justice did not name Tenet Media in its indictment released Wednesday, but the company's business filings with the Tennessee secretary of state, and its public messages, align with what is described in the indictment.
The indictment says that RT, a media entity formerly known as "Russia Today," and its employees laundered nearly $10 million "to covertly fund and direct" what it only calls "U.S. Company-1."
The indictment says the company creates English-language content for social media sites such as TikTok, Instagram, X and YouTube and describes itself as a "network of heterodox commentators that focus on Western political and cultural issues." That exact quote is found on TenetMedia.com.
"To get government back on track, people like the listeners to this program have to get involved in government, an that’s essentially what Project 2025 is," Dans says in the podcast. "It’s a recruiting tool to say that this government is yours as much as anyone else’s."
Parts of Dans' interview with Pool were posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, starting on July 26. Dans announced he would resign from the Heritage Foundation, the umbrella organization for Project 2025, days later on July 30.
Dans did not immediately respond to emails seeking comment or to a message on LinkedIn. The Heritage Foundation's press office did not immediately respond to an email. An inquiry to Pool was not immediately returned.
"It’s a very sophisticated group against us," Dans said in a version of the podcast posted on YouTube on July 30. He said he was the victim of a "hoax" being perpetrated by a prominent liberal voting rights attorney.
"I mean it’s flattering in a sense to be the next target of the Democrat hoax, but these are sophisticated people who deal with rhetoric," Dans said.
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PAUL DANS: I can't tell you how many MAGA people that I work with, really the hardcore, the most based, who are huge RFK Jr. fans. And they kind of were always kind of talking about it. But, remember, RFK Jr. went and interviewed for a job in 2016 at Trump Tower. So, you know, their relationship goes back years. Obviously there's a lot that doesn't -- some of his positions aren't square with America First, traditional America First. But certainly, there's no one better, I think, in the entire country to take on the administrative state, particularly HHS.
So you see in our movement so many medical freedom people -- count me right in with that group -- and just the excitement to have somebody either of his caliber at HHS, or CDC, FDA, are of course going to really clear house at the agency. mma
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tiM POOL (HOST): So, I mean the first thing I just want to say before we get into any of the politics from either side is, we don't want these things to happen, we want these things to stop. We need to figure out what the issue is in our society, in our culture. I genuinely believe it's dissociation. It is a dejected society where individuals don't know or care about each other and they seek validation or they seek to push some extremist ideology. And this whole thing creates a recipe for disaster.
And I'll put it simply, I think it's multiculturalism. And not the idea that people of all different types are holding hands under the rainbow, it's that you have different communities stacked on top of each other and next to each other with wildly different views and they don't like each other. And then people who are crazy will do crazy things.
But what ends up happening today, we have this story from the Daily Mail, “Revealed: Texas gunman staked out massacre mall to monitor peak times three weeks before killing eight and posting details on Russian social media alongside photos of Nazis,guns, and ammunition.” You see, here’s where we get into the PSYOP.
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david Gilbert @ Vice News: The Far Right Wants You to Think Ukraine’s War Is Staged: ‘It Is Clearly a Psyop.’
a year after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, tens of thousands of civilians have been murdered, tens of millions of Ukrainians are displaced, and billions of dollars in damage have been inflicted on homes and buildings across the country—and the American far right is still pushing the narrative that the war in Ukraine is fake.
Coinciding with the one year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, conspiracists, far-right influencers, and trolls have made a coordinated effort to push the conspiracy theory that the entire conflict in Ukraine has been staged.
The narrative that the war was fake first emerged in the early days of the invasion, and one of the key pieces of “evidence” used by those spreading the disinformation was a video they claimed showed “fake bodies” in body bags.
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The video, which shows the body bags moving in the background, was in fact taken at a climate change protest in Austria about a month before Russia invaded Ukraine. Over the weekend, it was once again shared as “evidence” that the mainstream media was lying about the war.
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The most popular post came from an anonymous right-wing Twitter account called Amuse, which shared the video with the comment: “Stop Moving - You’re Supposed to be Dead! Psyop?”
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The tweet currently has been viewed over 3.9 million times and been liked over 45,000 times.
When it was pointed out that the video was not taken in Ukraine, the account holder responded: “Someone told me it is some sort of crazy four dimensional misinformation—video might be from Austria. Not sure who is pushing it - Ukraine or Russia. Without embedded journalists we’ve got this mess.” They later added: “No one seems to know who is responsible but it is clearly a Psyop.”
The same video was shared widely across Facebook and Twitter in recent days.
At the same time, Catturd, a hugely influential MAGA shitposter favored by Elon Musk, posted a screen on Twitter that questioned the reality of the war in Ukraine because he apparently has not seen any footage from the war front.
“We get no footage, no detailed updates, no graphs explaining how the war is going, who has control of what land,” Catturd wrote. “All we get is Biden fake air raid sirens and one famous actor or politician a day happily prancing around Kiev with Zelenskyy with no helmets or body protection offering him 100s of billion of dollars.”
Catturd’s tweet has been viewed over 10.4 million times, despite Twitter’s fact-checking community appending a note to the post saying: “Footage and analysis of the Russian war on Ukraine from multiple media sources including reporters embedded with Ukrainian troops is and has been available.”
On Truth Social, disgraced former national security adviser Michael Flynn endorsed Catturd’s claims,writing: “What Catturd said, and I double dare anyone to say he is wrong.”
Kyle Becker, a far-right commentator who has in the past worked for Fox News and Tim Pool’s podcast, also shared the claim that there was no footage available of what’s likely the most-documented war in human history.
“I am sick and tired of the lack of footage of the Ukraine war. I worked in cable news. I am initiated. If it bleeds, it leads. Where is the war footage? Where are the Pulitzer Prize winning photos? This smacks of a scam and the American people are fed up,” Becker tweeted.
Meanwhile Stew Peters, a far-right podcaster and COVID conspiracist, added to the conversation by posting a video from the Ukrainian government that shows how the country has been working to fix some of the damage inflicted by the war over the last year.
According to Peters, the video is not a positive story about the resilience of the Ukrainian people, but proof the war is “100% fake” and that the damage was never inflicted in the first place.
Peters spent the weekend pushing the narrative that the media and governments around the world are lying about the war.
“The world is a stage,” Peters tweeted on Sunday. “It’s ALL fake. When enough people realize what has been done to them, and they’re ready to admit it, there will be NOWHERE safe for these criminals to hide.”
One other strand to the conspiracy about the war in Ukraine being fake is a renewed push to surface videos from the former life of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a comic actor and using it to claim he is merely playing the role of a head of state.
One of the most prominent people sharing this claim in recent days was Donald Trump Jr. who shared a clip of Zelensky dancing in high heels and leather from a 2014 parody video with the comment:
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The tweet has racked up almost 9 million views in the space of just 24 hours.
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Extremists, bigots, and conspiracy theorists: YouTuber Tim Pool’s 2022 guests in review
YouTube is profiting from a podcast that platforms white nationalists, conspiracy theorists, and bigots
WRITTEN BY JUSTIN HOROWITZ
PUBLISHED 12/20/22
A Media Matters review of Tim Pool’s guests on his Timcast IRL podcast in 2022 demonstrates that many of the individuals Pool invites on his show are extremists, bigots, or conspiracy theorists. Sometimes, they’re all three.
Pool’s show is broadcast from a Maryland studio, where he wears his signature black beanie year-round. A steady rotation of guests and co-hosts sit alongside Pool in matching gamer chairs and headphones as they discuss the day’s news, often pushing misinformation and conspiracy theories as they bounce off of each other’s reactionary commentary.
Pool, who has 1.4 million YouTube subscribers and a history of working with white nationalists, is reportedly making a fortune from his livestreams.
YouTube is also profiting from Pool’s podcast, raking in around $65,000 from Pool’s channel between October 2020 and November 2021, and the platform has gone so far as to promote his channel on its front page. On November 28, his livestream with Hitler fanboy Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, was the most-watched livestream on the platform.
The type of guest Pool invites on his show varies. Some are elected officials, while others are comedians and culture warriors. Pool rarely invites guests who will push back against his right-wing perspective.
As explained by reporter Robert Silverman, who has covered Pool’s show, “Whenever a right-wing politician, personality or group enters the news cycle, Pool finds a way to sand down their actual, stated beliefs or will claim ignorance.”
Timcast Editor-in-Chief Cassandra MacDonald (neé Fairbanks) appears to have a hand in booking Pool’s guests. MacDonald previously worked for the Kremlin-funded news outlet Sputnik,has been accused of flashing a “white power” hand sign, and has been pictured with white nationalists. Additionally, one of Pool's recurring co-hosts, Luke Rudkowski, is a former Infowars employee and 9/11 conspiracy theorist.
Pool’s regular co-hosts, employees, and guests appear to mirror his own thinking. The YouTuber has pushed white nationalist talking points, baselessly accused a journalist of being a pedophile, defended antisemitic comments, and pushed a litany of conspiracy theories. Furthermore, Pool is an advocate for a second U.S. civil war, often discussing an impending second war on his podcast and on Twitter.
Here is a breakdown of Timcast IRL guests from 2022:
Rapper Ye(formerly Kanye West) appeared on Pool’s show after making antisemitic comments on Twitter and in the media. After his Timcast appearance, Ye was a guest on Infowars, where he denied the Holocaust and went on a pro-Nazi rant, including praise of Adolf Hitler. Pool and his guests later lauded Ye’s Infowars appearance and cheered on a Ye for president campaign.
Video CitationFrom the December 1, 2022, edition of Timcast IRL, streamed on YouTube
Milo Yiannopoulosappeared on Timcast at least twice in 2022; one of his appearances was alongside Ye. Yiannopoulos is an alt-right troll and former Breitbart editor who helped launder white nationalist and neo-Nazi propaganda into publication.
Nick Fuentes is a white nationalist leader and Holocaust denier. He appeared on Timcast alongside Ye and Yiannopoulos.
Pool hosted conspiracy theorist Darren Beattie in November. Beattie was fired from former President Donald Trump’s White House for attending a white nationalist conference.
White supremacist collaborator and conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec has appeared on Pool’s podcast at least twice in 2022.
Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio appeared on Timcast in February. Tarrio was indicted for his role in the January 6 insurrection and was present at the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. During his Timcast appearance, Tarrio downplayed the threat of “ethnonationalist groups.”
Video CitationFrom the October 12, 2020, edition of Timcast IRL streamed on YouTube
Far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) appeared on Pool’s show multiple times in 2022. Greene is a conspiracy theorist and anti-LGBTQ bigot who has close ties to white nationalists.
Right-wing radio host and PragerU founder Dennis Prager is an anti-LGBTQ misogynist and racist. Prager is also a climate change denier and election fraud conspiracy theorist. He was a guest on Timcast in June.
Radio host Jesse Kelly has pushed conspiracy theories and made anti-LGBTQ and misogynistic comments. Kelly once told Fox News host Tucker Carlson that the military needs “Type A men who want to sit on a throne of Chinese skulls.” Kelly was on Timcast in December.
Far-right figure Lauren Southern was on Timcast multiple times this year. Southern has a history of pushing “racist propaganda” and white nationalist rhetoric.
The Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles is an anti-LGBTQ bully. Pool hosted Knowles in April.
Plagiarist, meme lord, and podcast host Benny Johnson has a history of pushing conspiracy theories. Johnson was a guest on Pool’s show in October.
Former Infowars employee and 9/11 conspiracy theorist Luke Rudkowski is a regular Timcast co-host.
Antisemitic social media troll and Holocaust denier Hotep Jesus (real name Bryan Sharpe) appeared on Timcast in July.
The Post Millennial Editor-in-Chief Libby Emmons has expressed anti-LGBTQ views. Emmons is a frequent Timcast guest.
Far-right YouTuber John Doyle is closely associated with white nationalists. Doyle helped organize a “Stop the Steal” rally after Trump lost the 2020 election alongside Fuentes. He also appeared at an anti-LGBTQ protest and is pro-drunk driving. Doyle was on Timcast in November.
Daily Wire pundit Ben Shapiroappeared on Pool’s show in April. Shapiro is an anti-LGBTQ dogmatist and conspiracy theorist.
Author Naomi Wolfis a COVID-19 and anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist. Wolf appeared on Pool’s podcast in August.
BlazeTV podcast host Jason Whitlock appeared with Pool in April. Whitlock has pushed anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and defended individuals who have made antisemitic comments.
Anti-trans bigot andAmerican Principals ProjectPresident Terry Schilling joined Pool for an episode of Timcast in March.
Right-wing pundit and BlazeTV host Dave Rubin recorded an episode of Timcast in November. Rubin has attacked diversity and inclusion hiring efforts, compared climate activist Greta Thunberg to Adolf Hitler, and made disparaging comments about the LGBTQ community.
Alex Stein is a far-right troll who is linked to members of the Proud Boys street gang and white nationalists. He appeared on Timcast in July.
Comedian Dave Smith is “a Nazi sympathizer who believes Jews run ‘forces that are killing the society.’” Smith is connected to white nationalist Proud Boys leader Gavin McInnes and appeared on Pool’s show in September.
Zuby is an anti-LGBTQ bigot and rapper who appeared on Timcast in July.
Former BlazeTV host and YouTuber Elijah Schaffer sat down with Pool to record in April. Schaffer is an anti-LGBTQ pundit and misogynist.
Former Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate and election denier Kari Lakewas featured on an episode of Timcast in July.
Pool hosted militia leader and gun enthusiast Ammon Bundy in October.
Gab founder Andrew Torba appeared on Timcast in January. Torba is a notorious antisemite.
Former Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastrianoappeared on Pool’s show in October. Mastriano is an election denier and extremist who is closely linked to Torba and Gab.
Timcast employee and frequent co-host Ian Crossland has claimed Ye “will be looked at as someone who saved the Jews” following his pro-Nazi rants and has described Native Americans as cannibals.
The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh appeared on Timcast in April. Walsh is a self-described “theocratic fascist” and anti-trans bigot who has defended teenage pregnancy.
Trump loyalist and Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton is an election fraud and voting machine conspiracy theorist. Fitton appeared on Timcast in April.
Former Trump White House aide Peter Navarrois a conspiracy theorist who assisted in attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Navarro was a guest on Timcast in September.
BlazeTV podcast host Allie Beth Stuckey appeared on Pool’s show in September. Stuckey is a pro-conversion therapy, anti-LGBTQ bigot. During her Timcast IRL appearance, she claimed that trans people don’t exist.
Video CitationFrom the September 8, 2022, edition of TimcastIRL
Project Veritas founder James O’Keefeappeared on Timcast in January. O’Keefe is a serial misinformer and election fraud conspiracy theorist.
Cory Mills is a U.S. representative-elect from Florida. Mills is an election denier who has pushed the white nationalist great replacement theory and appeared on Timcast in February.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) regularly pushed the Ray Epps conspiracy theoryabout the insurrection and once tweeted a neo-Nazi meme. Massie was on Timcast IRL in February.
Daily WireCEO Jeremy Boreing appeared on Timcast in April. Boreing has defended birthers and praised the three-fifths compromise.
Truth Social CEO and former Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) is a conspiracy theorist who appeared on Pool’s program in September.
Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow has pushed conspiracy theories and misogynistic and racist rhetoric. Marlow was a Timcast guest in September.
Chris Elston — who goes by the pseudonym Billboard Chris — is a Canadian anti-trans extremist. Elston regularly attacks children’s hospitals for providing gender-affirming care to trans youth. He appeared on Pool’s show in August.
Conservative author Kurt Schlichter recorded an episode of Timcast with Pool in July. Schlichter is a “race war fantasizer” who has shared anti-Muslim views.
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American Greatness writer Julie Kellyis a conspiracy theorist who regularly advocates for January 6 insurrectionists. Kelly appeared with Pool in February.
Comedian and Louder with Crowder co-hostDave Landau appeared on Timcast in July. Landau has a history of making racist and bigoted remarks about marginalized communities.
Attorney and Trump loyalist Kash Patel was a May Timcast guest. Patel has used and defended using a QAnon slogan.
Conservative author and conspiracy theorist Chadwick Moore appeared on Pool’s show in October. Moore has expressed anti-trans and xenophobic views, including saying Islam is “the most hateful, intolerant religion on Earth,” and claiming that Matthew Shepard’s killing wasn’t a hate crime.
Pool hosted anti-Muslim organizer and QAnon conspiracy theorist Scott Presler in December.
Conservative influencer and former PragerU pundit Will Witt is an anti-LGBTQ bigot with white identitarian politics. Witt regularly uses the “groomer” slur against LGBTQ people and has toyed with the white nationalist great replacement theory and white supremacism. Witt recorded an episode of Timcast IRL with Pool in May.
Pro-Trump social media influencer and former Turning Point USA ambassador Ashley St. Clair was photographed alongside white nationalists and antisemites in 2019. St. Clair was a Timcast guest in May.
New York Young Republican Club President Gavin Wax was a Timcast guest in October. Wax has pushed the great replacement theory and praised the Proud Boys. Additionally, Wax reportedly went on a podcast associated with the white nationalist-aligned websiteVDARE.
“Stop the Steal” organizer Alex Bruesewitz appeared on Timcast in March. Bruesewitz is a conspiracy theorist.
Michale Graves, a former member of The Misfits, appeared on Timcast in November. Graves has claimed that he is “a proud western chauvinist” and a Proud Boy.
Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-VA) is a climate change denier and conspiracy theorist who was fired from CNN for making a racist statement about Native Americans. Santorum was an August Timcast guest.
Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon is an anti-LGBTQ bigot. Dillon was on Pool’s show in June.
Breitbart reporter Allum Bokhari helped launder white nationalist-aligned content into publication at Breitbart under Yiannopoulos and former Trump aide Steve Bannon. Bokhari appeared on Timcast in May.
Right-wing pundit Kim Iversen’s former colleagues describe her as a conspiracy theorist, and The Daily Beast wrote that she has “defended the Chinese government’s harsh treatment of Uyghurs.” Iversen was on Pool’s show in March.
Daily Wirepundit Andrew Klavan has espoused racist, sexist, and anti-LGBTQ commentary. Klavan was on Pool’s show in April.
Radio host and Spectator World editor Amber Athey has made antisemitic and anti-LGBTQ comments. Athey was a guest on Timcast in April.
Turning Point USA host Drew Hernandezis an anti-LGBTQ extremist who appeared on Timcast in June.
Right-wing activist James Lindsay, who is linked to members of the NXIVM sex cult and helped popularize the “groomer” slur, was a Timcast guest in August.
Former Trump attorney Andrew Kloster assisted in trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Kloster appeared on Pool’s show in October.
Right-wing Twitter user Comfortably Smug (real name Shashank Tripathi) is a “deliberate spreader of false information” who has made anti-trans comments. He appeared on Timcast in September.
PragerU personality Amala Ekpunobi is an anti-LGBTQ pundit who appeared on Pool’s show in September.
Sinclair Broadcast Group television host Sharyl Attkissonis an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist. Attkisson was on Timcast in May.
Right-wing writer Julia Song appeared on Pool’s show in May. Song appears to be a Hitler apologist.
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Rep. Randy Weber (R-TX) has railed against same-sex marriage and helped spread a Russian-backed conspiracy theory that Ukraine tampered in the 2016 election. Weber appeared on Pool’s podcast in March.
Former Trump acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker helped spread a conspiracy theory about election fraud in favor of Trump. Whitaker was on Timcast in July.
Former Trump spokesperson Jason Miller is an election fraud conspiracy theorist who assisted in attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election. He sat down with Pool for a podcast recording in January.
Conservative radio host Larry Elder,who has a history of pushing conspiracy theories and misinformation, appeared on Timcast in August. Elder has previously endorsed pregnancy discrimination and railed against the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Conservative author and unreliable journalist Peter Schweizer appeared on Timcast in January. Schweizer was instrumental in pushing the right-wing media’s Uranium One conspiracy theory and he wrote the widely discredited book Clinton Cash.
Right-wing provocateur Andy Ngo has covered for far-right extremists and has spread conspiracy theories. Ngo was Pool’s guest in January.
Right-wing rapperBryson Gray is a proud transphobic bigot who appears to be a Holocaust denier. Gray appeared with Pool in December.
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Right-wing YouTuber Blaire White repeatedly smears members of the LGBTQ community as “groomers.” White appeared on Timcast in October.
Anti-trans activist Kellie-Jay Keen appeared on Timcast IRL in March. Keen is currently being investigated for an alleged hate crime against LGBTQ people.
Former Pennsylvania GOP Senate candidate Kathy Barnette has made bigoted comments about Muslims and gay people. Barnette was on Timcast in October.
BlazeTV contributor Delano Squires has attacked children’s hospitals for providing gender-affirming care to patients and has written anti-trans blogs and tweets. Squires appeared on Pool’s show in January.
Jon Schweppe is the policy director of the anti-trans group American Principles Project. Schweppe has made anti-trans comments in the past and appeared on Timcast in May.
Anti-trans YouTuber Gothix appeared on Pool’s show in March.
BlazeTVhost Chad Prather has used the “groomer” slur and made comments attacking LGBTQ people. Prather was featured on Timcast in November.
Right-wing writer and American Principles Project senior fellow Pedro Gonzalez has pushed anti-trans rhetoric. Gonzalez was on Timcast in November.
Right-wing lawyer Will Chamberlain, who appeared on Pool’s show in August, has pushed election fraud conspiracy theories and promoted the “Stop the Steal” movement.
Right-wing commentator Savanah Hernandez has repeatedly attacked members of the LGBTQ community and has pushed anti-vaccine conspiracy theories. Hernandez appeared alongside Pool in December.
Timcast contributor Shane Cashman gave a full-throttle endorsement of Ye for president following the musician’s pro-Nazi rants during a December episode of Timcast. During the episode, Cashman proclaimed, “We need President Ye,” adding, “I think an outsider has to come in and destroy this system.”
Canadian journalist Keean Bexte, who worked for a “white supremacist web store,” appeared on Pool’s show in March.
BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales was a December Timcast guest. Gonzales is an anti-LGBTQ bigot.
Virginia state delegate Nick Freitas has pushed election fraud conspiracy theories. Freitas appeared on Timcast in April.
Former America’s Next Top Model winner Adrianne Curry has made derogatory comments about Black people, Black History Month, and fat people. Curry appeared on Timcast in July.
Author and podcaster Michael Malice is a pro-secession election fraud conspiracy theorist. Malice was a guest on Timcast in November.
Conservative activist Ned Ryun is a climate change denierand conspiracy theorist. Ryun was a Timcast guest in July.
Former Assistant Attorney General Jeff Clark helped spread Trump’s lies and conspiracy theories that he won the 2020 presidential election. Clark was a March Timcast guest.
Mark Ousley is an anti-trans activist who appeared on Pool’s show in September.
Right-wing writer Adrian Norman is an election fraud conspiracy theorist and Timcast contributor. He appeared on Pool’s podcast in May.
Evolutionary biologist Colin Wright regularly makes anti-trans comments. Wright was a Timcast guest in April.
Radio host Austin Petersen has expressed anti-LGBTQ sentiments. Petersen was Pool’s guest in October.
Anti-LGBTQ writer Bethany Mandel was a Timcast guest in August.
Daily Wire pundit Brett Cooper has repeatedly used the “groomer” slur to attack LGBTQ people. Cooper appeared on Pool’s show in April.
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Conservative pundits are increasingly embracing far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, even as his financial losses mount and his professional future remains uncertain following a high-profile lawsuit. Right-wing outlets have not only adopted many of the fringe host’s conspiratorial affects and theories, but several have also provided Jones with a platform to spread his extremist brand of paranoid quackery.
The decision to give Jones an opportunity to find new audiences — or to tap into his own — is especially fraught right now, given that he was just found liable for defamation and forced to pay more than $45 million in damages to parents of a 6-year-old child killed in the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012. Jones now faces another defamation suit in Connecticut, also related to comments he made about Sandy Hook, which the talk show host and vitamin supplement salesman referred to as “a giant hoax.”
Although Jones has long been legitimized and defended by the right, conservative media’s increasingly open celebration of him appears to signal a new phase of their relationship with the serial fabulist. Conservatives are bringing him in from the fringe under the guise of free speech and fighting back against the supposed Big Tech censorship, using his deplatforming in 2018 and subsequent court-ordered payments in the Sandy Hook trial to transform him into a First Amendment martyr. And following the FBI’s search of former President Donald Trump’s residence at the Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, several right-wing hosts interviewed Jones as though he were a Casandra-like figure whose long history of alarmist warnings of government tyranny had finally come to pass.
Fox News’ top star Tucker Carlson reportedly regularly texts with Jones and has praised him in various venues repeatedly. In July, Carlson once again told his audience that the antisemitic Great Replacement conspiracy theory was real, but mainstream outlets wouldn’t acknowledge it for fear of being categorized alongside Alex Jones. Earlier this year, Carlson said Jones is “a lot more talented than I am” and generally endorsed his conspiracy theories about liberal philanthropist George Soros. Carlson has been a guest on Infowars and wrote a blurb for Jones’ new book.
Steve Bannon, the host of the War Room podcast and a former Trump chief strategist, appeared on an episode of Jones’ Infowars following the FBI search at Mar-a-Lago. He heaped accolades on Jones, recognizing Infowars as “one of the major news sources out there for the MAGA movement.” Along with Jones, Bannon proceeded to lay out wild, completely speculative conspiracy theories. [vid]
"I do not think it's beyond this administrative state and their deep state apparatus to actually try to work on the assassination of President Trump,” Bannon said, providing no evidence to support the claim.
Bannon then suggested that the FBI may have “planted stuff” — that is, incriminating evidence — during the search.
“Exactly. How do we know a hundred agents in there with their long history of planting things, didn't plant something classified,” Jones echoed.
“You're absolutely right,” Bannon responded. (That theory has since been adopted by Fox News hosts and Republican Sen. Rand Paul.)
One day earlier, Bannon hosted Jones on his own War Room podcast to praise the serial liar as the leading edge of conservative thought, using a string of military metaphors to make his point.
“If you think of military, you've always been like force recon. Or you've been like LRP, long-range patrol,” Bannon said. “You've been out ahead of, cutting, you know, cutting through, bushwhacking through and laying out the tracks and the trails for where the narrative, then the big narrative engine comes in back of it.
Bannon also positioned Jones as a warrior and martyr that left-wing activists and tech companies are trying to silence. “They're trying to break you as a man and they're trying to break your incredible organization,” Bannon added.
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk also interviewed Jones the day after the Mar-a-Lago search, introducing him as “the most canceled man in America” and framing the interview as a defense of the principle of free speech. Kirk then proceeded to give Jones a platform to obfuscate and justify his long, well-documented history of Sandy Hook denial. Kirk then asked Jones to give his listeners advice on how to “keep on going — how do I push on through if people try to cancel me.”
Kirk later characterized Jones as a brave truth-teller, freeing his listeners from the blinders that had been placed on them. “How do you break people out of the comfort of the lies they live in?” Kirk asked Jones. “Because that’s what you do for a living.”
Jones eventually responded with an unhinged rant about who makes the best resistance fighters against what he believes is a demonic globalist cabal. “Because men haven’t been alpha males and stood up for Western civilization and the empowerment of the future and a pro-human future, we’ve allowed sick, degenerate alpha males to come in and threaten the women, and children, and men to get in line with them,” Jones explained.
“Alex Jones, he’s not crazy, he’s just early. He’s ahead of the curve,” Kirk said to close out the segment.
The previous day, Kirk had praised Jones as someone who was “not wrong a lot of the time,” even as he acknowledged that “he is not right a lot of the time.”
Elijah Schaffer, a reporter at The Blaze and host of Slightly Offens*ve, also interviewed Jones in August after the conclusion of his Sandy Hook defamation trial. Like Kirk and Bannon, Schaffer framed the discussion as a defense of free speech against those who are trying to “silence the truth.”
Failing Fox News competitor One America News Network interviewed Jones’ colleague Owen Shroyer, currently facing charges in the January 6 riot, following the conclusion of the Sandy Hook trial.
“We are increasingly seeing, you know, here at one American News, we haven't been banned quite as hard as you guys, but we got taken off FiOS with Verizon,” host Addison Smith said. “We got taken off Comcast TV, you know, you name it. And that's because for very similar reasons, we have a commitment to reporting the truth as we see it and reporting the facts as we see it.”
Shroyer responded by praising Alex Jones’ “almost prophetic-like foresight of geopolitical developments and political developments.”
The two continued their mutual admiration the following night, when Shroyer invited Smith on his show to discuss the Mar-a-Lago search.
A host at Newsmax, an OAN rival, defended Jones’ defamatory comments on the grounds that “this is America and you can say what you want.”
And it’s not just backwater, fledgling right-wing networks and podcasts that endorse Jones. His reach extends to the highest echelons of right-wing media. Reactionary podcast megastar Joe Rogan has long been a supporter of Jones, and the two appeared together on a
of the bafflingly popular Timcast IRL. Hard-right politicians like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), and, of course, Trump, are also long-time champions of him as well.
Still, there seems to have been a notable difference in the reaction to Jones over the last several weeks. When he was roundly deplatformed in 2018, many conservatives came to his defense on free speech grounds while at least nominally distancing themselvesfrom his content and arguments. Following the Mar-a-Lago search and his liability in the Sandy Hook lawsuit, conservative pundits appear to be following his lead.
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U.S. Congressman is calling on Americans to own “sufficient” weaponry to overthrow the government, suggesting they should do so “if 30 to 40 percent agree” the nation is living under “tyranny.”
“If 30 to 40 percent could agree that this was legitimate tyranny and it needed to be thrown off they need to have sufficient power without asking for extra permission – it should be right there and completely available to them in their living room in order to effect the change,”U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) said in a video (below) posted by Right Wing Watch.
Congressman Massie, who recently came under fire for tweeting a quote by a pedophile-pornography possessing neo-Nazi and falsely attributing it to French Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire, appeared on far-right Youtuber Tim Pool’s show.
Pool’s videos get “millions” of views each day, according to The Daily Beast, which adds he “has racked up more than a billion views and millions in earnings while dangerously whitewashing the far right.”
Massie, known for his assault-weapons brandishing Christmas family photo this week was widely mocked for arguing against Medicare for All, because “Over 70% of Americans who died with COVID, died on Medicare.”
During Pool’s show, according to Right Wing Watch, theYouTuber added that he believes the Second Amendment entitles Americans to own nuclear and biological weapons.
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proud Boys chairman boasts about praise from Trump, talks about taking action regardless of the police
Tim Pool helps promote the Proud Boys on YouTube
WRITTEN BY JASON CAMPBELL
RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM BRENDAN KARET
PUBLISHED 10/13/20
On October 12, the chairman of the extremist group The Proud Boys promoted the group on the YouTube show of Tim Pool. The video thus far has over three hundred thousand views on the platform.
Pool, a self-described journalist, regularly amplifies conspiracy theories and has done numerous videos with white nationalists and far-right extremists. Recently, he amplified a baseless smear against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).
After President Donald Trump called for the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by” during the first (and so far only) presidential debate, interest in the group soared. The Proud Boys and other far-right groups cheered Trump’s statement, and Tarrio claimed that recruitment then went “through the roof.” During his appearance on Pool’s show, Tarrio said he was excited about Trump’s comment.
Since its inception, when founder Gavin McInnis said that “we need more violence from the Trump people,” the Proud Boys been at the center of many violent confrontations. Members served as unofficial bodyguards for far-right speakers following Trump’s election. In 2019, two Proud Boys were sentenced to four years in prison for attacking protesters at a speech. Tarrio himself has encouraged members to bring bear mace with them to demonstrations.
Tarrio was also present during the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where Heather Heyer lost her life to a domestic terrorist. The rally was partially organized by Jason Kessler, who was himself reportedly a “documented member” of the Proud Boys. Talking to Pool, Tarrio described being at the rally in Charlottesville and even claimed that he was the “very fine people” that Trump infamously mentioned, while using the event as an example of why “sometimes it just doesn’t work” to let the police do their job
[am supremiscist blk t shirt] the October 12, 2020, edition of Timcast IRL streamed on YouTube]
TIM POOL (HOST): We tend to see, the way I describe it is on the left we have a wide spread of blunt force. Whereas extremists associated with the right, whatever that really means, it's complicated terminology, you have extremist actions that are extremely elevated in terms of mass shootings, bombings. But I don't think that it's fair to connect you to, say, like a Neo-Nazi group. You're clearly not white supremacists.
ENRIQUE TARRIO (GUEST): No.
POOL: That being said, some of your members were in Charlottesville.
TARRIO: I was in Charlottesville.
POOL: So, what was that all about? Were you the very fine people that Trump was talking about?
TARRIO: I think I was the very fine people that Trump was talking about actually. I actually went there in a media capacity to record. I also felt a type of way about tearing down statutes, period. Whether you -- they're a work of art. They're supposed to make you feel a sort of way. And I felt like there were protesters on both sides, there was protesters on the other side that felt like they needed to take the statute down. But that didn't mean that there were people on both sides that weren't utter garbage. And usually the people on both sides that were utter garbage were the ones sitting in the back and they waited. They waited till, like, the end of the event to start these clashes. I saw it with my own eyes. Heather Heyer lost her life. Right? But I saw an antifa black bloc with a broken flagpole trying to, you know, harpoon somebody and the only reason that they weren't successful is cause that guy was wearing a plate carrier. Or else it would've been two deaths. I mean, I'm talking that this guy was ramming it full speed at him. And luckily it was broken up. And state police was, like, maybe ten feet away. And he just turned his back to this.
So that, let police do their job - sometimes it just doesn't work. Sometimes you have to step in. And I'm not saying to be a vigilante.I'm not telling anybody to be a vigilante. And I don't think you should be a vigilante. But sometimes we can do something and we can be smarter.
Tarrio also downplayed the threat from white nationalist groups. He claimed that “most of these ethnonationlist groups are really not a threat” and most white supremacists just stay in their “basement."
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the October 12, 2020, edition of Timcast IRL streamed on YouTube]
ENRIQUE TARRIO (GUEST): So, the white supremacist moniker comes, I guess, like the scariest of scary. It's -- people think, like, Nazis are, like, the boogeyman. That's, like, the thing that people, like, accusing other people of -- I forgot, it's Godwin's Law --
TIM POOL (HOST): Yeah.
TARRIO: You heard of that? So the more -- you heard of this?So Godwin's Law is the more me and you argue, the higher the chances that one of us is going to use a reference to Nazi Germany on each other.So then, you know, the lighter version of that, the light version of Nazi, is white supremacy. And you said there is a lot of scary groups. And I agree there probably is. But most of these ethnonationlist groups are really not a threat. They really don't leave the friggin' basement, they don't leave their house. I haven't seen, besides in Charlottesville I did see some, I haven't seen, like, a scary white supremacist Nazi dude. Except when I was in prison and, like, real white supremacists, like the Aryan Brotherhood is there because they'll stab you in the neck. And these antifa guys, they want to dox, like, white supremacists. Why haven't they doxxed -- I'll tell you why they haven't doxxed the Aryan Brotherhood, because they're going to get stabbed in the neck if they do.
If this sounds familiar, recall that Fox News’ Tucker Carlson claimed that the threat of white supremacy was a “hoax” on his prime-time show.
FBI Director Christopher Wray recently testified that racially motivated extremism by mostly white supremacists constitutes the largest domestic terror issue in the nation.
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imothy Daniel Pool (born March 9, 1986) is an American YouTuber, political commentator and podcast host[5][6][7] who first became known for live streaming the 2011 Occupy Wall Street protests.[8][9] He joined Vice Media and Fusion TV in 2014, later working alone on YouTube and other platforms.
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Early life
Pool was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in a middle-class family. His father was a firefighter and his mother sold cars.[10] Pool attended a Catholic school until completing the fifth grade and left school at the age of 14.[11][10][12]
Career
Occupy
After watching a viral video from Occupy Wall Street, Pool purchased a one-way bus ticket to New York.[13] Pool joined the Occupy Wall Street protestors on September 20, 2011, and met Henry Ferry, a former realtor and sales manager, shortly afterwards, and they formed a media company called The Other 99.[14] Pool also began livestreaming the protests with his cell phone and quickly assumed an on-camera role.[13] Pool used a live-chat stream to respond to questions from viewers while reporting on Occupy Wall Street.[15] Pool also let his viewers direct him on where to shoot footage.[16] He modified a toy remote-controlled Parrot AR.Drone for aerial surveillance and modified software for live streaming into a system called DroneStream.[17][18] In mid-November 2011, Pool provided non-stop 21 hour coverage of Occupy Wall Street's eviction from Zuccotti Park.[19] Pool's use of live streaming video and aerial drones during Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011 led to an article in The Guardian querying whether such activities could take the form of counterproductive surveillance.[18] In January 2012, he was physically accosted by a masked assailant.[19][20] Also in January 2012, The Other 99 was disbanded following a feud between Pool and Ferry.[21][22] Pool had also planned on livestreaming occupy protests across the United States for a documentary called Occumentary, but it was never filmed.[13]
Pool's video taken during the protests was instrumental evidence in the acquittal of photographer Alexander Arbuckle, who had been arrested by the NYPD. The video showed that the arresting officer lied under oath, though no charges were filed.[23] While covering the NoNATO protests at the 2012 Chicago summit, Pool and four others were pulled over by a dozen Chicago police officers in unmarked vehicles. The group was removed from the vehicle at gunpoint, questioned, and detained for ten minutes. The reason given by police was that the team's vehicle matched a description.[24]
In the context of the Occupy movement, Pool's footage was aired on NBC and other mainstream networks.[14][17][25][26] According to the Washington Post, Pool "helped demonstrate to activists that livestreaming had potential as an alternative to depending on cable news coverage".[27] He was nominated as a Time* 100 personality in March 2012 for his importance to the Occupy movement, alongside David Graeber,[28] as *Time dubbed Pool "the eyes of the movement".[11]
In November 2011, Pool told On the Media, "I don't consider myself a journalist." "I consider myself an activist 100%." there "to support the movement."[29] In October 2012, he told El País that "I'm not an activist" and described himself as a journalist.[30] In 2018, Pool said that "I don't align with Occupy Wall Street and never did".[31] In 2021, he denounced the Occupy movement as "crooked".[32]
Vice and Fusion
After joining Vice Media, Pool began producing and hosting content and developed new methods of reporting.[33] In 2013, he reported on the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul with Google Glass.[34][33] In April 2013, Pool received a Shorty Award in the "Best Journalist in Social Media" category.[35] From 2013 to 2014, while working for Vice, Pool covered and live streamed the mass protests in Ukraine that led to the collapse of the Yanukovych government.[36] He also covered the Ferguson unrest and covered protests in Thailand, Turkey, and Egypt.[13]
In 2014, he joined Fusion TV as Director of Media innovation and Senior Correspondent.[37][38][39]
Independent work
As of 2021, Pool operates six YouTube channels, two of which, Timcast and Tim Pool, feature daily political commentary, with the third serving as a clip channel for Pool's podcast, Timcast IRL.[40][41]
In May 2022, it was estimated that Timcast IRL generated $65,824.86 in non-advertising revenue for YouTube across 100 videos on the Timcast IRL channel from October 2020 to November 2021. ^[42]
Journalism and commentary
Pool covered the 2016 Milwaukee riots. Pool said he would leave the area and stop reporting on these events, saying he thought it was dangerous due to perceived escalating "racial tensions".[43][44]
In February 2017, Pool traveled to Sweden to investigate claims of "no-go zones" and problems with refugees in the country. He launched a crowdfunding effort to do so after U.S. President Donald Trump alluded to crimes related to immigration in Sweden. InfoWars writer Paul Joseph Watson offered to pay for travel costs and accommodation for any reporter "to stay in crime-ridden migrant suburbs of Malmö."[45][46] Watson donated $2,000 to Pool's crowdfund to travel to Sweden.[13] While in Sweden, Pool largely disputed that migrant suburbs of Malmö and Stockholm were crime ridden, saying that Chicago is vastly more violent.[47][45][46] While filming in Rinkeby, a Stockholm suburb, Pool alleged that he had to be escorted by police, due to purported threats to his safety. Swedish police have disputed Pool's claims, stating, "Our understanding is that he didn't receive an escort. However, he followed the police who left the place."[48] The police stated that, "When Tim Pool took out a camera and started filming, a group of young people pulled their hoods up and covered their faces and shouted at him to stop filming. The officers then told Tim Pool that it was not wise to stay there in the middle of the square and keep filming."[48]
In November 2017, Pool created his second YouTube channel, Timcast News.[49]
In 2019, Podcaster Joe Rogan invited Pool onto his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, following an interview with Twitter founder Jack Dorsey. The two criticized the banning of Milo Yiannopoulos from Twitter, arguing that the provocateur had not truly encouraged his fans to harass Ghostbusters actress Leslie Jones.[50] The Atlantic contributor Devin Gordon criticized Rogan and Pool, stating that both men demonstrated a limited understanding of Twitter, censorship, and abuse during the discussion.[51] Rogan invited Pool and Dorsey, as well as Twitter chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde, back on his podcast. Pool described cases where he asserted conservatives were unfairly suspended on Twitter. In particular, Pool brought up the banning of Alex Jones and argued that Twitter rules against misgendering transgender users is ideological. Gadde said that Twitter is a free speech platform on which punishments are based on evaluation of consistently-applied harassment guidelines.[52][53]
In July 2019, Pool accepted an invitation to a White House event of Trump hosting internet personalities who President Trump claimed had been unfairly targeted for their conservative views. Disinformation researchers Erin Gallagher and Joan Donovan characterized the invitees as being far-right spreaders of disinformation.[54]
In August 2020, Trump liked a tweet published by Pool expressing sympathy and support for Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old boy from Antioch, Illinois then facing trial on charges of killing two people during the riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin for which he was ultimately acquitted.[55] Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., retweeted a statement by Pool describing how the case of Rittenhouse had convinced Pool to vote for Trump.[56][57][58][59][excessive ^citations]
A report from the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) said that Pool was a "superspreader" of falsehoods surrounding voter fraud before and after the 2020 United States presidential election.[60]
In August 2021, Pool criticized New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's COVID-19 vaccine passport mandate, as it did not have any exemptions for immunocompromised people or people with other disabilities.[61]
In April 2022, Pool and The Daily Wire CEO Jeremy Boreing purchased a billboard in Times Square to accuse Taylor Lorenz of doxxing the Twitter account Libs of TikTok. In response, Lorenz called the billboard "so idiotic it's hilarious".[62]
As of 2019 and 2020, Pool's audience was largely right-wing.[58][63][64]
Other
In 2014, Pool helped launch Tagg.ly, a mobile app that watermarks photos. Pool said he was interested in this kind of application due to experiences where others used his photographs without attribution.[65][66]
In 2019, he co-founded the news company Subverse, which raised $1 million in 22 hours via regulation crowdfunding in 2019, surpassing the previous record on Wefunder.[67] The service was later renamed SCNR. Pool partnered with Emily Molli and former Vice editor-in-chief Rocco Castoro, although Pool later fired both of them in January 2021.[68][69]
Views
In 2019, Vice, Pool's former employer, described him in separate articles as "lefty" and "progressive" for his anti-corporate politics, as well as "right-wing".[70][71] In 2019, Pool described himself as a social liberal who supports Bernie Sanders.[72] According to Politico, Pool's "views on issues including social media bias and immigration often align with conservatives".[72] According to Al Jazeera, "Pool has amplified claims that conservative media endure persecution and bias at the hands of tech companies."[73] Prior to Occupy Wall Street, Pool sometimes described himself as being anti-authoritarian or "pro-transparency", but did not think of himself as being very political.[13]
On August 24, 2020, Pool announced his support for Donald Trump in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, writing that he felt alienated by changes he perceived in the modern left.[58][68] In 2021, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) described Pool as "a pro-Trump social media personality" and a "reactionary".[74] On July 12, 2022, the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack included clips of a 2020 video from Pool as part of a montage of videos showing support for Trump's announced rally on January 6, identifying him as a "Pro-Trump YouTuber".[75]
Pool tends to reject a left/right political framework for both self-description and in other contexts, instead preferring to divide the public into those who are "discerning" and "skeptical regarding legacy media" and those who are "undiscerning" and "uninitiated".[76]: 210 He often discusses his impression that "the news is dying" and that it tends to skew towards liberal and left-leaning audiences as a result.[76]: 211
Personal life
Prior to the Occupy movement, Pool lived with his brother in Newport News, Virginia, where he played guitar and made skateboarding videos.[13][14]
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- Updated: August 7, 2021. Timothy Daniel Pool (born March 9, 1986) is an American YouTuber, political commentator and podcast host [5] [6] [7] who first became known for live streaming the 2011 Occupy Wall Street protests. [8] [9] He joined Vice Media and Fusion TV in 2014, later working alone on YouTube and other platforms.
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Mar 3, 2022Pool, full name Timothy Daniel Pool, was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 9, 1986. The 35-year-old YouTuber is widely known for his live streaming of the 2011 Occupy Wall Street protests. He later went on to join the news outlet and media company Vice Media.
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Dec 18, 2021Tim Pool Wiki (Early Life, Age) His birthplace is Chicago, Illinois, U.S, and his birthdate is 9 March 1986. His age is 35. His real name is Timothy Daniel Pool. By profession, he was a Journalist, Television Presenter, Author, Entrepreneur. His father's name and his mother's names are not mentioned in this article.
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Tim Pool on Twitter: "This is why they keep calling everyone "far right ...
Tim Pool @Timcast. This is why they keep calling everyone "far right" The right barely moved and the left has gone off the rails. ... Well Tim to be honest it's not JUST because of this. It's also that for a while (and continues to be in SOME circles) this was an effective attack on a position. ...
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Apr 8, 2021How much of it is small donations? Seems like she's backed by big money.
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