Roger Stone protege Jack Posobiec has spread horrific lies and normalized antisemitism. He has 1.5 million Twitter followers.
By Jennifer Cohn, 11/27/21
One of America’s most prolific liars is a former naval intelligence officer-turned-far-right-agitator named Jack Posobiec. For those who are unaware, Posobiec is a protege of Roger Stone and a former correspondent” for One America News Network (OANN). He recently left OANN to partner with Turning Point USA, a non profit run by another far right agitator named Charlie Kirk. TPUSA targets kids (kindergarten through college) for far right brainwashing.
Alarmingly, Posobiec remains influential in right wing circles. He is a frequent guest on Steve Bannon’s podcast and has maintained 1.5 million Twitter followers despite having deceived right wing voters for years. On the off chance that some of these voters are unaware of Posobiec’s history of deception, I decided to prepare this compilation.
In 2016, Posobiec helped spread the lie that Hillary Clinton and other high profile Democrats were imprisoning and torturing children as part of a pedophile ring in the basement of a pizzeria whose owner, James Alefantis, was a large Democratic donor. The far right used the #Pizzagate hashtag to spread this lie on Twitter. On November 16, 2016, Posobiec broadcast a video of himself purporting to “infiltrate” the pizzeria to look for the staircase to the non-existent basement. After crashing a child’s birthday party in the back of the…