Jack Posobiec

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Jack Posobiec
Jack Posobiec 2020 (cropped).jpg
Posobiec in 2020
Born John Michael Posobiec III
(1985-12-14) December 14, 1985 (age 38)
Norristown, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Alma mater Temple University (BA)
Occupation
  • Political activist
  • news correspondent
Employer One America News Network
Political party Republican

John Michael Posobiec III (born December 14, 1985) is an American conservative journalist who reports for One America News Network. A veteran intelligence official and Mandarin linguist, he is the author of Citizens for Trump and 4D Warfare. Posobiec is a Catholic and has been censored by Big Tech companies for his moderately politically incorrect views.

Career

Born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, Posobiec served several tours in the Navy Reserve from 2010 to 2017, reaching the rank of lieutenant junior grade. He was deployed for ten months at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base from September 2012, and worked at the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), where he later worked again as a civilian.[1][2]

During the 2016 election, Posobiec was a special projects director of Citizens for Trump, a pro-Trump organization,[3] but not an official group.[4] In March 2017, Posobiec resigned from his full-time civilian position at ONI, saying that his support for Trump led to a "toxic work environment." As of August 2017, his security clearance was suspended[2] and was under review.[5]

Political activities

Posobiec describes himself as a "Republican political operative". During the 2016 election, Posobiec was a special projects director of the political organization Citizens for Trump.

He said in 2017 that his work was "reality journalism—part investigative, part activist, part commentary",[6][7] and that "I'm willing to break the fourth wall. I'm willing to walk into an anti-Trump march and start chanting anti-Clinton stuff—to make something happen, and then cover what happens."[8]

On June 16, 2017, Posobiec disrupted a Shakespeare in the Park production of Julius Caesar that depicted the title character as a President Trump-like figure. Posobiec was prompted by Mike Cernovich- another journalist who had offered a $1,000 prize for anyone who interrupted a performance.[9] "You are all Goebbels, you are all Nazis like Joseph Goebbels", he shouted at the audience in a video he posted on Twitter.[2] Posobiec was escorted from the event along with another protester Laura Loomer, who was arrested for disorderly conduct after refusing to leave the stage.[10]

Posobiec has supported other conservative political figures with similar tactics. He promoted e-mails and files leaked to 4chan of Emmanuel Macron shortly before the French presidential election in 2017.[3] In a video shot for Rebel Media, he promoted the candidacy of Marine Le Pen of the National Front.[11] Posobiec celebrated the Macron leak at a party hosted by Milo Yiannopoulos. In October 2017, Posobiec and Cernovich formed a super PAC called #Rev18 and announced its support for Josh Mandel in the 2018 U.S. Senate election in Ohio.[12] In July 2017, Posobiec handed out flyers thanking Democratic senators for "protecting our quality violent porn content", includ porn videos". The flyers were distributed outside the U.S. Senate at a demonstration in support of net neutrality.[13]

Posobiec organized a rally against political violence in Washington, D.C. on June 25, 2017 to condemn the shooting of Scalise. Richard Spence alt-right figure who organized a separate, competing rally at the same time, ridiculed Posobiec's event and called it "pathetic".[14] In Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district special election in March 2018, Posobi supported Democrat Conor Lamb Republican Rick Saccone. Posobiec described Lamb as a "Pro-Trump Dem veteran".[15]

Posobiec's social media and political activities are linked to white nationalist movements. He has published multiple posts containing the white nationalist code "1488", or the Fourteen Words, and supports the use of the slogan. In October 2016, Posobiec posted a tweet that included triple parentheses, generally considered to be an antisemitic symbol. In response to a 2017 Anti-Defamation League report on the alt-right, which included Posobiec, he tweeted a selfie of his visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial in Poland: "The @ADL_National would be wise to remember what happened the last time people made lists of undesirables".

In August 2017, following the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that led to clashes between white nationalists and violent "anti-racist" counterprotesters, Posobiec said that the rally had become massive propaganda for the left and that the mainstream media was "fanning the flames of this violence." He said that Trump should have disavowed Black Lives Matter. Posobiec later tweeted that he had consistently disavowed white nationalism and violence.[10] He also tweeted that he was "done with trolling" and that it was "time to do the right thing." Posobiec has been condemned for frequently tweeting about white genocide.

In June 2020, in Washington, D.C.'s Lincoln Park, Posobiec was shoved and chased for several minutes by a dozen rioters at the Emancipation Memorial, which depicts an African American man kneeling at the feet of President Abraham Lincoln. The protesters called Posobiec, who was filming speakers, a Nazi and forced him from the park. Police arrived in a van and, after trying to quell the fracas, helped Posobiec into the van before driving away. Posobiec tweeted later that he was "totally fine" but "filing an assault report with DC police".[16][17]

Media work

Posobiec was employed from early April 2017 to May 2017 by Rebel News, an alt-right Canada-based website, as its Washington bureau chief.[3] and was granted press access to the White House in April 2017. According to Philadelphia magazine, during his short time in the White House press pool Posobiec "seems to have been charged in the press briefing room with haranguing legitimate journalists and running out the clock on press conferences with inane softball questions and Dear Leader obsequiousness."[citation needed]

In May 2017, Posobiec hired brothers Jeffrey and Edward Clark to help create a documentary about the murder of Seth Rich for Rebel News. Jeffrey Clark was arrested by the FBI on gun charges after saying that the Jewish victims of the October 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting "deserved exactly what happened to them and so much worse".[18] Posobiec later said that he had never heard of Jeffrey Clark and had never made a documentary about Seth Rich, even though HuffPost published photographs of Posobiec and the Clarks working together.[19][20] He left Rebel News after allegations were made that he had engaged in plagiarism.[21]

As of 2018, Posobiec was working as a correspondent for One America News Network (OANN), a conservative cable news television channel.[22] He has presented the pro-Hitler online poster, known as Microchip, on One America News Network in September 2018 without indicating that person's affiliations, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. The website said the two men have worked together in spreading disinformation for several years including the false claims propagated in Pizzagate.[23]

Controversies

Posobiec has been condemned by many politically correct organizations, including Philadelphia magazine, which nicknamed him the "King of Fake News" in 2017.[21] He was one of the most prominent promoters on social media of Pizzagate, which claimed that high-ranking officials were involved in a child-sex ring centered at a Washington, D.C. pizzeria.[21][24] He live-streamed an investigation of the pizzeria and was asked to leave after attempting to broadcast a child's birthday party being held in a back room.[25] Posobiec later said he had always thought the Pizzagate theory was "stupid" and claimed he had filmed his visit to debunk it.[21]

Posobiec attempted to discredit anti-Trump protesters in November 2016 by planting a sign at a protest reading "Rape Melania".[26][27][28] Posobiec denied his involvement to BuzzFeed News, but the same phone number was used in his contact with the website and the text messages he reputedly sent.[29] He said he had been questioned about it by the Secret Service.[21] Posobiec organized the DeploraBall, an event held on January 19, 2017, to celebrate Trump's inauguration.[30]

In December 2016, Posobiec claimed that The Walt Disney Company had re-written scenes in the Star Wars movie Rogue One to add "Anti Trump scenes calling him a racist", and called for a boycott of the Star Wars franchise. Disney denied the allegations.[31]

Posobiec said that former FBI director James Comey, at a United States Senate hearing on May 17, 2017, "said under oath that Trump did not ask him to halt any investigation". The claim was later repeated by conservative personalities and media outlets, including Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and the InfoWars website.[7] Posobiec claimed that Seth Rich had leaked e-mails from the Democratic National Committee to WikiLeaks.[3] Posobiec claimed that CNN had published and then deleted an article defending Bill Maher's use of a racial slur.[32]

In June 2017, shortly after Republican congressman Steve Scalise was shot and injured during a baseball practice, along with four others, Posobiec tweeted that it was a terrorist attack and blamed comments from liberal anti-Trump individuals. Later, he tweeted that former United States Attorney General Loretta Lynch had called for "blood in the streets" the previous March[33] and that Bernie Sanders had ordered his followers to "take down" Trump.[34]

In December 2017, Posobiec, along with Cernovich, The Gateway Pundit, and InfoWars, claimed that a passenger train derailment near Dupont, Washington, was linked to the violent Antifa anti-fascist movement.[35]

In October 2019, after Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a White House national security official and Iraq war veteran, testified in Congress about President Trump requesting that the Ukrainian President investigate his political rival Joe Biden, Posobiec claimed that Vindman had been advising the Ukrainian government on ways to prevent Trump from implementing his foreign policy goals.[36]

In June 2020, during the rioting and looting in the wake of the death of George Floyd, Posobiec claimed that there were pipe bombs planted at the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. and that "federal assets [were] in pursuit". Though such claims were denied by politically correct organizations, it was picked up by The Gateway Pundit and retweeted by over 29,000 Trump-supporting users on Twitter.

Personal life

From 2012 to 2016, Posobiec ran a blog and podcast about Game of Thrones called AngryGoTFan.[1] Posobiec married in November 2017.[37]

References

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