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'''''TruNews''''' is an American ]<ref name="Thebault" /> ]<ref name="ADL20200113">{{cite news|url=https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/trunews-and-rick-wiles-end-times-anti-semitism-and-anti-zionism|title=TruNews and Rick Wiles: 'End Times' Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism|work=Anti-Defamation League|date=January 13, 2020|access-date=February 7, 2020|quote=TruNews is a fundamentalist Christian streaming news and opinion platform that has increasingly featured anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist content, and also has a long record of disseminating radical Islamophobic and anti-LGBTQ messages.}}</ref><ref name=Independent>{{cite web |url= https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/rick-wiles-vaccine-conspiracy-theory-b1942425.html |title= Right-wing radio host says Covid vaccines hatch eggs that grow into synthetic parasites within body as part of coup d'etat by 'evil cabal' |author= Sravasti Dasgupta |date= October 21, 2021 |access-date= July 9, 2023 |publisher= ] |quote= Mr Wiles has used the TruNews platform to peddle conspiracy theories and push racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic content.}}</ref><ref name=NYT>{{cite web |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/26/business/media/trunews-white-house-press-credentials.html |title= Site That Ran Anti-Semitic Remarks Got Passes for Trump Trip |author= Michael M. Grynbaum |publisher= ] |date= January 26, 2020 |access-date= July 9, 2023 |quote= TruNews, which Mr. Wiles founded as an online radio program in 1999 called America’s Hope, has a history of spreading conspiracy theories and proclaiming an imminent apocalypse. I}}</ref> and ]<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Grinberg |first1=Nir |last2=Joseph |first2=Kenneth |last3=Friedland |first3=Lisa |last4=Swire-Thompson |first4=Briony |last5=Lazer |first5=David |date=2019-01-25 |title=Fake news on Twitter during the 2016 U.S. presidential election |url=https://www.science.org/doi/suppl/10.1126/science.aau2706/suppl_file/aau2706_grinberg_sm.pdf |journal=Science |language=en |volume=363 |issue=6425 |pages=374–378 |doi=10.1126/science.aau2706 |pmid=30679368 |bibcode=2019Sci...363..374G |s2cid=59248491 |issn=0036-8075}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Guess |first1=Andy |last2=Aslett |first2=Kevin |last3=Tucker |first3=Joshua |last4=Bonneau |first4=Richard |last5=Nagler |first5=Jonathan |date=2021 |title=Cracking Open the News Feed: Exploring What U.S. Facebook Users See and Share with Large-Scale Platform Data |url=https://journalqd.org/article/view/2586 |journal=Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media |language=en |volume=1 |doi=10.51685/jqd.2021.006 |s2cid=236598470 |issn=2673-8813}}</ref> owned by ]. The website frequently publishes ], ], ], and ] content. It has been designated a ] by the ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map|title = Hate Map}}</ref> '''''TruNews''''' is an American ]<ref name="Thebault" /> ]<ref>{{Cite web |title=TruNews |url=https://www.trunews.com/ |access-date=2023-07-10 |website=www.trunews.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Grinberg |first1=Nir |last2=Joseph |first2=Kenneth |last3=Friedland |first3=Lisa |last4=Swire-Thompson |first4=Briony |last5=Lazer |first5=David |date=2019-01-25 |title=Fake news on Twitter during the 2016 U.S. presidential election |url=https://www.science.org/doi/suppl/10.1126/science.aau2706/suppl_file/aau2706_grinberg_sm.pdf |journal=Science |language=en |volume=363 |issue=6425 |pages=374–378 |doi=10.1126/science.aau2706 |pmid=30679368 |bibcode=2019Sci...363..374G |s2cid=59248491 |issn=0036-8075}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Guess |first1=Andy |last2=Aslett |first2=Kevin |last3=Tucker |first3=Joshua |last4=Bonneau |first4=Richard |last5=Nagler |first5=Jonathan |date=2021 |title=Cracking Open the News Feed: Exploring What U.S. Facebook Users See and Share with Large-Scale Platform Data |url=https://journalqd.org/article/view/2586 |journal=Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media |language=en |volume=1 |doi=10.51685/jqd.2021.006 |s2cid=236598470 |issn=2673-8813}}</ref> owned by ]. The website frequently publishes ], ], ], and ] content. It has been designated a ] by the ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map|title = Hate Map}}</ref>


==History== ==History==
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Wiles founded the organization as ''America's Hope'' in September 1998 as a ] based in the ]. In the following months, Wiles toured the U.S. speaking of moral decline as he aimed to prevent "economic collapse" and "war on American soil". On May 24, 1999, the organization made its first radio broadcast. After five years of regular broadcasts, the news station briefly changed its name to ''America Freedom News'', before settling on ''TruNews'' in 2004.<ref name="auto"/> Wiles founded the organization as ''America's Hope'' in September 1998 as a ] based in the ]. In the following months, Wiles toured the U.S. speaking of moral decline as he aimed to prevent "economic collapse" and "war on American soil". On May 24, 1999, the organization made its first radio broadcast. After five years of regular broadcasts, the news station briefly changed its name to ''America Freedom News'', before settling on ''TruNews'' in 2004.<ref name="auto"/>


In February 2020, TruNews was permanently banned from ]<ref name="permaban" />. TruNews continued to be available on ]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Roku |title=Roku |url=https://channelstore.roku.com/en-ot/details/06a8d0176ff5220b35a34694b8f293ba/trunews-with-rick-wiles |access-date=2023-07-10 |website=Roku |language=en}}</ref> and on the ].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-11-15 |title=‎TruNews |url=https://apps.apple.com/us/app/trunews/id880594743 |access-date=2023-07-10 |website=App Store |language=en-US}}</ref>
In February 2020, TruNews was permanently banned from ]<ref name="permaban" />.


==Controversies== ==Controversies==
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TruNews is known for promoting racist and antisemitic conspiracy theories. TruNews frequently described President ] as a "demon from hell".<ref name="Thebault">{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/30/news-outlet-that-covered-lizard-people-called-obama-demon-just-interviewed-trump-jr/|title=News outlet that covered 'lizard people' and called Obama a demon just interviewed Trump Jr. |last=Thebault |first=Reis|date=March 29, 2019|access-date=November 27, 2019 |newspaper=] |quote=The TruNews archive reads like a greatest hits collection of far-right conspiracy theories, a veritable potpourri of Nazi references and fear mongering about secret cabals.}}</ref> Obama, he claimed while the former president was in office, was the "jihadist-in-chief" who was "waging jihad against the United States from inside the White House" and murdered Supreme Court Justice ] as a "pagan sacrifice".<ref>{{cite news|last=Malaea|first=Marika|url=https://www.newsweek.com/florida-pastor-rick-wiles-claims-barack-obama-anonymous-author-warning-1470740|title=Florida Pastor Rick Wiles Claims Barack Obama is Anonymous Author of 'A Warning'|work=Newsweek|date=November 18, 2019|access-date=November 27, 2019}}</ref> TruNews is known for promoting racist and antisemitic conspiracy theories. TruNews frequently described President ] as a "demon from hell".<ref name="Thebault">{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/30/news-outlet-that-covered-lizard-people-called-obama-demon-just-interviewed-trump-jr/|title=News outlet that covered 'lizard people' and called Obama a demon just interviewed Trump Jr. |last=Thebault |first=Reis|date=March 29, 2019|access-date=November 27, 2019 |newspaper=] |quote=The TruNews archive reads like a greatest hits collection of far-right conspiracy theories, a veritable potpourri of Nazi references and fear mongering about secret cabals.}}</ref> Obama, he claimed while the former president was in office, was the "jihadist-in-chief" who was "waging jihad against the United States from inside the White House" and murdered Supreme Court Justice ] as a "pagan sacrifice".<ref>{{cite news|last=Malaea|first=Marika|url=https://www.newsweek.com/florida-pastor-rick-wiles-claims-barack-obama-anonymous-author-warning-1470740|title=Florida Pastor Rick Wiles Claims Barack Obama is Anonymous Author of 'A Warning'|work=Newsweek|date=November 18, 2019|access-date=November 27, 2019}}</ref>


In 2017,<!-- The source says "recently", the links indicate 2017. --> Wiles' guests included someone who claimed President ] is a flesh eating cannibal leading to his contraction of related diseases.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Mantyla|first=Kyle|title=Just Another Day On Trunews: Queen Elizabeth Is A Satanist Lizard And Bill Clinton Is A Cannibal|url=https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/just-another-day-on-trunews-queen-elizabeth-is-a-satanist-lizard-and-bill-clinton-is-a-cannibal/|access-date=2021-01-30|website=Right Wing Watch|date=8 May 2017|language=en-US}}</ref> Another asserted that Queen ] of the United Kingdom is a "lizard person" who had ] murdered because the Princess was in the process of revealing that the Royal Family was involved in satanism.<ref name="Elfrink">{{cite news |last1=Elfrink |first1=Tim |title=Trump Takes Question From Racist, Homophobic Florida Conspiracy Website |url=https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/trump-takes-question-from-racist-conspiracy-mongering-florida-website-trunews-10772931 |work=] |date=September 27, 2018|access-date=November 27, 2019}}</ref> He has also asserted that Israel and the "Jewish mafia" had President ] assassinated. Another edition of Wiles program claimed Israel and the "]" are pushing the United States to fight wars on their behalf.<ref name="ADL20200113"/> In 2017,<!-- The source says "recently", the links indicate 2017. --> Wiles' guests included someone who claimed President ] is a flesh eating cannibal leading to his contraction of related diseases.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Mantyla|first=Kyle|title=Just Another Day On Trunews: Queen Elizabeth Is A Satanist Lizard And Bill Clinton Is A Cannibal|url=https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/just-another-day-on-trunews-queen-elizabeth-is-a-satanist-lizard-and-bill-clinton-is-a-cannibal/|access-date=2021-01-30|website=Right Wing Watch|date=8 May 2017|language=en-US}}</ref> Another asserted that Queen ] of the United Kingdom is a "lizard person" who had ] murdered because the Princess was in the process of revealing that the Royal Family was involved in satanism.<ref name="Elfrink">{{cite news |last1=Elfrink |first1=Tim |title=Trump Takes Question From Racist, Homophobic Florida Conspiracy Website |url=https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/trump-takes-question-from-racist-conspiracy-mongering-florida-website-trunews-10772931 |work=] |date=September 27, 2018|access-date=November 27, 2019}}</ref> He has also asserted that Israel and the "Jewish mafia" had President ] assassinated. Another edition of Wiles program claimed Israel and the "]" are pushing the United States to fight wars on their behalf.<ref name="ADL20200113">{{cite news |date=January 13, 2020 |title=TruNews and Rick Wiles: 'End Times' Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism |work=Anti-Defamation League |url=https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/trunews-and-rick-wiles-end-times-anti-semitism-and-anti-zionism |access-date=February 7, 2020 |quote=TruNews is a fundamentalist Christian streaming news and opinion platform that has increasingly featured anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist content, and also has a long record of disseminating radical Islamophobic and anti-LGBTQ messages.}}</ref>


Wiles has asserted that the effects of ] upon the city of Houston, Texas, in September 2017 resulted from Houston's "] devotion";<ref>{{cite news|last=Pasha-Robinson|first=Lucy|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/gay-people-hurricane-harvey-blame-christian-leaders-texas-flooding-homosexuals-lgbt-a7933026.html|title=Gay people to blame for Hurricane Harvey, say evangelical Christian leaders|work=The Independent|location=London|date=September 6, 2017|access-date=November 27, 2019}}</ref> has described Judaism and Islam as "the ]"; has called Central American immigrants a "brown invasion" being used by God to punish White Americans for legal ];<ref name="Elfrink" /> has claimed that the ] was conducted by government death squads from a "gay/lesbian Nazi regime";<ref name="Thebault" /> and, in July 2018, predicted an imminent coup (led by CNN's ] and MSNBC's ]) that would result in the nationally televised decapitation of the ] on the White House lawn.<ref name="Elfrink" /><ref>{{Cite news|last=Williams|first=James|url=https://www.newstalkflorida.com/entertainment/florida-talk-show-host-rick-wiles-we-are-72-hours-away-from-an-attack-on-the-white-house/|title=Florida Talk Show Host Rick Wiles 'We Are 72 Hours Away From An Attack On The White House.'|date=July 23, 2018|website=News Talk Florida|access-date=November 30, 2019}}</ref> Wiles has asserted that the effects of ] upon the city of Houston, Texas, in September 2017 resulted from Houston's "] devotion";<ref>{{cite news|last=Pasha-Robinson|first=Lucy|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/gay-people-hurricane-harvey-blame-christian-leaders-texas-flooding-homosexuals-lgbt-a7933026.html|title=Gay people to blame for Hurricane Harvey, say evangelical Christian leaders|work=The Independent|location=London|date=September 6, 2017|access-date=November 27, 2019}}</ref> has described Judaism and Islam as "the ]"; has called Central American immigrants a "brown invasion" being used by God to punish White Americans for legal ];<ref name="Elfrink" /> has claimed that the ] was conducted by government death squads from a "gay/lesbian Nazi regime";<ref name="Thebault" /> and, in July 2018, predicted an imminent coup (led by CNN's ] and MSNBC's ]) that would result in the nationally televised decapitation of the ] on the White House lawn.<ref name="Elfrink" /><ref>{{Cite news|last=Williams|first=James|url=https://www.newstalkflorida.com/entertainment/florida-talk-show-host-rick-wiles-we-are-72-hours-away-from-an-attack-on-the-white-house/|title=Florida Talk Show Host Rick Wiles 'We Are 72 Hours Away From An Attack On The White House.'|date=July 23, 2018|website=News Talk Florida|access-date=November 30, 2019}}</ref>
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Wiles promoted ] conspiracy theories of ] while discussing the 2019 ] conference.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/far-right-show-trunews-fearmongers-youre-going-to-see-christianity-become-criminalized|last=Jensen|first=Tasia|title=Far-Right Show TruNews Fearmongers: You're Going to See 'Christianity Become Criminalized'|website=]|date=March 28, 2019|access-date= April 5, 2019}}</ref> He said on TruNews in November 2019 that the congressional hearing concerning the ] are "infested with Jews" and constitute a "Jew coup".<ref name="MacGuill">{{cite news|last=MacGuill|first=Dan|url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rick-wiles-trump-impeachment/|title=Did Pastor Rick Wiles Call Trump Impeachment a 'Jew Coup'?|work=Snopes|date=November 27, 2019|access-date=December 9, 2019}}</ref> He claimed: "That's the way the Jews work. They are deceivers. They plot, they lie, they do whatever they have to do to accomplish their political agenda" and asserted the United States would reach a state of civil war before Christmas. Millions of Christians would be murdered by Jews as a result.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/there-will-be-a-purge-u-s-pastor-warns-of-jew-coup-to-impeach-trump-1.8192950|title='There Will Be a Purge:' U.S. Pastor Warns of 'Jew Coup' to Impeach Trump|work=Haaretz|date=November 27, 2019|access-date=November 27, 2019}}</ref> Of the hoax '']'', Wiles said the authors had "accurately predicted what was going to happen in the world".<ref name="MacGuill" /> TruNews and Wiles have also claimed that the transgender rights movement is a Zionist plot to make all of humanity androgynous, that this supposed plot was inspired by Talmudic and Kabbalistic doctrines, and that it involves "putting specific things in food, in drink".<ref name="trans">{{Cite web|url=https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/trunews-zionism-is-using-the-transgender-rights-movement-to-make-all-of-humanity-androgynous/|title=TruNews: Zionism Is Using the Transgender Rights Movement to Make All of Humanity Androgynous|last=Mantyla|first=Kyle|website=Right Wing Watch|date=14 February 2020}}</ref><ref name="permaban">{{cite news|last=Slisco|first=Aila |url=https://www.newsweek.com/youtube-bans-anti-semitic-channel-trunews-after-founder-calls-trump-impeachment-jew-coup-1488375|title=YouTube Bans Anti-Semitic Channel TruNews After Founder Calls Trump Impeachment 'Jew Coup'|work=Newsweek|date=February 20, 2020|access-date=February 21, 2020}}</ref> Wiles promoted ] conspiracy theories of ] while discussing the 2019 ] conference.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/far-right-show-trunews-fearmongers-youre-going-to-see-christianity-become-criminalized|last=Jensen|first=Tasia|title=Far-Right Show TruNews Fearmongers: You're Going to See 'Christianity Become Criminalized'|website=]|date=March 28, 2019|access-date= April 5, 2019}}</ref> He said on TruNews in November 2019 that the congressional hearing concerning the ] are "infested with Jews" and constitute a "Jew coup".<ref name="MacGuill">{{cite news|last=MacGuill|first=Dan|url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rick-wiles-trump-impeachment/|title=Did Pastor Rick Wiles Call Trump Impeachment a 'Jew Coup'?|work=Snopes|date=November 27, 2019|access-date=December 9, 2019}}</ref> He claimed: "That's the way the Jews work. They are deceivers. They plot, they lie, they do whatever they have to do to accomplish their political agenda" and asserted the United States would reach a state of civil war before Christmas. Millions of Christians would be murdered by Jews as a result.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/there-will-be-a-purge-u-s-pastor-warns-of-jew-coup-to-impeach-trump-1.8192950|title='There Will Be a Purge:' U.S. Pastor Warns of 'Jew Coup' to Impeach Trump|work=Haaretz|date=November 27, 2019|access-date=November 27, 2019}}</ref> Of the hoax '']'', Wiles said the authors had "accurately predicted what was going to happen in the world".<ref name="MacGuill" /> TruNews and Wiles have also claimed that the transgender rights movement is a Zionist plot to make all of humanity androgynous, that this supposed plot was inspired by Talmudic and Kabbalistic doctrines, and that it involves "putting specific things in food, in drink".<ref name="trans">{{Cite web|url=https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/trunews-zionism-is-using-the-transgender-rights-movement-to-make-all-of-humanity-androgynous/|title=TruNews: Zionism Is Using the Transgender Rights Movement to Make All of Humanity Androgynous|last=Mantyla|first=Kyle|website=Right Wing Watch|date=14 February 2020}}</ref><ref name="permaban">{{cite news|last=Slisco|first=Aila |url=https://www.newsweek.com/youtube-bans-anti-semitic-channel-trunews-after-founder-calls-trump-impeachment-jew-coup-1488375|title=YouTube Bans Anti-Semitic Channel TruNews After Founder Calls Trump Impeachment 'Jew Coup'|work=Newsweek|date=February 20, 2020|access-date=February 21, 2020}}</ref>


In November 2019, TruNews was temporarily suspended from YouTube for violating its rules on promoting ].<ref name="Rudoren">{{cite news|last=Rudoren|first=Jodi|url=https://forward.com/news/435637/anti-semitism-social-media/|title=Far-Right Pastor Calls Impeachment A 'Jew Coup,' Begs Trump To 'Wake Up'|work=Forward|date=November 27, 2019|access-date=November 27, 2019}}</ref><ref name="MacGuill" /> Wiles has denied his rhetoric has antisemitic intent: "It's hard to say. I don't know. I can tell you from my heart there is no ill will toward the Jewish people, with all sincerity." He blamed ] for organizing a campaign against him.<ref name=NYT/> In February 2020, TruNews was permanently banned from YouTube.<ref name="permaban" /> In November 2019, TruNews was temporarily suspended from YouTube for violating its rules on promoting ].<ref name="Rudoren">{{cite news|last=Rudoren|first=Jodi|url=https://forward.com/news/435637/anti-semitism-social-media/|title=Far-Right Pastor Calls Impeachment A 'Jew Coup,' Begs Trump To 'Wake Up'|work=Forward|date=November 27, 2019|access-date=November 27, 2019}}</ref><ref name="MacGuill" /> Wiles has denied his rhetoric has antisemitic intent: "It's hard to say. I don't know. I can tell you from my heart there is no ill will toward the Jewish people, with all sincerity." He blamed ] for organizing a campaign against him.<ref name="NYT">{{cite web |author=Michael M. Grynbaum |date=January 26, 2020 |title=Site That Ran Anti-Semitic Remarks Got Passes for Trump Trip |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/26/business/media/trunews-white-house-press-credentials.html |access-date=July 9, 2023 |publisher=] |quote=TruNews, which Mr. Wiles founded as an online radio program in 1999 called America’s Hope, has a history of spreading conspiracy theories and proclaiming an imminent apocalypse. I}}</ref> In February 2020, TruNews was permanently banned from YouTube.<ref name="permaban" />


===USS ''Liberty'' survivors interviews=== ===USS ''Liberty'' survivors interviews===

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OwnerRick Wiles
URLtrunews.com
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LaunchedSeptember 1998; 26 years ago (1998-09)
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TruNews is an American far-right news website owned by Rick Wiles. The website frequently publishes racist, anti-LGBTQ+, antisemitic, and Islamophobic content. It has been designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

History

Wiles founded the organization as America's Hope in September 1998 as a Christian ministry based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area. In the following months, Wiles toured the U.S. speaking of moral decline as he aimed to prevent "economic collapse" and "war on American soil". On May 24, 1999, the organization made its first radio broadcast. After five years of regular broadcasts, the news station briefly changed its name to America Freedom News, before settling on TruNews in 2004.

In February 2020, TruNews was permanently banned from YouTube. TruNews continued to be available on Roku and on the Apple App Store.

Controversies

In October 2014, TruNews urged that the spread of Ebola "could solve America's problems with atheism, homosexuality, sexual promiscuity, pornography and abortion". In late January 2020, Wiles said COVID-19 was God's "death angel" and "plagues are one of the last steps of judgment."

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

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

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

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

In November 2019, TruNews was temporarily suspended from YouTube for violating its rules on promoting hate speech. Wiles has denied his rhetoric has antisemitic intent: "It's hard to say. I don't know. I can tell you from my heart there is no ill will toward the Jewish people, with all sincerity." He blamed George Soros for organizing a campaign against him. In February 2020, TruNews was permanently banned from YouTube.

USS Liberty survivors interviews

In May 2019, TruNews interviewed several survivors of the 1967 Israeli attack on the USS Liberty. Ultimately, TruNews produced a 4-episode docuseries titled Sacrificing Liberty (2020) which is composed entirely of interviews with USS Liberty survivors and British journalist Peter Hounam.

References

  1. ^ "About TruNews". TrueNews. Archived from the original on May 14, 2019. Retrieved June 28, 2019.
  2. "Whois Lookup Captcha". whois.domaintools.com. Retrieved June 7, 2021.
  3. ^ Thebault, Reis (March 29, 2019). "News outlet that covered 'lizard people' and called Obama a demon just interviewed Trump Jr". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 27, 2019. The TruNews archive reads like a greatest hits collection of far-right conspiracy theories, a veritable potpourri of Nazi references and fear mongering about secret cabals.
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