@dawgfood0612 sincerely curious for your response. I honestly haven’t read up on any of this. My gut is there was some funny business. But I haven’t joined the fray because I don’t have the facts. But this appears to be a legit issue.
Here is a little history on the Gateway Pundit:
In 2016, it posted articles about Hillary's health, one called,"Breaking:71% of Doctor's Say Hillary Health Concerns Serious, Possibly Disqualifying. There was no survey done, all made up.
Also in 2016, it published a report from the Internet Research Agency (which is a Russian troll farm, this is a great source), claiming fraud in Broward County in counting ballots. Great source there, good ole Vlad.
In November 2020, it falsely stated that a computer glitch in a county in Wisconsin moved 10,000 ballots from Trump to Biden. As AP said, it was an error in AP's reporting of the results, not the county. GP knew this, but published the article anyway.
In November 2020, it reported that Raffensberger had a brother named Ron who worked for a Chinese company. Raffensberger's brother is not named Ron, and he does not work for a Chinese company.
After the 2021 audit of Maricopa county was complete (which did not find massive fraud), the GP published an altered version of the auditor's report that falsely stated, "the election should not be certified and the reported results are not reliable." GP said it acquired the altered document from Patrick Byrne, a major donor and promoter of the audit.
It published a ton of claims about the two Georgia election workers, and was sued by the workers. In its defense, the GP said that its articles about the workers were" based on disclosed facts or statements of rhetorical hyperbole that no reasonable reader is likely to interpret as a literal statement of fact". Translation, we just made this sh*t up.
It also published that Obama was not born in the USA.
In 2018, it published on its site, "exclusive documents by a very credible witness" that Robert Mueller committed sexual misconduct in 1974. GP later removed the documents as on the day a women had accused Mueller of raping her in a hotel room in New York, Mueller was in Washington on jury duty. GP knew all this, but it posted the documents anyway.
This isn't everything, but a nice sample.
So excuse me if I don't believe one word that is posted on the Gateway Pundit, it is a total piece of crap.