A Pizzagate truther is covering the Trump-Putin summit because that's the world we live in now

[turbinetree]

Love my hellscape timeline.

LUKE BARNES JUL 16, 2018, 2:02 PM

If you’re lucky enough not to be familiar with Jack Posobiec, here’s a brief rundown of his glittering career. Posobiec is a noted pro-Trump troll, famous for spreading the utterly implausible conspiracy theory that a D.C. pizza parlor was actually a front for a Santanic child sex ring. His far-right antics got him banned from the dating app Bumble.

In other words, in our current political moment, he’s the ideal candidate to cover the Helsinki summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.

The president has spent a good portion of his European tour lambasting journalists as “fake news” and “enemies of the people”. On Friday during a press conference with British Prime Minister Theresa May, Trump outright refused to answer questions from CNN. In Helsinki, an op-ed reporter with The Nation magazine was forcibly removed after holding up a sign that read “Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.”

But despite this clampdown on journalists — and Posobiec’s own checkered history — Posobiec was still able to get a press pass in Helsinki as part of One America News Network (OAN).

https://thinkprogress.org/pizzagate-truther-covering-the-trump-putin-summit-59cb67ab652f/

[Solly Mack]

1. After years of the outrageous driving my mind closer and closer to the edge

my mind now teeters on that edge knowing it will be the inane that finally pushes it off.

[Initech]

2. If you were to look up the word "tool" in the dictionary you'd see his picture!