Yesterday West was sued over a piece blaming an innocent man for "staging" the deadly Nazi terror attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, last year. The article, published August 19, 2017, alleged Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros and the so-called deep state orchestrated a false-flag attack at the Unite the Right rally. Along with Alex Jones of
Instead of accepting the sane truth that Gilmore was in the right place at the right time to accidentally catch a neo-Nazi attack on video, West and his fellow crew of conspiratorial demagogues instead took a different tack: They accused Gilmore of helping secret government forces stage the assault.
West's post said that Gilmore had "a long history of involvement in
In reality, Gilmore says that although he indeed works for the State Department in the Central African Republic, he is on unpaid leave and attended the Unite the Right rally last year because he lives in Virginia and wanted to protest white supremacy and neo-Nazism.
Gilmore is now suing West, Jones, Hoft, and others for defamation and says he will refuse to settle with any of them. Gilmore is demanding his day in court, and the case could become a pivotal moment in the bizarre information war in which America is embroiled under President Trump.
"He attended the protest against the 'Unite the Right' rally because he opposes racism and bigotry, not because he was sent there by the State Department or any other 'deep state' or covert operation," the lawsuit reads. Gilmore says that after the websites accused him of being a deep-state shill, he was harassed by waves of people on social media, and someone tried to hack into his personal accounts.
As New Times reported last year, West, who now lives in Dallas, has turned his career as a failed Tea Party congressman into a lucrative web empire: He contracted with the company Liberty Alliance to turn his social media pages into clickbait-generating websites for old people and Fox News viewers. The company works only with people who have large social media followings, and West used the followers he earned as a congressman to begin pumping nonsense into the American psyche. He now boasts more than 727,000 Twitter followers, 2.7 million Facebook fans, and a website that, as of 2016, rivaled the Miami Herald's in terms of homepage visits, according to the web-traffic-tracking site Alexa.com.Video of car hitting anti-racist protestors. Let there be no confusion: this was deliberate terrorism. My prayers with victims. Stay home. pic.twitter.com/MUOZs71Pf4
— Brennan Gilmore (@brennanmgilmore) August 12, 2017
In the past two years
Of course, West has succeeded as a viral-news publisher because his website is as predictably insane as his political career. Reading his site is akin to scrolling through Breitbart after waking up from general anesthesia: West seems to live in a surreal world where immigrants are coming to kill us and need to be deported, Muslims want to behead our daughters, Florida's Republican Gov. Rick Scott is a gun-grabbing liberal, George Soros controls everything you disagree with, and any person who doesn't own an AR-15 is a fascist. West himself does not write every one of his posts (though he does contribute some), but whoever is writing the stories does not seem to have a basic grasp of English grammar. Every post is written in nearly incomprehensible prose that sounds like it's been run through Google Translate three times.
Check out these paragraphs from a recent story, "While Trump Literally Made History With North Korea, Check Out What Obama Was Off Doing." The spelling and grammar have not been altered — try reading those last two sentences aloud:
But while Trump is making this historic move, what has former President Barack Obama been doing. Remember, it’s the Clinton White House that made a ‘deal’ that was supposed to make sure North Korea would never get nukes. Of course, that was a deal with no teeth.Some other recent headlines include:
And it was Barack Obama when information came in that North Korea was working on miniaturizing nukes to put on ballistic missiles, did nothing to address it. He was “strategically patient” while they worked toward this point to be a real threat.
- "This One Fact Should Absolutely Shame Everyone Attacking the NRA"
- "Student Says ‘There Are Only 2 Genders’ in Class, the School’s Reaction Spells DOOM for America"
- "Something Is Not Right: Throughout the Course of 15 Minute Speech, Nancy Pelosi Suffers 16 ‘Brain Freezes’"
In several previous libel cases,
West has not yet responded publicly to the suit and doesn't have an attorney listed in the federal case. ButMy interview with MSNBC this morning on what we witnessed yesterday, and the real danger we face going forward. https://t.co/oS5yGYmLdm
— Brennan Gilmore (@brennanmgilmore) August 13, 2017
Gilmore says it's exactly those kinds of baseless accusations that have seriously affected his life since the "false flag" stories were first published on the far-right sites.Unhinged Leftie Hack Files Lawsuit Full of Lies and Bogus Accusations Against Gateway Pundit, Alex Jones, Allen West, Lee Stranahan, etc. @Infowars @Stranahan @AllenWest @PrisonPlanet https://t.co/2M27erx3IS
— Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) March 13, 2018
"Defendants West and Wilburn’s statements were designed to injure Mr. Gilmore’s reputation,