Pence Turning His Back on ‘Trump Nation’ Is the Only Story That Matters From Jan. 6, Says Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft – By Peter Montgomery (Right Wing Watch) / May 24 2021
Jim Hoft, founder and editor-in-chief of right-wing media site Gateway Pundit and longtime promoter of conspiracy theories, declared on “The Pete Santilli Show” last Friday that the 2020 election was a “landslide” victory for former President Donald Trump and that the only important development from Jan. 6 was former Vice President Mike Pence turning his back on “Trump nation” by refusing to block congressional affirmation of President Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory.
Santilli claimed that the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection was “staged” by anti-Trump operatives. Hoft offered his own take to Santilli’s listeners:
We all know what happened on Jan. 6, and the big story that day was when Vice President Pence turned his back on Trump nation. That’s the biggest story on that day. Nothing else mattered that day. The media’s been making up these lies about this insurrection, where people are peacefully walking through the U.S. Capitol.
Hoft claimed that everything the FBI has said about the insurrection was “an absolute lie.” Last June, Hoft suggested that it might be time to “disband the FBI” after the agency joined the Department of Homeland Security and the National Counterterrorism Center in distributing a memo warning law enforcement agencies that white supremacists and other right-wing extremists posed the “greatest threat of lethal violence” in the United States.
