Gateway Pundit’s White House correspondent promotes rally with white nationalist and “special guest” Matt Forney

Forney has previously worked for holocaust deniers, declared “everyone hates blacks,” and claimed women “want” to be “raped”

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In a tweet promoting a “Rally Against Leftist Violence,” Gateway Pundit White House correspondent Lucian Wintrich announced the event would feature white nationalist Matt Forney as a “special guest.”

Can't wait to see y'all Sunday! Rally Against Leftist Violence 12:00-3:00PM. White House. MAJOR names. EXCITING prizes. FUN surprises. pic.twitter.com/9kXbBxwSEu

— Lucian B. Wintrich (@lucianwintrich) June 22, 2017

“Special guest” Matt Forney is a white nationalist previously employed by Red Ice Radio, an anti-semitic online media outlet that promotes Holocaust denialism. Red Ice Radio has previously promoted YouTube videos with titles including “Eric Hunt - The Shoah: The Biggest Hoax of the 20th Century?,” “Ole Dammegard - Making Critical Thinking Illegal: Questioning the Holocaust,” and “David Cole - The Truth Behind the Gates of Auschwitz.”



Prior to his upcoming appearance at the “Rally Against Leftist Violence,” Forney described the children of interracial marriages as “almost always fucked in the head,” claimed “we need strict black control and Muslim control,” claimed “Mexicans are a fifth column in the U.S.,” and declared “Let’s just be honest: everyone hates blacks.” Forney has additionally claimed “Jews support gun control because their limp wrists make it impossible for them to shoot straight.”



Furthermore, Forney has said women “want” to be “raped” and “beat[en]”, and claimed “Blacks do nothing but murder cops, rob and rape people, and bring death and destruction wherever they go.” In a profile in Slate, Michelle Goldberg wrote that Forney said “he’s been gratified by the way the Donald Trump campaign has made his views less taboo.”

UPDATE: Wintrich is disavowing responsibility for the “flyer” and claims that he posted it without reservation because it has “the correct time/place.”

If folks want to troll by designing our flyers I'm all for it as long as they have the correct time/place.

— Lucian B. Wintrich (@lucianwintrich) June 22, 2017

On June 23, Forney posted a YouTube stream with homophobic attacks where he stated that Wintrich had promoted a “joke flyer,” clarified that he thinks feminists “want women to be raped,” and criticized the current in-fighting and divisions occuring in the “alt-right.”