Jack Michael Posobiec III is an American alt-right political activist, television correspondent and presenter, conspiracy theorist, former United States Navy intelligence officer, and provocateur.
52 Facts About Jack Posobiec
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Jack Posobiec has repeatedly planted false and derogatory claims about political figures in an effort to damage his opponents.
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Jack Posobiec was a promoter of the Stop the Steal movement.
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From 2018 to 2021, Jack Posobiec was employed by One America News Network, a far-right cable news television channel, as a political correspondent and on-air presenter.
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Jack Posobiec left OANN in May 2021 to begin hosting a show for the conservative student organization Turning Point USA, and to join conservative news site Human Events as a senior editor.
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Jack Posobiec was born and raised in Norristown, Pennsylvania, to a family of Polish descent.
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Jack Posobiec attended Kennedy-Kenrick Catholic High School and went to college at Temple University.
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Jack Posobiec participated in a summer internship for US Senator Rick Santorum and volunteered for US Representative Curt Weldon's unsuccessful reelection campaign in 2006.
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Jack Posobiec graduated from Temple in 2006 with a double major in political science and broadcast journalism.
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Jack Posobiec played a minor role in the film The Forbidden Kingdom, which was released in 2008.
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Jack Posobiec later worked for WPHT, a conservative talk radio station, and then for the campaign of Steve Johnson in the 2010 Pennsylvania lieutenant gubernatorial election.
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Jack Posobiec served several years in the United States Navy Reserve from 2010 to 2017, reaching the rank of lieutenant junior grade.
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Jack Posobiec was deployed for ten months at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base from September 2012, and worked at the Office of Naval Intelligence, where he later worked again as a civilian.
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In March 2017, Jack Posobiec resigned from his full-time civilian position at ONI, saying that his support for Trump led to a "toxic work environment".
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On June 16,2017, Jack Posobiec disrupted a Shakespeare in the Park production of Julius Caesar that depicted the title character as a Trump-like figure.
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Jack Posobiec was prompted by Mike Cernovich, another alt-right conspiracy theorist, who had offered a $1,000 prize for anyone who interrupted a performance.
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Jack Posobiec was escorted from the event along with another protester, Laura Loomer, who was arrested for disorderly conduct after refusing to leave the stage.
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Jack Posobiec has supported other conservative political figures with similar tactics.
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Jack Posobiec promoted e-mails and files leaked to 4chan of Emmanuel Macron shortly before the French presidential election in 2017.
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Jack Posobiec celebrated the Macron leak at a party hosted by Milo Yiannopoulos.
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In July 2017, Jack Posobiec handed out flyers thanking Democratic senators for "protecting our quality violent porn content", including "ritual Satanic porn videos".
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Jack Posobiec organized a "Rally Against Political Violence" in Washington, DC, on June 25,2017, to condemn the shooting of Steve Scalise.
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In Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district special election in March 2018, Jack Posobiec supported Democrat Conor Lamb over Republican Rick Saccone.
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Jack Posobiec has published multiple posts containing the white supremacist code "1488", or the Fourteen Words, and supports the use of the slogan.
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In October 2016, Jack Posobiec posted a tweet that included triple parentheses, an antisemitic symbol.
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Jack Posobiec later tweeted that he had consistently disavowed white nationalism and violence.
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In June 2020, in Washington, DC's Lincoln Park, Jack Posobiec was shoved and chased for several minutes by a dozen protesters at the Emancipation Memorial.
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The protesters called Jack Posobiec, who was filming speakers, a Nazi and forced him from the park.
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Jack Posobiec tweeted later that he was "totally fine" but "filing an assault report with DC police".
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Between September 2016 and March 2017, Jack Posobiec described himself as having previously worked for CBS News in his Twitter profile.
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Between early April and May 2017, Jack Posobiec was employed by Rebel News, a far-right Canada-based website, as its Washington bureau chief, and was granted press access to the White House in April 2017.
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In May 2017, Jack Posobiec hired neo-Nazi brothers Jeffrey and Edward Clark to help create a documentary about the murder of Seth Rich for Rebel News.
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Jack Posobiec later said that he had never heard of Jeffrey Clark and had never made a documentary about Seth Rich, even though HuffPost published photographs of Jack Posobiec and the Clarks working together.
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Jack Posobiec left Rebel News after allegedly plagiarizing a video script from white supremacist Jason Kessler.
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Jack Posobiec left OANN in May 2021 to begin hosting a show for the conservative student organization Turning Point USA, and to join Human Events as a senior editor.
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Jack Posobiec has promoted many falsehoods, leading to Philadelphia calling him the "King of Fake News" in 2017.
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Jack Posobiec was one of the most prominent promoters on social media of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, which falsely claimed that high-ranking officials were involved in a child-sex ring centered at a Washington, DC pizzeria.
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Jack Posobiec live-streamed an investigation of the pizzeria and was asked to leave after attempting to broadcast a child's birthday party being held in a back room.
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Jack Posobiec later said he had always thought the Pizzagate theory was "stupid" and had filmed his visit to debunk it.
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Jack Posobiec denied his involvement to BuzzFeed News, but the same phone number was used in his contact with the website and the text messages he reportedly sent.
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Jack Posobiec said he had been questioned about it by the Secret Service.
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Jack Posobiec organized the DeploraBall, an event held on January 19,2017, to celebrate Trump's inauguration.
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In December 2016, Jack Posobiec claimed without evidence that Disney had re-written scenes in the Star Wars movie Rogue One to add "Anti Trump scenes calling him a racist", and called for a boycott of the Star Wars franchise.
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Jack Posobiec falsely said that former FBI director James Comey, at a United States Senate hearing on May 17,2017, "said under oath that Trump did not ask him to halt any investigation".
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Jack Posobiec promoted the discredited conspiracy theory that Seth Rich had leaked e-mails from the Democratic National Committee to WikiLeaks.
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Jack Posobiec promoted a hoax that CNN had published and then deleted an article defending Bill Maher's use of a racial slur.
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In June 2017, shortly after Republican congressman Steve Scalise was shot and injured during a baseball practice, along with four others, Jack Posobiec tweeted that it was a terrorist attack and blamed comments from liberal anti-Trump individuals.
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Alexander Vindman, a White House national security official and decorated Iraq war veteran, testified in Congress about President Trump requesting that the Ukrainian President investigate his political rival Joe Biden, Jack Posobiec falsely claimed that Vindman had been advising the Ukrainian government on ways to prevent Trump from implementing his foreign policy goals.
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In February 2023, Jack Posobiec tweeted a deep fake video depicting President Joe Biden announcing a military draft in response to a purported national security crisis.
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Jack Posobiec tweeted false Biden quotes from the fake video, before calling it "a sneak preview of things to come".
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From 2012 to 2016, Jack Posobiec ran a blog and podcast about Game of Thrones called AngryGoTFan.
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Jack Posobiec married in November 2017; he told BuzzFeed News that he met his wife in 2015.