For its coverage of the ongoing aftermath of the Capitol riot — specifically, how its participants are faring in the legal system — WorldNetDaily has recently taken to reprinting articles by the notoriously unreliable Gateway Pundit, who is currently being sued for defamation by two Georgia election workers whom the website falsely accused of adding election ballots from a suitcase. This happened again with a republishsed Sept. 2 article by the Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft:
22-year-old Nejourde Meacham died on August 28, 2021, two weeks after the Biden regime charged him with four misdemeanor crimes for walking inside the open doors on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
The Marxists arrested Jorde for this display
Jourde was just 22.
Another day of celebration on the left.
Jourde died on August 28th.
This will be another death ignored by Republican lawmakers.
In addition to getting the year of Meacham’s death wrong — it was 2023, not 2021 — and offering no evidence whatsoever that anyone on “the left” is celebrating Meacham’s death, Hoft undermined his manufactured outrage by embedding a tweet by author Ryan J. Reilly pointing out that Meacham was arrested for “four basic misdemeanors that often result in plea deals and probationary sentences.”In other words, the legal peril Meacham faced was not all that great; he was simply facing the consequences of his actions, and we thought right-wingers like Hoft supported criminals facing justice.
While Meacham’s suicide is tragic, most people don’t commit suicide over misdemeanor charges, suggesting that there may have been other mental health issues involved that haven’t been disclosed. Hoft and WND, meanwhile, are perfectly happy to exploit Meacham’s death to further the lie of election fraud in 2020 and falsely portray criminals as “political prisoners” — which may be the greater, and more avoidable, tragedy.