WorldNetDaily has long cited the discredited Gateway Pundit as a major source of content, and it did so again in reprinting a factually deficient June 26 Gateway Pundit screed by Cristina Laila:
Twice-failed presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton jumped on the Democrat trend and posted a message about Juneteenth.
Not one of these Democrats cared about Juneteenth or even knew what it was.
Barack Obama never tweeted about Juneteenth and he never gave a speech about the event.
On June 19 the US celebrates Juneteenth, a little-known date that was recently dug up to divert attention from the slave owner past of the Democrat Party and the real civil rights achievements by brave Republicans who fought to free the slaves.
All of a sudden the Democrats are obsessed with Juneteenth.
Joe Biden, a lifelong racist, signed a law making Juneteenth a federal holiday in 2021.
Laila offered no evidence that Biden is “a lifelong racist,” she deliberately gets the name of the Democratic Party wrong, and she refused to acknowledge that he was president. Further, just because Laila never cared about Juneteenth or even knew what it was doesn’t mean she’s accurate in asserting that Democrats thought so too. Indeed, Juneteenth has been celebrated as early as 1866, the year after news of the Emancipation Proclamation reached Texas, the origin of the celebration.
Given that all holidays are “made up,” Laila’s repeating of a quote from right-wing social media person Catturd that Juneteenth is “a made up holiday nobody even heard of” — which made it into WND’s headline — is nonsensical.