The White House reportedly credentialed a far-right news outlet, which has propagated anti-Semitism, so that members of the organization could travel to the World Economic Forum.
Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart, and Edward Szall of TruNews held their Monday night broadcast from Davos, Switzerland, where the forum is being held. Wiles, during the broadcast, thanked President Trump and the White House for “extending the invitation to be” at the event. CNN anchor Jake Tapper noted that the White House Correspondents’ Association confirmed to him that the White House credentialed the news outlet. The WHCA told the Washington Examiner it has reached out to the White House about it.
“Your TruNews team will be in the World Economic Forum, starting Tuesday,” Wiles announced at the end of last week, according to Right Wing Watch. “We were officially invited by the White House to cover President Trump’s speech to the assembled globalists. Now, we did not seek to go to this global event; it was the White House that invited us at the last minute.”
Virulent anti-Semite Rick Wiles, who recently declared that impeachment was a “Jew coup,” broadcast his program last night from the World Economic Forum after once again receiving press credentials from the White House. https://t.co/lFrTHtFoTe pic.twitter.com/CsYXGdGDQ6
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) January 22, 2020
TruNews and Wiles, the outlet’s founder, has an extensive history of pushing anti-Semitic claims. Last November, Wiles claimed that the impeachment investigation into Trump was part of a “Jew coup” intent on “overthrow[ing] the constitutionally elected president of the United States” in order to install a “Jewish cabal.”
Earlier this month, TruNews announced that multiple payment companies, including PayPal, Bloomberang, and Spreedly, had stopped processing its donations, according to their website. Wiles alleged that PayPal’s decision to terminate its account was a direct result of a report they published on Jan. 2 claiming that billionaire convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was an Israeli spy and that Ghislaine Maxwell, his personal confidante, was his handler.
TruNews was also credentialed for the G-20 Summit in Osaka, Japan, in June.
The White House and TruNews did not respond to requests for comments.
