During the 2016 election, Posobiec was a special projects director of Citizens for Trump, apro-Trump organization[20] but not an official group.[21] In March 2017, Posobiec resigned from his full-time civilian position at ONI, saying that his support for Trump led to a "toxic work environment". As of August 2017, hissecurity clearance was suspended[19] and was under review.[22]
Political activities
Posobiec describes himself as a "Republican political operative".[23] During the 2016 election, Posobiec was a special projects director of the political organization Citizens for Trump.[20]Semafor found he was by far the most influential voice with dozens of Republican strategists going into the 2024 campaign season.[24]
He said in 2017 that his work was "reality journalism—part investigative, part activist, part commentary",[25][26] and that "I'm willing to break the fourth wall. I'm willing to walk into an anti-Trump march and start chanting anti-Clinton stuff—to make something happen, and then cover what happens."[18]Will Sommer, then an editor atThe Hill, said in 2017 that Posobiec "make[s] stuff up, relentlessly", and that "there's no one at that level."[27]
On June 16, 2017, Posobiec disrupted aShakespeare in the Park production ofJulius Caesar that depicted the title character as a Trump-like figure. Posobiec was prompted byMike Cernovich, another alt-right conspiracy theorist, who had offered a $1,000 prize for anyone who interrupted a performance.[28] "You are all Goebbels, you are all Nazis likeJoseph Goebbels", he shouted at the audience in a video he posted on Twitter.[19] Posobiec was escorted from the event along with another protester,Laura Loomer, who was arrested fordisorderly conduct after refusing to leave the stage.[23]
Posobiec organized a "Rally Against Political Violence" inWashington, D.C., on June 25, 2017, to condemn theshooting of Steve Scalise.Richard Spencer, another alt-right figure who organized a separate, competing rally at the same time, ridiculed Posobiec's event and called it "pathetic".[32] In November 2017, Posobiec encouraged his Twitter followers to target a woman at her workplace after she came forward withallegations that Alabama Senate candidateRoy Moore had attempted to have sex with her when she was 14 years old.[33][34] InPennsylvania's 18th congressional district special election in March 2018, Posobiec supported DemocratConor Lamb over RepublicanRick Saccone. Posobiec described Lamb as a "Pro-Trump Dem veteran".[35]
In June 2020, in Washington, D.C.'sLincoln Park, Posobiec was shoved and chased for several minutes by a dozenprotesters at theEmancipation Memorial. The protesters called Posobiec, who was filming speakers, a Nazi and forced him from the park. Police arrived in a van and, after trying to quell the disturbance, helped Posobiec into the van before driving away. Posobiec tweeted later that he was "totally fine" but "filing an assault report with DC police".[36][37]
In 2022, Posobiec wrote on Twitter "86 46", apparently referring to the president at the time,Joe Biden; in 2025, after James Comey published a photo of seashells in the pattern of "86 47", Posobiec accused Comey of urging "assassins to target our president [Donald Trump] and kill him", as Posobiec demanded Comey be arrested.[38]
On February 22, 2024, Posobiec, speaking at theConservative Political Action Conference, welcomed the "end of democracy," before adding that "we are here to overthrow it completely." Praising theJanuary 6 United States Capitol attack, he then endeavored to "get rid of it and replace it with this right here"—holding his fist in the air. Clips of his remarks were widely shared on social media.[39]
In September 2024, Posobiec was hired by theRepublican National Committee to train volunteer election monitors in Michigan and Wisconsin. At the Michigan event, he described them as the "final line of defense against the encroaching Marxism."[42]
In February 2025, Posobiec participated in Treasury SecretaryScott Bessent's visit to Ukraine and said he met with Ukrainian PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyy during the visit. He was also invited to participate in Defense SecretaryPete Hegseth's overseas trip abroad to Germany, Belgium and Poland as a media representative.[43]
Ties to far-right extremists
Posobiec's social media and political activities are linked toneo-Nazi andwhite supremacist movements. He has published multiple posts containing the white supremacist code "1488", or theFourteen Words, and supports the use of the slogan.[9][10][44][45] The 88 stands for HH, orHeilHitler.[46][47] In October 2016, Posobiec posted atweet that includedtriple parentheses, anantisemitic symbol.[8] In response to a 2017Anti-Defamation League report on the alt-right, which included Posobiec, he tweeted a selfie of his visit to theAuschwitz-Birkenau Memorial in Poland: "The @ADL_National would be wise to remember what happened the last time people made lists of undesirables".[44]
In April 2017, Posobiec promoted on Twitter an event staged byObóz Narodowo-Radykalny (ONR), a Polishneo-fascist movement that bombed Jewish homes in the 1930s.[48][49] Posobiec later deleted his tweet promoting the event.[49]
In August 2017, following the2017 Unite the Right rally inCharlottesville, Virginia, that led to violent clashes betweenwhite nationalists and counter-protesters, Posobiec said that the rally had become "massive propaganda" for the left and that the mainstream media was "fanning the flames of this violence." He said that Trump should have disavowedBlack Lives Matter. Posobiec later tweeted that he had consistently disavowedwhite nationalism and violence.[23] He also tweeted that he was "done with trolling" and that it was "time to do the right thing." Posobiec has frequently tweeted about thewhite genocide conspiracy theory.[7][50]
In November 2018, Posobiec participated in a march onWarsaw together with ONR, Canadian white nationalistStefan Molyneux and other far-right groups.[51][48]
Between September 2016 and March 2017, Posobiec described himself as having previously worked forCBS News in his Twitter profile. CBS News told the Southern Poverty Law Center in 2020 that he had never worked for them.[45]
Between early April and May 2017, Posobiec was employed byRebel News, afar-right[60] Canada-based website, as its Washington bureau chief,[20] and was granted press access to theWhite House in April 2017. According toPhiladelphia magazine, Posobiec "seem[ed] to have been charged in the press briefing room with haranguing legitimate journalists and running out the clock on press conferences with inane softball questions andDear Leader obsequiousness" during his short time in the White House press pool.[16]
In May 2017, Posobiec hired neo-Nazi brothersJeffrey and Edward Clark to help create a documentary about themurder of Seth Rich forRebel News. Jeffrey Clark was arrested by the FBI on gun charges after saying that the Jewish victims of the October 2018Pittsburgh synagogue shooting "deserved exactly what happened to them and so much worse".[61] Posobiec later said that he had never heard of Jeffrey Clark and had never made a documentary about Seth Rich, even thoughHuffPost published photographs of Posobiec and the Clarks working together.[62][63] He leftRebel News after allegedlyplagiarizing a video script from white supremacistJason Kessler.[64][65]
From 2018 to 2021,One America News Network (OANN), a far-right TV network known for promoting conspiracy theories, employed Posobiec as a political correspondent and on-air presenter.[14] In September 2018, he presented the pro-Hitler online poster known as Microchip on the network without indicating that person's affiliations, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. The SPLC said the two men had worked together in spreading disinformation for several years, including the false claims propagated in Pizzagate". Microchip also praisedAtomwaffen Division, a neo-Nazi group responsible for multiple murders.[66]
Posobiec left OANN in May 2021 to begin hosting a show for the conservative student organizationTurning Point USA, and to joinHuman Events as a senior editor.[14] He has worked as a contributor forNewsweek.[67][68]
Conspiracy theories, falsehoods, and unsubstantiated claims
Posobiec has promoted many falsehoods,[27] leading toPhiladelphia calling him the "King of Fake News" in 2017.[16] He was one of the most prominent promoters onsocial media of thePizzagate conspiracy theory, which falsely claimed that high-ranking officials were involved in achild-sex ring centered at a Washington, D.C., pizzeria.[16][12] Helive-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.[69] Posobiec later said he had always thought the Pizzagate theory was "stupid" and had filmed his visit to debunk it.[16]
Posobiec attempted to discreditanti-Trump protesters in November 2016 by planting a sign at a protest reading "Rape Melania".[70][71][72] Posobiec denied his involvement toBuzzFeed News, but the same phone number was used in his contact with the website and the text messages he reportedly sent.[73] He said he had been questioned about it by theSecret Service.[16] Posobiec organized theDeploraBall, an event held on January 19, 2017, to celebrateTrump's inauguration.[74]
In December 2016, Posobiec claimed without evidence thatDisney had re-written scenes in theStar Wars movieRogue One to add "Anti Trump scenes calling him a racist", and called for a boycott of theStar Wars franchise. Disney denied the allegations.[75]
Posobiec falsely said that former FBI directorJames Comey, at aUnited States Senate hearing on May 17, 2017, "said under oath that Trump did not ask him to halt any investigation". The claim was later repeated by conservative personalities and media outlets, includingFox News,Rush Limbaugh and theInfoWars website.[26] Posobiec promoted the discredited conspiracy theory thatSeth Rich had leaked e-mails from theDemocratic National Committee toWikiLeaks.[20] Posobiec promoted a hoax thatCNN had published and then deleted an article defendingBill Maher's use of aracial slur.[76]
In June 2017, shortly after Republican congressmanSteve Scalise wasshot and injured during a baseball practice, along with four others, Posobiec tweeted that it was a terrorist attack and blamed comments from liberal anti-Trump individuals. Later, he falsely tweeted that former United States Attorney GeneralLoretta Lynch had called for "blood in the streets" the previous March[77] and thatBernie Sanders had ordered his followers to "take down" Trump.[78]
In June 2020, during theprotests against racism and police brutality in the wake of themurder ofGeorge Floyd, Posobiec falsely claimed that there werepipe bombs planted at theKorean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., and that "federal assets [were] in pursuit". There were no pipe bombs nor was there any evidence that any "federal assets" investigated. The claim was, however, picked up byThe Gateway Pundit and retweeted by over 29,000 users on Twitter.[81]
In April 2021, the SPLC reported that between November 2019 and August 2020, Posobiec had tweeted 28 links toSouthFront, a website linked to Russian intelligence. In return,SouthFront promoted Posobiec as well, and cited his tweets in their posts.[49]
In February 2023, Posobiec tweeted adeepfake video depictingPresident Joe Biden announcing a military draft in response to a purported national security crisis. Posobiec tweeted false Biden quotes from the fake video, before calling it "a sneak preview of things to come". He later appeared in the video to acknowledge it was a "precreation...of what could happen."[82]
In May 2024, after Donald Trump was convicted on all 34 charges of falsifying records in hishush money trial, Posobiec called on supporters to "[t]ake the path of the hunter, and with one singular voice, we are going to make them the prey." Additionally, he argued:
What happened to Donald Trump yesterday wasn't just a miscarriage of justice. It wasn't just a Stalinist show trial. It was an act of war. Theunhumans want you dead. They want your way of life dead. They want to see your children lobotomized and converted to their mindless, lawless, and godless ways.[83][84]
Posobiec has been linked as the person behind End Wokeness, a Twitter account which promoted theSpringfield pet-eating hoax in September 2024.[85] In October 2023, during theGaza war, End Wokeness promoted a false claim thatPalestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi was a "Hamascrisis actor".[86]
In October 2024, Posobiec posted ameme on hisInstagram profile claiming that theJanuary 6 House Select Committee had destroyed all the evidence it compiled againstDonald Trump.[87] In reality, the evidence is publicly available;[88] the assertion wasfact-checked and found to be false.[89] In the same month, Posobiec boosted a false sexual assault claim against Democratic vice presidential candidateTim Walz that originated from Russian propaganda networkStorm-1516.[90]
Personal life
From 2012 to 2016, Posobiec ran a blog and podcast aboutGame of Thrones called AngryGoTFan.[15] In November 2017, Posobiec married a social media influencer born in Belarus.[16][91] He toldBuzzFeed News that he met his wife in 2015.[92] He isCatholic.[93]
In October 2025, Posobiec was reported to have voted in Pennsylvania in elections from 2004 to 2024 using his parents' address despite living in Maryland since 2017.[94]
Published works
Citizens for Trump: The Inside Story of the People's Movement to Take Back America (2017)ISBN978-1-5469-3653-4[95]
4D Warfare: A Doctrine for a New Generation of Politics (Castalia House, 2018)ISBN978-952-7065-65-5[96]
^"The old rules are over. The old order is over. Accusations are evidence. Activism means bigotry and hate. Criminals are allowed to roam free... For nearly 250 years, far-left uprisings have followed the same battle plans—from the first call for change to last innocent executed, from denial a revolution is even happening to declaration of the new order... We must stop what is coming... Our study of history has brought us to this conclusion: Democracy has never worked to protect innocents from the unhumans."[41]
Bhatt, Chetan (June 23, 2020)."White Extinction: Metaphysical Elements of Contemporary Western Fascism".Theory, Culture & Society.38 (1).SAGE: 31.doi:10.1177/0263276420925523.ISSN0263-2764.The vast ecology of online white supremacist personalities, both 'alt-right' and 'alt-lite', include Mike Cernovich, Christopher Cantwell, Gavin MacInnes, Paul Joseph Watson, Jack Posobiec, Tara McCarthy, Colin Liddell, Brittany Pettibone, Lauren Southern, Andrew Anglin, Lana Lokteff, Ayla Stewart, Kyle Prescott, Faith Goldy, Jason Kessler, Kyle Chapman, Colton Merwin, 'Vox Day', and Mike Peinovich, among numerous others.
Hawley, George (November 7, 2018).The Alt-Right: What Everyone Needs to Know®.Oxford University Press. p. 195.ISBN978-0-19-090522-4.Archived from the original on January 13, 2024. RetrievedJanuary 13, 2024 – viaGoogle Books.Aside from McInnes,The Rebel has employed several other figures whose views may be described as Alt-Right or Alt-Lite, including Lauren Southern, conspiracy theorist and pro-Trump political activist Jack Posobiec, and far-right Canadian political commentator Faith Goldy.
^Posobiec, Jack; Lisec, Joshua (July 9, 2024).Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (and How to Crush Them). Simon and Schuster.ISBN978-1-64821-085-3.
^Hayden, Michael Edison (July 23, 2020)."Jack Posobiec Interviewed a Pro-Hitler Disinformation Poster on One America News Network".Southern Poverty Law Center.Archived from the original on February 19, 2021. RetrievedDecember 30, 2020.Microchip posted statements to Gab prior to being interviewed on OANN that celebrated Hitler, and alluded to terrorism and murder. "I wish [Atomwaffen Division] had survived. They did great work in scaring the living shit out of everyone," the person behind the Microchip Gab account wrote on July 24, 2018, across two posts. "We need more hatred and fear. Everyone needs to stop being such f—— p——." Atomwaffen Division is a terroristic neo-Nazi group responsible for at least five murders in the U.S. since 2017.
^Posobiec, Jack (2017).Citizens for Trump: the inside story of the people's movement to take back America. United States: CreateSpace.ISBN978-1-5469-3653-4.
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