Newsweek has published an opinion piece with at least 22 false claims. That piece, “Next Year Will Be the Best America’s Had in a Long Time,” reads as though it came straight from a Trump rally with no fact checkers present.
The author, Paul du Quenoy, is president of the Palm Beach Freedom Institute. In 859 words, he manages to touch on virtually every conspiracy theory put forth by the Trump campaign.
Your immediate response, like mine, might be, “Why the hell did Newsweek publish this?”
The once-venerable newsmagazine is now owned by Dev Pragad and Johnathan Davis, two men with ties to a cult called Olivet World Assembly and Olivet University. Pragad is a millionaire who is credited both with saving the magazine and enriching himself at the same time.
Du Quenoy’s Palm Beach Freedom Institute has a glossy internet presence: “The Palm Beach Freedom Institute promotes education and public policy defending the principles of the American Founding, the exceptionalism of the American experience, and the free exercise of civil rights and civil liberties as protected by the Constitution of the United States.”
The key is in the phrase “the exceptionalism of the American experience.” Read a bit more and you discover the institute is an ardent opponent of wokeness and cancel culture.
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