Gerald Posner
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Award-winning investigative journalist | 13x author (PHARMA, CASE CLOSED, MENGELE, GOD’S BANKERS | Pulitzer finalist | “A merciless pit bull of an investigator"
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Want to know how upside down the world of women’s sports is in Washington state? A 15-year-old girl refused to play against an 18-year-old male in a JV basketball game. The result? She’s charged w/ bullying, harassment, and intimidation for MISGENDERING. Crazy. #savewomenssports
Gerald Posner2,803,133 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
I first went on Bill Maher’s show in 1996, back when he was on Comedy Central, talking about my book on Ross Perot. I’ve been back a number of time—most recently for God’s Bankers (Covid derailed Pharma). We’ve agreed and disagreed on plenty over the years. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: on antisemitism, a comedian is now one of the clearest voices in the Democratic Party. Maher’s monologue last night cuts through the noise—calling out both the left and the right for fueling this frenzy of anti-Jewish hatred. What he said shouldn’t be controversial. Yet it is. I sent him the latest piece Trisha Posner and I wrote on antisemitism. Watching this, maybe he read it. It’s a must listen
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Funny how it always ends the same way. No matter the conspiracy — JFK included — it eventually circles back to “the Jews did it.” As I told Ben Shapiro it's a classic antisemitic conspiracy theory of first resort and last resort, just wearing a fresh coat of paint 👇
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This is how history gets distorted— unintentionally. David Frum tells a powerful story about JFK’s assassination and Jacqueline Kennedy’s empathy for the wife of another victim that day. There’s just one problem. He says Lee Harvey Oswald killed a Secret Service agent. He didn’t. Oswald killed Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit about 45 minutes after the assassination. Tippit left behind a wife and three children. And yes—Jacqueline Kennedy did reach out. She sent Tippit’s widow a handwritten note, saying the eternal flame at Arlington would burn for her husband as well. The humanity of that gesture is real. The details, as Frum told them, are not. This isn’t about bad faith. It’s about memory—how even well-informed people can reshape events over time without realizing it. And how audiences, hearing it confidently retold, absorb it as fact. That’s how the record gets blurred. A reminder of something I’ve learned after years of reporting and writing history: Listener beware. Not everything you hear—even from influential voices—is true.
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You will hear endless analysis today about the geopolitical meaning of the US removal of Maduro. But sometimes the story is simpler and more human. This morning in Miami, a Venezuelan exile spoke about hoping to see his country for the first time in 15 years, his mother’s childhood home, his grandfather’s legacy. Politics aside, this moment hits "Doralzuela," the largest Venezuelan community in the US, right in the heart.
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The headline from last night is that a potential assassin was stopped before anyone was killed. But it shouldn’t be the takeaway. The real story—highlighted by journalist Miranda Devine—is far more unsettling: “Security seemed lax.” And not in some vague, hindsight way. In basic, preventable ways. She got in without a ticket—just by showing a PDF invitation on her phone for a different event. No QR code. No verification. No ID check. “The security coming into the studio today was better.” Let that sink in. The magnetometers weren’t at the perimeter—they were inside the venue. Meaning anyone intent on harm could already be inside before being screened. Even attendees noticed. People were reportedly eyeing exits before anything happened because something felt off. And then the most alarming detail: Scott Bessent said to her, “I can't believe that you've got the President and the Vice President on the table at the same time.” In the same room were the top EIGHT in line of succession, a concentration of leadership that represents a real continuity-of-government risk. This is the Washington Hilton—the same venue where President Reagan was shot. We spend billions preparing for worst-case scenarios. Yet sometimes the greatest vulnerability isn’t the threat—it’s complacency. The Butler assassination attempt, the golf course incident, now this. Patterns of close calls demand accountability and reform—not complacency wrapped in “they did a fantastic job once the shooting started.” An assassin only has to get lucky once. Last night should be treated as an urgent warning.
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There was a time when Hollywood ridiculed the idea of doctors who surgically boasted of changing little boys ‘trapped in the wrong body’ into little girls. This clip from a March 1987 SNL skit even has the reporter (Nora Dunn) telling the doctor he is mutilating children.
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![Time for a dose of reality. This 👇is the supposedly smoking gun video that Rep. Anna Paulina Luna said last night had "never been seen before" and "could blow open the entire JFK investigation." Luna said she learned about it from Oliver Stone and said the video "shows Oswald near the vehicle [JFK's limo] when the assassination took place, which means he couldn't have been the shooter." And she told a credulous Jesse Watters, NBC had been "very, very much guarding this tape." A small problem. It is NOT a secret video that has never been seen. It is available for anyone to watch at the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas (or on their YouTube channel). What Rep. Luna is referring to is a clip of a film taken by Jimmy Darnell, an NBC affiliate cameraman who had been riding in the "press camera cars" behind the motorcade. He, and three other cameramen had jumped out of their car after the shots and started filming about 30 seconds AFTER the assassination. Darnell's film shows Dallas police officer Marrion Baker running to the front door of the Texas School Book Depository, and past the TSBD's supervisor, Roy Truly, both of whom would encounter Oswald in less than another 30 seconds, on the second floor. Oswald was on his way out of the building, having come down from the sixth floor after the shooting. Truly vouched for Oswald and Baker let him go. Some conspiracy theorists think that a few seconds in the Darnell film shows a figure on the far-left side of the front of the Texas School Book Depository they believe is Oswald. The figure has been dubbed prayer man, some say because of the way he has his arms crossed in front of him, while others think the conjecture is the equivalent of a conspiracy Hail Mary prayer long shot. For those not into the weeds on the JFK assassination, this is not the first time that a film or photo has been used to try and exonerate Oswald. For many years, conspiracy theorists contended that Oswald was visible in one of the pictures taken by James Altgens, an AP photographer at the scene. Oswald, they contended, was the fuzzy figure in a white t-shirt standing to the left entrance of the TSBD. That was in fact one of Oswald's coworkers, Billy Lovelady. Even AFTER Lovelady identified himself as the person in the photo, some conspiracy theorists refused to believe him. Oliver Stone and others have now turned to the Darnell film and the person standing to the left of Lovelady. Maybe that is Oswald. It is not even clear from the fuzzy image if it is absolutely a white man. It could even be a light-colored black or Latin person. But to Stone and Luna and others, it is Oswald. Thirteen of Oswald’s work colleagues were standing at the front steps of the Texas School Book Depository. They were there to watch the motorcade. Not one of them remembers seeing Oswald there. That has not stopped the conspiracy theorists, who claim the clothing on the unidentified man looks like what Oswald wore when he was arrested after killing Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit. Ten other Texas School Book Depository employees wore shirts like the one on “prayer man.” The entire exercise might as well be a Rorschach inkblot test. That is what happened before in the case, for instance, with a half-inch square portion of Mary Moorman’s badly faded Polaroid taken a split second after the assassination. Conspiracy theorists enhanced it and blew it up and thought they had found the image of the phantom second shooter on the Grassy Knoll, someone they dubbed “badgeman.” They claimed that greatly enlarged pixels identified a rifle and a Dallas police uniform. The enhanced photo only shows shadows and trees, no person, no shooter. Now, Oliver Stone and others believe the only thing preventing an ironclad identification of Oswald in the Darnell film is that they do not have the original first-generation. The Sixth Floor Museum version is a second-generation print of the film that the Museum acquired as part of a personal collection in 2006. No one is certain if a first-generation version exists, but the guess by Luna and Stone is that it must be somewhere in the long-lost archives at NBC. Not quite the same as NBC having, as Rep. Luna claimed, “very, very much guarding it.” I hope that the Oversight Committee gets the original Darnell video. Many of us would like to see the clearest possible version of the frenetic scenes that played out in the minutes after the assassination. For those, however, who think it will be dispositive and exculpatory evidence that Oswald was hanging out at the front of the School Book Depository, good luck. That story might earn a headline in the National Enquirer or the Daily Mail. It should not be the ‘breaking news’ from the congresswoman leading the new investigation into the assassination of President Kennedy.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1905998079112745239/ext_tw_video_thumb/1905974381102161920/pu/img/vlhmaqO4ZVByUfpc.jpg)
Time for a dose of reality. This 👇is the supposedly smoking gun video that Rep. Anna Paulina Luna said last night had "never been seen before" and "could blow open the entire JFK investigation." Luna said she learned about it from Oliver Stone and said the video "shows Oswald near the vehicle [JFK's limo] when the assassination took place, which means he couldn't have been the shooter." And she told a credulous Jesse Watters, NBC had been "very, very much guarding this tape." A small problem. It is NOT a secret video that has never been seen. It is available for anyone to watch at the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas (or on their YouTube channel). What Rep. Luna is referring to is a clip of a film taken by Jimmy Darnell, an NBC affiliate cameraman who had been riding in the "press camera cars" behind the motorcade. He, and three other cameramen had jumped out of their car after the shots and started filming about 30 seconds AFTER the assassination. Darnell's film shows Dallas police officer Marrion Baker running to the front door of the Texas School Book Depository, and past the TSBD's supervisor, Roy Truly, both of whom would encounter Oswald in less than another 30 seconds, on the second floor. Oswald was on his way out of the building, having come down from the sixth floor after the shooting. Truly vouched for Oswald and Baker let him go. Some conspiracy theorists think that a few seconds in the Darnell film shows a figure on the far-left side of the front of the Texas School Book Depository they believe is Oswald. The figure has been dubbed prayer man, some say because of the way he has his arms crossed in front of him, while others think the conjecture is the equivalent of a conspiracy Hail Mary prayer long shot. For those not into the weeds on the JFK assassination, this is not the first time that a film or photo has been used to try and exonerate Oswald. For many years, conspiracy theorists contended that Oswald was visible in one of the pictures taken by James Altgens, an AP photographer at the scene. Oswald, they contended, was the fuzzy figure in a white t-shirt standing to the left entrance of the TSBD. That was in fact one of Oswald's coworkers, Billy Lovelady. Even AFTER Lovelady identified himself as the person in the photo, some conspiracy theorists refused to believe him. Oliver Stone and others have now turned to the Darnell film and the person standing to the left of Lovelady. Maybe that is Oswald. It is not even clear from the fuzzy image if it is absolutely a white man. It could even be a light-colored black or Latin person. But to Stone and Luna and others, it is Oswald. Thirteen of Oswald’s work colleagues were standing at the front steps of the Texas School Book Depository. They were there to watch the motorcade. Not one of them remembers seeing Oswald there. That has not stopped the conspiracy theorists, who claim the clothing on the unidentified man looks like what Oswald wore when he was arrested after killing Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit. Ten other Texas School Book Depository employees wore shirts like the one on “prayer man.” The entire exercise might as well be a Rorschach inkblot test. That is what happened before in the case, for instance, with a half-inch square portion of Mary Moorman’s badly faded Polaroid taken a split second after the assassination. Conspiracy theorists enhanced it and blew it up and thought they had found the image of the phantom second shooter on the Grassy Knoll, someone they dubbed “badgeman.” They claimed that greatly enlarged pixels identified a rifle and a Dallas police uniform. The enhanced photo only shows shadows and trees, no person, no shooter. Now, Oliver Stone and others believe the only thing preventing an ironclad identification of Oswald in the Darnell film is that they do not have the original first-generation. The Sixth Floor Museum version is a second-generation print of the film that the Museum acquired as part of a personal collection in 2006. No one is certain if a first-generation version exists, but the guess by Luna and Stone is that it must be somewhere in the long-lost archives at NBC. Not quite the same as NBC having, as Rep. Luna claimed, “very, very much guarding it.” I hope that the Oversight Committee gets the original Darnell video. Many of us would like to see the clearest possible version of the frenetic scenes that played out in the minutes after the assassination. For those, however, who think it will be dispositive and exculpatory evidence that Oswald was hanging out at the front of the School Book Depository, good luck. That story might earn a headline in the National Enquirer or the Daily Mail. It should not be the ‘breaking news’ from the congresswoman leading the new investigation into the assassination of President Kennedy.
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A clear example of why language matters in reporting on "men in women's sports." This weekend, biological male AB Hernandez — a California high school senior who previously competed in girls' volleyball — switched to track and field and dominated the girls' jumping events. Female athletes trained for years watched a male competitor take the podium and the victories that should have been theirs. A guest in this news clip this morning rightly described the scene as "discouraging" and "heartbreaking" for the girls who know they "cannot beat a male." Yet even on a conservative outlet, FOX News, the on-air host, Carley Shimkus, repeatedly referred to Hernandez as "she," "her," "biological trans daughter," and "trans female daughter." The segment highlighted Hernandez's mother's claim that the impact on her child was so severe she had to take a leave from work to protect her "trans female daughter's safety and emotional well-being," framing the male athlete as the primary VICTIM. This is not an isolated slip. Mainstream outlets (PBS, NYT, ESPN, etc.) routinely use female pronouns and identifiers for male competitors as a matter of corporate policy, presenting them as women. That framing obscures the biological reality for viewers who aren't steeped in the debate: a male athlete identifying as female is competing in the female category, displacing girls from medals, podiums, scholarships, and records. The core issue is straightforward: Should biological males compete in women's and girls' sports? Fairness, safety, and the integrity of female categories depend on sex-based divisions, not self-identification. Decades of sports science, physiology, and performance data show consistent male advantages in strength, speed, power, and jumping events that do not disappear with testosterone suppression or identity. When even conservative outlets such as Fox adopt the preferred pronouns and "trans daughter" language without clear qualification, it muddies that simple reality for the broader public. Casual viewers hear "she won the girls' triple jump" and assume it's a female athlete — not a male one who just posted a three-foot advantage over the best girls. Accurate journalism doesn't require snark or cruelty. It requires precision: biological male, male athlete, competing in the girls' category. The girls who trained, competed, and lost opportunities deserve that clarity. So does the public trying to understand why this policy debate exists in the first place.
Gerald Posner14,997 Aufrufe • vor 23 Tagen
Colorado is moving forward with a 'transgender rights' bill that will be one of the nation's most radical, allowing the state to take coercive actions against parents who do not "affirm" their children's gender confusion. Erin Lee👇 is just one of the many moms who testified this past week before the state legislature. Child Protective Services --- which should be renamed Gender Enforcement Services --- did a child welfare check after Lee and her husband refused to 'affirm' their 12-year-old daughter's gender ID after she had been lured into a secret club that convinced her she was born in the wrong body. Think that is a one-off exception in Colorado? Five other parents who had already LOST CUSTODY of their children testified at the Wednesday hearing. The gender activists who want to raise your kids must be voted out of office.
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Why I tell Ben Shapiro that I wish Department of Government Efficiency had an emergency 911 line. I would have called it yesterday when Oliver Stone asked Congress to launch a new investigation into the JFK assassination. And, why I think the only thing Stone got right in his film was the date JFK was killed
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On this day in 1979, the world’s most hunted Nazi war criminal, Dr. Josef Mengele, died of a stroke while swimming off a beach in Brazil. The world didn't learn the truth for another 6 years. Mengele's family had helped the Angel of Death evade justice for decades. Below is a 1-min clip from a live U.S. TV interview—on the Phil Donahue Show— I had w/ Mengele’s only son, Rolf, after publication of my biography MENGELE. “I would never betray my father,” Rolf insisted. You can watch 18 minutes of that interview—described as “riveting” in the press— at this🔗
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A clip from when I exposed on national live TV that Dr. Cyril Wecht had suppressed the information that Governor Connally’s suit lapel flew up at Zapruder frame 224. With the precise moment of the shot now proven, the Single Bullet moves from theory to fact #JFKassassination
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Want to know how to lose elections? Public officials who appear more concerned about criminals than victims. Boston’s mayor, DA and police chief offer ‘condolences, thoughts and prayers’ for a knife-wielding attacker who was shot to death by an off-duty Boston police officer. The off-duty cop was in a Chick-fil-A when two people chased by a man with a knife ran inside. The cop identified himself, told the man to drop his weapon, and shot him when he kept up the attack.
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![Wow. Just when I think it can't get any worse, it does. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna says she learned this evening from Oliver Stone that NBC has a secret video that "shows Oswald near the vehicle [JFK's limo] when the assassination took place, which means that he couldn't have been the shooter." It turns out "director Stone" is one of her key witnesses at her April 1 Oversight investigation. Tonight, she fully went down the conspiracy rabbit hole. Luna claimed that NBC has for 62 years been "very, very much so guarding this tape." Stone told her that "this could blow open the entire JFK investigation." Not only is Luna asking NBC to produce the phantom exculpatory video but she said, "I would encourage everyone to ask NBC to release that tape to the public." I had hoped early on that Rep. Luna might be an honest broker looking for transparency on long sealed JFK files. She is instead determined to turn her hearing into a moment of political farce and theater. Oliver Stone has finally found a government official willing to pass along his baseless information as breaking news. It's a sad day not simply for those of us who have tried to bring some sense of sanity and historical accuracy to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, but it is a bad day for truth in government. Rep. Luna's Oversight Committee investigation into the JFK assassination might promote itself as a search for what really happened in the murder of an American president, but it is instead a desperate effort to give an official stamp of approval to speculation and falsehoods, most of which have long ago been debunked.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1905799070733553682/ext_tw_video_thumb/1905798997324746754/pu/img/oNo8IJRM3XIKQvdw.jpg)
Wow. Just when I think it can't get any worse, it does. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna says she learned this evening from Oliver Stone that NBC has a secret video that "shows Oswald near the vehicle [JFK's limo] when the assassination took place, which means that he couldn't have been the shooter." It turns out "director Stone" is one of her key witnesses at her April 1 Oversight investigation. Tonight, she fully went down the conspiracy rabbit hole. Luna claimed that NBC has for 62 years been "very, very much so guarding this tape." Stone told her that "this could blow open the entire JFK investigation." Not only is Luna asking NBC to produce the phantom exculpatory video but she said, "I would encourage everyone to ask NBC to release that tape to the public." I had hoped early on that Rep. Luna might be an honest broker looking for transparency on long sealed JFK files. She is instead determined to turn her hearing into a moment of political farce and theater. Oliver Stone has finally found a government official willing to pass along his baseless information as breaking news. It's a sad day not simply for those of us who have tried to bring some sense of sanity and historical accuracy to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, but it is a bad day for truth in government. Rep. Luna's Oversight Committee investigation into the JFK assassination might promote itself as a search for what really happened in the murder of an American president, but it is instead a desperate effort to give an official stamp of approval to speculation and falsehoods, most of which have long ago been debunked.
Gerald Posner26,709 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr