Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recently appointed media adviser has spread 2020 US election fraud conspiracies and charged that US President Joe Biden is “destroying America,” a Hebrew media report said Sunday.
Gilad Zwick previously worked as a pundit for Channel 14 and the Israel Hayom daily, both the conservative, right-wing news outlets. On his Twitter page, which boasts over 30,000 followers, he has attacked Biden and made false claims about the 2020 vote, according to a compilation by the Haaretz daily.
In a tweet posted in 2021, Zwick labeled Biden “the supreme leader, who is slowly but surely destroying America,” implicitly likening him to the leaders of North Korea and Iran.
“The media is doing everything in order to hide that Biden is unfit, but the Chinese, Russians and Iranians are not stupid and understand well that there is no one in charge in Washington,” he wrote last July, attaching a video of Biden reading out stage directions from a teleprompter.
Many Biden critics have pushed videos of the president’s gaffes as evidence of poor mental acuity.
After Biden won the 2020 US presidential election, Zwick promoted Donald Trump’s claims that the election was fraudulent, which have been debunked.
“These elections will not be decided without a fight,” he wrote, several days after the election. “I hope right-wing politicians here will learn from their American counterparts a thing or two about courage and determination.”
ביידן מקריא מהטלפורמטר ואז אומר את המילים:
"תחזור על השורה"
מנהיג העולם החופשי לא מסוגל אפילו לקרוא באופן עצמוני
אם אתם חושבים שזו רק דאחקה, אתם טועים
התקשורת עושה הכל כדי להסתיר שביידן אינו כשיר – אך הסינים, הרוסים והאיראנים לא מטומטמים, ומבינים היטב שאין בעל בית בוושינגטון https://t.co/efA8YywFD5
— Gilad Zwick (@giladzw) July 9, 2022
Zwick shared a video that supposedly showed four ballot workers in Georgia opening “suitcases with forms under the table, and beginning energetically scanning for at least two hours — of course, without any supervision.”
He claimed that the workers had counted 18,000 ballots, more than the margin by which Biden defeated Trump in the state. Trump is under investigation in Georgia for calling the state’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on January 2, 2021, and asking him to “find 11,780 votes” to give him an edge over Biden.
Zwick tweeted that “election workers” in Michigan had testified under oath about frauds occurring in the state.
He also promoted false claims that the Dominion Voting Systems machines had flipped votes to Biden.
“Another interesting development,” he wrote three weeks after the election. “Dominion representatives refused to appear before Pennsylvanian legislatures about the safety of their machines. What do they have to hide?”
Zwick quoted Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, who “submitted a petition that charged that Dominion machines were vulnerable to manipulation and forgeries on a large scale, to the point of biasing the election results.”
In April, Fox News reached a $787 million settlement with the firm in a defamation lawsuit, averting a trial in a case that exposed how the top-rated network chased viewers by promoting such lies.
After Trump’s supporters violently stormed the US Capitol building on January 6, 2021, Zwick slammed social media sites for suspending accounts that promoted election fraud conspiracies.
“Now also General Michael Flynn and Sidney Powell’s Twitter accounts have been suspended,” Zwick wrote, adding that “Silicon Valley has declared war against the right’s freedom of expression.”
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