Turns out that when they put their terminally-pilled minds to it, right propaganda site the Gateway Pundit can be pretty thorough and detailed… or maybe this is campaign payola written by the other other guy’s team in the Alabama US Senate primary runoff and printed by the Pundit.
Either way the site’s founder Jim Hoft is on the byline as the article purports the circulation of “a detailed memorandum with” leading candidate MAGA extremist Congressman Barry Moore’s “accompanying military records alleges that Moore, (AL-02) has materially misrepresented his military service record for over a decade, while simultaneously signing a high-profile letter condemning Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz for the same category of conduct.”
Just gotta pause there to lol at the Gateway Pundit telling Moore he shouldn’t have thrown bricks from his glass house. Not to mention that Tim Walz fucked up once in the tiniest of gaffes and his saying “those weapons of war that I carried in war” despite never having served in a combat zone during a speech doesn’t even come close to the level of valor theft by Moore the Pundit lays out.
The Trump-endorsed Moore (naturally Hoft mentions that nowhere in the article), who took 39.2 percent of the first round vote to former Navy SEAL Jared Hudson’s 25.6 percent, has claimed he served six years in the Army National Guard but documents strongly suggest he only made it a little over two years, ending in 1991. There’s also evidence he misrepresented his rank and status as “retired” and a “veteran,” distinctions that are important to current and former military members in terms of benefits and status but often don’t clock as meaningful to those of us who did not serve.
With bold emphasis, the Pundit writes that “Critically, the legal analysis concludes that Moore does not meet the federal definition of veteran under 38 USC § 101(2), which requires active military service plus a discharge other than dishonorable. Title 32 National Guard service — drills, annual training, and officer-candidate training — does not qualify as active service under that statute.”
The bottom line is that Moore probably isn’t a “veteran” and yet there he is in that video from his first general election campaign in 2020, claiming that he is one. The real question is how much this actually matters given the late hour for Hudson’s campaign as the top-two runoff is on the 16th, just 12 days from now and Moore took 65,000+ more votes than Hudson, whose 123,533 total raw votes edged out third place finisher Attorney General Steve Marshall by exactly 5,300 ballots.
That’d be a real shame if, in carrying this oppo sheet generated by the Hudson campaign, the Pundit merely dents Moore’s final victory margin in the runoff while also planting the seeds for a general election run marred by constant questions over Moore’s misrepresentations of his military record. A real shame. After all, it was under a decade ago that Doug Jones defeated that Epstein-wannabe piece of shit Roy Moore (no known relation) in the December 2017 special to replace Keebler Man Jeff Sessions. Of course Alabama is Alabama and a lot more things will need to go right if a Dem is to have even a prayer of retaking that seat. This is definitely one of those things and in the likely event it’s too little too late to sink Moore against Hudson then leading Dem candidate Everett Wess, an activist and former prosecutor whose campaign website touts his “lifelong commitment to civic engagement and Democratic leadership,” should be more than happy to pick up from there.
If not then it could just be one more spending headache the NRSC doesn’t need right now.