Shortly after the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville , in which a person drove a vehicle into a crowd of counter-protesters , killing one , '' The Gateway Pundit '' falsely identified a young man from Michigan as the driver . Together with his father , the Michigan man has filed a large defamation lawsuit against twenty-two corporate and individual defendants , including Hoft , alleging that the false identification caused motivated readers to harass him , that the harassment included numerous death threats , which obliged him to go leave his home ( pursuant to advice from the police ) and causing large damages to his business
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