Pizzagate is Confirmed! It's worse than we ever imagined w Ben Swann | Redacted News

Published 15 Feb 2026

When you hear the word ‘Pizzagate,’ most people instantly think of the 2016 internet frenzy, hacked emails from John Podesta... the mainstream media tried to spin it as if it was focused around a DC pizza shop which ended in violence.

One journalist 10 years ago who was fearlessly reporting on Pizza Gate was journalist Ben Swann. He was one of only a few mainstream TV people at the time who was willing to ask questions on-air about pizza gate... and he paid a real professional price for it.

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