Zimmerman trial In July 2013, Fitton claimed that the
Obama administration's Department of Justice had sent representatives to
Sanford, Florida, following Trayvon Martin's death "to help organize and manage rallies and protests against George Zimmerman."
Climate change Fitton rejects the scientific consensus on climate change (
global warming). He said, "There has been scandal after scandal involving climate data and we are skeptical of government agencies that won't tell people what they are up to.... I’m sure scientists are concerned that funding for dubious research will be cut, but the truth will win out in the end." The study had debunked one of the common claims made by
climate change deniers: that there had been
global warming "hiatus" from 1998 to 2012. The site was defended by Fitton against calls for advertisers to drop them for advertising. Fitton stated, "Liberal activists want to destroy Breitbart, but we won't be cowed." Fitton has alleged that hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants voted in the 2018 midterm elections. Voting fraud is exceedingly rare. On February 3, 2020, the day of the
Iowa caucuses in the Democratic presidential primary, Fitton suggested that voter fraud was afoot in Iowa by falsely claiming that "eight Iowa counties have more voter registrations than citizens old enough to register." Iowa's secretary of state, Paul Pate, a member of the
Republican Party, debunked Fitton's claim by linking to official voter registration data. In a video recording released in October 2020, in the lead-up to the 2020 election, Fitton called on fellow conservative activists at a conference to come up with ways to prevent mail-in-ballots from being distributed to voters. At the
Conservative Political Action Conference in February 2021, Fitton claimed that on the day of the
2020 United States presidential election, "President Trump had the votes to win the presidency. These vote totals were changed because of unprecedented and extraordinary counting after election day". Fitton has been identified as unindicted
co-conspirator #1 in the
Georgia state indictment of Donald Trump and 18 other defendants for their
attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. He is described in the indictment as having written a speech for Trump prior to the election in which Trump would falsely attribute his loss to voter fraud. He has referred to the Mueller probe as a "coup" against Trump. Trump retweeted Fitton's remarks about a coup; PolitiFact rated the assertion that the Mueller probe was a coup as "pants-on-fire" false. Fitton furthermore called for shutting down the
Federal Bureau of Investigation "because it was turned into a
KGB-type operation by the Obama administration."
Newsweek rated the claim "false", stating that "there is no comparison between the FBI and KGB." When
Michael Cohen, Trump's former personal attorney,
pleaded guilty to crimes brought to light by Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe in December 2018, Fitton dismissed the importance of the crimes. Fitton said it was "weak tea" and intended "to make President Trump look bad."
COVID-19 pandemic During the
COVID-19 pandemic, Fitton called on Trump to "reopen" the United States amid social distancing and lockdowns to prevent spread of the virus. Fitton criticized Dr.
Anthony Fauci, the White House's leading epidemiology expert, and amplified right-wing conspiracy theories about Fauci. At an August 2020 meeting of the
Council for National Policy, Fitton claimed that people on the American
left are planning to delay the
2020 election tally until January 20, 2021, to allow
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to become acting
president. He later added that "it could cause civil war". The case was dismissed in its entirety on July 15 2024 by U.S. district judge
Aileen Cannon. This decision has been appealed to the ninth district court almost immediately. ==Awards==