Huffington Post Hires 9/11 Truther Donte Stallworth to Cover National Security

You can’t make it up. 

On Wednesday, the Huffington Post announced that former NFL player Donte Stallworth, a 9/11 truther who also once killed a pedestrian while driving drunk, will cover national security for the outlet. 

Welcome to the team, @DonteStallworth! Donte will be joining HuffPost as a politics fellow covering national security

— HuffPost Politics (@HuffPostPol) September 4, 2014

In 2009, the University of Tennessee alum killed a pedestrian while driving under the influence. After pleading guilty to manslaughter, he spent nearly a month in jail and was banned from the NFL for a year. He is also a 9/11 truther and a vaccine conspiracy theorist. 

What could have attracted him to the elite media?

In recent years, he has been a prominent supporter of gay marriage and openly gay players in the NFL. That may have boosted his standing considerably in the mainstream and left-wing media worlds. 

NO WAY 9/11 was carried out by “dying” Bin Laden, 19 men who couldn’t fly a damn kite. STILL have NO EVIDENCE Osama was connected, like Iraq

— Donte’ Stallworth (@DonteStallworth) July 20, 2009

Stallworth was drafted by the New Orleans Saints and has played for the Redskins, Browns, Patriots, Ravens, and Eagles.

Update: Around 11:30am Thrusday, Stallworth said on Twitter he no longer feels the same way he did when he wrote there was “no evidence” that bin Laden was connected to the 9/11 attacks.

Just to be clear, I no longer feel the way I did in that tweet 5 years ago.

— Donte’ Stallworth (@DonteStallworth) September 4, 2014