Milo's Berkeley 'Free Speech Week' Has Completely Fallen Apart and He's Refusing to Admit It

by Aidan McLaughlin | 8:27 am, September 22nd, 2017

Free Speech Week, Milo Yiannopoulos’s four-day right-wing extravaganza that was set to descend on University of California, Berkeley this weekend, is going to be cancelled.

That’s according to sources close to the event who told Mediaite Yiannopoulos will be holding a theatrical press conference on Saturday in which he intends to call it off — and blame UC-Berkeley for its ‘forced cancellation.’

Lucian Wintrich — Washington D.C. correspondent for far-right website Gateway Pundit, who had been involved in the planning of the highly publicized event but dropped out earlier this week — confirmed its cancellation in a video posted on Twitter late Thursday night.

Link to tweet

“When I was first invited to Free Speech Week I saw it as an incredible opportunity,” Wintrich told Mediaite in a Thursday night phone call. “But then it was made clear to me this week that this event definitely wasn’t happening, and I had to drop out — I saw no reason to lie to the public and mislead people into thinking it was happening.”

Sources told Mediaite that Yiannopoulos knew as early as last week that the event was falling apart, but misled the media, UC-Berkeley and his fans — many of whom bought flights and accommodation for the week — by claiming it was still on.

more
https://www.mediaite.com/online/milos-berkeley-free-speech-week-has-completely-fallen-apart-and-he-refuses-to-admit-it/