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=== Editorial writings === Posner supported [[Al Gore]] during the 2000 presidential election, and wrote a ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' editorial shortly after the [[September 11, 2001 attacks|9/11 attacks]] reversing his opinion of [[George W. Bush]].<ref>[http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=95001212 I Was Wrong About Bush], ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', 2001-09-25.</ref> Later he changed his opinion again; in October 2006, in "An Open Letter to the President",<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/gerald-posner/an-open-letter-to-the-pre_b_30865.html | work=The Huffington Post | first=Gerald | last=Posner | title=An Open Letter to the President | date=October 3, 2006}}</ref> published on ''[[The Huffington Post]]'', he reverted to his original position that Bush was a bad president stifled by his stubbornness.{{Third-party inline|date=April 2022}} He also wrote about investigative issues for ''The New York Times'', ''[[The New Yorker]]'', ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'', ''Talk'', ''Newsweek'', ''Time'', the ''[[Miami Herald]]'', and ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]''. He was a regular contributor to NBC's ''Today Show'', as well as other national shows on the History Channel, CNN, FOX News, and CBS. He was a frequent guest on MSNBC's ''Countdown with [[Keith Olbermann]]''. A member of the National Advisory Board of the [[National Writers Union]], Posner is also a member of the [[Authors Guild]], [[International PEN]], [[The Committee to Protect Journalists]], and [[Phi Beta Kappa]]. He worked on all his projects with his wife, [[Trisha Posner]], who is also an author and artist.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trishaposner.com/ |title=Trishaposner.com |publisher=Trishaposner.com |access-date=September 19, 2010}}</ref> Posner was the Chief Investigative Reporter for ''[[The Daily Beast]]'', until he resigned over plagiarism charges in 2010.<ref name="The Posner Plagiarism Perplex">[http://www.slate.com/id/2244430/ The Posner Plagiarism Perplex], by Jack Shafer, ''Slate magazine'', February 11, 2010.</ref> Since 2023, Posner has published several [[Anti-gender movement|anti-trans]] articles,<ref>https://www.justthefacts.media/p/the-transgender-money-pipeline</ref><ref>https://nypost.com/2024/03/04/opinion/secret-files-show-how-international-group-pushes-shocking-experimental-gender-surgery-for-minors/</ref> many based on the works of Jennifer Bilek, an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist.<ref>https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2022/02/fears-of-creeping-transhumanism-give-space-for-overt-conspiracism-in-gender-critical-communities/</ref><ref>https://progressive.org/magazine/antisemitism-meets-transphobia-greenesmith-lorber/</ref>
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