| − | On September 16, 2019, Gilbert released both a book and a film called "The Trayvon Hoax: Unmasking The Witness Fraud That Divided America. He debuted the film at The National Press Club<ref name="National Press Club">{{cite news|last=Powers|first=Patty|title=Press Conference and Film Screening: The Trayvon Hoax |url=https://www.press.org/events/press-conference-and-film-screening-thy-trayvon-hoax|newspaper=[[National Press Club]]|date=September 16, 2019}}</ref> in Washington, DC. In "Exposing the Trayvon Hoax" on Townhall.com, Bill Marshall of Judicial Watch wrote that Gilbert "exposes the much larger fraud on the American people that the Trayvon Martin hoax ignited."<ref name="Townhall.com">{{cite news|last=Marshall|first=William|title= Exposing the Trayvon Hoax|url=https://townhall.com/columnists/williammarshall/2019/09/13/exposing-the-trayvon-martin-hoax-n2553059|newspaper=[[Townhall.com]]|date=September 13, 2019}}</ref> Karl Notturno wrote in "The Trayvon Martin Hoax Comes Crashing Down" that "the only way we can make the future better is by learning from the past".<ref name="AmGreatness">{{cite news|last= Notturno|first=Karl|title= The Trayvon Martin Hoax Comes Crashing Down|url=https://www.amgreatness.com/2019/09/13/the-trayvon-martin-hoax-comes-crashing-down|newspaper=[[AmGreatness]]|date=September 13, 2019}}</ref> Jack Cashill in "Time to Un-tell the Trayvon lies" wrote "We still have the power to rewrite history, and Gilbert has proven as much." In American Thinker, former AP foreign correspondent Frank Hawkins wrote "Filmmaker Joel Gilbert’s new book and film The Trayvon Hoax brilliantly exposes one of the most fraudulent and shameful trials in the history of the United States...It’s a masterpiece of reporting."<ref name="AmThinker">{{cite news|last=Hawkins|first=Frank|title=The Trayvon Hoax – a Fraud on America|url=https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/09/the_trayvon_hoax__a_fraud_on_america.html|newspaper=[[AmThinker]]|date=September 17, 2019}}</ref> | + | On September 16, 2019, Gilbert released both a book and a film called "The Trayvon Hoax: Unmasking The Witness Fraud That Divided America. He debuted the film at The National Press Club<ref name="National Press Club">{{cite news|last=Powers|first=Patty|title=Press Conference and Film Screening: The Trayvon Hoax |url=https://www.press.org/events/press-conference-and-film-screening-thy-trayvon-hoax|newspaper=[[National Press Club]]|date=September 16, 2019}}</ref> in Washington, DC. The Trayvon Hoax alleges that the key witness for the prosecution, Rachel Jeantel, who claimed to have been on the phone with Trayvon Martin just before he was shot, was an imposter. <ref name="The American Spectator">{{cite news|last=Isaac|first=Rael Jean|title= Did the Media Force a False Narrative on the Trayvon Martin Case?|url=https://spectator.org/did-the-media-force-a-false-narrative-on-the-trayvon-martin-case/|newspaper=[[ The American Spectator]]|date=January 8, 2020}}</ref>The real girlfriend of Trayvon Martin is identified as Brittany Diamond Eugene, whose signature was determined by a handwriting expert to have been on the letter signed "Diamond Eugene" that was given to Trayvon Martin's mother, Sybrina Fulton. <ref name="The Federalist">{{cite news|last=Barnett|first=Matthew|title= Documentary Claims Trayvon Martin Prosecution Hoaxed America|url=https://thefederalist.com/2020/02/26/documentary-claims-trayvon-martin-prosecution-hoaxed-america/|newspaper=[[The Federalist]]|date=February 26, 2020}}</ref>The film alleges the witness fraud was pushed the by media and politicians for their agendas. <ref name="Chicago Tribune">{{cite news|last=Zorn|first=Eric|title=Here’s why, eight years later, the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman story won’t go away |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/eric-zorn/ct-column-trayvon-zimmerman-anniversary-lawsuits-documentaries-zorn-20200222-kef4togy6va3blp23l37qu2knu-story.html|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|date=February 21, 2020}}</ref> |
| | + | In "Exposing the Trayvon Hoax" on Townhall.com, Bill Marshall of Judicial Watch wrote that Gilbert "exposes the much larger fraud on the American people that the Trayvon Martin hoax ignited."<ref name="Townhall.com">{{cite news|last=Marshall|first=William|title= Exposing the Trayvon Hoax|url=https://townhall.com/columnists/williammarshall/2019/09/13/exposing-the-trayvon-martin-hoax-n2553059|newspaper=[[Townhall.com]]|date=September 13, 2019}}</ref> Karl Notturno wrote in "The Trayvon Martin Hoax Comes Crashing Down" that "the only way we can make the future better is by learning from the past".<ref name="AmGreatness">{{cite news|last= Notturno|first=Karl|title= The Trayvon Martin Hoax Comes Crashing Down|url=https://www.amgreatness.com/2019/09/13/the-trayvon-martin-hoax-comes-crashing-down|newspaper=[[AmGreatness]]|date=September 13, 2019}}</ref> Jack Cashill in "Time to Un-tell the Trayvon lies" wrote "We still have the power to rewrite history, and Gilbert has proven as much." In American Thinker, former AP foreign correspondent Frank Hawkins wrote "Filmmaker Joel Gilbert’s new book and film The Trayvon Hoax brilliantly exposes one of the most fraudulent and shameful trials in the history of the United States...It’s a masterpiece of reporting."<ref name="The American Thinker">{{cite news|last=Hawkins|first=Frank|title=The Trayvon Hoax – a Fraud on America|url=https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/09/the_trayvon_hoax__a_fraud_on_america.html|newspaper=[[The American Thinker]]|date=September 17, 2019}}</ref> |