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A Michigan college student says pro-Trump agitators recruited him to falsely claim he was raped by Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, then published the smear without his permission.
Hunter Kelly, a 21-year-old gay Trump supporter, said conservative activists Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman sought to use him for the "despicable scheme" they concocted to blunt Buttigieg's momentum and help the president's reelection bid. The incident may offer a glimpse into disinformation tactics, powered by fake social media accounts and partisan news sites, that could become a staple of the 2020 campaign.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-false-pete-buttigieg-smear-hunter-kelly-jacob-wohl-20190430-story.html?fbclid=IwAR00XEaPwyESrV___5li4obxG000D1GZV1WgUuDLiGPQjviArUGmy8RdTeQ
Eliot Rosewater
(31,131 posts)Yes, Blasey Ford told the truth and Reade is lying.
Yep, it is that simple.
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)Why they have not been charged and jailed yet is a mystery
They are fame smear hunters, loons really.
https://www.thecut.com/2019/10/who-is-jacob-wohl-failed-smears.html
brewens
(13,633 posts)As wrong as it would be, I thought he being our nominee would be their dream. There would be a legion of half-wits coming out of the hills and swamps to stop a gay man from becoming president. I thought that all along but never posted it. I didn't want to even get any debate going on that idea. But now that he's dropped out, that was one of my theory's.
barbtries
(28,815 posts)since Nixon if not earlier. it's called ratfucking.
IthinkThereforeIAM
(3,078 posts)... he should be held incommunicado while awaiting his time to show up for prison.
Boomerproud
(7,973 posts)Have those 2 turds ever been sued?
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)without cheating. Falsely accusing Democrats of sexual improprieties is from Chapter One of the GOP Dirty Play Book. They've been doing this since Nixon, and they always use it. Some candidates make it easier for them, but they'll always try it.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,858 posts)... about rape when Trump does it.
They know that liberals dont like it, and will WORRY about it, so its just a political ploy.
There was a janitor at my workplace who mentioned his disdain for Clintons affairs. Yet when the Stormy Daniels stuff hit the news, that MARRIED janitor said he would have sex with Stormy Daniels too if he had the chance. How can you blame Trump for doing it?, he asked.
NonPC
(308 posts)Not sure which is worse, his sense of morality or his lack of critical thinking skills. Classic Trump supporter.
BComplex
(8,077 posts)wingers rabid, and willing to give up any morals or logic. There is a hardwired, brain fart in people who lean republican (which has been shown by psychiatric brain mapping), and Fox "news" gets in there and stirs that with lies that trigger the "spiritually correct" fantasy thinking in their brains; in that these truths are "spiritually correct" and you have to have faith that it's so, because it's your team that is telling you it's true.
That's why churches that have been "financed" by the rightwing are so politically oriented to twisting the message of the Bible. Same thing that Muslim clerics do with their rightwingers to turn them into human bombs. It's a science of the rightwing brain that stirs them into the lynch-mob fervor.
The thing is, that shit is addicting to them because it really does make them feel like they are a part of something bigger, and that they have to stick together against a false enemy (democrats, liberals, the devil....whomever is the "other" . I believe that once that happens for them, they are ruined. No longer is their patriotism valid for their "country", but only for their cause.
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,163 posts)I still don't understand what exactly they want, unless it's making the U.S. a slave nation state.
athenasatanjesus
(859 posts)The false equivalency brigade will say "libs are hypocrites if they don't believe every accusation against them"
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)I'm not sure where that puts James O'Keefe.
reACTIONary
(5,789 posts).... three stooges.... Wohl and Burkman the other two.
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)In their 198 comedy shorts, including "You Nazty Spy", they were most definitely patriotic lefties (I know...it's redundant).
O'Keefe can only be compared to Gilligan being the host of Candid Camera.