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mfcorey1

(11,001 posts)
Sat May 2, 2020, 04:39 PM May 2020

Remember this: 2019: Michigan student says Trump backers recruited him for false rape allegation

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

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Remember this: 2019: Michigan student says Trump backers recruited him for false rape allegation (Original Post) mfcorey1 May 2020 OP
I am amazed that here we go again. Eliot Rosewater May 2020 #1
These 2 little psychos need jail time, they are going to cross the wrong people eventually. sunonmars May 2020 #2
I don't understand that plan. I actually thought some RW dark money might go to boost Buttigieg. brewens May 2020 #3
this is what they do. barbtries May 2020 #4
Roger Stone is still on the streets, if only the one in front of his house... IthinkThereforeIAM May 2020 #7
Is Hunter Kelly still a Trump supporter? Boomerproud May 2020 #5
Republicans can't win elections... SergeStorms May 2020 #6
Wohl was recruiting former co-workers of Mueller to accuse him of harassment, as well. ehrnst May 2020 #8
And the irony is they wouldn't care... Buckeye_Democrat May 2020 #9
Moral or Logic Issues? NonPC May 2020 #13
It's neither moral nor logical issues. It's Fox "news" and propaganda issues that makes the right BComplex May 2020 #18
We are in a war and fight like it's a debate. "All is fair in love and war". SleeplessinSoCal May 2020 #10
And no matter how much evidence there is that the accusations are phony athenasatanjesus May 2020 #11
Wohl and Burkman are the GOP's answer to Laurel and Hardy. CaptYossarian May 2020 #12
One of the ... reACTIONary May 2020 #15
I thought of that. CaptYossarian May 2020 #16
The GOP even tried to smear Mueller. Kid Berwyn May 2020 #14
And those fuckin' scumbags are still walking free Blue Owl May 2020 #17

Eliot Rosewater

(31,131 posts)
1. I am amazed that here we go again.
Sat May 2, 2020, 04:42 PM
May 2020

Yes, Blasey Ford told the truth and Reade is lying.

Yep, it is that simple.

sunonmars

(8,656 posts)
2. These 2 little psychos need jail time, they are going to cross the wrong people eventually.
Sat May 2, 2020, 04:45 PM
May 2020

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)
3. I don't understand that plan. I actually thought some RW dark money might go to boost Buttigieg.
Sat May 2, 2020, 04:50 PM
May 2020

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.

IthinkThereforeIAM

(3,078 posts)
7. Roger Stone is still on the streets, if only the one in front of his house...
Sat May 2, 2020, 05:38 PM
May 2020

... he should be held incommunicado while awaiting his time to show up for prison.

SergeStorms

(19,204 posts)
6. Republicans can't win elections...
Sat May 2, 2020, 05:34 PM
May 2020

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.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,858 posts)
9. And the irony is they wouldn't care...
Sat May 2, 2020, 05:48 PM
May 2020

... about rape when Trump does it.

They know that liberals don’t like it, and will WORRY about it, so it’s just a political ploy.

There was a janitor at my workplace who mentioned his disdain for Clinton’s 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)
13. Moral or Logic Issues?
Sat May 2, 2020, 07:24 PM
May 2020

Not sure which is worse, his sense of morality or his lack of critical thinking skills. Classic Trump supporter.

BComplex

(8,077 posts)
18. It's neither moral nor logical issues. It's Fox "news" and propaganda issues that makes the right
Sun May 3, 2020, 11:10 AM
May 2020

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&quot . 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)
10. We are in a war and fight like it's a debate. "All is fair in love and war".
Sat May 2, 2020, 06:29 PM
May 2020

I still don't understand what exactly they want, unless it's making the U.S. a slave nation state.

athenasatanjesus

(859 posts)
11. And no matter how much evidence there is that the accusations are phony
Sat May 2, 2020, 07:15 PM
May 2020

The false equivalency brigade will say "libs are hypocrites if they don't believe every accusation against them"

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)
16. I thought of that.
Sat May 2, 2020, 10:37 PM
May 2020

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.

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