Joe Scarborough praises hoaxer fabricating info on social media about Trump admin indictments + Russia conspiracies

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Hoaxer Tricks Prominent Trump Critics Into Spreading False Allegations On Twitter

 

Outlandish claims about President Trump that were spread by two prominent Twitter users were hoaxes, according to a damning new report by The Guardian.

Louise Mensch, a former British parliamentarian, and Claude Taylor, a former Bill Clinton White House staffer, have for months made sensational claims about Trump and the ongoing federal investigations into his campaign and financial dealings.

With a steady stream of juicy allegations — such as that sealed indictments have been handed down for Trump associates and that arrests of Trumpworld figures were imminent — the duo have developed a massive following on Twitter and among liberals who hope to see Trump impeached.

Mensch — the founder of the now-defunct website, Heat Street — also parlayed her popularity into writing an op-ed for The New York Times about the investigation into Russian meddling in the presidential campaign.

 

But at least some of the claims spread by Mensch and Taylor came from a hoaxster, The Guardian revealed on Monday.

According to the newspaper, a person posing as an attorney in the office of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman fed Taylor false information about money laundering and sex trafficking investigations targeting Trump. Mensch retweeted Taylor’s fake scoops at least 18 times to her 270,000 Twitter followers.

The hoaxster, who went by the name “Caitlan,” began emailing Taylor on July 20, just after MSNBC host Joe Scarborough praised Taylor on his TV show.

Claiming to be an investigator with Schneiderman’s Organized Crime Task Force, “Caitlan” told Taylor that a modeling agency once operated by Trump was the subject of a sex trafficking investigation.

 

Mensch circulated Taylor’s claims on Twitter, and on Aug. 15 published an article at her website, Patribiotics, claiming that sources within the intelligence community have told her that Trump is being investigated for trafficking underaged girls.

In one email, “Caitlan” told Taylor that Schneiderman’s office had handed down sealed indictments for executives at the Trump Organization, the Trump family’s real estate company.

 

 

 

http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/29/hoaxer-tricks-prominent-trump-critics-into-spreading-false-allegations-on-twitter/

 

It shouldn't be surprising that frenzied NeverTrumpers fall for fake news, it's funny watching them get all excited about every fake news garbage that comes up as if Trump is on the verge of being tossed. 

 

It's like a news variant of drugs for people who can't cope with reality.

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i'm just waiting for a scammer to create an email telling people they have proof of trump doing (fill in the blank) just forward $300 handling fee to.........

[CaliCat 3,957]

John Barron. Master hoaxer.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/exqkbp/remembering-john-barron-donald-trumps-spokesman-alter-ego-116

 

LOL.

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the irony in posting the dailycaller's link on this and not directly the guardian story..with conflicting headline and all..not lost on me! bravo!

 http://www.politifact.com/personalities/daily-caller/

Edited August 29, 2017 by smilesammich

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24 minutes ago, smilesammich said:

the irony in posting the dailycaller's link on this and not directly the guardian story..with conflicting headline and all..not lost on me! bravo!

 http://www.politifact.com/personalities/daily-caller/

 

Alternate facts can easily get mixed up. When that happens you have a new alternate version of alternate facts.

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8 minutes ago, CaliCat said:

 

Alternate facts can easily get mixed up. When that happens you have a new alternate version of alternate facts.

i am an internet warrior for the honor of joe scarborough. how is this possible? must be all that bruce springsteen music he plays.

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1 hour ago, smilesammich said:

i am an internet warrior for the honor of joe scarborough. how is this possible? must be all that bruce springsteen music he plays.

 

Springsteen? Major socialist communist. Probably founding member of Antifa, and agent of the Venezuelan secret service. LOL. 

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4 hours ago, smilesammich said:

the irony in posting the dailycaller's link on this and not directly the guardian story..with conflicting headline and all..not lost on me! bravo!

 http://www.politifact.com/personalities/daily-caller/

I don't know, the Guardian story is pretty spot on.  These two seem like a couple of posters we have here in CEHST.  It is interesting that these two, Mensch and Taylor appear to be the equivilant on the Left to what the Left labels Alt-Right news.  I guess alternative facts permeate both sides.

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/28/trump-tweets-hoax-louise-mensch-claude-taylor

 

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14 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

I don't know, the Guardian story is pretty spot on.  These two seem like a couple of posters we have here in CEHST.  It is interesting that these two, Mensch and Taylor appear to be the equivilant on the Left to what the Left labels Alt-Right news.  I guess alternative facts permeate both sides.

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/28/trump-tweets-hoax-louise-mensch-claude-taylor

 

Mensch is a pro-Brexit wack job. JackieP was singing 50 shades of mensch while strumming his guitar, half an hour ago- bless his polyester socks.  Pity his wife posted pics of them celebrating their macronleaks fiasco.

fun times

 

5 hours ago, smilesammich said:

the irony in posting the dailycaller's link on this and not directly the guardian story..with conflicting headline and all..not lost on me! bravo!

 http://www.politifact.com/personalities/daily-caller/

The dailycaller-lol.

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2 minutes ago, Jacque67 said:

Mensch is a pro-Brexit wack job. JackieP was singing 50 shades of mensch while strumming his guitar, half an hour ago- bless his polyester socks.  Pity his wife posted pics of them celebrating their macronleaks fiasco.

fun times

 

Seems like she may have switched back to the Labour Party to me.  Isn't that the party in the U.K. that has all the pedophiles in it?

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10 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

Seems like she may have switched back to the Labour Party to me.  Isn't that the party in the U.K. that has all the pedophiles in it?

Conservatives, too. And the Royal Family! She was paid by Murdoch. 

British accents go far in the US still...check out Gorka's fake one.

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38 minutes ago, Jacque67 said:

Conservatives, too. And the Royal Family! She was paid by Murdoch. 

British accents go far in the US still...check out Gorka's fake one.

So the entire British government and the royals are pedophiles?  Makes me glad I am not British.  As to Mensch she bounces between parties regardless of her family, and apparently she is now veering to the MDL.

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34 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

So the entire British government and the royals are pedophiles?  Makes me glad I am not British.  As to Mensch she bounces between parties regardless of her family, and apparently she is now veering to the MDL.

Lol! She veers to whichever gives her the most attention. Just like Spencer, JackieP, Thernovitch and co. do.

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1 hour ago, Jacque67 said:

Lol! She veers to whichever gives her the most attention. Just like Spencer, JackieP, Thernovitch and co. do.

Agreed, and right now the attention is coming from the MDL.

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Just now, Bill & Katya said:

Agreed, and right now the attention is coming from the MDL.

Which only benefits Trump. 

 

Little do lefties even get it in their tantrums they're playing right into Trumps "hands".