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WASHINGTON – A scheme in which women were allegedly offered money to falsely implicate Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller in sexual misconduct has been referred to the FBI for review, Mueller's spokesman said Tuesday.

The hoax surfaced more than a week ago when a number of journalists were contacted via email by a person who reported receiving a telephone call from an individual making the offer.

“When we learned last week of allegations that women were offered money to make false claims about the special counsel, we immediately referred the matter to the FBI for investigation," Mueller spokesman Peter Carr said.

Mueller, who leads the inquiry into Russia's interference in the 2016 election, has been the target of a barrage of criticism from President Donald Trump and some of his Republican allies in Congress who have accused the special counsel of unfairly targeting the president.

One of the journalists who was contacted, a correspondent for HillReporter.com, recounted the bizarre episode in an article published Tuesday.

The alleged offer, according to the publication, came from a man who proposed paying off the person's credit card debt, and issuing a check for $20,000. According article, the caller then asked the person to move to an encrypted communications application where he could elaborate on the proposition.

"Reluctantly, I downloaded the app and he called me on that app a few minutes later," the person said in the email to the reporter. "He said (and I will never forget exactly what it was) 'I want you to make accusations of sexual misconduct and workplace harassment against Robert Mueller, and I want you to sign a sworn affidavit to that effect.'”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...ed-sex-misconduct-hoax-fbi-review/1821254002/
 
More dangerous right wing conspiracy theorists, trying to protect white nationalism by eliminating the opposition so they can take over the country. Will everyone here please condemn hoaxing for political gain?
 
donkiez said:
More dangerous right wing conspiracy theorists, trying to protect white nationalism by eliminating the opposition so they can take over the country. Will everyone here please condemn hoaxing for political gain?
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Deep state alibi investigation. Obviously
 
donkiez said:
More dangerous right wing conspiracy theorists, trying to protect white nationalism by eliminating the opposition so they can take over the country. Will everyone here please condemn hoaxing for political gain?
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Dream on.
 
Seems Mueller's camp was tipped off that a genuine victim of his was about to come forward so they threw together a fake news story to discredit the real story.

According to The Atlantic, Mueller’s office said the scheme was brought to its attention by journalists after a woman told them she had been offered $20,000 by GOP activist Jack Burkman “to make accusations of sexual misconduct and workplace harassment against Robert Mueller.”

The Atlantic reported that the woman claimed Burkman also offered to pay off her credit card debt.

But reached for comment on Tuesday, Burkman told Fox News he does not know the woman who spoke with The Atlantic and has “never paid anyone to do such a thing.”

“This is very silly. It is Mueller doing the usual—trying to deflect from his own problems,” Burkman said, when asked for comment on the special counsel’s referral to the FBI.

However, Burkman told Fox News he is representing a woman who allegedly met Mueller in New York City in August 2010. He said the two were involved in an “intimate situation” when an alleged assault occurred.

“I have a signed dossier from her,” Burkman claimed.

Asked about Burkman’s statements, Mueller’s office had no further comment.

Burkman, meanwhile, has gone public with his plans to level said allegations later this week.

“Some sad news. On Thursday, November 1, at the Rosslyn Holiday Inn at noon, we will reveal the first of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s sex assault victims. I applaud the courage and dignity and grace and strength of my client,” Burkman tweeted Tuesday.
 
MARIS61 said:
Seems Mueller's camp was tipped off that a genuine victim of his was about to come forward so they threw together a fake news story to discredit the real story.

According to The Atlantic, Mueller’s office said the scheme was brought to its attention by journalists after a woman told them she had been offered $20,000 by GOP activist Jack Burkman “to make accusations of sexual misconduct and workplace harassment against Robert Mueller.”

The Atlantic reported that the woman claimed Burkman also offered to pay off her credit card debt.

But reached for comment on Tuesday, Burkman told Fox News he does not know the woman who spoke with The Atlantic and has “never paid anyone to do such a thing.”

“This is very silly. It is Mueller doing the usual—trying to deflect from his own problems,” Burkman said, when asked for comment on the special counsel’s referral to the FBI.

However, Burkman told Fox News he is representing a woman who allegedly met Mueller in New York City in August 2010. He said the two were involved in an “intimate situation” when an alleged assault occurred.

“I have a signed dossier from her,” Burkman claimed.

Asked about Burkman’s statements, Mueller’s office had no further comment.

Burkman, meanwhile, has gone public with his plans to level said allegations later this week.

“Some sad news. On Thursday, November 1, at the Rosslyn Holiday Inn at noon, we will reveal the first of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s sex assault victims. I applaud the courage and dignity and grace and strength of my client,” Burkman tweeted Tuesday.
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Pro-Trump troll busted for running fake intelligence firm tied to Mueller smear

https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/jacob-wohl-surefire-intellifence-robert-mueller/
 
I have no idea who Jacob Wohl is, he has nothing to do with the woman coming forward with Jake Burkman on Thursday, but it does indeed look like he's a victim of the Deep state's current but clumsy attempts to throw a smear campaign out there to protect Mueller.
 
MARIS61 said:
I have no idea who Jacob Wohl is, he has nothing to do with the woman coming forward with Jake Burkman on Thursday, but it does indeed look like he's a victim of the Deep state's current but clumsy attempts to throw a smear campaign out there to protect Mueller.
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The incredibly shoddy plot to smear Robert Mueller, explained
Mueller’s office has asked the FBI to investigate what happened.

An apparent attempt to drum up phony sexual misconduct allegations against special counsel Robert Mueller collapsed spectacularly Tuesday, and may have landed some conservative activists in hot water with the FBI.

“When we learned last week of allegations that women were offered money to make false claims about the Special Counsel, we immediately referred the matter to the FBI for investigation,” Mueller’s spokesperson said in a statement.

Exactly what was going on remains unclear — including the object of the apparent scheme. But it spilled into public view after pro-Trump Twitter personality Jacob Wohl ominously suggested Monday night that a story about such allegations was coming, and journalists who had heard about this shady operation reacted with alarm on Twitter, saying it seemed to be a smear attempt.

The key people involved to some extent appear to be:

  • Jacob Wohl: a 20-year-old conservative who’s most famous for sending speedy sycophantic replies to Trump’s tweets and making implausible, factually dubious claims. He also ran some shady hedge funds.
  • Jack Burkman: a Republican lobbyist and conspiracy theorist who has repeatedly made false claims to have bombshell political information (such as a mystery witness proving DNC staffer Seth Rich was murdered by the government, or someone who would come forward accusing a member of Congress of sexual harassment).
What happened
The gist is that Wohl, Burkman, or both may have been involved in a plot to drum up these allegations. Or they may have just been trolling the media. Or Wohl might even have been tricking Burkman on some level.

What we know so far is that:

  • On October 17, a bunch of prominent reporters and Twitter personalities got a weird email, supposedly from a woman named “Lorraine,” who claimed that someone working for Jack Burkman had offered to pay her to make accusations of sexual misconduct against Mueller. However, no one has yet been able to verify her identity or that she even exists (and indeed, Burkman now claims that she “doesn’t exist”). The email may well be total bullshit.
  • In any case, some recipients of this email got “Lorraine” to provide the info of the man who supposedly contacted her. They got in touch with him and were each told they were “in over your head” and to “drop” the matter. One says he then got a phone call from a man who identified himself as working for “Surefire Intelligence.”
  • Around this time, Jack Burkman said on social media that he was trying to get women with allegations about Mueller to come forward. Jacob Wohl, meanwhile, claimed on Twitter to have heard a rumor that something like this would soon happen.
  • On October 22, law professor Jennifer Taub got an email from someone with a Surefire Intelligence account, asking her about her “past encounters with Robert Mueller” and offering to “compensate” her for a phone call. Taub told the Atlantic that she’s never met Mueller, that she didn’t respond to the email, and that she forwarded the email to Mueller’s office.
  • Finally, last night, Wohl tweeted: “Several media sources tell me that a scandalous story about Mueller is breaking tomorrow. Should be interesting. Stay tuned!” Various journalists who received the “Lorraine” email then started tweeting about it, and opining that it was shady and unconvincing.
This was an embarrassingly thin scam
This caused the whole matter to spill out into public, and internet sleuths began to dig into Surefire Intelligence, the supposed private intelligence company investigating these allegations.

Wohl was publicly cagey about his involvement in Surefire or the plot generally. But Burkman freely told Hill Reporter that “Surefire is a real company” run by “Jacob Wohl.” And after journalists and online researchers got to work, it started to look like Surefire was ... Jacob Wohl, and only Jacob Wohl.

So, it looks like Surefire is essentially Better Call Saul’s Jimmy McGill doing a series of different voices over the phone to convince prosecutors that a whole church congregation supports his client. It is not clear if Burkman, who insisted Surefire was “real,” is also being tricked, or if he is a willing participant in this scam.

Nonetheless, on Tuesday afternoon, the far-right conspiracist website Gateway Pundit, for which Wohl writes, posted a heavily redacted document making a rape allegation against Mueller. The name of the document’s author was blacked out, but it used a slogan that was also on the Surefire website. Then, after much Twitter mockery, Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft took the document down and said he was “looking into” the “serious allegations against Jacob Wohl.”

Now, it’s in the FBI’s hands. “When we learned last week of allegations that women were offered money to make false claims about the Special Counsel, we immediately referred the matter to the FBI for investigation,” Mueller’s spokesperson said in a statement Tuesday.

If this is just trolling, then it sort of worked
Wohl may end up being the ultimate loser in this scenario, depending on what the FBI finds. But if the purpose of the scam was as much to troll journalists as to smear Mueller and the investigation, then in a way, he’s already won.

Yes, Mueller’s office commented on the allegations and “made news” by saying they’d referred the allegations to the FBI. Still, NBC News, the Atlantic, the Daily Beast, BuzzFeed News, the New York Times, and several other media outlets (including, now, Vox) wrote articles about this nonsense — if only to debunk Wohl’s claims. By doing so, they devoted scarce journalistic resources to this topic rather than others, just days before the midterm elections.

Burkman still claims that this Thursday he will reveal “the first” of Mueller’s victims at a press conference. If this is anything like his previous hyped press conferences, it will be a dud. But if on some level trolls just want to steal the spotlight and change the subject, then the plan succeeded.

https://www.vox.com/2018/10/30/18044110/robert-mueller-jacob-wohl-jack-burkman-surefire
 
Muller is getting close
 
The fuck is even happening anymore?

When the fuck is it going to get better? Because it sure as hell isn't happening with Trump. He doesn't get a title, because he's not worthy of a name given all he's done since is divide this country. And it's gone FAST.

There has been -NO- good in the last two years. Just division, division, division. It's sickening.

And no, anyone who says there is any good happening since Trump has been there, is looking at it in a micro sense, and not a macro. Because macrolly, I've never seen it so divided in my lifetime. And I hope we go back to some civility at some time... but it's fucking dark days.
 
I don’t see division.

I see a happy majority of Americans, and a lot of manufactured drama in the media that does not reflect reality in any of our lives.

But more and more people are waking up to the noticeable improvement in their own lives and they are happier than they have been in a long time.
 
MARIS61 said:
I have no idea who Jacob Wohl is, he has nothing to do with the woman coming forward with Jake Burkman on Thursday, but it does indeed look like he's a victim of the Deep state's current but clumsy attempts to throw a smear campaign out there to protect Mueller.
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The Deep State. How did you find out about us? This was our most closely guarded secret. However, you can be protected from us if you wear your properly constructed tin foil hat.
 
MARIS61 said:
I don’t see division.

I see a happy majority of Americans, and a lot of manufactured drama in the media that does not reflect reality in any of our lives.

But more and more people are waking up to the noticeable improvement in their own lives and they are happier than they have been in a long time.
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and how do you explain an approval rating of around 40% then? MAJORITY of Americans disapprove of Trump.

WAKE THE FUCK UP!
 
MARIS61 said:
I don’t see division.

I see a happy majority of Americans, and a lot of manufactured drama in the media that does not reflect reality in any of our lives.

But more and more people are waking up to the noticeable improvement in their own lives and they are happier than they have been in a long time.
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........ what?

"does not reflect reality in any of our lives?"

That might be downright the most ignorant and out-of-touch post I've ever seen in my life.

Meet different people, then you'll know. It's not manufactured. These people are real.

Pop the bubble.
 
Haven't read much about this, but if the OP is true (that Mueller asked for an FBI investigation) it's rich.

Either it will take a week and say he's a victim, in which case no one on the left will believe it, or it will eventually exonerate him after 2 years of Trey Gowdy and his crew asking questions.

Either way, popcorn.
 
BrianFromWA said:
Haven't read much about this, but if the OP is true (that Mueller asked for an FBI investigation) it's rich.

Either it will take a week and say he's a victim, in which case no one on the left will believe it, or it will eventually exonerate him after 2 years of Trey Gowdy and his crew asking questions.

Either way, popcorn.
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The FBI is on it. If you don't fall for Trump's ruse that the FBI is corrupt, you can trust their investigation.
 
BrianFromWA said:
Haven't read much about this, but if the OP is true (that Mueller asked for an FBI investigation) it's rich.

Either it will take a week and say he's a victim, in which case no one on the left will believe it, or it will eventually exonerate him after 2 years of Trey Gowdy and his crew asking questions.

Either way, popcorn.
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Whatever, its a fucking smear campaign. A woman already said someone tried to pay her off to lie and smear him. If this is all Trump has got, he is fucking weak. Looks like he is getting scared.
 
The press conference today with Burkman and Wohl seems to have been way beyond comedic. I only wish I could have been there in person.

barfo
 
barfo said:
The press conference today with Burkman and Wohl seems to have been way beyond comedic. I only wish I could have been there in person.

barfo
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I read an article about it and what a couple of losers those two are.

@MARIS61 what is your take on these two flakes? More fake news, lol.
 
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