I understand. We are talking about the 24 hour news cycle. Verifying the plausibility of a story isn’t high on their list of priorities.
It’s a post on Medium. It appears to be the guy’s only piece.
Yes, but I liked this one even more. So cool! How many people, let alone presidential candidates, can speak Binary? Mayor Pete would be everyone’s president, human or otherwise.
Hey, thanks. I’m unfamiliar with Medium. Maybe I’ll click it after work.
It’s basically a place where you can post long form essays about whatever’s on your mind. Sort of a cross between blogspot and tumblr.
That post discusses thoughts of suicide and I find it troubling. I’m concerned what will happen if he finds a pack of reporters on his doorstep. He sounded so emotionally fragile in that post.
It could be a troubled individual looking for attention. Or a clever self-promoter with an agenda.
There’s no way to know until more news comes out.
OTOH, if the accuser is lying he could have chosen any date at all for the “assault” to have occurred. Why would he choose such an obviously convenient time-frame?
Unless… that’s precisely what he wants us to think. :eek:
I’d heard of, and read blogs on Medium before but I don’t know anything about it’s vetting process. It seems like it’s more blog site than Dallas Morning News. My early thought is: this is just something some guy blogged on a website where accusations are free and easy. That doesn’t mean it’s false but the guy offers no dates, locations, or anything, really.
Here is some of it from the Medium link above:
So far no details at all. And he’s a Trump supporter who recently scrubbed his social media accounts. His twitter account is a month old.
Even other Log Cabin Republicans are calling this “shady as hell”.
Yes. Here are some quotes from the article you linked to with names and direct quotes in bold.
It seems he’s a log cabin Republican who is known as a Trump supporter. Some prominent gay Republicans aren’t buying the story.
It’s not even an accusation. It’s a claim that he’s going to eventually make an accusation. If he does make an accusation, then it should be treated seriously and investigated. Until then, there’s nothing to treat seriously.
Yes, just the way it is presented alone - as if it’s some kind of teaser for an upcoming serial drama - raises my bullshit detector into the red zone. But I think this is going to become the norm in politics, if it isn’t already.
From that lgtbq nation site, it looks like he was a Trump supporter that scrubbed his social media and tried to look like a Sanders supporter. Seems like even if obviously bullshit, he would be happy if this had been accepted as a Bernie Bro smear job.
To the shock of literally no person, any where, the accusations of sexual assault have been revealed as a hoax:
That’s a relief.
I’m glad this attempted smear attempt was quickly uncovered.
*The Daily Beast reached out to Kelly on a cell phone listed to him in the student directory at his Michigan college. Told we were reporting on apparent efforts by Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman to drum up false sexual assault allegations against Buttigieg, Kelly replied, “I was unaware this was happening. But yes it is true.”
Kelly wrote that he did not control the newly-created Medium and Twitter accounts that posted the allegations under his name. When asked if he could verify his identity, he texted the Daily Beast a selfie that matched the photo seen on Medium and on Kelly’s longstanding Facebook accounts.
“Here is a selfie of me, sorry I have been crying,” he wrote. “Today and the promises made didn’t go as planned.”
Kelly declined to provide more details. But two hours later he posted a message to his Facebook timeline headed, “I WAS NOT SEXUALLY ASSAULTED.”
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So Jacob Wohl strikes again. I sincerely hope that he is sued by both Hunter Kelly and Pete Buttigieg.
The very first post after what looks to really be a bullshit verbal virus was attempted to be spread. Bravo, Lamoral.