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Wwcd

(6,288 posts)
Mon Jan 29, 2018, 11:45 PM Jan 2018

😂Haahaa omg. Assange got catfished by a woman with the flu, posing as Sean Hannity!!

Hillariously humiliating

Article From The Daily Beast:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/julian-assange-thought-he-was-messaging-sean-hannity-when-he-offered-news-on-democrat-investigating-trump-russia/

At about 4 a.m. on Saturday morning, a couple hours after she started pretending to be Sean Hannity, Dell Gilliam says she got a direct message back from the head of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange. That’s when she said she “kind of panicked.”

“I felt bad. He really thought he was talking to Sean Hannity,” said Gilliam.

Gilliam, a technical writer from Texas, was bored with the flu when she created @SeanHannity__ early Saturday morning.


The Fox News host's real account was temporarily deleted after cryptically tweeting the phrase “Form Submission 1649 | #Hannity” on Friday night.

When Gilliam made the account, she did not expect to be setting up a meeting over “other channels” for Assange to send “some news about Warner,” an apparent reference to Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election.

During the election, WikiLeaks’ dumped Democratic emails stolen by Kremlin hackers, even leading President Donald Trump’s CIA director to brand Assange’s organization a “hostile intelligence service” last year.

Just minutes after @SeanHannity disappeared, several accounts quickly sprung up posing as the real Hannity, shouting from Twitter exile. None were as successful as Gilliam’s @SeanHannity__ account, which has since amassed over 24,000 followers.

Gilliam then used her newfound prominence to direct message Assange as Hannity within hours.

“I can’t believe this is happening. I mean… I can. It’s crazy. Nothing can be put past people,” Gilliam, posing as Hannity, wrote to Assange. “
I’m exhausted from the whole night. What about you, though? You doing ok?”


“I’m happy as long as there is a fight!” Assange responded.

Gilliam reassured Assange that she, or Hannity, was also “definitely up for a fight” and set up a call for 9:30 a.m. Eastern, about six hours later.

“You can send me messages on other channels,” said Assange, the second reference to “other channels” he made since their conversation began.

“Have some news about Warner.”

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/julian-assange-thought-he-was-messaging-sean-hannity-when-he-offered-news-on-democrat-investigating-trump-russia/




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This better be the end of these fuckers once and for all.
Can we all get back to living our lives now?

Idiots. No wonder Trump's base loves him.
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😂Haahaa omg. Assange got catfished by a woman with the flu, posing as Sean Hannity!! (Original Post) Wwcd Jan 2018 OP
OMG, You're On Fire Tonight Me. Jan 2018 #1
Rofl.. i have to get to sleep! .I posted this same as pnwmom Wwcd Jan 2018 #3
Fux Ruse is the enemy...plain and clear! BigmanPigman Jan 2018 #2
Good question. I hope we survive the week. Wwcd Jan 2018 #4
Ha! This is great. Thanks for posting it. writerJT Jan 2018 #5
 

Wwcd

(6,288 posts)
3. Rofl.. i have to get to sleep! .I posted this same as pnwmom
Tue Jan 30, 2018, 12:06 AM
Jan 2018

Here:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141974793

I'm moving all my tweets over to that thread & deleting this duplicate.

I'll see, if it doesn't take too long.


Must be the super cool moon or something..probably brings out the howling in all of us. aaahooooh
Ya think maybe that's what's goin on??

Nite

BigmanPigman

(51,567 posts)
2. Fux Ruse is the enemy...plain and clear!
Tue Jan 30, 2018, 12:06 AM
Jan 2018

How can they be stopped? They are part of the collusion and are guilty as Hell! Why isn't Hannity pulled off the air?

writerJT

(190 posts)
5. Ha! This is great. Thanks for posting it.
Tue Jan 30, 2018, 12:11 AM
Jan 2018

And absolutely evidence that the little weasel is in touch with Assange.

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