The campaign to pizzagate Hunter Biden

[struggle4progress]

Oct. 22, 2020, 7:00 PM EDT
By Ben Collins and Brandy Zadrozny


... First Draft, a nonprofit that tracks misinformation and provides research and training for journalists, said the child abuse rumors originated from a nexus of pro-Trump figures ...

Keenan Chen, a First Draft researcher who has been monitoring the spread of the Hunter Biden rumors, said that they appeared to have originated from Dinggang Wang, an anti-Chinese government YouTube personality known for spreading misinformation ...

Wang is connected to Bannon, the 2016 Trump campaign CEO, and Giuliani through Guo Wengui, a billionaire who fled China amid accusations of bribery and other crimes. The three men are board members of the Rule of Law Society, a nonprofit with a mission to "expose corruption, obstruction, illegality, brutality, false imprisonment, excessive sentencing, harassment and inhumanity" in China ...

Guo, who is a member of Trump's country club Mar-A-Lago and was once the world's 67th-wealthiest individual, befriended Bannon, a former Trump campaign and White House aide, in 2017 ...

... the most significant boost for the child abuse conspiracy theories would come from a website founded in May that has been embraced by Trump surrogates: Revolver News ...

Revolver News does not disclose on its website who is behind its operations or any corporate affiliations, but Darren Beattie, a former speechwriter for Trump who was fired in 2018 for speaking at an event alongside white nationalists, has claimed authorship of some of the posts ...

In 2019, Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., a loyal Trump ally, hired Beattie as a speechwriter ...

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/inside-campaign-pizzagate-hunter-biden-n1244331

[applegrove]

1. So sick. GOP is so sick.

[Thekaspervote]

2. I hope when the election is over Hunter sues every last one of these evil SOBs

I’m sure right now he feels like he can’t

[struggle4progress]

3. Trump attacks Hunter Biden

By RYAN BORT & TIM DICKINSON & ANDY KROLL

... the smear campaign has been based on selective and questionably sourced evidence, exaggeration, innuendo, absurd leaps of logic, and outright lies. Much of this material was the subject of a Republican-led Senate investigation into Joe Biden’s official conduct vis a vis his son’s business interests that found no evidence of wrongdoing by the then-vice president. But that hasn’t stopped Giuliani ...

... The Post says that a laptop with a Beau Biden Foundation sticker on it was left for repairs at a Delaware computer repair shop in 2019 and never retrieved. The store owner, a Trump supporter who told reporters he is “legally blind,” couldn’t confirm it was Hunter Biden who dropped off said laptop. But this owner subsequently examined the hard drive, made a copy of it, and sent it to … Rudy Giuliani. The Post says it was initially tipped off to the existence of the drive by former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, who is currently facing criminal charges for fraud ...

... The day after the story ran, the Washington Post reported that U.S. intelligence agencies had warned the White House that Giuliani was the target Russian disinformation efforts. Giuliani’s long search for dirt on the Bidens had led him to consort with a member of Ukraine’s parliament who was recently sanctioned by the U.S. government for working as an “active Russian agent… complicit in foreign interference in an attempt to undermine the upcoming 2020 U.S. presidential election.” More than 50 former intelligence officials have signed a letter stating that the story “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” Facebook limited sharing of the story over concerns of its veracity; Twitter similarly halted sharing citing concerns over the story’s inclusion of “content obtained through hacking” ...

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/hunter-biden-business-dealings-trump-debate-attacks-1079781/

[Initech]

4. How you stop trolls:

Just call them a fucking moron and move on. That is it, that's all you need to do.

[TheFarseer]

5. Is this connected to Falun Gong?

Just wondering