GOP's "Investigate Hillary Again" bill came from /r/The_Donald

[factfinder_77]

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Source: Wired

Thursday night, three Twitter users discovered that a staffer for one of the resolution’s sponsors attempted to crowdsource a number of the resolution's salient points from r/The_Donald, a subreddit notorious for playing host to unfounded conspiracy theories and anti-Islam tendencies. In other words, not a conventional source of legislative inspiration.

"If the purpose of oversight investigations is to get to the truth," one longtime legislative staffer explained, "then using baseless conspiracies as your starting point is completely counterproductive to a direct investigation."

Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/republican-staffer-the-donald-resolution/

[Salviati]

1. "playing host to unfounded conspiracy theories and anti-Islam tendencies."

What do they mean, "not a conventional source of legislative inspiration"? Sounds like the 'mainstream' republican party to me.

[Best_man23]

2. So crude, unoriginal

Total RW hackjobs can't even come up with their own false "narrative", they have to reach out to the lunatic fringe to get the underpinnings for an "investigation."

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Locking - this is days old

Timestamped "07.28.17 04:14 PM". LBN rules state "news stories must have been published within the last 12 hours".