Russia Recruited YouTubers to Bash Racist B*tch Hillary Clinton Over Rap Beats

[Tommy_Carcetti]

40. Makes me think Russia may have very well bankrolled the "Gary Forbes" social media account

In case you haven't heard of "Gary Forbes", he was/is a former new-aged pianist/inspirational speaker/author (without any substantial success in any of those departments) out of upstate New York whose name is actually Gary Pasquariello.

At his height during the Republican primaries, his account had over 10,000 followers and was being retweeted all over social media, including by Trump himself (as well as several other notable personalities such as Ann Coulter). He claimed to be the CEO of something called The Forbes Group with a staff of assistants, but there was no proof any such organization or any of the alleged staff actually existed.

Most of his tweets would simply be slides, containing either Trump slogans (with Trump's "Make America Great Again" logo at the bottom), alleged endorsements (many of them false, such as aviation legend Chuck Yeager who never actually endorsed Trump) or ridiculous sounding claims, such as claiming that Trump was a genius in the 99.999th IQ percentile.

His slides would go out on a repeating, random basis, meaning it was probably distributed by a bot system. His personal missives were distributed on a weekly basis and got to the point where they were somewhat malicious (even threatening GOP delegates who might vote against Trump at the convention). Eventually, his original Twitter account was suspended for reasons unknown. He since created an alternate Twitter account that is still active, although with not nearly as many followers.

You can read more about Forbes/Pasquariello from what I found out about him in March 2016 while the primaries were still on going:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10027708476

I doubt an out-of-work pianist/inspirational speaker would have the money resources to push such a massive propaganda operation, so someone had to be funding the guy.