Since the damning, and icky, reports of Russia’s blackmail bait on the president-elect have gone public, the right wing has pushed back hard, citing an anonymous 4chan user who claimed he made up the story and fed it to anti-Trump operative Rick Wilson.
The right wing media is dancing in the streets over this claim with headlines like “4chan Trolls CIA.”
Sadly for the “debunkers,” the man named in the post, Rick Wilson, has denied ever having the report, saying he himself knew nothing of it until buzzfeed’s original posting.
I’m not BuzzFeed’s source. Since their source was anonymous, and I don’t know who it was, I’ll settle it this way; if — arguendo — I had been their source, I hereby release the authors of the story, its editors, and BuzzFeed generally from any off-the-record/background protections of anonymity I would have asked for.
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If you believe the Russian/4chan spin that this information came from them, you can’t use a calendar, or common sense. This information on Trump’s various personal and business dealings in Russia was being pursued by major campaigns and by major media to my knowledge as early as late July of 2015, and the “Ritz Carlton” information was out in the summer of 2016.
Wilson goes on to excoriate the gullible “chan children” spreading the bogus claim.
You might want to save the link to his statement above, as I’m sure your Twitter/Facebook feed contains at least one person who equates “I want to believe” with “it must be true.”