So another hit job on an outspoken Democrat who stands up to Republicans. Someone with a Twitter account used 2 fake IDs while accusing Senator Richard Blumenthal of assault. Get ready for the ratfucking deluge. Franken was just the opening act. The scum on the right are now weaponizing the MeToo movement showing the depth of their depravity and hatred of women. Fellow Kossack MakoEyes987 predicted that Franken wouldn’t be the last target of a hit job. www.dailykos.com/...
A Twitter Account With Two Fake IDs Accused a Democrat of Assault. Then Pro-Trump Sites Ran With It.
A woman claiming to be from Connecticut made an explosive allegation of sexual assault against Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) on Friday. Her account quickly made its way through conservative chat forums, where contributors roundly called for the Senator to address the allegations and be held accountable for them.
But it is not entirely clear that the woman making the charge actually exists. In fact, a quick search shows that the account ripped off bio photos of women in Texas and London and misspelled the name of the accuser’s Connecticut hometown. The account was quickly shut down once the accusation went viral on rightwing media, with the user then emerging to claim she’d been hacked. After that, the account was suspended.
And in a statement to The Daily Beast, Blumenthal’s office strongly denied the charge.
It began at 5:56 pm, on Thursday, when the initial tweet was posted. In it, “Linda Flores” said that she had “waited almost 40 years to tell my story” about how she was “an intern at a law office with @SenBlumenthal & was sexually assaulted by richard countless times.”
“Told the story to my husband has been eaten me alive since,” Flores tweeted.
The picture accompanying the account was of a cowboy-hat wearing woman posing cheek-to-cheek with her goateed husband. A reverse Google Image search of that photo revealed that it was actually a different Linda Flores—a Linda Flores Olson who served as the former Executive Director of the Houston Hispanic Forum.
When reached by The Daily Beast, a spokesperson for the Houston Hispanic Forum told The Daily Beast that Olson is no longer working for the nonprofit, but said she had nothing to do with the Twitter account.
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The “Flores” account had several other questionable features. It was created earlier this week and tweeted only a handful of times. “Flores” also claimed she was from “Chesire, Ct,” which does not exist. It is Cheshire, Connecticut. By Friday afternoon, the account had been locked. But shortly there after, it was reopened, with Flores tweeting……
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