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the Climate Change Hoax Argument: the history and science that expose a major international deception Paperback – April 11, 2021

by C. Paul Smith (Author)

many people believe that a consensus of scientists agree that humans are causing climate change that will cause catastrophic damage to the planet if we do not immediately enact numerous laws and practices to stop it. But those who believe insist that settled science has proved it, and they refuse to debate it, and they cannot explain scientific reasons to support it. In fact. The science does not support it—not the “human-caused” part, not the catastrophic damage part, and especially not the assertion that most scientists agree with it. The claim that humans are causing catastrophic climate change is a hoax.

The Climate Change Hoax Argument presents the history of the hoax and the science that refutes the hoax. After reading this book you will be able to discuss the basic climate principles, and you will be able to intelligently discuss and refute the claims of environmental extremists that humans are destroying the planet. Hundreds of renowned scientists from around the world dispute the claims of the IPCC that human-caused climate change is an existential threat to the world. Here are five such statements:

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“So far, real measurements give no ground for concern about catastrophic future warming.” --Dr. Jarl R. Ahlbeck, chemical engineer, Abo Akademi University (Finland)

The IPCC “Summaries have distorted the science.” --Dr. Philip Lloyd, nuclear physicist (South Africa) and former IPCC lead author

The IPCC’s assertion of consensus in support of its AGW claim is “really outrageous and unethical.” --Dr. William M. Briggs, climate statistician and Assoc. Editor of Monthly Weather Review}:

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“Climate Change” is the current mantra of the environmental extremists who insist that humans are destroying the earth by emitting too much CO₂ into the atmosphere. These extremists insist that the use of fossil fuels is the root cause of this pending doom, and that if all nations do not immediately take drastic steps towards eliminating fossil fuels then the earth will be destroyed in ten years. They call this an “existential threat.” But they are wrong.}:

Current and continued use of fossil fuels will not lead to the destruction of the earth; neither is it causing increased global warming that will cause this destruction; neither is it causing a rise of sea level that will devastate mankind; neither is it causing an increased number and intensity of tornadoes, hurricanes, wildfires, floods or droughts. Science does not support a finding of increases in extreme weather.

Some scientists asserted such extremist conclusions, but more and more scientists are abandoning the politically correct global warming/climate change movement as they are beginning to see the falsehoods, deceptions, and rigged predictions of those who are using “climate change” as a pawn in their attempts to bring about a one-world socialist, totalitarian government. The purpose of this book is to educate people and to alert them that the claim of human-caused climate change is a hoax, and that those claiming it have the burden to prove it. They insist the debate is over in order to avoid their fraud from being exposed. Until now the hoax has shielded them from having to prove their case, or even to debate the science. But the charade is over.

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The Truth about Energy, Global Warming, and Climate Change: Exposing Climate Lies in an Age of Disinformation: Corsi Ph.D., Jerome R.: 9781637589205: Amazon.com: Books

the Truth about Energy, Global Warming, and Climate Change: Exposing Climate Lies in an Age of Disinformation Paperback – August 22, 2022

by Jerome R. Corsi Ph.D. (Author)

this book exposes the truth that the climate change hoax is a political movement aimed at eliminating capitalism by spreading alarming disinformation that in order to “save the Earth” from global warming, we must reduce carbon dioxide emissions by switching from hydrocarbon fuels to renewable energies.

The Truth about Energy, Global Warming, and Climate Change: Exposing Climate Lies in an Age of Disinformation reveals a science-based understanding of Earth’s climate and temperature that Green New Deal proponents are trying to hide. In the pages of this book, you will see scientifically documented evidence for many facts that the radical left denies.

Want to know the truth about how energy, temperature, and climate work? Read The Truth about Energy, Global Warming, and Climate Change—but prepare to be shocked. Jerome R. Corsi has conducted a tour-de-force examination of peer-reviewed climate science that exposes the neo-Marxists behind today’s anti-capitalist global warming hoax.

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Right-wing figures and Trump allies are calling for Trump to declare a “national emergency” to prevent supposed election fraud

Jerome Corsi has claimed he’s been involved in drafting an executive order “to be implemented for the 2026 elections”

Written by Alex Kaplan

Published 10/28/25

The New York Times recently reported that a Department of Homeland Security official focused on “election integrity,” appointed by President Donald Trump, has proposed that Trump declare a “national emergency” to “justify dictating new rules to state and local governments” related to voting and elections.

The call for a “national emergency” declaration, which Department of Homeland Security official Heather Honey made a few months ahead of her appointment, has also recently been reiterated by right-wing figures and Trump allies known for pushing false claims of widespread election fraud. In interviews and on social media, some of these figures have suggested that Trump use “plenary authority” or claimed to be “encouraging” Trump to declare a national emergency “to make sure that the elections in 2026 are secure.” One of those figures has even claimed to be involved in efforts to craft a related executive order that would affect voting processes.

• ## Trump has issued and threatened executive orders to enact national election policies

• • In March, Trump issued an executive order of dubious legality to mandate prospective voters provide proof of citizenship when registering to vote. The executive order “calls for the Election Assistance Commission to require people to show government-issued proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections, and directs state or local officials to record and verify the information,” along with “requir[ing] states to count ballots by Election Day.” Legal experts have cast doubt on the executive order’s legality, and a federal judge in June blocked most of the key provisions of the order, writing in a decision that “the Constitution does not grant the president any specific powers over elections.” In August, Trump called for voter ID for “every single vote,” claiming, “I Will Be Doing An Executive Order To That End!!!” The New York Times, [3/25/25, 3/26/25, 6/13/25, 8/31/25]

• ## Trump official previously suggested Trump can declare a “national emergency” to implement the administration’s preferred election policies nationally

• • In March, Heather Honey, now DHS’ deputy assistant secretary for election integrity, reportedly “suggested that the new administration could declare a ‘national emergency’ and justify dictating new rules to state and local governments” related to voting and elections. The New York Times reported that during a “call with right-wing activists in March,” Honey suggested a national emergency “could be based on an ‘actual investigation’ of the 2020 election if it showed there had been a ‘manipulation’ of the vote.” “Therefore,” she argued, “we have some additional powers that don’t exist right now” and “can take these other steps without Congress and we can mandate that states do things and so on.” The New York Times, [10/22/25]

• • Honey is one of “multiple proponents” of Trump’s 2020 election fraud claims who The New York Times reports Trump elevated “into high-level administration jobs.” Prior to Honey's appointment to DHS in August, she was “a leader” in the “right-wing election activist movement that emerged” after Trump “falsely claimed that his 2020 defeat was the result of widespread fraud.” According to the Times, Honey “echo[ed] rhetoric that has infused” that movement during a call in September with state election officials. The New York Times, [10/22/25]

• ## Right-wing figures and Trump allies have called for Trump to issue a national emergency declaration to enforce his preferred election policies

• • At an event for right-wing website The Gateway Pundit, former Trump attorney Peter Ticktin said he “wouldn’t be very surprised” if there’s “an emergency called” before the next election, claiming that “it's necessary.” Ticktin, an attorney with a history of spreading election fraud claims, said at a conference organized by The Gateway Pundit, “I wouldn’t be very surprised if we find out before the next election that there’s kind of, be an emergency called,” with which “we’re going to be able to turn the tide.” Ticktin also said, “I don’t have it on good authority that this is going to be done, but a number of people are urging it because it’s necessary.” Media Matters, [7/9/19, 6/16/22, 7/15/22; The Gateway Pundit’s Vindicated conference, 8/23/25]

• • :{Podcaster Joe Oltmann, who refused to provide evidence in court of his claims that the 2020 election was rigged, said that Trump’s election-related executive orders “are permissible in states of national and foreign emergencies.” Responding to a social media post suggesting Trump’s proposed voter ID executive order violated the Constitution, Oltmann wrote, “Supremacy clause, and state of emergency. EO are permissible in states of national and foreign emergencies.” Colorado Public Radio, [7/31/25; USA Today, 9/5/24; Twitter/X, 8/31/25]

• • Conrad Reynolds, who is part of an initiative to get rid of voting machines, said, “We are encouraging the president to declare a national emergency right now on this issue.” According to Little Rock Public Radio, Reynolds “thinks Arkansas voting machines could be flipping votes” and runs an organization focused on “getting rid of voting machines” in favor of paper ballots. He was charged with electioneering over the issue. While appearing on a podcast, Reynolds said: “We have a national emergency. That's what this is. And we are encouraging the president to declare a national emergency right now on this issue.” He added that “if we don’t get this right, I'm telling you the midterms are not going to be good, and we need to fix it right now.” Little Rock Public Radio, [11/4/24, 10/10/25; The State of Freedom, 9/16/25]

• • During a call on “election integrity” on a Florida GOP official’s podcast, VoterGA’s Garland Favorito said that Trump “can execute his National Emergency Act powers” to supposedly protect elections. CNN reported that Favorito has “a long history of promoting debunked conspiracy theories” and a “penchant for pushing election misinformation.” During the podcast, Favorito said that Trump could “execute his National Emergency Act powers” in order to ensure that election systems “comply” with federal law, adding, “I believe that he’ll do that.” CNN, [10/9/24; ProPublica, 10/16/24; Stern American, 9/18/25]

• • Former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn during a podcast appearance: “The only way that we’re going to have a fair federal election is if” Trump “declares ... some sort of a national emergency.” Flynn, who urged Trump after the 2020 election to seize voter machines and who Trump has since appointed to the board of visitors for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, said on a podcast that “there’s all kinds of fraudulent activity and behavior” in elections, meaning that “the only way that we’re going to have a fair federal election is if the president of the United States declares ... some sort of a national emergency and says for federal elections,” there will be “picture ID”, “no mail-in ballots,” and “on election day, we do ... basically a paper count.” The New York Times, [1/31/22; Reuters, 3/17/25; Conversations in Energy with Stuart Turley, 10/14/25]

• • David Clements, who has spread claims about election fraud, said that Trump should use “plenary authority” to stop “a digital invasion and a digital rebellion taking place.” Lawfare reported in 2024 that Clements had “criss-crossed the country to evangelize about purported election fraud,” and The Washington Post reported in 2022 that he was “traveling the country trying to persuade local leaders to withhold certification of election results.” During an interview on a right-wing YouTube channel, Clements and his wife Erin discussed supposed ways to fix “rigged elections,” with Clements arguing that it’s necessary to “start looking at Title 50, Article 2 power, a national security framework for Trump to really be in a position where he’s not asking. He’s ordering. He’s telling you,” and that “even people like Peter Ticktin … have come to the same conclusion.” Clements added that Trump has to “be able to declare things from a framework of plenary authority, meaning he’s not ... relying on the legislature that’s been captured to come in and codify what he’s saying,” and that he believed Trump was “prepared to do that.” Lawfare, [10/31/24; The Washington Post, 9/8/22; Media Matters, 6/14/23; YouTube, 10/20/25]

• • Jerome Corsi, who previously worked for conspiracy theory network Infowars, said that a “national security emergency will allow Donald Trump to make sure that the elections in 2026 are secure even if we have to go to extreme measures and get the military involved.” Corsi also has a long history of producing false research, helped popularize the QAnon conspiracy theory, and was instrumental in pushing the lie that former President Barack Obama has a fake birth certificate. NPR, [3/2/23; Media Matters, 1/8/18, 11/13/18; Stern American, 9/18/25]

• ## Corsi has claimed to be working with Ticktin in the drafting of another Trump executive order based on a “national security emergency” ahead of 2026 elections

• • Jerome Corsi has repeatedly claimed that he and Peter Ticktin have been involved in the drafting of a Trump executive order “to be implemented for the 2026 elections.” During appearances on the podcasts Stern American and Nino’s Corner, Corsi claimed that he and Ticktin had been involved with a “17-page draft of an executive order” that would “declare a national security emergency” and includes “steps the states will be required to take in order to make sure the elections are secure.” Corsi has also claimed that Trump “can use his Article 2 powers as commander in chief and have the military run the elections if he had to.” In October, Corsi claimed to have been “briefed” that the order was “expected to come down the next couple of months and to be implemented for the 2026 elections.” *Stern American*, [7/14/25, 9/18/25, 10/8/25; Rumble, 9/2/25, 10/22/25, 10/22/25]

• • Corsi said the executive order would be “based on our research” and would target voter rolls, mandate voter ID, and require proof of citizenship to register to vote. Corsi said the order would “stop using all existing voter rolls, stop using all existing computers that handle those voting rolls, that we go to voter ID and proof of citizenship for new registrations, and that that proof of citizenship demand the ability to make sure someone is a citizen before they be allowed to vote.” *Stern American*, [7/14/25, 7/30/25]

• • Ticktin has also acknowledged Corsi’s involvement in targeting voter rolls.Ticktin, in a call on “election integrity” on the Stern American podcast, said of proving that the “voter rolls have been corrupted”: “We’ve got certain people. There’s Jerome Corsi, who’s been very involved in this. We’ve got Andrew Paquette, who really was the one that was on the forefront of all of this.” *Stern American*, [9/18/25]

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1. ### Trump attorney asks viewers of QAnon-supporting show to send him “evidence in regard to January 6,” “the fake election,” and “the election fraud”

07/15/22 12:39 PM EDT

2. ### At Gateway Pundit conference, former Trump attorney Peter Ticktin says that he “wouldn’t be very surprised” if there’s “an emergency called” before the next election

08/25/25 7:06 PM EDT

3. ### On Rumble, a QAnon-affiliated show dedicated to election misinformation hosts election deniers from across the country

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donald Trump’s diehard supporters are often accused of living in fantasyland, but one court case recently launched to try to reinstall him as president has surprised even the most hardened observers of Trumpian strangeness by citing as evidence a mythological realm from The Lord of the Rings.

The case was launched in Texas, in the name of small conservative groups including Latinos for Trump and Blacks for Trump, and was filed by Paul Davis, an attorney who lost his job after posting Instagram videos of himself at the attack on the Capitol.

The case offers a baseless mix of allegations of electoral fraud common among the Trump base and calls for the voiding of every vote cast in the election – which was won handily by now-President Joe Biden, who was sworn in this week.

But – unusually for a legal strategy – the case cites as evidence to back up its pro-Trump claims the tragic fate of the kingdom of Gondor, one of the central realms of JRR Tolkien’s fantasy classic, whose exiled ruler, Aragorn, was played onscreen by Viggo Mortensen.

“Gondor has no king,” the lawsuit states, a footnote providing an explanation of the woeful fate of Tolkien’s entirely imaginary land populated by dragons, wizards, hobbits and elves, all threatened by a baleful Dark Lord backed up by an army of orcs and with famously little time for due democratic process.

The suit explains how Gondor’s throne was empty and its rightful kings in exile, presumably positing the idea that Trump is the true king of America – a land happily monarch-free since 1776.

“This analogy is applicable since there is now in Washington DC a group of individuals calling themselves the president, vice-president and Congress who have no rightful claim to govern the American people,” the case states.

It adds: “Since only the rightful king could sit on the throne of Gondor, a steward was appointed to manage Gondor until the return of the King, known as ‘Aragorn’, occurred at the end of the story.”

The lawsuit then suggests that America’s version of the stewards of Gondor should be selected from among – surprise, surprise – Trump’s cabinet members, who should run the country.

Legal experts have taken a tough line.

“One thing that Americans learned during the post-election litigation is how little patience courts have for absurd legal arguments,” Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law, told Salon in a thorough takedown of the case and its legal merits.

“This legal effort to declare Congress illegitimate will be laughed out of court and could lead to sanctions for the lawyer bringing such a claim.”

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Oath Keepers Founder Secretly Backed Lawsuit for Government Based on ‘Lord of the Rings’

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Lawyers for Stewart Rhodes are arguing their client stopped trying to overturn the election after Jan. 6. That’s not exactly true.

Roger Sollenberger

Political Reporter

Updated Feb. 18, 2022  / Published Feb. 18, 2022

After the violent Capitol insurrection failed on Jan. 6, Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes had another idea for overturning the election—a truly epic one.

While Rhodes’ lawyers have claimed the leader of the far-right militia group did “precisely nothing” after his insurrection dreams were dashed, new details obtained by The Daily Beast reveal that isn’t quite accurate.

According to a source with inside knowledge of the case, just days after Jan. 6, Rhodes and multiple militia members joined a federal lawsuit seeking to overturn the 2020 election.

Unfortunately for Rhodes and his compatriots, the lawsuit he signed on to was, in a word, “insane.” It went off the rails almost as soon as it hit the courts, with the lead attorney citing The Lord of the Rings as legal precedent.

Eventually, the case dissolved amid a sea of ridicule. But it didn’t start out that way.

The full scope of the Oath Keeper’s shadow legal effort, largely spearheaded by the group’s then-general counsel Kellye SoRelle, stretched back well before the riot, according to multiple people involved. In fact, it ran on a parallel track alongside the paramilitary-style buildup that has defined the militia’s role, and it roped in a number of key Jan. 6 figures along the way—including people tied to the Proud Boys and First Amendment Praetorians.

Rick Hasen, a nationally recognized election law expert, told The Daily Beast that Rhodes’ connection to this lawsuit didn’t rate highly against other accusations—such as allegedly stockpiling weapons in preparation for a violent coup.

“I don’t know the fact that he was one of many who joined this absurd lawsuit is all that significant compared to the other, more immediately dangerous things that he did,” Hasen said.

But Rhodes, a Yale Law grad, appears to have been hands-on with the lawsuit from the beginning. And the nexus represented in the legal push suggests that members of violent groups—with some such as Rhodes facing conspiracy charges—coordinated to overturn the election in more ways than one.

It also undermines assertions from Rhodes’ attorneys that the Oath Keepers founder discontinued his efforts to overturn the election after Jan. 6—a potentially important legal fact that could hurt Rhodes’ case as he tries to defend himself against “seditious conspiracy” charges.

[Oath Keepers militia founder Stewart Rhodes poses during an interview session in Eureka, Montana, U.S. June 20, 2016.]

Just days after the riot, a group gathered at a house in suburban Dallas to map out a legal path forward. According to a person with knowledge of the meeting, the crew included SoRelle, along with indicted Oath Keeper Joshua James, andTexas attorney Paul Davis,who said in a later court filing he had attended the Jan. 6 rallies to “collect evidence” on behalf of “one or more of the Plaintiffs.”

(Davis later filed a lawsuit against this reporter, which was dismissed with prejudice.)

Other parties to the lawsuit were in attendance, and Rhodes also showed up, the source said.

SoRelle, who had met with a number of right-wing figures ahead of the riot, was recruited after the election to test the waters for a possible legal remedy. When the violence of Jan. 6 failed, a plan went into action. And it was one that Rhodes himself endorsed.

The legal framework stemmed from a pre-riot plan devised by right-wing radio host Jerome Corsi—a former confidant of Roger Stone, who received an Oath Keeper protective detail on Jan. 5 and 6.

Corsi’s proposal hinged on “overwhelming” evidence and a warped understanding of the Help America Vote Act, leading him to declare all of Congress illegitimate and demand an election “redo.”

[Stewart Rhodes mugshot.

Collin County Sheriff's Office]

The plan was astronomically unrealistic on its face, but that didn’t stop Corsi from dubbing it the “invincible argument.”

Still, on Jan. 5, the day before the riot, Rhodes slapped his name on Corsi’s road map. SoRelle, the Oath Keepers general counsel, signed as well. (An archived version with their signatures can be found here.)

Reached for comment, Corsi told The Daily Beast he was “retired from active politics and not giving interviews about the election.”

The initial lawsuit that Davis and SoRelle put together hewed closely to Corsi’s path. It sought to invalidate the 2020 election, declare Joe Biden’s victory “unlawful,” and dissolve Congress. Davis took lead attorney, naming hundreds of defendants, including every member of Congress, all 50 governors and secretaries of state, Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

It somehow got weirder. In its most absurd iteration—with Davis, not SoRelle, at the helm—the lawsuit asked a federal judge to put the government into a receivership styled after the mythical kingdom of Gondor from The Lord of The Rings.

“During the course of the epic trilogy, the rightful King of Gondor had abandoned the throne,” the lawsuit explained. “Since only the rightful king could sit on the throne of Gondor, a steward was appointed to manage Gondor until the return of the King, known as ‘Aragorn,’ occurred at the end of the story.”

If that legal explanation wasn’t convincing enough, the lawsuit continued: “This analogy is applicable since there is now in Washington, D.C., a group of individuals calling themselves the President, Vice President, and Congress who have no rightful claim to govern the American People.”

[Enrique Tarrio, Chairman of the Proud Boys, and Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, attend a meeting in a garage in Washington, U.S. in a still image taken from video January 5, 2021, the day before the January 6 riot.]

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The attorneys then ask the judge to “appoint a group of special masters” that they invented, called “Stewards,” to “check the power of the illegitimate President” until the matter is resolved through a jury trial.

Notably, the original complaint also asked the court to pre-emptively block the Department of Justice, the FBI, and any other federal agency from arresting both of the attorneys filing the case—as well as “any plaintiff or potential witness”—in connection to their attendance at the Jan. 6 riot.

As for those plaintiffs, many of them happened to figure prominently on Jan. 6.

One was Latinos for Trump, a group tied to Proud Boy leader Enrique Tarrio. The organization’s leader, Bianca Gracia was also a “Gondor” plaintiff. The day before the insurrection, she met with Rhodes, Tarrio, and SoRelle in a D.C. hotel parking garage.

The garage gang featured another Gondor plaintiff—Virginia resident Joshua Macias. Macias was one of two men arrested in Pennsylvania days after the 2020 election when, armed with a semi-automatic rifle, pistols, and a sword, he took a vehicle bearing QAnon propaganda across state lines to the Philadelphia convention center where ballots were being processed.

SoRelle claims that Gracia had invited her to the parking garage to meet Tarrio, and “share information about criminal defense attorneys,” according to Reuters. That same day, SoRelle, Rhodes, Gracia, and Macias all endorsed Corsi’s argument, as did another adviser on the lawsuit.

Most of Corsi’s signatories, however, went unnamed. Likewise, most Gondor plaintiffs were represented only by their initials. But according to a person with inside knowledge of the suit, that list included multiple Oath Keepers.

Two of them stand out: Elmer “Stewart” Rhodes (“E.R.,” a resident of Texas), and Joshua James (“J.J.,” of Alabama), an Oath Keeper and Roger Stone bodyguard.

SoRelle has sought to distance both herself and the Oath Keepers from James, who was hit with conspiracy charges last April for his alleged role in the Capitol attack.

James, SoRelle has claimed, was more closely tied to the First Amendment Praetorians, another far-right armed group. The April indictment cites video footage showing that James “assaulted multiple law enforcement officers after storming inside the building,” screaming, “Get out of my Capitol! This is my fucking building!”

After Davis filed that motion, Rhodes encouraged state chapters to contribute to the case.

A database of hacked Oath Keeper emails shows SoRelle outsourcing legal research around the country, with Rhodes’ blessing.

“Stewart agreed to allow me to send out an email to all the chapters requesting assistance,” SoRelle wrote in a mass communication, one week after asking a federal judge to essentially break the government. She copied Rhodes on the email, using his personal gmail address.

The email also requested, among other things, “documentation for all 50 states regarding their orders/policy changes modifying their absentee ballot process, the use of drop boxes, voter registration changes and certification information for the machines used for elections.”

“We are required to provide additional information to the court by the 10th of February and I need 5 days to compile and draft,” SoRelle wrote. “If anyone is interested in assisting, please let me know. I would like to coordinate teams and divide up the states.”

On Feb. 10, Davis filed an amended complaint. It struck the Gondor proposal, but added Rhodes. Six days later, he filed a second amended complaint.

On Feb. 19, team Gondor shattered under the pressure of competing legal strategies and vague “ethical issues.” Davis withdrew as lead counsel, taking James but leaving SoRelle with Gracia, Latinos for Trump, and Rhodes.

It would be Rhodes’ last legal hurrah for 11 months. He was arrested on Jan. 13, and along with fellowGondor alum Joshua James, faces charges that could yield 20 years in jail.

Just this week, his attorney told the court that Rhodes still believes the election was “illegitimate.” And unlike many of the rioters who received the earliest charges and claimed ignorance, Rhodes is leaning into it.

“There’s plenty of public leaders that are still saying that on a regular basis,” his attorney said.

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29 Sep

Doing a little follow-up on the John Vanderbol/Paul Davis lawsuits (and wish I hadn't ). Just a reminder that Vanderbol was part of the Texas lawsuit ANDJerome Corsi's 'Invincible Argument.'Also note Sorelle, Macias, and Gracia on both efforts.

Jerome Corsi, of course, being the CNP/GOP operative with ties to Bannon, Stone, Prince and many others. And what the Happy Horsesh*t is this? Robert Caron (criminal/pseudo-whistleblower) was grifting fellow grifter Vlad Lemets (Vets for Trump)?

Caron is part of Corsi's f*ckery and is also tied to f-ing Josh Macias of Vets for Trump. Either these right-wing operatives are turning on each other, or trying to create distance from each other via paper trail.

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@Lynette30067504

22 Sep

Also note ASOG's parallel company AHWR, Llc and associations which lead right back to Liberty Center for God & Country, the associated non-profit "investigating" voter fraud. Made the news when they accosted an innocent HVAC repairman. opencorporates.com/companies/us_t…

ASOG appears to have used these proxies to create separation from Kraft/Flynn,Pressler/Woodfill, GOP members and some sex assault charges. @kelly2277 @visionsurreal @clearing_fog

Please also note Michael Avari with AHWR. Avari is president of yet another "cyber security" company. May be part of the extensive intel team being touted by Powell, Ramsland, 1st Amendment Praetorian as numerous others. linkedin.com/in/michaelavari

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The story Jerome Corsi is now telling about WikiLeaks is exceedingly hard to believe

Corsi claims God, not Assange, provided him with foreknowledge of WikiLeaks’ plans. Seriously.

by Aaron Rupar

Nov 29, 2018

Right-wing conspiracy theorist and Donald Trump ally Jerome Corsi wants you to believe that God, not Julian Assange or any other human source, provided him with foreknowledge about WikiLeaks’ plans to publish emails hacked from the Clinton campaign in the weeks leading up to the 2016 presidential election. Seriously.

According to draft court documents obtained by NBC, while he was vacationing in Italy on August 2, 2016, Corsi emailed longtime Trump confidante Roger Stone and told him, “Word is friend in embassy [WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange] plans 2 more dumps. One shortly after I’m back. 2nd in Oct. Impact planned to be very damaging.”

That email was sent about a week after Stone emailed Corsi and asked him to “Get to (Assange) [a]t Ecuadorian Embassy in London and get the pending (WikiLeaks) emails.”

Corsi initially told special counsel Robert Mueller’s team that he turned down Stone’s request. But the draft court filing, citing the August 2 email, accuses Corsi of not telling the truth. Instead of declining Stone’s request, Corsi in fact forwarded the email to Ted Malloch, a London-based right-wing pundit and fellow Trump ally, then followed up days later with his email to Stone.

The August 2 email strongly suggests Corsi was informed in advance about WikiLeaks’ plans to publish emails hacked from Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta as part of an effort to help Trump win the presidential election, and shared that knowledge with Stone. Corsi’s phrasing — “Word is friend in embassy plans 2 more dumps” — indicates that information came from a human source.

But during an interview on Wednesday evening with MSNBC’s Ari Melber, Corsi offered an alternate, and exceedingly implausible, explanation for how he knew about what WikiLeaks had planned.

According to Corsi, when prosecutors asked him if he’d figured it out through “divine intervention” on his flight to Italy, he said, basically, yes.

“They didn’t believe it,” Corsi said, describing the reaction of Mueller’s team when he told them that he just somehow figured out what WikiLeaks was up to. “Jeannie Rhee, one of the prosecutors, said, ‘Dr. Corsi, you are asking us to believe that on an extended international flight with your wife for an anniversary you had divine intervention, and God inspired your mind and told you Assange has Podesta’s emails and they’re gonna be dumped in October and they’re going to be dumped in a serial fashion?’ Is that what you’re saying? I said, ‘Well I guess, Ms. Rhee, that’s about what I’m saying.’”

Related:

• Jerome Corsi, the conspiracy theorist now entangled in the Mueller investigation, explained

As NBC details, the August 2 email “was revealed in a draft court document, known as a statement of the offense, sent to Corsi by special counsel Robert Mueller’s office. Mueller also sent Corsi a draft plea agreement stipulating that the special counsel would not oppose Corsi requesting a sentence of probation if he agreed to plead guilty to one count of lying to federal investigators.”

But Corsi has since backed out of the agreement with Mueller, claiming that he did not in fact intentionally lie about his communications with Stone, but simply suffers from a faulty memory.

“I never met Assange, I never talked to him,” Corsi told the Washington Post. “I’m convinced my memory is correct that I didn’t have a source that connected me to Assange. I really don’t think so.”

Corsi told the Post that his August 2 message to Stone was “probably” just him “pumping myself up in an email,” not evidence that he was looped in about WikiLeaks’ plans.

Stone has said he spoke directly with Trump on August 3, and it’s hard to imagine the topic of the WikiLeaks “dumps” didn’t come up. If Stone passed along Corsi’s information to Trump during that conversation or at another time, that could directly involve the president in a criminal conspiracy meant to swing the election in his favor.

In a statement provided to the Post, Trump’s lawyer, Rudi Giuliani, didn’t wholly rule out that Trump spoke with Stone or Corsi about WikiLeaks.

“Rudolph W. Giuliani, an attorney for Trump, said the president does not recall ever speaking to either Stone or Corsi about WikiLeaks,” the Post reports.

The “dumps” Corsi mentioned in his email to Stone began on October 8, 2016 — just hours after the Washington Post published audio of Trump bragging about groping women.

Trump went on to mention WikiLeaks at least 164 times during the last month of the campaign. But asked about Julian Assange during a press gaggle last week, Trump professed ignorance about his work.

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ladies and gentlemen, it's a great pleasure to welcome you to this session on the politics of climate change. We have two very eminent authors here with us. Uh we have Jerome Corsi who has published 25 books on economics, history and politics including two number one new york times bestsellers. In 1972 he received his PhD from the Department of Government at Harvard and his current book, the truth about energy, global warming and climate change was just published jerome. If you could come up it would be great. We are also honored to have with us. Climate Depot publisher Mark Murano, the author of the 2021 book, Green fraud why the Green New deal is even worse than you think. And the author of the bestselling 2018 book, the politically incorrect guide to climate change. He's also the award winning producer writer and host of climate hustle, a firm released in 2016 in hundreds of U. S. Theaters. His newest book, The Great Reset Global Elites and the Permanent Lockdown was published in august 2022 mark if you could come up please and sit down. Yeah, if you could both take your seats that would be really terrific. Well as an economist, the politics of climate change are fascinating to me because as an economist, I know that many of the solutions just don't add up and for example The idea that we could have all battery powered electric vehicles by 2035 and that auto companies are committing themselves not to produce the internal combustion engine at a time when only 5% of Americans are buying these vehicles is very surprising to me as an economist also the idea that certain vehicles and certain forms of technology are emissions free because they run on batteries when these emissions have to be produced somewhere through electricity. Uh, that's also very surprising right now with the technology available and the technology insight in the future. Uh, these policy objectives just do not add up. Uh, in addition, we have many, many millions of people who are below the poverty line in Asia, in Africa, in latin America who can only be given the advantages of Western electricity, Western water through uh, conventional fuels. There is no way that solar and wind will be able to lift these individuals up to the standards that we have in the West.

And if you've ever lived without running water, if you've ever lived without electricity, uh, you know that the availability of electricity and running water is just central to health, uh, to the safety of your family, uh, to human flourishing to potential development. So unless we move to a situation where we have massive investment in nuclear energy, which is a dense emission free energy, we're not going to be able to accomplish the goals of zero emissions. But proponents of battery electric vehicles and other environmental measures are also against nuclear energy. So this is not as much an economics question as a political question. And that's why we are so glad to have these two authors with us today. And in addition, they're going to be able to take your questions. So we're gonna open with 10 minutes from each of them discussing their book. Then we're going to have a discussion and we're also going to move to audience questions from those who are watching us online, who are very, very welcome. And we're happy that you are watching today. Why don't we start with Jerome? Okay, you can speak from here, if you like.

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Op-Ed: Do People Around The Globe Believe The Global Warming Hoax Because Of Mass Psychosis?

By Melissa Martin, Ph.D. On Aug 10, 2022

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New York Times Best Selling Author Jerome Corsi as he shared scientific facts exposing the true political intentions of the Green New Deal and his new book on his new book, “The Truth About Energy, Global Warming and Climate Change: Exposing Climate Lies in an Age of Disinformation.” Image credit: CBN News / YouTube.

PORTSMOUTH, OH –  Jerome Coris, Ph.D., dedicated his 2022 book, “The Truth about Energy, Global Warming, and Climate Change: Exposing Climate Lies in an Age of Disinformation” to author and researcher Marc Morano, a man whose mission is to expose scientific truth and the global warming crisis as a “hoax of historic proportions.”

Corsi begins by telling us about other authors: Gustave Le Bon wrote “The Crowd: Thmele Study of the Popular Mind” in 1895 and “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds” penned by Charles Mackay in 1841.

These authors show both confusion and fascination with the mass psychosis of whole populations. Coris applies this psychological phenomenon to the modern-day global warming climate crisis fanaticism – a mass delusion that the planet and the people are facing a cataclysmic extinction unless carbon emissions are reduced.

Do you remember when society when wacky for the colors of hunter green and burgundy? Shutters on houses, kitchen flooring, wallpaper, decorations, rugs, pillows, and even SUV’s. And one season the colors of peach paired with army green powered the clothes fashion craze. Girls went bonkers for banana clips and hairbows back in the day. How could we forget the must-have nostalgia toy trends: Cabbage Patch dolls, My Little Pony, Furby, Beanie Babies – enticement of children via television commercials. Wow, Justice Bieber’s hair cut traveled around the world and back as adolescent boys scurried to salons.

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As a mental health therapist, I’ve been embroiled in the study of the human mind, soul, body, and behaviors for decades – and I still find humankind to be complex, confusing, and curious creatures. And I include myself in this group.

The Asch conformity experiments of the 1950’s is eye-opening. The experiments revealed the degree to which a person’s own opinions are influenced by those of a group. Asch, a psychologist, found that people were willing to ignore reality and give the wrong answer in order to conform to the rest of the group.

Back to Coris. He asks the following questions in his book:

Why is it that anyone would see human society as better off for abandoning hydrocarbon fuels?

But then, why would anyone start with the view that Earth would be a fine place if only we could get rid of people?

Or that our lives would be more fulfilled if we destroyed the capitalistic system?

Watch a 2022 video talk by Cori about his book on the Climate Depot website. He shares scientific facts exposing the true political intentions of the Green New Deal.

Coris gives a detailed history of the doomsday disaster predictions of overpopulation and the men in academia that promoted massive population control by the government as the only solution to an impending environmental crisis of food famine and the end of natural resources. And they found it was a brilliant social control argument. “A frightened global population would willingly consent planetary government totalitarianism to save humanity from destroying itself.” 

While pursuing my Bachelor of Science degree in Dietetics and Nutrition in 1986, I ran across a book by Frances Moore Lappe that changed how I view food on planet Earth. “Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity,” (1981). And the concepts still apply today. There is enough food on our planet, however wealthy and greedy landowners and corporations control distribution and corrupt governments use food as a political weapon. Overpopulation is not the problem, so depopulating is not the solution.

Klaus Schwab, founder of The World Economic Forum (aka, New World Order, Liberal World Order, Great Reset, Global Reset) and frontrunner for the radial climate agenda is using psychological warfare and fear-mongering to compel and mesmerize citizens into swallowing the threat of human annihilation. And therefore, global warming must be eradicated NOW. Anyone that disagrees is the enemy of science and should be ridiculed, shunned, and labeled as a conspiracy theorist. Will citizens agree to pay a carbon tax for the unproven polluting of the planet with death-causing carbon emissions or accept climate lockdowns? Will citizens agree to give up their jobs, houses, possessions, and governmental democracy for an environment ruse?

Manipulation of the mind by a group of wealthy megalomaniacs is psychological warfare.

Mass psychosis is also called crowd formation psychosis or crowd psychosis. And the globalists have been percolating and pouring out their poisonous propaganda for many years – a sinister strategy to brainwash society into becoming passive about autonomy and civil liberties.

The point of my article is to provide alternative information about the doom and gloom narratives in mainstream media, on websites, in books and articles about the global warming ruse. Learning about scientific research and knowing facts about global warming is vital when sharing with others. Applying knowledge and critical thinking instead of emotion concerning the climate crisis deception assists the brain in better understanding and making logical decisions.

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Want to know the truth about how energy, temperature, and climate work? Read }:The Truth about Energy, Global Warming, and Climate Change—but prepare to be shocked. Jerome R. Corsi has conducted a tour-de-force examination of peer-reviewed climate science that exposes the neo-Marxists behind today’s anti-capitalist global warming hoax.

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Editorial Reviews

Review

“Corsi’s new book is a trove of information, especially about the people and motives that have driven the current climate frenzy.The discussion of climate science, especially the dominant role of the sun and clouds, is very good. There are also fascinating discussions of unfashionable and perhapsincorrect scientific theories like abiogenic hydrocarbons or alternatives to plate tectonics.These help to clarify the all-too-human nature of science, and how hard it is initially to distinguish between a paradigm shift and a mistake, like today’s alarm over ‘carbon pollution.’” -- Dr. William Happer, professor emeritus in the Department of Physics, Princeton University; chair of the university research board, 1995–2005; winner of the Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award in 2000

“Corsi, a bestselling author of books about mainstream political issues, proved to be a powerful enough mind to brilliantly deconstruct a seemingly scientific topic, the fight against climate change. He sees the fear as wildly exaggerated. Sunspots, cosmic rays, and oceans as more important for the climate than carbon dioxide. The book is not afraid of delicate scholarly topics such as chaos theory, the chemistry of Earth's core, and the extinction of dinosaurs. But for Corsi, the movement is primarily a social phenomenon that arose through the integration and evolution of several left-wing factions and ideologies including Malthusians who neglect the human intellect. The tampering of the data by the favored researchers, failed green economic policies, limitations of electric cars and other hyped technologies, as well as natural processes such as the carbon cycle are described in a way that is as detailed and sourced as it is devastating. Corsi’s decision to dedicate the book to Marc Morano also proves his profound understanding of this vitally important ongoing conversation.” -- Dr. Luboš Motl, physicist, former faculty at Harvard University

“Corsi provides an eye-opening history of the contextual background for the hysteria accompanying climate change as well as descriptions of a wide range of thinking about the history of the planet—thinking that illustrates both the insights and fallibility of the scientific enterprise.” -- Dr. Richard S. Lindzen, professor emeritus of Atmospheric Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; former Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“Many books have been written on what I believe is a phony climate war. Dr. Corsi’s treatment of this situation with across-the-board irrefutable facts and impeccable sources is a primer on how to blow away any argument on this matter.  His attack seems to be on two fronts: 1) showing there is no emergency and then 2) exposing the why behind the what on the matter, the evil intentions of destroying the freedom of the individual. With twenty-five books under his belt and a man known for standing his ground when the truth is on his line, there is no better source to have than this book. I do not believe there is a climate war (it’s nature and not man in control), but I do believe there is a battle raging using climate and weather to take down our way of life. I can think of no better source to have in the trenches than Dr. Corsi and his book. In fact, let’s flip that around: I hope I am worthy to just be around someone like this as his writings and actions are light in a world filled with the darkness of non-truths.” --Joe Bastardi, chief forecaster at WeatherBELL; author of The Climate Chronicles and The Weaponization of Weather in the Phony Climate War

“Corsi’s book is a must-read to discover just how unserious, inept, and over-certain proponents of global warming of doom are.Their ‘solutions,’ like battery-powered airplanes, ranging from comical to scandalous. None of them would do a thing to fix what doesn’t need to be fixed.” --Dr. William M. Briggs, climate statistician who served on the American Meteorological Society’s Probability and Statistics Committee

“Corsi’s work is sorely needed, exposing the climate lies and disinformation in government, university, environmental and UN official reports, and the media. With a half-century of work on climate and weather attribution studies, I find as Jerome showed incontrovertible evidence that sunspots, cosmic rays, and short and longer term cycles in the oceans are far more important for the climate than carbon dioxide. The true dangers come from the remedies being pushed, not the natural cycles in weather and climate.” --Joseph D’Aleo, certified consultant meteorologist; first director of meteorology at the Weather Channel and the former chairman of the American Meteorological Committee on Weather Analysis and Forecasting

“Corsi has achieved the almost impossible. He shows how partisan politics and incompetent climate science have combined to distort energy economics. He describes how different views about population, hydrocarbons, capitalism, and racism have complicated the use of truth in climate science and politics. He shows how nature, not our carbon dioxide, controls the Earth’s temperature. Corsi explains why we must think clearly in politics, science, and energy if we are to safeguard our economy, our freedom, and our lives.”-- Dr. Ed Berry, physicist and American Meteorological Society Certified Consulting Meteorologist

About the Author

Since 2004, Jerome R. Corsi has published twenty-five books on economics, history, and politics, including six New York Times bestsellers, two at #1. He co-authored his first #1 NYT bestseller in 2004 with John O’Neill: Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak out Against John Kerry. Dr. Corsi authored his second #1 NYT bestseller in 2008: The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality. From 2004–2016, Dr. Corsi was a senior editor at WorldNetDaily.com, where he authored hundreds of articles.

In 2019, the Mueller investigation targeted him for prosecution for “lying” to federal authorities in the Russian collusion investigation. Dr. Corsi refused a plea agreement, and the Mueller prosecutors declined prosecution. His 2018 book Killing the Deep State: The Fight to Save President Trump was on the New York Times bestseller list for several weeks. He authored two books on the Trump administration and his experience with the Mueller prosecutors: Silent No More: How I Became a Political Prisoner of Mueller’s “Witch Hunt” (2019) and Coup d’État: Exposing Deep State Treason and the Plan to Re-Elect President Trump (2020).

The Truth about Energy, Global Warming, and Climate Change: Exposing Climate Lies in an Age of Disinformation will be his third book on energy, climate change, and global warming. His first book on this subject was Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil (2005), co-authored with Craig R. Smith. In that book, Dr. Corsi correctly predicted that oil would hit one hundred dollars a barrel when oil industry experts thought a price that high would never happen. His second book was The Great Oil Conspiracy: How the US Government Hid the Nazi Discovery of Abiotic Oil from the American People (2012). That book was the first in which Dr. Corsi argued that German chemists in the Weimar Republic formulated the chemical equations describing how abiogenic hydrocarbons are created in the mantle of the Earth.

Currently, Dr. Corsi is working to assist his wife, Monica, the founder of Corstet LLC, and her new website https://corstet.com. Dr. Corsi has retired from active involvement in current politics to devote full-time to writing books. He resides with his family in New Jersey.

the Truth about Energy, Global Warming, and Climate Change

Exposing Climate Lies in an Age of Disinformation

By Jerome R. Corsi

Foreword by Marc Morano

Published by Post Hill Press

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is This Intelligence Group Responsible For The Q Anon Conspiracy Theory?

DetailsCategory: Black Ops & False FlagsPublished on Tuesday, 09 July 2019

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May 28, 2019

The Q Anon saga has been without a doubt the most effective and fascinating conspiracy theory in recent history, incorporating many aspects of information warfare that have become commonplace since the political upheavals of 2016.

The theory, which posits that a group of benevolent government insiders are waging a war against evil “deep state” plotters attempting to overthrow President Donald Trump, is a Frankenstein of various themes that have pervaded conspiracy circles in recent years. Although some such as Wikileaks have speculated that intelligence organizations invented the conspiracy and other media outlets have delved into the identities of the individuals who first promoted it online, the wider responsible group was never investigated.

New research reveals that a loose network including an organization known as Joint Task Force – Make America Great Again (JTFMAGA) made up of intelligence whistleblowers, alternative media figures and individuals with a known history of virally spreading information online was most likely responsible for inventing “Q Anon.”

I. JTFMAGA

The front page of JTFMAGA’s website describes them as a group of “White Hat Deep State Patriots from the Intelligence, Military, Law Enforcement and Judicial Communities” who have formed a “supergroup of MAGA Counterstrike Patriots” to go after what they label as the “Black Hat Deep State.” A bizarre “Oath” calls for “Patriots” to defend the Constitution and contains a requirement for new recruits todefend Judeo-Christian values and vow to prevent atheism from becoming the “national religion.” Similarities between the Q Anon movement and 19th century religious end-times movements have been noted in the past after large numbers of Evangelical Christians were attracted to the conspiracy theory.

The group lists San Diego-based One America News (OAN) and the Gateway Pundit in a section of their front page labeled “Press.” They have interacted in the past with a number of media and online personalities known for promoting Q Anon including Jerome Corsi, Tracy Beanz (real name Tracy Diaz), Lisa Mei Crowley and YourVoice America.

Forum posters have openly wondered in the past if JTFMAGA is “team Q.” If they were not directly involved with creating the Q Anon concept, they certainly did everything they could to appeal to that specific demographic. What the entire enterprise appears to be is an attempt to fulfill Q’s prophecies about a secret team of insiders taking the fight to the enemies of Donald Trump and his followers.

Perhaps the most significant aspect of JTFMAGA is the large number of high profile individuals they have claimed an affiliation with since their emergence. The front and “Team” pages of the website state that their membership includes :{NSA :{whistleblowers William Binney,}::{ }:J. Kirk Wiebe:{ and former Republican House staffer }:Diane Roark:{. }:

The claimed involvement of Roark in a pro-Trump movement is strange given that she is known as a more establishment-prone }:supporter of Dick Cheney. All three were propelled to national attention in 2007 when their homes were all raided by the FBI as part of an investigation into leaks to the New York Times regarding illegal surveillance. Another NSA whistleblower arrested as part of the probe was Thomas Drake, who at one point was also listed on JTFMAGA’s website as a member. Ultimately the government’s case collapsed and the only charge that stuck was a single misdemeanor against Drake for “exceeding authorized use of a computer.”

II. Emergence And Promotion

JTFMAGA burst onto the scene in March 2018. Their introduction to the world relied on initial exposure from alternative media outlets. On March 20, ran an interview with JTFMAGA spokesperson Robert Caron where he announced the formation of the team and their intention to distribute the first in a series of reports outlining what was described as illegal surveillance and other abuses which occurred during the 2016 US Presidential elections.:{ The next day on March 21, }:{ ran a second report where William Binney was represented as the leader of JTFMAGA. The clip stated that there were over 100 members in the group and said their focus would largely be what was described as the Obama administration’s targeting of the Trump presidential campaign for surveillance.}:

On March 24, Gateway Pundit reporter Joshua Caplan posted an article covering OAN’s interview with Binney, again representing him as the leader of JTFMAGA. A second report run on the same day by Caplan centered around recently-hired National Security Advisor John Bolton’s intent to target “Obama holdovers” in the White House. Caplan has since departed Gateway Pundit and now works as the home page editor for Breitbart News.

During the same timeframe, OAN Host Jack Posobiec made a now-deleted tweet sometime in March 2018 where he implied his association with JTFMAGA and also stated that William Binney was working with the group. Screenshots taken of JTFMAGA’s website in 2018 showed that Posobiec’s photo was once included on the “Meet the Team” page.

It seems that JTFMAGA was in the planning stages some time before their emergence or the advent of Q Anon. Ex-CIA officer Kevin Shipp stated in a September 15, 2017 interview that he was working on a project with Binney, although he did not specify the nature of the project. 

Q Anon’s first post on the 4chan imageboard did not occur until early November 2017. Shipp went on to appear in a now-deleted press conference with Binney and Robert Caron that was posted sometime around May 2018. He has also previously given his opinion that the individuals behind Q Anon “appear legitimate” and spoken positively about the conspiracy to early Q Anon promoter Jerome Corsi.

III. Attacks Against “Q Anon” After JTFMAGA Rollout

As summer 2018 began, the Q Anon conspiracy was increasingly targeted and criticized due to its dramatic growth in popularity and the content it promoted. On May 27, Wikileaks endorsed the view of activist and Julian Assange supporter Suzie Dawson that Q Anon was a “pied piper” operation.

Dawson stated that she believed “Q Anon” was likely being run by a group with ties to intelligence services and noted the operation’s similarity to known playbooks employed by agencies which cooperate under the UKUSA Agreement popularly known as Five Eyes. She also noted that a previously disclosed NSA task force known as “Q Group” was responsible for targeting whistleblower Edward Snowden. The general consensus was that Q Anon has served as an effort to pacify and mislead the elements of the American right wing who supported Trump and might pose a threat to various government and non-state entities. This theory appeared to be confirmed when Q Anon began directing supporters to back US intervention in Iran around June 2018.

Wikileaks’ denouncement was followed by similar statements from other Trump supporters and administration officials denying that the Q Anon movement was legitimate. Individuals claiming inspiration from “Q” were involved in dangerous incidents like armed standoffs and arsons. Mainstream media outlets began to attack the conspiracy theory. By August 2018, NBC News ran an exposé where they identified a number of individuals who helped run the Q Anon persona on the 4chan and 8chan imageboards while reaching out to Youtubers for help generating initial publicity.

IV. Collapse Of JTFMAGA

Post-August 2018, JTFMAGA went through what appears to have been a fatal implosion.

On September 4, Jack Posobiec published an and article on OAN where he identified notorious far-right online troll Microchip as one of the parties behind Q.

Microchip claimed that he had worked on the Q Anon project along with another troll who goes by the moniker of Dreamcatcher. The two left over disagreements with others involved regarding the direction of the project. He confirmed that the group named by NBC News had taken over some of the responsibilities for Q Anon and was likely still managing the online persona from the 8chan imageboard. Posobiec continued his campaign to debunk Q Anon from Twitter in the aftermath of his initial report.

This event triggered a storm of online scrutiny, some of which began to be directed towards JTFMAGA. Concerns were raised about the financial history of Robert Caron as well as fellow member and :{Veterans for Trump chairman:{ Joshua Macias.}:

Caron and Macias had formed a sister organization to JTFMAGA called }:Report for the President where they “collated evidence of obstruction and treason” in the form of reports to ostensibly present to Trump. A good number of the reports are hidden behind paywalls as the group does not appear to have sufficient funding. To promote the new launch, Caron and Macias had begun making appearances in early September 2018 onYourVoice America with host, who was recently disavowed by Trump’s re-election committee that she claimed to be working for as an advisor. Vandersteel and YourVoice America are notorious for their promotion of Q Anon. The September 4 interview was also promoted by Tracy Beanz on Twitter....

Report for the President’s “Meet The Team” page.

On September 8, Thomas Drake took to Twitter to disavow any connection to JTFMAGA or Report for the President, calling their integrity into question. Drake has periodically denied the beliefs of Q Anon supporters that he is “Q” due his trademark Q lapel pin which he says stands for “questioning authority.” Q Anon posted links to Drake’s denials in an apparent attempt to discredit JTFMAGA.

The same day, Kevin Shipp issued a statement on Twitter asking if JTFMAGA was “legitimate.” He also appears to have responded to email inquiries about his affiliation with the group with denials that he was involved. He has since deleted the tweet, likely because of the openly available evidence that he participated in a press conference for JTFMAGA and such as one he gave in April 2018 where he represented himself as involved with the group and plugged their website.

On September 9, media figures who had promoted JTFMAGA or their members began to disassociate. :{Jack Posobiec tweeted that he was not a member of the group or one of their sources despite the fact that he had strongly implied otherwise in March 2018}: when OAN was covering the creation of JTFMAGA. Tracy Beanz also attempted to distance herself from Caron and Macias.

William Binney seemed to double down. On September 9 he appeared in a video with Macias posted by where he affirmed his support for initiatives like JTFMAGA. He additionally participated the following day in an interview with Ann Vandersteel on. A link to the YourVoice interview was posted by Q Anon to 8chan hours after it aired.....

Given the strife that has affected the international whistleblower world in recent years, it no surprise to see that JTFMAGA suffered similar conflicts which would eventually prove fatal. The Q Anon movement made a clear attempt to carve out their own niche in the hierarchy of the anti-establishment but was unable to escape political infighting.

VII. Conclusion

The significance of Q Anon was not merely the success of its spread, but the fact that it was a test run for new information warfare strategies seeking to cause information overload by mixing innaccurate propaganda with fact. This approach will likely prove an effective psychological warfare tool, but give censorship proponents strong arguments in their drive to ban “fake news.” Knowing that US intelligence figures may have been involved in creating and promoting the Q Anon persona should give observers extra food for thought as they study this phenomena in the future.

This entire chapter serves as a lesson to news consumers that separating fact from fiction can be difficult. Disinformation proponents are not always shadowy figures but sometimes can be trusted individuals who hold prominent positions with strong credentials. The damage wreaked by Q Anon has already been done. Going forward we must all be more vigilant to avoid allowing similar events to occur.

Disobedient Media Editor’s Note:Joshua Macias and Robert Caron are the original founders of JTFMAGA. It was Caron and Macias who were responsible for JTFMAGA’s creation as well as courting other individuals to lend legitimacy to the organization.

This article first appeared at Disobedient Media. Support their work and subscribe to their newsletter by going to their website at https://disobedientmedia.com.

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Infowars Washington bureau chief Jerome Corsi said he hopes to make amends with QAnon supporters.

Earlier this year, Jerome Corsi announced his public support for “The Storm” conspiracy theory, which is more commonly known today as the “QAnon” theory. When the conspiracy theory first sprouted online, Corsi used the Infowars banner to lend credibility to the theory amongst the millions of people who seek out Infowars for news.

Months later, Corsi revealed that he had been invited to lunch late last year by someone who sought his personal buy-in to the ludicrous theory, which supposes that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is secretly working behind the scenes with President Trump to take down a massive global satanic pedophile ring involving Hillary Clinton and other prominent politicians and celebrities. Adherents of the theory contend that Trump has ordered information about this operation be posted on an anonymous imageboard notorious for child porn.

In the months that followed, Corsi would spend hours every day working alongside the Patriots’ Soapbox group that built out the infrastructure used to peddle the conspiracy theory and use the theory to justify ridiculous claims.

But all of that changed in May, when Corsi began to sour on Q after many of the events forecasted by Q didn’t pan out. His disdain came to a breaking point when whoever is behind the QAnon posts took a vague shot across the bow at people like Corsi, who had latched on to the conspiracy theory to sell their own products. Corsi began reversing course and casting doubt on “proofs” that QAnon is real—which he had once taken as a matter of fact—and accused Q of being a Kabbalah occultist.

Eventually, Corsi completely turned his back to QAnon and Infowars host Alex Jones, who had also been a QAnon enthusiast, declared on-air: “Stick a fork in the avatar of QAnon. It is now an overrun disinformation fount.”

But now that the QAnon theory has received wall-to-wall national press attention, Corsi appears to hope to rehab his favor with QAnon supporters. Yesterday, during his daily, Corsi expressed that he hoped to reunite with the QAnon crowd.

“We’re reaching across to the QAnon supporters. We want this to be one great family supporting Donald Trump, without divisions. We will comment on and follow QAnon when QAnon is bringing forth news. I think in the last few days, QAnon has been particularly good on this whole issue of pedophilia and the posts that have been written I think are particularly illuminating,” Corsi said.

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heavy jerome Corsi: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

By Erin Laviola

Updated Nov 28, 2018

Jerome Corsi, co-author of 'Unfit For Command,' speaks during a news conference at the National Press Club October 14, 2004 in Washington, DC

Jerome Corsi is an author, political commentator and conspiracy theorist. He is connected to former Trump adviser Roger Stone.Corsi was issued a subpoena on August 28 to testify in the Russia investigation.

Corsi reportedly first met with the Mueller team on September 7, and continued to cooperate with the investigation in the months that followed. He described the interviews as a “frightening” interrogation.

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On November 12, 2018, Corsi revealed on his YouTube live stream that he expected to face criminal charges. “I fully anticipate that in the next few days I will be indicted by Mueller for some form or other of giving false information to the special counsel.” He went on to say, “I guess I’ll have to go to prison for the rest of my life because I dared to oppose the deep state.” Corsi stressed that he did his best to cooperate with investigators, but feels he was likely caught in a “perjury trap.”

Corsi also told ABC News in an interview that he believes the indictment is coming because of his support for the president. “I think my only crime was that I support Donald Trump. That’s my crime, and now I’m going to go to prison for the rest of my life for cooperating with them.”

Roger Stone's statement on the Corsi news: pic.twitter.com/J8BDz4TvLU

— Betsy Woodruff (@woodruffbets) November 12, 2018

Roger Stone issued a statement on the matter. He expressed support for Corsi, writing in part, “Watching his podcast, Dr. Corsi strikes me as a man who has been squeezed hard but refuses to do anything but tell the truth which is why they may be indicting him.”

The Mueller team reportedly offered Corsi a plea deal that would require him to plead guilty to perjury. On Monday, November 26, Corsi told CNN in a phone interview that he would not accept a plea agreement, stating, “They can put me in prison the rest of my life. I am not going to sign a lie.”

I have retained attorney Larry Klayman to assist David Gray in my defense. In a memo to my attorneys, I have instructed Klayman and Gray to file with Acting AG Whitaker a criminal complaint against Mueller's Special Counsel and the DOJ for prosecutorial misconduct in my case.

— Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D. (@jerome_corsi) November 28, 2018

On November 28, Corsi announced on Twitter that he was planning to file a criminal complaint against Mueller’s team and the Department of Justice, alleging “prosecutorial misconduct.” Corsi also announced that he had hired attorney Larry Klayman to assist in his defense.

Here’s what you need to know.

1. Attorney: Mueller Team Most Likely Wanted to Ask Corsi About Discussions with Former Trump Adviser Roger Stone

GOP-led House Panel Officially Clears Trump in Russia Probe | https://t.co/2d8Mh4tQ5u https://t.co/tuIQ8DRj19 IMPORTANT positive development PUTS MORE PRESSURE on MUELLER to close special counsel office @realDonaldTrump #Qanon8chan

— Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D. (@jerome_corsi) April 27, 2018

Before the subpoena was issued, Corsi’s attorney David Gray told the New York Times that he was under the impression that Special Counsel Robert Mueller likely would question Corsi about discussions he allegedly had with Roger Stone. Stone came under scrutiny for a tweet he sent on August 21, 2016, that appeared to suggest he knew ahead of time that Wikileaks was about to release emails from the Hillary Clinton campaign. The tweet said that Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Pedestal, was about to have his “time in the barrel.”

Stone has denied having any contact with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. But he reportedly referenced Corsi while testifying before the House Intelligence Committee in 2017. According to the Times, Stone identified Corsi as an investigate journalist who had given him research which had inspired the tweet. The research reportedly was related to John Podesta’s brother.

The Mueller team has appeared very interested in Roger Stone and the alleged connections to Wikileaks, due to Stone’s own statements. As the Washington Post reported, Stone claimed earlier in 2016 that he had spoken with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. He later backtracked and denied speaking directly with Assange. Stone had also claimed to have corresponded with the hacker known as Guccifer 2.0.

2. Jerome Corsi Wrote the Book Questioning Whether President Obama Was Born in the United States

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Jerome Corsi is the author of Where’s the Birth Certificate?: The Case That Barack Obama Is Not Eligible to Be President. It was published in May of 2011 and, Corsi says, was based on more than three years of research. In the book, Corsi claimed that President Obama had spent “millions of dollars in legal fees” to avoid releasing a long-firm birth certificate.

The attention to the birth certificate that year did eventually lead to the president making it available. The long-form version was published by the White House on April 27, 2011 (a few weeks before Corsi’s book was released). President Obama also delivered a news conference on the topic, arguing that his sole purpose for doing so was to put the matter to rest. He told reporters, “We do not have time for this kind of silliness. We’ve got better stuff to do. I’ve got better stuff to do. We’ve got big problems to solve. And I’m confident we can solve them. But we have to focus on them. Not on this.”

The New York Times reported in July of 2016 that then-candidate Trump had reached out to Corsi and WorldNetDaily.com founder Joseph Farah about the birther argument back in 2011. This was around the time Donald Trump suggested sending private investigators to Hawaii to find President Obama’s birth certificate. Farah told the newspaper that Trump had been “looking for affirmation that he was on the right track.” CNN reports that after the White House published the birth certificate, Corsi claimed that Trump told him he did not believe it was real, but instead a computer-generated fake. Trump denied saying that.

3. Corsi Continues to Share Posts Related to the QAnon Conspiracy Theory, Months After He and ‘Infowars’ Host Alex Jones Distanced Themselves From the Q Community

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Jerome Corsi appears to be a supporter of the QAnon conspiracy theory. Believers say that “Q” is a government insider with high-level security clearance, who is releasing nuggets of information about President Trump’s master plan to take down the deep state and expose a massive left-wing network of pedophiles.

Corsi worked with Alex Jones as the Washington Bureau Chief for Infowars. Together, they promoted the theory, and Jones has even claimed to know the mysterious “Q” person personally. Corsi explained on an episode of Infowars that President Trump was working with the military to expose “traitors within the government.” Corsi also frequently shared a QAnon hashtag in tweets.

Here we go. YouTube JUST REMOVED one of my @cbts_stream videos & DISABLED my LIVE STREAM for 90 days #QAnon #Qanon8chan CENSORSHIP or LEFTISTS attacking @realDonaldTrump WE NEED TO PROTEST YouTube @YouTube @Google RESTRICTING CONSERVATIVES ON INTERNET #InternetBillOfRights

— Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D. (@jerome_corsi) February 27, 2018

Corsi and Jones changed their tune in May of 2018, and claimed that QAnon had been “compromised” and could no longer be trusted; he called it an “overrun, disinformation fount.” On the episode, Corsi explained that he believed NASA and CIA operatives were posing as trolls to share disinformation.

For those with impaired memory, below is Barack Obama the day of Justice Antonin Scalia's funeral.

The only difference is that Obama was invited and still didn’t attend. #QAnon #WWG1WGA pic.twitter.com/lCc0qgjo3y

— Q (@WeAreOne_Q) September 2, 2018

But Corsi has appeared to reverse course on this assessment. He continues to share content from the QAnon twitter handle, such as the tweet above on September 2 which stated “For those with impaired memory, below is Barack Obama the day of Justice Antonin Scalia’s funeral. The only difference is that Obama was invited and still didn’t attend.”

4. Jerome Corsi Supports the Idea of Arming School Teachers with Guns

Arm qualified willing teachers and staff https://t.co/xRQeRA7WUA via @usatoday MY EDITORIAL published TODAY in USA Today. I am beginning promotion on the new book KILLING THE DEEP STATE: THE PLAN TO SAVE DONALD TRUMP tomorrow, March 1 @realDonaldTrump #Qanon8chan #GreatAwakening pic.twitter.com/JAFTDHG8je

— Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D. (@jerome_corsi) February 28, 2018

Jerome Corsi believes that arming teachers with guns is a viable solution for keeping schools safe against mass shooters. He wrote an op-ed for USA Today in February of 2018 defending this idea. (You can read the full piece here).

In the editorial, Corsi stated that in the 1980s, he learned about hostage survival from State Department officials. He said his main takeaway was that “victims who waited for police or military to save them reduced dramatically their chances for survival.”

Corsi wrote that putting a gun in every teacher’s hand is NOT the solution. Rather, he supports the idea of allowing military veterans and those already comfortable with firearms to carry them in the classroom. He argued this would “lend an element of uncertainty that would deter a would-be school shooter.” President Trump also expressed support for this idea in the aftermath of the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida.

5. Jerome Corsi Has Written Six New York Times Best-Selling Books

NYT bestselling author Dr. Corsi reveals secret plan to destroy @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/pVCompw9uz KILLING THE DEEP STATE https://t.co/fdRGuXwdQm … … … … DETAIL INFO ON BOOK HERE https://t.co/xYBQcjzxP5 @realDonaldTrump Counteroffensive Trump must launch NOW pic.twitter.com/gnku4dB56A

— Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D. (@jerome_corsi) May 16, 2018

Jerome Corsi is a best-selling author. His most recent book is Killing the Deep State: The Fight to Save President Trump. In the book, Corsi claims that the mainstream media, hard-left extremists and a “shadow government” were working together to stop Trump from winning the presidency. Once Trump had been inaugurated, Corsi says the groups have continued to attack the administration and are trying to bring President Trump’s presidency to an early end.

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One of Corsi’s most popular books was Who Really Killed Kennedy?: 50 Years Later: Stunning New Revelations About the JFK Assassination, which was published in 2013. The author lays out an argument explaining that the CIA was involved in the assassination, and that the attack was financed by Mafia godfathers. Corsi claims his theories are based on declassified documents.

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Patrick Bergy rode his Harley-Davidson to Austin, Texas, and was waiting for an interview with conspiracy-theory honcho Alex Jones in mid-August of 2020 when he learned about the_{arrest}_ of Millie Weaver, who also happened to be a correspondent for Jones’ outfit InfoWars.'

The details were vague, but Weaver and her partner and producer Gavin Wince, along with her brother, had been arrested at their home in Ohio while Weaver was uploading the final cut of a documentary called ShadowGate, in which Bergy was featured as a “whistleblower” who spoke about his experience as a military contractor following his discharge from the Army in 2007. Given the urgency of the moment, Bergy looked up the address for InfoWars and walked into the studio without an appointment. Jones quickly recorded an interview for a breaking-news segment about the arrest of one of his contributors.

“I’m the pioneer of [Interactive Internet Activities], basically social media/fake news,” Bergy said,_{remarking}_ on the irony that he was sitting in the guest chair at InfoWars. “The last place that I’m going to go is an organization called ‘Information Warfare,’ right?”

Following Weaver’s arrest and while he was still in Texas, Bergy said he also spoke to a man named Robert Caron, a shadowy figure who claimed to have a background in intelligence. Bergy had met him before when Caron convened a meeting of his group Joint Task Force MAGA, or JTF MAGA — a_{self-described}_ “MAGA counterstrike supergroup of American patriots to help expose illegal government surveillance and support President Donald Trump in Making America Great Again” — at a restaurant in the Tampa, Fla. area two years earlier, according to Bergy’s recollection. Bergy turned down an offer to join JTF MAGA, concluding that it wasn’t geared to his specific interest. But he had stayed in touch with Caron.

Caron then offered Bergy a $5,000 retainer to stay in Texas and work on a project, according to Bergy. As much as Bergy could discern based on the details offered by Caron, the job entailed setting up a website to promote JTF MAGA’s content. Bergy said he declined the offer, telling Caron he needed to get to Ohio to help Weaver and Wince.

Shortly after Weaver’s arrest, according to Bergy, he was contacted by Lara Logan — a former correspondent for CBS’ "60 Minutes" who had been widely praised for her coverage of Iraq and other conflict zones in the Middle East. At the time she was working for the Fox Nation streaming service. The claim was first outlined in an affidavit that Bergy executed in early December 2020 and that he provided to attorney Sidney Powell for use in her lawsuits seeking to overturn the presidential election.

Bergy did not disclose the identity of the “person that arranged the conversation,” but has since said that it was Caron. During a conference call with Weaver, Wince, Bergy, Caron, Logan and Logan’s husband, Joseph W. Burkett, Bergy wrote in his affidavit that “we were asked if we would meet them at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to discuss further; I declined and so did Millie and Gavin.”

Upon its release, the ShadowGatedocumentary took hits from all sides, with_{legacy media}_ assailing it as being “filled with false claims and insinuations,” and others on the far right questioning Weaver’s credibility because she was charged with domestic violence. The charges_{reportedly}_ stemmed from an incident in April when Weaver, her brother and Wince attempted to wrest a phone away from Weaver’s mother, prompting her to flee to a neighbor’s house and called 911. Shortly after the documentary’s release, Alex Jones — never shy about making outlandish claims himself — fired Weaver from InfoWars.

But Logan came to Weaver’s defense,_{tweeting}_ on Aug. 22: “By now this is a familiar pattern — another tactic of information warfare that has proved so effective. I know many Americans are looking forward to getting the whole truth on this. It’s on all of our interests given the significance of what was done just to hold onto power.”

Logan’s endorsement carried some weight. On one hand, her credibility had sustained damage from a story about the 2012 Benghazi attack that “60 Minutes” was forced to_{retract}_ (and much later would be_{pushed out}_ of Fox Nation for comparing Dr. Anthony Fauci to Nazi doctor Josef Mengele). On the other hand, unlike Jones who built a career around promoting conspiracy theories,Logan had worked at the highest levels in journalism and was widely admired for her courageous reporting in Iraq and decades of experience.

Later, Bergy said Wince told him that Logan had Burkett reach "out to them with information that exposed the arrest of Millie Weaver was orchestrated” by military contractors in a sensitive compartmented information facility, or SCIF, on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base outside of Dayton, Ohio.

Bergy noted that Burkett had previously worked as a military contractor himself_{employed}_ by the public relations firm Lincoln Group, which was hired by the Defense Department to_{plant positive stories}_ geared towards Iraqi audiences during the Iraq war. Bergy faulted Logan in his affidavit for not investigating information that she privately shared with Weaver and Wince, especially considering her track record as an investigative journalist.

“It is extremely concerning to all involved the claims made by the Logans [sic] and warrant further investigation,” Bergy wrote in his affidavit. “The arrest of a US journalist, orchestrated on a US military base, cannot be dismissed without a thorough investigation into the Logan’s [sic] claims.”

While Logan has not reported on the mysterious connection between Weaver’s arrest and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, her journalistic instincts would prove to be attuned to the behind-the-scenesefforts to overturn the election. On Jan. 5, 2021, one day before the assault on the US Capitol, Logan_{tweeted}_ out a link to a PowerPoint presentation entitled “Election Fraud, Foreign Interference & Options for 6 JAN.” The document had been used in presentations by_{Phil Waldron}_, a retired Army colonel with a background in information warfare, as he_{briefed}_ members of Congress on Jan. 4 and 5. The PowerPoint called on Trump to order the National Guard, with support from the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security, to conduct a recount of the 2020 election. On Jan. 6, the day Congress was scheduled to meet to accept the presidential elections, the PowerPoint proposed three options for Vice President Mike Pence, all of which would have either delayed or prevented Joe Biden from becoming the next president.

“This is what is being briefed on the Hill today re election fraud — for those of you who want to go to the source rather than get it second-hand,” Logan wrote.

Logan and Burkett could not be reached for comment for this story.

The charges against Weaver and Wince were eventually_{dropped}_. Whether there is any truth to the explosive claim that Weaver’s arrest was secretly orchestrated from a military base remains unclear. Regardless, it reinforced Weaver’s paranoid view of a Deep State intent on silencing Trump supporters.

“From what I hear, we’re in the jurisdiction for Wright-Patterson Air Force Base,” Weaver told her followers during a Periscope_{livestream}_ in late 2020. “And apparently it would have been really easy to have us at this jail here and then transferred to an espionage jail. What’s going on right now is insane, guys. It’s very creepy.”

‘They were setting all these scams up’

The ShadowGate documentary had been quickly debunked by_{USA Today}_ and_{PolitiFact}_, and although it reportedly drew millions of views, it receded from public discussion as just one more QAnon-inspired conspiracy vehicle, as violence in_{Kenosha, Wis.}_ and_{Portland, Ore.}_ set the stage for the final tumultuous months of the 2020 presidential election campaign. While the documentary might have seemed obscure even for the far-right audience to which it was geared, its four principals would find roles in the network of conspiracy theorists and operatives that sprung into action to delegitimize the 2020 election and aid Donald Trump in his quest to hold onto power.

In addition to Weaver, the producer and writer of ShadowGate, Wince, credited as its director, and thedocumentary’s two featured “whistleblowers” — Bergy and pro-Trump podcaster Terpsehore “Tore” Maras — all wound up in Washington, DC in mid-November 2020.

The ShadowGatedocumentary had a particular utility in the effort to delegitimize the 2020 election, as Bergy himself would come to recognize. More than three months before attorney Sidney Powell_{told}_ radio host Glenn Beck on Nov. 20 that “our forces” confiscated servers held by an election technology company named Scytl in Germany, Weaver had narrated a similar scenario in ShadowGate.

“Scytl is one of the most notorious outsource companies for elections, with regular electronic voting machine problems, who also tabulate our election results and cloud services in Europe, aka servers outside the United States,” Weaver said. The claim was false.

Weaver could not be reached for this story.

Spurned by Alex Jones —_{who heavily promoted the Jan. 6 rally in DC and took to a bullhorn to address rioters at the Capitol that day}_ — Weaver found a new patron in Patrick Byrne. After Jan. 6, Weaver collected and analyzed video for Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal attorney, in support of his effort to cast the attack as the work of “antifa” agent provocateurs.

Bergy told Raw Story that he also later learned that Logan was responsible for arranging for Weaver and Wince to come to Washington, DC after the 2020 election. Bergy said he was asked to come to DC by Weaver and Wince, and they were already there when he arrived around Nov. 15, 2020. Byrne, the former Overstock.com CEO and significant financier for the election denial efforts, confirmed in a text message to Raw Story that he covered the cost of hotel rooms for Weaver, Wince, Bergy and Maras at the Westin Arlington Gateway Hotel in late 2020. But Byrne said he had no knowledge of Logan encouraging Weaver and Wince to come to DC and did not make any arrangements with her.

Byrne also footed the bill for a reporting trip to California by Weaver and Wince in late November 2020, according to Bergy. In a text provided by Bergy, Wince warned that alienating Byrne “could cost us our trip to CA.” Byrne did not dispute the claim that he covered the cost of the trip.

“No, I don’t have a specific recollection of this, it sounds plausible,” Byrne told Raw Story. “I’ll go farther: vaguely rings a bell. That is to say, I’m vaguely remembering that I did pay for a trip or two for them. Along with many dozens of others, incidentally.”

The catalyst for Maras to show up in DC in November 2020 is somewhat murkier. In a conversation on the Stereo app in July 2021, Maras told Bergy that she had known Byrne “before everyone else.” Byrne gave a different account, telling Raw Story that he had “never met or heard of her until” he met her around Nov. 16, 2020. But Joshua Merritt, an IT consultant who provided a declaration to support Powell’s lawsuits attempting to overturn the election, has made statements in the past that predate the relationship between Byrne and Maras long before November 2020. In a reply to an April 30 Twitter thread, Merritt_{said}_ Maras had been “brought in with Byrne” to work on investigating alleged election fraud after the 2019 election in Kentucky.

In retrospect, Bergy said he has come to see that the claims put forward in ShadowGate performed a valuable service in preparing the ground for the broad election denial narrative that Trump’s supporters worked to build in November.

“That was two or three months before the election,” Bergy said. “That was right after ShadowGatewas released. What else was in ShadowGate? Scytl. They knew November 3rd was going to happen, let alone January 6th. They were setting all these scams up. It sure seems like they were putting these things in place at least three months ahead of time to be able to prepare for Trump’s loss.

“It was useful,” Bergy added. “If they didn’t plan it, they should have.”

Bergy said he learned later that Waldron, the retired Army colonel, praised ShadowGateto Weaver and Wince at a party at Trump International Hotel on Nov. 14, 2020.

“Phil Waldron approached Millie and Gavin, and said he was the biggest fan of ShadowGate,” Bergy told Raw Story. “He identified himself as Phil Waldron and said he believed everything in ShadowGatebecause he replaced the IIA chief after I left. He said he knew who I was, and he understood my background in ShadowGate.”

Waldron could not be reached for comment for this story, while Byrne denied that the content of ShadowGateplayed any role in shaping his initial impressions of Weaver, Wince, Maras and Bergy.

“No, never heard of them or that movie until mid-November 2020,” he told Raw Story. “They were on their own path when I met them, and they have continued so. None of them have ever taken any direction from me.”

‘Calling out too many people… will backfire’

Lara Logan’s behind-the-scenes role would prove to be a source of ongoing tension among the principals in the ShadowGatefilm during the period they were working out of the Westin hotel to aid the effort to overturn the election.

“Calling out too many people (Logan, Burns [sic]) will backfire,” Wince told Bergy in November 2020, according to a text obtained by Raw Story. “It could compromise things we have in the works.

“Pissing off Burns [sic] could cost us our trip to CA we have planned that are important, and pissing off Logan while mentioning Millie could piss off Millie and/or cost her ability to use that channel,” he added.

Wince could not be reached for this story.

In Bergy’s view, his duty as a whistleblower obligated him to tell the whole truth, no matter whose sensibilities might be offended.

“When you say we need to be putting this s*** out because nothing’s getting done,” he told Wince, “I didn’t link to Millie, and I’m posting my affidavit tomorrow online which literally includes Lara’s/Joe’s involvement.”

The central focus of Bergy’s 70-page affidavit was the development of “social media psychological warfare weapons and techniques'' that he had observed as a military contractor, and his position that they were being applied on domestic targets in the United States. The affidavit traced a history from a complaint filed by Bergy to the Department of Defense Inspector General in 2015, and then name-dropped a wide array of prominent figures with whom he interacted in his quest to bring the information to light, including Logan and her husband, Fox News host Judge Jeanine Pirro, InfoWars host Alex Jones, “Stop the Steal” organizer Ali Alexander and Trump confidant Roger Stone.

Bergy has said his sole objective during his time in DC was to get his information to Trump.

In August 2021, Bergy asked Byrne to explain what happened to his affidavit once he submitted it to the legal team led by Sidney Powell so that he could include his response in a book. Byrne obliged.

“Your affidavit was read and absorbed,” Byrne confirmed. “The whistleblowers were met with and debriefed. Everything they and you had to say got put into a larger picture we were forming. The information from the whistleblowers in Arizona could immediately inform what we were doing; your bigger picture information, while accepted as truthful, did not have a precise application, though it was valuable for our situational awareness.”

In contrast to Bergy’s affidavit, Powell filed a 37-page anonymized declaration submitted by his fellow ShadowGate“whistleblower”_{Terpsehore “Tore” Maras}_ in support of her lawsuits in Wisconsin and Arizona.

Maras’ declaration mentioned Scytl, the Spain-based election technology company, a total of_{23 times}_, echoing the claim made by Weaver three and a half months earlier in ShadowGate. In her declaration, Maras claimed that votes cast in the 2020 election were put through a “mixing phase” while an “algorithm redistributes votes.” Her declaration also claimed that “Scytl re-encrypts ballot data” and has the ability to access the vote through “backdoors” that could “alter the range of the algorithm deployed to satisfy the outcome sought in the case of algorithm failure.”

Maras’ claims represented a fundamental misunderstanding of Scytl’s role in US elections. The company provides election-night reporting services that offer a visual representation of votes tabulated by local election officials, but as it noted in a fact-checking_{statement}_ issued more than two weeks before Maras executed her declaration, Scytl does not tabulate votes.

“On election night, each election office tabulates the vote using their tabulation vendor’s physical machines and uploads those results to Scytl’s [election-night reporting program],” the company explained. All ENR servers being used for the US elections are physically located in the United States. Scytl does NOT tabulate, tally or count votes.” Scytl’s statement was cited by a fact-check published by_{Reuters}_, which rated as “false” a claim by Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) that the US Army had seized Scytl’s servers in Germany.

Seth Keshel, a former Army military intelligence captain who assisted Powell’s team in preparing the lawsuits, cautioned another election denier in a private Telegram message in August 2021 that Maras’ claims shouldn’t be taken at face value.

“Tore is not credible,”Keshel wrote. “I was on the initial teams drafting lawsuits over the states with Sidney and Flynn. Our teams researched her heavily and found many problems.” He added that “unfortunately she wound up as a key witness in one of our cases.”

Byrne told Raw Story in an email that he “had no hand” in preparing the lawsuits, “and was not aware until much later that Tore had provided the affidavit.”

But Byrne was sufficiently concerned about Maras’ credibility that he tasked a team with interviewing her a couple of weeks after the declaration was filed in federal court.

“Tore was taken out and interviewed by some people I know in the intelligence community who are absolutely on our side,” Byrne told Bergy in his August 2021 email. “They came back telling me: ‘She knows some things and has been behind the curtain, but she also lies, exaggerates, deflects, changes subjects rapidly trying to throw people off, and we cannot rely on her for anything factual because we caught her in too many lies and exaggerations over three hours (precisely as I warned her they would do if she did not heed a little coaching from me).”

Maras defended her qualifications in an email to Raw Story.

"If you read my affidavit, you would know that I am an amateur cryptographer," she said. "Therefore, I am very familiar with cryptography, ethics and research surrounding it. I participate in attending such conferences and seminars when I can."

Robert Caron, who had initially put Bergy, Weaver and Wince in touch with Lara Logan, was in and around DC from November 2020 through January 2021, according to Bergy.

For reasons that are not entirely clear, Maras perceived him as a threat. Speaking with Bergy on the Stereo app in July 2021, Maras fumed about a host of obscure operators vying for Powell and Flynn’s attention in late 2020.

“And you have this motherf***er standing there, bidding to help you?” she said. “They’re there to destroy you. And they are seeing everything we are giving you. And they are dismantling it. Like, that other guy, f***ing, you know, Caron, right, popped out of nowhere.”

While Maras distrusted Caron, she felt differently about Lara Logan.

“You know who hooked me up to Logan?” Bergy asked. “Because I introduced Logan to Millie and Gavin. You know who hooked me up with Logan? Our friend, Robert. She’s got interesting friends. If known contractors and CIA assets are arranging your introductions to journalists that are married to military-industrial complex psy-op contractors, am I wrong in thinking possibly a lot of people that are passed along or networked through Lara are basically…?”

Maras interrupted Bergy.

“Well, you and me are going to disagree on Lara,” she said. “I like Lara…. If it came down to it, and I had to trust someone with something, I would actually trust her.”

A plan to order the National Guard to shut down Congress

Caron’s background remains murky. In one of the few publi with him that is available, Caron was identified in a March 2018 story that aired on the far-right network One America News as “the spokesman for JTF MAGA, the collection of veteran members of the intelligence, law enforcement and military communities dedicated to exposing the dark secrets of the Deep State.” The “team” page for a_{website}_ that houses reports by JTF MAGA, including one proclaiming retired Lt. General Michael Flynn’s innocence and another that disputes claims about collusion between the Trump campaign — has at various times included photos of Caron and Veterans for America First co-founders Joshua Macias and Vlad Lemets.

When Caron arrived in DC, Wince and Bergy viewed him as a replacement for Dennis Nathan Cain, a cybersecurity expert brought in to analyze the results of the 2020 election.

Cain told Raw Story that former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon recommended him to White House trade advisor_{Peter Navarro}_, who published a series of reports claiming without evidence that the election had been stolen. Cain said he worked on a three-man team that included another man named Harry Haury and a third person whom he declined to identify. Cain said he primarily worked with Phill Kline, a former Kansas attorney general who_{reportedly}_ promoted a scheme to submit pro-Trump electors in the six swing states carried by Joe Biden.

Cain filed an expert report in a civil suit filed in Maricopa County Superior Court in Arizona to challenge the election results. Cain opined that based on his assessment that the election error rate in Arizona during the 2020 election failed to meet the standard set under the 2002 Help America Vote Act, the election result should not have been certified.

“I was specifically looking at the certification and accreditation of the system,” Cain told Raw Story. “I had no interest in looking at any of the technical aspects from the standpoint of whether they were hacked, because you can’t do that unless you have access to the machines.”

Cain told Raw Story that he and Caron met in DC at Caron’s request, and that Caron wanted to join his team. Cain said he declined Caron’s request because he had been working without compensation in DC for two months. Cain had set up a GoFundMe page, but it only covered about half the cost of their hotel bill at the Westin. By the time Caron approached him, Cain said he considered his work to be complete. He disbanded the team, and went home after Christmas.

Cain said he came to regret his meeting with Caron.

“He went out and wrote some emails; some of the people that were associated with me didn’t like that,” Cain said. “It kind of did some damage with some people that I was working with that didn’t care for him.”

After Cain left DC, his name appeared on a document arguing, among other things, that the states were not in compliance with the Help America Vote Act and concluding bizarrely that Trump had a “mandatory duty to immediately declare the 2020 election in violation” of the Constitution and declare Congress “illegitimate” as a prelude to ordering the National Guard to shut down Congress.

“President Donald J. Trump, to preserve our sovereign form of government, has the mandatory duty to immediately declare the 2020 election in violation of our United States Constitution and declare the 117th Congress illegitimate, then access and direct the National Guard already sent by the mayor, to prevent entry into their offices and the Capitol,” the document declared.

Entitled “Invincible Argument, the document was dated Jan. 4 and featured adozen names, beginning with Caron and also including Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, Oath Keepers general counsel Kellye SoRelle, Veterans for America First co-founder Joshua Maciasand Latinos for Trump President Bianca Gracia. Eleven members of the Oath Keepers, including Rhodes, have been indicted for seditious conspiracy. Macias was_{arrested}_ on weapons charges outside the Philadelphia Convention Center, where votes were being tabulated, on Nov. 5, 2020, and was present at the US Capitol on Jan. 6.

Jerome Corsi, who heavily promoted the_{false claim}_ that Barack Obama was not born in the United States and therefore was not qualified to serve as president, was also named on the document, andCorsi_{published}_ it on his website on Jan. 5, the eve of the assault on the US Capitol.

Cain said he did not authorize his name to be used on the document.

“I am familiar with my name being on there,” he told Raw Story. “It was done without my permission. I don’t have any comment to give on what the legal ramifications of the system not being compliant with HAVA might be.”

Caron’s name also appeared at the bottom of the document’s Forward, and another section was credited to Caron and SoRelle.

On the same day Corsi published the “Invincible Argument” document, Caron was quoted in a_{story}_ published by Vision Times News headlined, “Over 400 ex-intelligence officers have started investigating election fraud.” The story quoted Caron as saying, “The fraud was so massive and so blatant, despite what the mainstream media said, that we need to get this information out to the public.”

Caron could not be reached for this story, but he has told_{CNN}_ that he was approached by two FBI agents at a hotel in Toronto last December. According to CNN, Caron said the agents told him they were investigating events that led up to the violence on Jan. 6 and that he sat down to speak with them about “key people” involved in the effort to overturn the election.

Rhodes, SoRelle, Macias and Gracia were all filmed in a meeting in a_{hotel parking garage}_ with Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio on Jan. 5, 2021. Tarrio has been_{charged}_ with conspiracy, along with five other Proud Boys leaders, for his role in the Jan. 6 attack.

The “Invincible Argument” document” would_{form the basis}_ of another lawsuit seeking to overturn the election, this one filed not by Powell and her team, but by SoRelle, the Oath Keepers’ general counsel.

A transcript of an Oath Keepers teleconference that took place on Nov. 9, 2020, shows that the militia group was working on a legal track even as they prepared to mobilize a tactical force at the US Capitol. Asked by Rhodes to update members on the “legal fight,” SoRelle_{mentioned Giuliani}_ as heading up one of several legal teams working to overturn the election.

“And then you have the Giuliani pals, I guess, previewing the Campaign pod that’s trying to solve the mystery of the ballots,” SoRelle said. “So, I’ve been in communication. I obviously work the RNC version of it, and then I’m in — I like the Q crowd, they’re kind of fun, and then I’ve been meeting with the Campaign crowd.”

The lawsuit sputtered almost immediately when friction arose between SoRelle and her co-counsel, Paul M. Davis, over Caron’s involvement in the litigation.

In a February 2021 filing, Davis reported that he had “expressed concern to SoRelle that Bob seemed to have some sort of undue influence over the plaintiffs and was poisoning their thinking about the case strategy with suggestions of inclusion of what the whole team had previously agreed were frivolous legal claims (this has always been a case strictly about violations of election law and NOT a case about election fraud).”

Davis went on to suggest SoRelle was disclosing confidential attorney-client communications to Caron, who was not a plaintiff.

SoRelle responded, Davis reported with incredulity, that Caron had been “listening in on our comms.”

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The House of Representatives is opening an investigation into a network of right-wing organizations that have pushed anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine and anti-parasitic drug ivermectin, which have become a right-wing cause célèbre as discredited alternatives to vaccines or conventional treatments for COVID-19.

The Intercept reported Monday that theHouse Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisishas requested documents from the right-wing group America’s Frontline Doctors (AFLDS) and the telemedicine provider SpeakWithAnMD about their business practices. The committee also “wrote to the Federal Trade Commission requesting that the agency investigate whether these companies are in violation of federal laws.”

“Attempts to monetize coronavirus misinformation have eroded public confidence in proven treatments and prevention measures and hindered efforts to control the pandemic,” committee chair Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC)wrote in his letter to AFLDS. “Some Americans who have been influenced by misinformation have chosen not to get vaccinated, delayed receiving evidence-based treatment, and ingested unapproved substances in harmful quantities.”

The Intercept previously reported two months of leaked patient records that showed the partnership between AFLD and SpeakWithAnMD had pulled in millions of dollars from over 70,000 customers. Such proceeds could not have been possible without the long history of right-wing media outlets like Fox News first pushing discredited alternative treatments for COVID-19 such as hydroxychloroquine throughout 2020 and ivermectin in 2021.

Two major fixtures of right-wing media have set up this medial grift: Capitol riot participant Dr. Simone Gold — whose organization AFLDS has multiple links to the QAnon movement — as well as far-right conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi who set up SpeakWithAnMD.

Gold’s long political involvement in the COVID-19 pandemic began with an organization, “A Doctor a Day,” started in May 2020 in coordination between the Trump campaign and the right-wing Council for National Policy to create an astroturf organization of doctors to support the Trump administration’s plans for a premature economic reopening. The was immediately promoted on Fox News, which also gave positive coverage to AFLDS’ continued activities in promoting hydroxychloroquine, which Gold claimed was a “cure” for the virus.

Right-wing media personalities also fervently defended another AFLDS figure, Dr. Stella Immanuel, after videos and online posts surfaced in which she had made various statements “regarding the medical use of alien DNA and the gynecological effects of having sex with demons and witches while sleeping.” More recently, she's pushed QAnon related conspiracy theories while attending a QAnon conference.

Gold also appeared on Newsmax in December 2020, ahead of the wider public vaccine rollout, and discouraged viewers from getting the vaccine: “Do you want to be part of an experimental medical trial? Do you want to be tracked and traced?” (The vaccines, of course, had already undergone rigorous testing.}December 17, 2020, edition of Newsmax's National Report

Gold later participated in the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6 and was seen on video reading a speech from inside the Rotunda in which she denounced the “experimental, biological agent deceptively named a vaccine” and the “massive medical establishment.”She was later arrested and indicted and is currently charged with multiple counts including obstruction of an official proceeding and disorderly conduct. (She told The Washington Post she regrets being there.)

Time reported in August that SpeakWithAnMD had been set up by Corsi, a longtime peddler of far-right conspiracy theories, including the QAnon movement and racist “birther” theories against former President Barack Obama. In 2020, Corsi started making false claims against the development of the COVID-19 vaccines and in favor of discredited alternative drugs.

Time further reported that hundreds of customers had reported paying the $90 fee through America’s Frontline Doctors, only to never actually receive the promised drugs or consultation services. Time also found that while booking a consultation directly through SpeakWithAnMD cost $59.99, the referrals linked through AFLDS cost $90, implying a possibility that Gold’s group could’ve been pocketing $30 per patient. (AFLDS declined to comment to Time on this question.)

And while SpeakWithAnMD claims that it has “Over 20 Years in Business,” NBC News also reported that the site was**“​​created in March 2020.**” The website also appears to have only one purpose in mind — to peddle debunked drugs for COVID-19 instead of the vaccines or other legitimate treatments: “On a SpeakWithAnMD.com intake form viewed by NBC News, prospective patients are asked, ‘What medication do you prefer?’ The user is then presented with three options: ‘Ivermectin,’ ‘Hydroxychloroquine’ or ‘Not sure.’”

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https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ivermectin-demand-drives-trump-telemedicine-website-rcna1791

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Clamoring for ivermectin, some turn to a pro-Trump telemedicine website

Much as the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine became an unproven remedy for Covid deniers, ivermectin has emerged in recent weeks as a new false cure.

Some Facebook and Reddit groups offer people ways to buy ivermectin, which health professionals warn can be toxic and do little to stop Covid-19.Chelsea Stahl / NBC News; Getty Images

Aug. 26, 2021, 3:09 PM PDT / Updated Aug. 27, 2021,

By Ben Collins and Brandy Zadrozny

When users visit the telemedicine website SpeakWithAnMD.com, they are immediately hit with a warning: “Due to overwhelming demand, we are experiencing longer than usual wait times.”

The demand is for ivermectin, a drug primarily used to deworm animals that has become the latest false cure for Covid-19. And the website, in partnership with the organization America’s Frontline Doctors, whose founder stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, has become well-known in the Facebook groups and Reddit communities where anti-vaccination sentiment thrives.

In those groups, people trade dosing directions and purchasing advice for ivermectin.

FDA issues warnings about ivermectin amid spread of disinformation

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“Please consider that even if you can get an Rx for IVM, the pharmacy may not fill it for 1-3 days claiming they don’t have it in stock, which is pure bulls---,” a Reddit user wrote in the ivermectin community this month. “HAVE SOME HORSE PASTE ON HAND,” the user added, referring to the tube form that ivermectin meant for horses comes in.

Originally introduced as a veterinary drug for livestock animals in the late-1970s, ivermectin quickly proved useful in combating certain human diseases caused by parasites, a discovery that won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 2015. It comes in pills and pastes, in versions meant for humans and for animals.

Ivermectin has been called a “wonder drug” because of its use in treating parasitic diseases, but it has not shown the same results in studies against viruses.

The drug was the subject of research into possible use as a Covid-19 treatment — including a promising non-peer-reviewed study that was later determined to be “flawed” and taken down by the website Research Square, which hosts preprints of research papers that have not yet been published in academic journals.

The groups highlight the challenge public health officials and tech companies face in cracking down on Covid-19 misinformation — and the lengths some people will go to embrace fringe and misleading Covid advice. NBC News obtained access to several groups that are dedicated to ivermectin or have recently embraced the drug. Some groups have tens of thousands of members and can easily be found through Facebook’s search feature.

More than a year and a half into the coronavirus pandemic, various drugs have had their moments in anti-vaccination communities and among some conservatives in the U.S. — and ivermectin is not particularly different. But it comes at a time when parts of the country are in another Covid wave, this one fueled by the delta variant of the virus and with a safe and effective option available: the vaccines.

Oklahoma stores selling out of horse medicine despite FDA plea not to take the drug

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“It’s hard to understand why people would turn down an[FREE]  FDA-approved Covid preventative in favor of a treatment that’s not only unapproved but has a large body of evidence showing it doesn’t work,” said Dr. Nathan Boonstra, a pediatrician at Blank Children’s Hospital in Des Moines, Iowa, and co-host of the podcast “Voices for Vaccines.” “But antivax groups will eat up any opportunity to make it seem like a vaccine isn’t needed. This has been true about anti-vaccine groups long before the pandemic.

“There is a lot of shared space between pro-ivermectin and anti-vaccine groups,” he added.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health advisory Thursday warning of a rapid increase in ivermectin prescriptions and reports of severe illness by people using ivermectin products. Data from the National Prescription Audit showed a dramatic spike in ivermectin prescriptions in recent weeks — more than nine times pre-pandemic levels.

Facebook spokesperson Aaron Simpson said in an emailed statement that the company removes any content that "attempts to buy, sell, donate or ask for Ivermectin."

"We also enforce against any account or group that violates our COVID-19 and vaccine policies, including claims that Ivermectin is a guaranteed cure or guaranteed prevention, and we don’t allow ads promoting Ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19," he wrote. "Since the beginning of the pandemic, we have removed 20 million pieces of COVID misinformation, labeled more than 190 million pieces of COVID content rated by our fact-checking partners, and connected over 2 billion people with authoritative information through tools like our COVID information center.”

Reddit is reviewing the ivermectin communities,spokesperson Cameron Njaa said in an emailed statement that underscored its commitment to providing accurate information, resources and support to its users.

The groups suggest ways to buy ivermectin and plenty of encouragement to do so. Some commenters push users to online cattle supply companies or pet stores. Others recommend SpeakWithAnMD.com.

The website advertises consultations for $90 and fills prescriptions through Ravkoo Pharmacy, an online pharmacy that America’s Frontline Doctors advertises as “partners,” who provide “the option to have that prescription delivered right to your door, the same day.” On a SpeakWithAnMD.com intake form viewed by NBC News, prospective patients are asked, “What medication do you prefer?” The user is then presented with three options: “Ivermectin,” “Hydroxychloroquine” or “Not sure.”

A user visiting for other reasons may not have much luck. The website makes it clear: “Controlled substances (such as narcotics) will never be prescribed.”

Reached by phone, Ravkoo Pharmacy CEO Alpesh Patel declined to comment about the relationship with America’s Frontline Doctors and hung up. America’s Frontline Doctors and SpeakWithAnMD did not respond to requests for comment.

From hydroxychloroquine to ivermectin

Much as the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine became an unproven remedy for Covid deniers after former President Donald Trump embraced it, ivermectin has emerged in recent weeks as a favorite treatment of some conservatives and anti-vaccination activists.

Ivermectin first drew some attention late last year as a possible Covid treatment, with interest remaining reasonably low until July, according to Google search data.

In recent weeks, a variety of conservative figures and anti-vaccination activists have embraced the drug. Fox News hosts Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson have mentioned it.

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Phil Valentine, the conservative radio host who died from Covid-19 this week, also turned to ivermectin after his diagnosis and urged his listeners to do the same. (He later encouraged listeners to get vaccinated.)

“Have a doctor on speed dial who will write you a prescription for ivermectin,” he wrote on Facebook.

While ivermectin is generally safe in low doses, high doses can be toxic in humans. The Food and Drug Administration warned that ivermectin in large doses can cause side effects including “skin rash, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, stomach pain, facial or limb swelling, neurologic adverse events, sudden drop in blood pressure, severe skin rash potentially requiring hospitalization and liver injury.”

The State Health Department in Mississippi, where at least two people had been hospitalized for ivermectin toxicity, warned residents against taking the medicine this week.

And in perhaps a prime example of the exhaustion with which some public health professionals have confronted ivermectin, the FDA recently tweeted: “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it.”

‘Moo juice’

The warnings have done little to stunt enthusiasm for ivermectin in some Facebook groups and Reddit communities. After self-medicating, some community members report back to the group with side effects, like gastrointestinal upset or dizziness, or wonder whether they have overdosed.

The link to the SpeakWithAnMD website has been shared in dozens of public Facebook groups, including Unmask Our Kids, Nevada! It has also been shared by prominent anti-vaccination influencers, including Dr. Christiane Northrup, who posted the link to her 550,000 followers on Facebook with the caption: “To get the right treatment or prevention. No need for fear. Many of us have known this all along.”

America’s Frontline Doctors is not SpeakWithAnMD’s only link to the far right. Conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi also provides his audience with a vanity link to the website, which was created in March 2020 and offers no information about its ownership. 

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SpeakWithAnMD is closely tied with America’s Frontline Doctors, a group that went viral last year when its makeshift news conference in Washington got millions of views after one of the physicians, Dr. Stella Immanuel, falsely called hydroxychloroquine a “cure” for Covid-19. Trump retweeted a video of the news conference pushed on social media by the conservative media site Breitbart.

The website for America’s Frontline Doctors directs people to SpeakWithAnMd through a button that reads “Contact A Physician,” and the America’s Frontline Doctors logo is prominent on the SpeakWithAnMD homepage.

Simone Gold, founder of America’s Frontline Doctors, was arrested and charged with violent entry and disorderly conduct after she entered the Capitol during the riot on Jan. 6. She pleaded not guilty to all charges. Gold, who is awaiting trial, spoke at an anti-vaccination protest in Santa Monica, California, last weekend.

Gold has spent the last year barnstorming churches, schools and event spaces throughout the U.S. on “The Uncensored Truth Tour,” in which she gives a presentation sowing doubt about Covid vaccines.

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A new lawsuit accuses East Aurora political consultant Michael R. Caputo of serving as a public mouthpiece for indicted Republican politico Roger Stone, who is under a federal gag order barring him from discussing the criminal case against him.

In an unusual courtroom clash of conservative figures, conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi and Freedom Watch founder Larry Klayman sued Caputo and Stone in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia earlier this month, accusing Caputo of defamation.

It's all because of what Caputo had to say on MSNBC last month about special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election. There, Caputo speculated that Corsi will testify against Stoneat his upcoming trial on charges that Stone tried to get and share emails from WikiLeaks that would damage Democrat Hillary Clinton's campaign.

"The Mueller team finds himself at the end of the hallway at the end of this entire game and they're staring at Jerry Corsi, who believes the most wild conspiracies in the world," Caputo said on "The Beat with Ari Melber" on March 29. "Dozens of years of Yale law school education and they end at the freak show tent."

But Corsi isn't mad enough to sue just because Caputo called him part of a "freak show." Corsi and Klayman, his lawyer, allege that Stone enlisted Caputo to serve as his media surrogate – in violation of the gag order barring Stone and his associates from speaking out about his case.

In addition to filing a lawsuit, Corso and Klayman delivered a statement to U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who is presiding over Stone's case,to accuse Caputo and Stone of breaking Jackson's order that Stone remain silent and avoid media appearances.

"Stone is employing surrogates, specifically in this instance his longtime associate Michael Caputo, to continue to smear and defame Dr. Corsi and his counsel Larry Klayman, while directly violating this court's February 19 'gag' order," Klayman wrote in the statement.

Caputo referred all questions on the matter to his attorney, Dennis C. Vacco.

"I think it's a publicity stunt more than anything," Vacco said, noting that neither Caputo nor Stone have been served with the court papers Klayman filed. "So from our perspective, the litigation has not commenced."

Asked about the lawsuit's specific allegations – that Caputo acted as Stone's mouthpiece and then slandered Corsi – Vacco said: "From our perspective, the allegations contained in the complaint are are frivolous."

The case seems to be an extension of one that Corsi and Klayman filed against Stone in U.S. District Court in D.C. in February.

According to Corsi's complaint in that case, "even before Defendant Stone was indicted, he began a public relations campaign in this district, nationally and internationally to smear, intimidate and threaten Plaintiff Corsi, a material witness in the 'Russian Collusion' investigation."

The Corsi/Klayman clash with Stone and Caputo marks another unusual chapter in the lives of four men with unusual political careers.

Corsi is best known as the co-author of "Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry," a widely criticized book that included questionable allegations about then-Sen. John Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee. Corsi then went on to play a prominent role in the "birther" movement that inaccurately said then-President Barack Obama was not born in the United States.

Klayman founded Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch, right-wing organizations that filed repeated lawsuits against President Bill Clinton and later Hillary Clinton on issues ranging from the president's alleged affairs to his wife's role in the 2012 terror attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

Stone has a tattoo of Richard Nixon on his back and a long-standing close relationship with President Trump.

And Caputo is an East Aurora political consultant and sometimes radio show host with a colorful history that includes a period of time working in Russia during its 1990s experiment with democracy and serving for a time on Donald Trump's 2016 campaign staff. Mueller's investigators interviewed Caputo as part of their probe, which ended without any charges against him.

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https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/is-it-a-coincidence-that-moscow-is-peddling-the-same-lies-as-the-trump-campaign/

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no  journalist has done a better job of fact-checking Donald Trump during his presidency than Daniel Dale. But now the CNN reporter, formerly of the Toronto Star, has done an invaluable service by outlining the nine conspiracy theories the president is continuously peddling. As Dale suggests, “Trump has been a conspiracy theorist for years.” but never before has he pushed so many at one time.

Two of them align completely with disinformation campaigns coming out of Moscow. For example, we learned that the Russian government began promoting the lies about mail-in ballots as early as last March.

Russia has sought to “amplify” concerns over the integrity of U.S. elections by promoting allegations that mail-in voting will lead to widespread fraud, according to an intelligence bulletin obtained by ABC News, again echoing a frequent and unfounded complaint raised by President Donald Trump.

Analysts with the Department of Homeland Security’s intelligence branch issued the warning on Thursday to federal and state law enforcement partners after finding with “high confidence” that “Russian malign influence actors” have targeted the absentee voting process “by spreading disinformation” since at least March.

The timing raises the question of where the conspiracy theory originated—in the Kremlin or the White House.

Similarly, we now know that the Department of Homeland Security hid a report about how Moscow was promoting the idea that Biden is mentally unfit. Their excuse for not sharing that information is that the intelligence report was “poorly written and thinly sourced.” But according to the document that was finally released, their data was incredibly solid.

the report cites posts by Russian state media outlets RT and Sputnik about Biden’s mental health between September 2019 and May 2020. In March, a Russian proxy website “refuted media claims that the candidate’s gaffes are the result of a stutter, instead arguing these verbal miscues are symptoms of dementia,” the bulletin said.

Once again, if this disinformation campaign began in September 2019, the attacks on Biden’s mental health seem to have started in Moscow and migrated to the Trump campaign.

This is all reminiscent of the coordinated attack on Hillary Clinton’s physical and mental health in 2016. What we now know is that conservative authorJerome Corsi was in contact with Julian Assange on the release of hacked emails by Wikileaks. He communicated with Roger Stone, who then coordinated with the Trump campaign. Here is what Corsi wrote to Stone on August 2, 2016:

Word is friend in embassy [Assange] plans 2 more dumps. One shortly after I’m back. 2nd in Oct. Impact planned to be very damaging…Would not hurt to start suggesting HRC old, memory bad, has stroke—neither he nor she well.

When it comes to the lies about mail-in voting and Biden, it is clear that both Putin and Trump are drawing on the same playbook. Perhaps that’s just a coincidence. But given this history, that is unlikely.

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https://www.madcowprod.com/2018/03/03/jerome-corsis-inks-to-alt-right-connected-russian-hackers/

...Corsi, InfoWars’s DC bureau chief, as well as the man many think invented the alt-right, was riding high earlier this week,  after USA Today, the country’s highest-circulating paper, published an opinion piece he wrote.

Then, yesterday, he was kicked off YouTube… for life.He had only recently received his first two You Tube strikes—for harassment and/or bullying—late last month.

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Since his banishment, he’s been posting increasingly irate tweets that make it clear than his relationship with the truth is currently a bit stand-offish.

One of his headlines reads: “Dr Jerome Corsi: My YouTube Channel Restored! Alex Jones Infowars.”

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A screenshot of Corsi’s shut-down site gives the lie to that little bit of fake news. Maybe it was just wistful thinking. 

Say what you want about him, Jerome Corsi traffics in pro-style disinformation. He delivers the goods. He knows what makes his people’s blood race.

Dr. Jerome Corsi may know a few Russian hackers

Jerome Corsi has more to worry about than how many views his video rants are currently receiving. He may be involved in a half-visible criminal conspiracy powering the Russiagate scandal, which is beginning to unravel.

If, as expected, Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicts a gaggle of Russian hackers next week, it will be surprising if some of the Americans who facilitated and helped pay for the hackers aren’t taken down as well.  

Many are waiting impatiently for the American fellow-conspirators of the Russian hackers’ to be fingered and publicly shamed.

The notion that this number “might could” include Jerome Corsi is enough to set bitter hearts aflutter. But, is this just wishful thinking?

Under America’s racketeering laws, everyone involved in a criminal organization is supposedly guilty of the crimes committed by other members of the group, which could truly trigger a bloodletting.

“Fed up with knives that just won’t cut? Need an Icy Hot Sleeve, a Glass Wizard, or 6 Second Abs? Could you utilize a Bun & Thigh Roller?  A Magic Bullet?”

The Russiagate conspiracy has been around — in one form or another— for 15 years, since March of 2003, when a Russian hacker later to become famous named Pavel ‘Red Eye’ Vrublevsky moved into a house in Howard Beach, Queens which was already occupied by a company owned by a Tampa Mobster named Mike Muzio.  

Vrublevsky’s re partners LLClisted its business address as 158-49 90th St, a single family residence in Howard Beach. So too Mike Muzio’s blue moon group Inc. involved in pornography and cyber crime. Vrublevsky’s company handled the back end, taking credit cards, through his Moscow company Chronopay.

And this is where things begin to get interesting. 

In 2004, Muzio’s Blue Moon Group was a subsidiary of Genesis Intermedia, an Internet start-up used by Saudi arms dealer and ‘fixer’ Adnan Khashoggi in what will become a massive and masterful stock fraud generating a sweet $300 million dollar payday.

Whether Muzio was an active participant is unknown. But he was not shy getting involved in stock fraud later, after he went from working for Adnan Khashoggi t0 an “alt-right” stock fraud ring run by a business partner and Breitbart collaborator of former Trump advisor Steve Bannon,Sarasota’s own Andrew Badolato.

It does not seem to have been a difficult leap, especially since Khashoggi is a charter member of Donald Trump’s Palm Beach ‘homies.’

It was at this time—in 2003—that Russian Mobsters, including Semion Mogilevich, Russia’s Mob’s Mr. Bigski, began colluding with elements of the American Mafia, the nascent alt-right, and Adnan Khashoggi, who was right at home in this company, having been in operations for over 40-years in his long career as a CIA fixer.

Khashoggi’s longevity owed partly to being able to offer the requisite plausible deniability (he’s a foreigner!). As well, they offered the chance to meet starlets, like Paul McCartney’s future wife Heather, in decidedly relaxed circumstances.

Until his death last year in New York Adnan Khashoggi was a fixture in nearly every American scandal since Watergate. He was around for so long that clips from his first big scandal—something to do with bribes and Lockheed—are in black and white.  

The staple of spammers everywhere was Viagra, in all its hundreds of mutations. Penile enlargers sold well. Aftersales might include an antenna booster.

The secret life of an agent provocateur

Jerome Corsi, alt-right rabble-rouser, led a secret second life.

Who knew?

In 1995, before his career peddling smears began to take off, reported The Boston Globe, Corsi was involved in ripping off two dozen investors in Minnesota by convincing them to give him money which then magically disappeared, supposedly for investments in Poland.

The FBI didn’t charge Corsi. Several investors sued and won judgments against him, but were unable to collect.  Corsi reportedly transferred all his assets and funds to his wife’s name.

Another leader in the American wing of the Russiagate conspiracy was  stockbroker Gregg M.S. Berger. Gregg M.S. Berger, however, is not his real name. His real name is Gregg StickelBerger.  Easy to see why he changed it.

Both Berger and Corsi worked at shady Gilford Securities, widely rumored to have Mob ties.

Stockbroker StickelBerger used Gilford Securities to serviced two sets of players, in what looks to be the same ongoing conspiracy. One is a Mob-Mafiya strand; the other is Khashoggi’s GenesisIntermedia fraud.

From Reuters:

NEW YORK, Feb 1 (Reuters) – A New York stock broker has been charged with orchestrating a fraudulent $30 million scheme to illegally “pump-and-dump” thinly traded Chinese and Israeli penny stocks, the U.S. Justice Department said.  Gregg Berger, 47, was chargedwith one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and wire fraud, in an indictment unsealed Tuesday in U.S. district court in Detroit. He faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted.

In a related case, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed civil fraud charges against Berger, seven other people, and three companies involved in the alleged scheme, including one company in Canada.

A “China-Israeli micro stock play”

Gregg Berger worked with Alan M. Ralsky, known as America’s Spam King. The two men commit financial fraud together, then plead guilty in 2009 to conspiracy.

In their joint effort, Berger ran a $33 million international microcap stock scheme involving the stocks of eight small U.S. companies “headquartered” overseas, in the People’s Republic of China, Canada, and Israel.

The companies were used in reverse mergers with local non-U.S. companies looking for a back door into U.S. financial markets.

Stockbroker Berger ran two conspiracies. One was the China-Israeli micro stock play, for which Berger was eventually indicted, along with Al Ralsky, a cast of virtual unknowns… and a Russian named Peter Severa.

Make that Russian hacker Peter Severa. Who was safe in Russia, until, five years after his American partners are convicted,  makes the mistake of going on 

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vacation in Spain…. Or… he was lured to Spain.  

In either event, under Spanish skies, the Russian hacker was arrested by Spanish police, where it turned out Peter Severa was not his real name. 

It was Peter Levashov, #7 on the world’s Top 10 Worst Spammers list, according to a Russian cyber-security company. A Justice Department indictment asserts Levashov is the long-time Russian partner of American Alan Ralsky of West Bloomfield Michigan.

After the U.S. won a titanic struggle with Russia for control of where he would be extradited, he was recently extradited to the United States.

It’s a simple declension. Jerome Corsi has ties to Gregg Berger. Berger was partners with America’s Spam King Al Ralsky. He partnered with Peter Levashov. As well as with Jonathan Curshen.

One of Khashoggi’s partners named Michael Farkas bought a spy store in Miami. The group began soliciting sales over the Internet in earnest.

“Need a pair of sunglasses fitted with a fiber-optic video camera? A shirt button concealing a surveillance microphone? How about a bullet-proof umbrella, or a baseball cap strong enough to repel a hatchet blow?

Uber-hackers working  for uber-oligarchs

At the same time he was working with Ralsky and his crew, busy fraudster (but on whose behalf?) Gregg Berger was also part of a criminal conspiracy involving Sarasota native Jonathan Curshen, another example of that Florida city’s lack of either ethics or charm.

With Curshen’s lavish assistance, Berger helms an effort to pump and dump the stock of a little nothing company (literally, there was nothing there) called CO2.

Back to the first conspiracy.  One of the eight American shell companies located overseas that Berger and Ralsky are using is something called “China Digital.”

Which leads back to Jonathan Curshen, part of Berger Conspiracy No. 2.

In Berger’s Conspiracy no 1. Curshen helped manipulate “China Digital’s stock price.  So Berger’s two known criminal conspiracies must be part of one larger overarching conspiracy.

Which means that — in the best of all possible worlds —  each and every ‘connected’ miscreant who has helped move the conspiracy forward is now, as a matter of law, guilty of every crime committed by each one of their fellow conspirators.

Jonathan Curshen was in business with Steve Bannon’s alt-right business partner Andy Badolato in Sarasota, Florida.

According to a criminal Complaint filed Sept 4, 2008, Curshen, along with someone named Bruce Grossman, schemed to defraud investors in a company called Industrial Biotechnology Corporation (“IBC”) by paying secret cash kickbacks to an undercover FBI agent, who was posing as a middleman willing to recruit corrupt stockbrokers.

Who controlled Industrial Biotechnology Corporation (“IBC”)?  Serial alt-right fraudster Andy Badolato.

Teddy bears. Some Viagra? A mail-order bride? Fake diplomas were steady earners. But of course they didn’t sell nearly as well as hard-core pornography videos.  Nothing did. 

Before there was Jesus there was John the Baptist

Before there was Donald Trump, there was Jerome Corsi. His supremely distasteful “Swift Boat” book, filled with lies and calumny, did in an authentic war hero (no matter what you thought of his politics), 2004 presidential candidate John Kerry.

Later Corsi lobbed another grenade over the transom called  “Where’s the Birth Certificate? The Case that Barack Obama is not Eligible to be President.”

Slight problem: in a bit of horrific timing that makes you question whether there might not be a God after all,  Corsi’s book came out three weeksafter Obama’s birth certificate had been released, and promptly tanked.

That’s when Alex Jones told his audience he and Corsi were receiving warnings from “top government officials”—presumably because a mid-level functionary wouldn’t convey the seriousness of the matter—while preparing to publish the true story of something or other.

“Threats started pouring in,” Alex Jones told his listeners. Even his own lawyers, he said, advised him against breaking the story.

It’s enough to give you chills.

The real story of the Russian hackers is a story of the increasing levels of expertise they began to display.  They were working hard to master the Internet’s arts of persuasion.

As the Russians began stretching their computer skills beyond the reach of their American cousins, Adnan Khashoggi and sidekick Ramy El Batrawi’s GenesisIntermedia provided the only outfit who could stay with them.

Spammers—in Russia and the U.S.—sold vacation giveaways, mortgages, work-at-home opportunities…Loans! 

Successful spammers were soon living large.

This is what hackers, Russian and American, did. Control millions of servers. Write a zesty little sales pitch. Slam some cloak-and-dagger software through a massive database of e-mail addresses.

Then deluge the planet like the wrath of a vengeful God.  

A threat to proto-fascists everywhere

Not since the glory days of Iran-Contra has the group Donald Trump is fronting for—the so-called “Alt-Right”—received so much bad publicity. Yet even after all this time the group— as a long-standing drug trafficking, financial fraud and money laundering operation— remains recognizable. One anchor over the decades, for example, has been Adnan Khashoggi.

Khashoggi, and his lieutenant Ramy El-Batrawi, both of whom were deeply implicated in Iran Contra, would have a last hurrah in Russiagate.

So too would Americans like Tampa Mobster Mike Muzio,  currently away doing 13 years at a federal penitentiary in Minnesota. There he tweets about looking forward to getting out in 2020.

While the players on the ground were releasing press releases announcing orders from each other for billions of dollars worth of product that didn’t exist, from other businesses which were members of the conspiracy.

The phony companies were often led by former agents from U.S. military intelligence, the CIA, and the NSA (at Skyway Aircraft, which we’ll get to presently), as well as alt-right factotums like Andy Badolato, Jerome Corsi, and Jonathan Curshen. 

Facing them across the table was a roving posse of Russian hackers, as well as a squadron of Russian Mobsters like Oleg Deripaska.

The story of our time is about Donald Trump and the globalization of organized crime. It’s intrinsically more interesting than the one being surfaced so far.

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https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/fox-news-doctor-under-investigation-after-trump-associate-emails-mueller-prosecutor-by-mistake

Fox News contributor who hyped an anti-malaria drug as a possible coronavirus treatment has fallen under investigation by the Justice Department after an email blunder.

Federal prosecutors are examining the communications of Dr. Vladimir “Zev” Zelenko, who frequently appears on Fox News and has discussed hydroxychloroquine with the White House, after conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi accidentally emailed a former member of Robert Mueller’s team, reported the Washington Post.

Individuals contacted as part of the inquiry told the newspaper that the examination of Zelenko’s records began after Corsi accidentally sent an email intended for him to federal prosecutor Aaron Zelinsky, who had investigated Corsi’s 2016 campaign activities as part of the special counsel’s Russia probe.

According to Corsi, Zelinsky responded to the errant email by contacting his lawyer and requesting all of his communications with Zelenko, a family physician in Long Island.

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Corsi said he and Zelenko are collaborating lawfully on a website designed to connect people to doctors, and he said he intended to cooperate with Zelinsky’s request.

Zelinsky is currently investigating coronavirus-related crimes in the Maryland U.S. attorney’s office under a directive from Attorney General William Barr.

An attorney for Zelenko said he was not aware of any law enforcement interest in the physician.

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https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/hiding-in-plain-sight-the-white-nationalist-who-toiled-inside-a-right-wing-media-powerhouse

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Trending Donald Trump Impeachment Immigration White Nationalism

Hiding in Plain Sight: The White Nationalist Who Toiled Inside a Right-Wing Media Powerhouse

By Jared Holt | February 3, 2020 9:00 am By Angry White Men | February 3, 2020 9:00 am

The following article was reported in collaboration with Angry White Men. It also appears on Angry White Men.

Michael J. Thompson demanded that someone turn down the “horrifying music” so that he could introduce Scott Greer, then editor of The Daily Caller, whose first book Thompson had helped publish. He took nervous pulls from a can of Coors Light beer as he addressed the crowd assembled in the offices of the right-wing publication, mixing self-deprecating jokes about the “Walmart spread” of food offered to guests and seemingly earnest calls to action.

“Do not underestimate the value of your voice in influencing people in the Trump administration. You’ve got to keep fighting, because guess what, no one else is gonna do it. You have to do it,” Thompson told the crowd of people assembled on a March 2017 evening in downtown Washington, D.C., in remarks captured in a Periscope video.

Less than 24 hours before the party, an article appeared on a blog operated by Thompson; the author, writing under the name Paul Kersey, claimed to know why people were supposedly afraid to go travel to Baltimore, Maryland: “Blacks. Nothing more. Nothing less.” The closing kicker of the blog post stated the writer’s prejudice in stark terms: “No blacks, know peace; know blacks, no peace. It’s really this simple.” It is just one of more than 3,500 analogous articles that exist today on Thompson’s blog, “Stuff Black People Don’t Like.”

Thompson is just one of many members of the white nationalist movement in the United States that attempted to reinvent its public image with the “alt-right” moniker and rose to a flash of influence in Republican politics amid the 2016 presidential campaign of? Donald J. Trump. Leading up to that political moment, a clique of the movement’s believers had situated themselves inside GOP-aligned institutions and media outlets in and around Washington, where they used the resources at their disposal to advance their cause. Thompson’s career took him inside the Leadership Institute, a pillar of the conservative movement for more than 40 years, and ultimately to the right-wing tabloid-style website, WorldNetDaily.

The story of Thompson’s career is not one of a random internet blogger; it’s a blueprint that others have followed.

A barely underground member of the white nationalist movement, Thompson has toiled undisturbed, until recently, in conservative spaces, even as a number of his associates have since been exposed for supporting the movement that left blood in the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia, at the 2017 Unite the Right white supremacist gathering.

Right Wing Watch and Angry White Men, a not-for-profit blog tracking figures in the white supremacist movement, can report that Thompson is the previously unknown author of racist material that has appeared on blogs and the best-known white nationalist publications for more than a decade under the Paul Kersey pen name. Angry White Men contributed in-depth research to this article while Right Wing Watch completed the investigative reporting.

Entering the Nucleus of Conservative Media

Michael J. Thompson with friends, including white nationalists Kevin DeAnna and Scott Greer. (Photo courtesy of Katie McHugh)]

The halls of The Leadership Institute’s headquarters are lined with photographs of its distinguished alumni, visual markers of its place in conservative politics. Headshots of notable graduates–figures including Ralph Reed, Rep. Jim Jordan, and even Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Vice President Mike Pence, among others–are arranged in a single row on each side of a long corridor, all in identical frames. On any given week, young conservatives can attend events in its offices in Arlington, Virginia, for training in skills like public speaking, creative design, campaigning, and fundraising, and opportunities to hear distinguished guests from Capitol Hill and conservative media. On its website, the Leadership Institute claims to have “trained more than 200,000 conservative activists, leaders, and students” since its founding in 1979. It was there that Michael Thompson appears to have entered conservative politics, working as a member of the organization’sCampus Services Program,according to a 2010 press release.

During his tenure at the Leadership Institute, it also appears Thompson wrote articles for its Campus Reform media outlet.Articles bearing his byline have since been deleted but were cached via Google site-search results. Working at the Leadership Institute, Thompson grew close to white nationalist Kevin DeAnna, who was a leader of the Leadership Institute’s campus leadership program and began writing his blog, “Stuff Black People Don’t Like” (a play on the name of an internet-famous early 2000s satire blog, “Stuff White People Like”). In 2011, Thompson authored his first column for the racist publication VDARE, whose editor, Peter Brimelow, is a regular speaker at far-right conferences and has participated in panel discussions with Jared Taylor, founder of the white supremacist American Renaissance website, and Richard B. Spencer, the alt-right impresario who led the 2017 tiki-torch march at the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville on the eve of a violent gathering of far-right groups in the center of town.

You will barely find a trace of Thompson’s years at the Leadership Institute on its website—or anywhere, really. Neither Leadership Institute Communications Coordinator Sarah Morrison nor Campus Reform Editor-in-Chief Cabot Phillips responded to inquiries from Right Wing Watch seeking basic information on Thompson’s position with the organization.

After he left the Leadership Institute, Thompson joined the staff of WorldNetDaily, a right-wing conspiracy-theory website aligned with the Republican Party, where he worked in the marketing department. The site is helmed by founder Joseph Farah, a Trump associate who helped the then-presidential hopeful advance the false claim that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States.

Thompson’s name appeared on WorldNetDaily’s masthead as early as Jan. 29, 2012, and as late as Nov. 18, 2018, as preserved in online snapshot archives. Throughout his entire tenure at the digital publication run by one of Trump’s loudest boosters, Thompson was moonlighting under a pseudonym at racist and white nationalist publications run by Brimelow and Taylor. Thompson’s work was scrubbed from the WorldNetDaily site, but some of it ?was archived. WorldNetDaily editors, including Farah, ?failed to respond to Right Wing Watch’s emailed requests for comment.

Thompson found himself at WorldNetDaily during the pinnacle of its ascendance in the Republican Party. In its heyday, Farah sought to expand WorldNetDaily into a conservative media powerhouse, publishing books by? Rep. Devin Nunes?, who is now the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, and right-wing activist Phyllis Schlafly, ?who died in 2016, not long after she endorsed Trump for president. Farah even launched a documentary filmmaking company? that produced feature-length movies about gun issues, Christianity, and the supposed secret plots to undermine Western civilization. When Thompson was employed there, Farah and his outlet were enjoying a renaissance of sorts, establishing WorldNetDaily as a mill for the “birther movement,” as the racist narrative questioning Obama’s birth certificate came to be known.

Using his WorldNetDaily position for access, Thompson rubbed shoulders with high-profile Republican politicians and publishers. In 2012, Thompson interviewed Joe Arpaio,then the sheriff of Arizona’s Maricopa County, about Barack Obama’s birth certificate and other birtherism theories for WorldNetDaily (the video has since been deleted from WorldNetDaily’s website?).

During an appearance on “The Hagmann Report” in 2017, Thompson boasted that he had been in contact with former White House Chief Strategist Stephen K. Bannon before Bannon joined the Trump campaign. Bannon did not respond to our request for comment.

“You know, I used to share emails three or four times a week with Steve Bannon before he was invited to become part of the Trump campaign,” Thompson told “The Hagmann Report” hosts Joe Hagmann and Jon Robberson.

In one email provided to Right Wing Watch and Angry White Men by former Breitbart editor Katie McHugh, Thompson can be seen pitching conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsias a potential guest on the SiriusXM radio program produced by Breitbart News, which Bannon hosted at the time. Bannon declined, writing back, “Zero interest,” and “Not a fan.”? However, Bannon also instructed Thompson to send “all your other books” from WorldNetDaily authors, presumably for their radio-guest potential.

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https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Jerome_Corsi

Corsi (1946–) is a nutty right-wing political commentator, currently serving as the head of the InfoWars branch in Washington D.C. He was formerly a senior columnist for WorldNutDaily.

Despite getting a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard,^[1] his modus operandi is to cash in on the fringe wingnut conspiracy theory du jour by giving it a veneer of legitimacy. Some of his more infamous works include:

• Unfit for Command with John O'Neill — Swiftboating John Kerry.^[2]
• Black Gold Stranglehold with Craig R. Smith — Abiotic oil.^[3]
• The Late Great USA — North American Union, NAFTA Superhighway, and Amero conspiracy theories.^[4]
• The Obama Nation — "an innuendo-filled, mistake-riddled biography"^[5]
• Where's the Birth Certificate? — Birtherism, obviously.^[6]

Corsi is also the author of the novel The Shroud Codex, about the Shroud of Turin.^[7] It's full of blatant errors that make it look like it was never proof-read after he finished writing it. He also declared that Barack Obama was married to his male Pakistani roommate(!) before he married Michelle, which must set some record for combined unsubstantiated wingnuttery and homophobia in a single conspiracy theory.^[8] And just like most conspiracy memes of this kind, the gauntlet got picked up by at least one fellow nutter (Scott Lively, no less) who was also dumb enough to think that it was a perfectly valid argument.^[9] Most recently he has appeared on King-of-The-Crazies Alex Jones' Infowars program and claimed that Hillary Clinton was in a secret-M00slim-Lesbian relationship with her aide Huma Abedin.^[10]

Corsi is also convinced that proof of Obama's Kenyan citizenship can be demonstrated by the fact that there was a photo of him on a Kenyan calendar from 2005 when Obama was still a Senator from Illinois.^[11] With standards of evidence like that, there's every indication that he's in a competition with Joe Arpaio for the 2012 Booby Prize in late-period Birther silliness.

Basically, Corsi is useful as a benchmark or barometer for current fashions of conspiracy theory and crankery. If Corsi writes on it, it's hot on the fringe. Think of him as a device powered by crank magnetism.

In 2018, Corsi was subpoenaed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into the Trump-Russia connection, apparently in regard to Corsi's association with Roger Stone.^[12] On January 25, 2019, Stone was arrested and charged by Mueller's team with obstruction of proceedings, making false statements, and witness tampering.^[13] That same day, Corsi and Randy Credico, another Stone associate, indicated a willingness to testify against Stone in court.^[14] As further fallout from this, Corsi sued Stone in 2019 for defamation.^[15]

See also

• Regnery Publishing
• Robert W. Felix, on whose websites he likes to peddle his abiotic oil crankery.

External links

• Audio of Corsi speaking about abiotic oil among other things at 2006 Doctors for Disaster Preparedness convention
• Encyclopedia of American Loons

References

1. :{Jump up:(style="user-select:none;top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important"):}:↑ *Politicking as Crimson-Hued Blood Sport*, Harvard Magazine, 8.28.08. The title of Corsi's thesis was *Prior Restraint, Prior Punishment, and Political Dissent: A Moral and Legal Evaluation* and it was apparently pretty good, according to Harvard Magazine, unlike his subsequent crankery (also according to Harvard Magazine).
2. :{Jump up:(style="user-select:none;top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important"):}:↑ Review by Eric Boehlert
3. :{Jump up:(style="user-select:none;top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important"):}:↑ Executive summary by Craig R. Smith himself
4. :{Jump up:(style="user-select:none;top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important"):}:↑ Review by Alex Koppelman
5. :{Jump up:(style="user-select:none;top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important"):}:↑ McCain Corsi Quip Irks Obama Camp by Anne E. Kornblut (August 15, 2008) The Washington Post.
6. :{Jump up:(style="user-select:none;top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important"):}:↑ Review by Media Matters
7. :{Jump up:(style="user-select:none;top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important"):}:↑ *The Shroud Codex* on Simon & Schuster
8. :{Jump up:(style="user-select:none;top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important"):}:↑ Corsi: Obama Was in Gay Marriage to Pakistani Roommate, Dispatches from the Culture Wars
9. :{Jump up:(style="user-select:none;top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important"):}:↑ Scott Lively Pushes Claim that Obama Was Once Married to a Man, Right Wing Watch
10. :{Jump up:(style="user-select:none;top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important"):}:↑ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jerome-corsi-exposes-hillary-clintons-lesbian-muslim-brotherhood-conspiracy
11. :{Jump up:(style="user-select:none;top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important"):}:↑ Corsi Finds His ‘Smoking Gun’, Dispatches from the Culture Wars
12. :{Jump up:(style="user-select:none;top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important"):}:↑ Rightwing author Jerome Corsi subpoenaed in Mueller investigation: Conspiracy theorist and associate of Trump adviser Roger Stone will cooperate in Russia inquiry, lawyer says by Jon Swaine (5 Sep 2018 14.44 EDT; Last modified on Wed 5 Sep 2018 14.46 EDT) The Guardian.
13. :{Jump up:(style="user-select:none;top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important"):}:↑ Roger Stone: Trump ally arrested on seven Mueller probe charges. BBC News. January 25, 2019.
14. :{Jump up:(style="user-select:none;top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important"):}:↑ Former Stone associates indicate willingness to testify against him by Jacqueline Thomsen (01/25/19 06:34 PM EST) The Hill.
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https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/04/media/jerome-corsi-seth-rich/index.html

New York (CNN Business)Right-wing author Jerome Corsi issued an apology on Monday and retracted an InfoWars story he wrote spreading a conspiracy theory about murdered Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich.

In the retraction, which was featured on the front page of InfoWars, a fringe website with a long history of spreading conspiracy theories, Corsi conceded that "his allegations were not based upon any independent factual knowledge."

"It was not Dr. Corsi's intent to rely upon inaccurate information, or to cause any suffering to Mr. Rich's family," reads the retraction. "To that end, Dr. Corsi retracts the article and apologizes to the Rich family."

The retraction was requested by the legal team for Aaron Rich, the brother of Seth Rich, a spokesperson for Aaron Rich's legal team told CNN.

Corsi's retracted story cited a Washington Times column that said, without evidence, that Seth Rich leaked a trove of DNC emails to WikiLeaks.

The Washington Times column, which Corsi relied on for his own article, was deleted in October 2018 after Aaron Rich filed a lawsuit against the conservative newspaper and others.

"The Column included statements about Aaron Rich, the brother of former Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich, that we now believe to be false," read part of the Washington Times' retraction.

The Washington Times' column, which the lawsuit said was published both online and in print, stated that it was "well known in intelligence circles that Seth Rich and his brother, Aaron Rich, downloaded the DNC emails and was paid by Wikileaks for that information."

The Washington Times settles lawsuit with Seth Rich's brother, issues retraction and apology for its coverage

The Washington Times settles lawsuit with Seth Rich's brother, issues retraction and apology for its coverage

Seth Rich was fatally shot in Washington, DC, in July 2016. Police have said evidence indicates he was the victim of a botched robbery, but in the wake of his death, far-right activists and media organizations suggested something far more sinister.

Without real evidence, these far-right activists peddled a conspiracy theory that said Seth Rich leaked a trove of DNC emails to Wikileaks and was killed in retribution for the supposed leak. The theory was convenient for some on the right as they disputed allegations Russia hacked the DNC, something President Donald Trump had raised doubts about.

Joshua Riley and Meryl Governski, who also serve as part of Aaron Rich's counsel, said in a joint-statement that "the apology and retraction issued today by Mr. Corsi and posted by Infowars is another important step toward obtaining justice for the Rich family."

"We will continue to litigate our defamation claims against conspiracy theorists who refuse to retract and apologize for similar false statements," Riley and Governski said.

A representative for InfoWars did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday afternoon. But Corsi tweeted that as a Christian, he has "sympathy for the suffering the Seth Rich family has gone through."

Corsi also told CNN that he retracted this specific story because it relied on information that had been retracted by the Washington Times. However, he said that he continues to believe that it's possible that the leak of DNC emails was an inside job and that investigators should look into whether Seth Rich played a role.

Corsi, an acquaintance of Trump ally Roger Stone, has spent years spreading right-wing conspiracy theories. In recent months, he has found himself caught in special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into election interference.

Despite previously saying he was cooperating with investigators, Corsi filed a lawsuit in December 2018 against Mueller claiming federal authorities unconstitutionally searched his phone and electronic records.

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in  court filing, Jerome Corsi accused longtime Trump confidante Roger Stone of continuing to threaten him. “I have more than reason to believe that Defendant Stone has, through these or other means, continued to harass and threaten me and my family to try to intimidate and coerce me not to tell the truth if I am called by the Special Counsel at his criminal trial,” the former InfoWars D.C. bureau chief said in a sworn declaration obtained by BuzzFeed News. Corsi stated that he saw individuals in two cars in front of his home and his stepson’s home between Feb. 24 and Feb. 26. “They both lingered there for no apparent reason as if they were watching us and threatening us... Upon seeing us approach them, both vehicles repeatedly left their surveillance position and attempted to evade us,” he said. Corsi asked the court to set an evidentiary hearing to determine whether Stone hasviolated his gag order.

Last month, Corsi said he was summoned by Special Counsel Robert Mueller to testify in front of a grand jury. Mueller has been investigating communications between Corsi and Stone during the 2016 election. Stone has pleaded not guilty to several charges—including obstruction of justice and witness tampering—in connection with the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks.

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"I consider this entire investigation to be fraudulent," he said. "I'm glad it's over."

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as  testimony was underway during the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, far-right defenders of the president rapidly spread false and unsubstantiated information in an attempt to bolster a Republican-backed conspiracy theory about Hunter Biden and Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company that previously had Biden on its board of directors.

On November 20, Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland testified before the House Intelligence Committee and provided further support for the central premise of the impeachment inquiry. Sondland confirmed that he believed Trump directed an effort to hold up security assistance to Ukraine unless the country announced an investigation into his political adversaries. Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani, and others close to the president have repeatedly pushed the evidence-free claim that, as vice president, Joe Biden pressured Ukraine to fire a prosecutor because that prosecutor was investigating Burisma, where his son worked at the time. (In fact, the prosecutor in question was corrupt, and no Burisma investigation was being carried out at the time when Biden was tasked with advancing the broadly held Western foreign policy goal of pressuring Ukraine to fire the prosecutor.)

While the hearing was underway, conspiracy theory website ZeroHedge published an article claiming that Burisma founder Nikolai Zlochevsky had been indicted by Ukraine’s prosecutor general, and that evidence indicated that Hunter Biden and other Burisma board members had received money embezzled by Burisma from Ukrainian citizens.NBC News reported that the claims in the ZeroHedge article were “incorrect,” as Burisma founder Mykola Zlochevsky has not been indicted, but that “didn’t stop allies of President Donald Trump from widely disseminating the false account of an indictment, seizing on some truthful elements while wildly extrapolating others.” According to a report from Reuters, Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Ruslan Ryaboshapka, did announce on November 20 an escalation into his investigation of Zlochevsky to include suspicion of embezzlement, but he “did not provide evidence or details” or mention Biden. Reuters added that the investigation is “is effectively on hold” because “the Ukrainian authorities cannot determine Zlochevsky’s whereabouts.”

According to NBC News, the claim that Burisma’s founder had been indicted was shared by tens of thousands of users on Twitter during the first hour after it was published. Social media analysis tool CrowdTangle showed that by the morning of November 21, the ZeroHedge story had been shared on Facebook pages with a total of nearly 5.5 million followers. The story also began to trend on Reddit’s toxic “r/The_Donald” subreddit. In particular, the story was initially popularized on Twitter by an account purporting to be a news organization, @BreakingNLive, that was suspended from the platform later in the day.

The false story reached Trump’s inner circle on Twitter, with Donald Trump Jr. liking a tweet promoting the ZeroHedge article sent by Pizzagate conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec. (Posobiec appears to have subsequently deleted the tweet.) On YouTube, the indictment claim is being promoted by Red Pill News, a channel verified by YouTube that has 176,000 subscribers, and a channel belonging to far-right congressional candidate Joey Saladino, which has 252,000 subscribers.

Beyond Posobiec, the ZeroHedge claims were pushed on social media by other prominent far-right conspiracy theorists includingJerome Corsi,Bill Mitchell, and cartoonist Ben Garrison. Proponents of the far-right pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory were also behind the social media push. As NBC News reported, “One minute before the ZeroHedge article was published, the anonymous account that inspired the QAnon conspiracy theory — generally known as 'Q' — linked to the same” article that formed the basis of the claims promoted at ZeroHedge. Major QAnon accounts, including @Jordan_Sather_ and @EyesOnQ subsequently promoted the ZeroHedge article. NBC’s Ben Collins reported that “Q” later made a post complaining about the suspension of @BreakingNLive.

Beyond social media, the claims first popularized by ZeroHedge were also featured on disreputable right-wing conspiracy theory websites Infowars and The Gateway Pundit as well as smaller such platforms including The Federalist Papers, WayneDupree.com, [your]News, The Daily Coin, and MAGA Daily Report. (*Hannity* and Fox “straight news” program *Fox News @ Night* later covered the Reuters report as well, while featuring pictures and a discussion of Hunter Biden.)

The source of ZeroHedge’s story appears to be an article from Interfax-Ukraine that repeated unsubstantiated claims about illegal payments from Burisma to Biden made by Ukrainian Members of ParliamentAndriy Derkach and Oleksandr Dubinsky at a press conference they held at the news agency, where they did not offer evidence to back their claims. Interfax-Ukraine’s parent company is a Russian business, Interfax, that was recently praised by Vladmir Putin as making “a major contribution to strengthening the authority and prestige of journalism.” Derkach’s claim about the payments isn’t new. As Time reported, in recent months Derkach has repeatedly made public statements alleging improper payments from Burisma to Biden. Those statements failed to catch on in the way the statements made at the press conference on Wednesday did. Other Ukrainian lawmakers have accused Derkach -- who does not belong to a political party and, according to Time, “studied in the early 1990s at Russia’s top intelligence academy” -- of advancing the interests of Russia, which is currently waging a war against Ukraine. According to Kyiv Post, Derkach has made separate accusations about Biden receiving improper payments in an offshore account while providing “no evidence to support these accusations.” According to Ukraine experts interviewed by NBC News, Derkach and Dubinsky are “not credible” and likely held the press conference to boost Trump.

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In Silent No More: How I Became a Political Prisoner of Mueller’s “Witch Hunt”, New York Times bestselling author of Killing the Deep State Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D. meticulously details the psychological torment he was subjected to in what the media has simply called, “The Mueller Investigation.”

In late 2018, in an FBI closed conference room with no windows, Dr. Corsi was confronted for hours upon hours at a time by detailed questioning about events that occurred in 2016. Dr. Corsi’s inquisition was worthy of the Gestapo or KGB, designed to break even the most cooperating witness. Over a period of two months, three of Mueller’s top prosecutors and an army of FBI agents—up to nine government officials at a time—questioned Dr. Corsi with his attorney, David Gray.  

Throughout this harrowing ordeal, Dr. Corsi handed over his personal computers, his cell phone, all of his email accounts, his Twitter account, and his Google account. Finding no “smoking gun,” Mueller’s prosecutors blew up the meetings. Dr. Corsi refused to lie to the prosecutors to give them the ammunition they needed to prosecute Roger Stone, and as a result he was told he would be charged with a criminal offense for lying to the FBI and the Special Prosecutor.

At seventy-two years of age, Dr. Corsi was subjected to extreme mental anguish, imagining that he may never see his family again as a free man.

Rather than conducting an honest investigation, Mueller’s Special Prosecutors reinforced a prefabricated narrative aiming to charge President Trump with Treason. Silent No More: How I Became a Political Prisoner of Mueller’s "Witch Hunt" exposes the inner workings of this governmental escapade, and clearly states why Mueller has no case against the President. 

Dr. Corsi creates a compelling case indicating that the entire matter is an investigation in search of a crime—to force lying testimony from witnesses if that’s what it takes to achieve Deep State political objectives.

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Jerome R. Corsi received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in Political Science in 1972. He is an investigative journalist and senior staff writer for several conservative websites. Corsi is coauthor of the No. 1 New York Times bestseller Unfit for Command, and is author of the No. 1 New York Times bestseller The Obama Nation. Since then, he has devoted his time to writing on politics and economics, two fields in which he has considerable experience. In his career, he has written numerous other New York Times bestselling nonfiction books.

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Updated: A guide to discredited conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi

Research ››› November 13, 2018 4:53 PM EST ››› ERIC HANANOKI

Special prosecutor Robert Mueller has reportedly been questioning right-wing writer and conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi as part of his Russia investigation. Corsi has a long history of producing false research, and he was instrumental in pushing the lie that former President Barack Obama supposedly has a fake birth certificate.

Portions of this guide were originally published in January 2017; it has been revised and updated in light of reported developments in Mueller’s investigation.

Robert Mueller has reportedly been scrutinizing Corsi

Corsi reportedly could face charges related to his comments about WikiLeaks and Trump ally Roger Stone. As CNN reported, Corsi has claimed he expects to be indicted by Mueller and he “could face any number of charges -- spanning from perjury to making false claims to obstruction of justice. The potential charges are related to false statements he made about his relationship with WikiLeaks and Stone. … Corsi injected himself into Stone's situation last year when he claimed that one of his own articles for InfoWars inspired Stone to predict in October 2016 that there would be trouble coming for Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. Not long after that, WikiLeaks started releasing thousands of Podesta's hacked emails.” While raising the prospect of his indictment, Corsi has asked followers to give him “donations” through his PayPal account. [CNN, 11/12/18; Twitter, 11/12/18]

Corsi previously worked for leading conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ website. Corsi worked for Alex Jones’ Infowars network in early 2017 to 2018. Jones has pushed conspiracy theories about the 9/11 attacks and the tragedies at Newtown, Columbine, Oklahoma City, Sandy Hook, and the Boston Marathon, among others. He now runs his own website Corsi Nation. [Media Matters, 1/31/17; 5/3/17; Corsi Nation, accessed 11/13/18]

Corsi previously challenged Mueller to a fight. In March, Corsi stated: "I want to say to Mueller, let's go out in the backyard of the Justice Department. ... Let's duke it out." [Genesis Communications Network, The Alex Jones Show, 3/29/18]

Corsi helped lead the birther movement

In 2008, Corsi claimed on Fox that the Obama campaign had "a false, fake birth certificate posted on their website." [Media Matters, 1/24/13]

Corsi suggested in 2008 that Obama got him detained in Kenya because Corsi was investigating his birth certificate. In October 2008, Corsi traveled to Kenya to investigate Obama’s birth certificate and was detained because he didn’t have a work permit. Corsi didn’t believe the reason for his detention, suggesting instead that then-candidate Obama was responsible for his temporary detention. [Media Matters, 1/24/13]

Corsi: "That [Obama's] not a Muslim and that he was born in the United States are both lies." [WND's Taking America Back 2010 Convention, via Media Matters]

Corsi released 2011 book Where's The Birth Certificate?: The Case That Barack Obama Is Not Eligible To Be President. A publisher’s description for Corsi’s book, which was released after President Obama released his long-form birth certificate, claimed that “Corsi assembles the evidence that Barack Obama is constitutionally ineligible for the office of the presidency.” [WND Books, accessed 1/31/17; Media Matters, 5/18/11]

Corsi: “Obama has usurped the office of the presidency by” suppressing “the facts about his actual birth circumstances.” Corsi stated in his Where’s The Birth Certificate book:

I write in the conviction that Obama has usurped the office of the presidency by waging a skillful public relations campaign to suppress the facts about his actual birth circumstances.

If he is not eligible to be president, he is also ineligible to command the armed forces defending this nation - a challenge several brave members of the military have dared to make, putting themselves at risk, and in at least one case actually losing his own liberty - in court-martial proceedings brought against them for refusal to obey orders.

Those of us who believe the Constitution of the United States is worth preserving, protecting, and defending intend to continue pressing the Obama eligibility argument until Barack Obama is either removed from office or forced to reveal the truth. [Media Matters, 5/18/11]

Corsi in December 2016: “Ineligible” Obama should be impeached over birth certificate.

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ARPAIO & ZULLO prove OBAMA BIRTH CERTIFICATE FAKE birthers vindicated - LYING MSM busted big http://superstore.wnd.com/Wheres-the-Birth-Certificate-Autographed-Hardcover … BHO ineligible IMPEACH

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Corsi in December 2016: “Proved: Obama COLB is a forgery.”

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my book WHERE'S THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE now historic - ARPAIO vindicates birthers http://superstore.wnd.com/Wheres-the-Birth-Certificate-Autographed-Hardcover … Proved: OBAMA COLB is a FORGERY !!!

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Corsi in December 2016: “Obama forged fake lying birth certificate = biggest fake news story of last 8 years … = high crimes & misdemeanors.”

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OBAMA forged FAKE lying BIRTH CERTIFICATE = biggest FAKE NEWS story of last 8 years http://www.wnd.com/2016/12/investigators-find-source-for-obamas-online-birth-certification-image/ … = high crimes & misdemeanors

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Corsi’s writing is filled with lies

Corsi co-wrote 2004 Swift Boat book Unfit For Command against John Kerry. Corsi co-authored the 2004 book Unfit for Command with John O’Neill, which served as a playbook for attacks on the service record of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. The book was heavily filled with false and baseless attacks. PolitiFact noted in a piece documenting Corsi’s problems with facts that “the verb ‘swiftboat’ has become a catch phrase for launching an unsubstantiated political attack.” [Media Matters, 9/15/04; PolitiFact, 8/20/08]

Corsi published The Obama Nation, which was filled with inaccuracies and errors. A Media Matters review of Corsi’s 2008 book The Obama Nation found numerous falsehoods and errors. Several media outlets reporting on the book also noted that the book contained, as The New York Times noted, “unsubstantiated, misleading or inaccurate” allegations. [Media Matters, 8/4/08; 8/15/08]

Corsi has pushed numerous conspiracy theories over the years

Corsi has repeatedly suggested Obama is secretly gay or bisexual. In 2012, Corsi posted a video to YouTube claiming there's "strong" evidence suggesting that Obama is either gay or bisexual. Corsi’s evidence was that Obama wore a gold ring in law school and appeared in "chummy" pictures with his Pakistani roommate, whom Corsi speculated was Obama’s secret husband. Corsi also published articles on WorldNetDaily speculating that Obama has hidden his previous "gay life" in Chicago. From one such article:

[YouTube, 8/5/12; Media Matters, 1/24/13; WorldNetDaily, 10/2/12]

Corsi claimed Obama’s real father was Indonesian. Corsi claimed in 2011 that he "always thought the father [of President Obama] was Indonesian" because Obama's physical characteristics are supposedly "more Indonesian." According to Corsi, Obama's mother "might have met some Indonesian" at a bar, "and that's how it happened." [Media Matters, 1/24/13]

Corsi pushed QAnon conspiracy theory. Corsi heavily promoted QAnon, a sprawling and nonsensical conspiracy theory which claims that an anonymous government official with “Q” clearance has been leaving clues online about Trump’s actions against the so-called “deep state” and its alleged activities, including child trafficking. Corsi later soured on the legitimacy of QAnon, though he has also attempted to reach “across to the QAnon supporters” and make amends after the conspiracy theory had already got national media attention. [Media Matters, 5/15/18; 8/2/18; Right Wing Watch, 8/17/18]

Corsi claimed that an accident involving a train carrying Republican lawmakers was actually a “false flag terror attack.” [Right Wing Watch, 2/1/18]

Corsi claimed Podesta brothers are tied “to Madeleine McCann child abduction case.” The New York Times wrote of fake Pizzagate rumors that “Another part of the conspiracy theory was a supposed link between the Podesta brothers and the child abduction case of Madeleine McCann on May 3, 2007. Two e-fit (electronic facial identification technique) photos released by British detectives were repeatedly used as evidence. However, the two e-fits were based on descriptions of a single suspect by two witnesses, not two different suspects, a crucial detail that was left out. According to The Guardian, the witnesses described the man as ‘white, aged between 20 and 40, with short brown hair, of medium build, medium height and clean shaven.’ In 2007, Tony Podesta was 64 and John Podesta was 58.” Corsi tweeted in November:

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Weaponized Autists have cracked case- tie Podesta to Madeleine McCann child abduction case. Sick. Frightening  https://m.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5bk4er/weaponized_autists_have_cracked_the_fucking/?compact=true …

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Corsi wrote a book claiming Hitler escaped Germany with American help. As the Southern Poverty Law Center noted, Corsi wrote in his book Hunting Hitler that “With help from Hitler’s private secretary Martin Bormann, Argentinian politician Juan Peron, and future CIA director Allen Dulles – who, Corsi insinuates, was motivated by a sinister internationalist agenda – Hitler and his bride escaped to Argentina. There, the happy couple they lived out their days in a 6,000-square-foot mansion ‘designed to echo the distinct feel of Hitler’s Obersalzberg retreat … in the Bavarian Alps.’” [Southern Poverty Law Center, 1/13/14; The Daily Beast, 1/16/14]

Corsi thought Sen. Kaine’s blue star service pin might have been a “Viet Cong” flag. During the 2016 vice presidential debate, Corsi tweeted of Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) and a pin he was wearing: “What is that PIN Kaine is wearing? Red DOT on White Field, Gold border. Ho Chi Minh? Viet Cong? Can anybody identify Kaine's lapel pin?” In reality, as the Associated Press wrote, “Kaine’s pin honors his son, a U.S. Marine serving overseas. The symbol, a single blue star on a white background ringed in red, is that of ‘Blue Star Families’ who have loved ones in the military who are in harm’s way.”

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What is that PIN Kaine is wearing?  Red DOT on White Field, Gold border.  Ho Chi Minh? Viet Cong? Can anybody identify Kaine's lapel pin?

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[Crooks and Liars, 10/5/16; The Associated Press, 10/5/16]

Corsi was “main purveyor” of NAFTA “superhighway” conspiracy theory. Newsweek wrote of Corsi in 2007:

Ron Paul wants you to be scared. There's a conspiracy in the land—what he calls a "conspiracy of ideas"—to give up America's sovereignty. It's a shadowy scheme that begins with the NAFTA "superhighway," a road as wide as several football fields that will link Mexico, the United States and Canada. "They don't talk about it and they might not admit it," Paul said at the CNN-YouTube presidential debate last week. He didn't say exactly who "they" are, but perhaps one can guess. "They're planning on [taking] millions of acres … by eminent domain," warned the prickly libertarian. But elected government officials aren't acting alone. There's "an unholy alliance of foreign consortiums and officials from several governments" pushing the idea, Paul wrote in October 2006. "The ultimate goal is not simply a superhighway, but an integrated North American Union—complete with a currency, a cross-national bureaucracy, and virtually borderless travel within the Union."

Only it's not true. The main purveyor of this broad conspiracy theory is Jerome Corsi, coauthor of "Unfit for Command," the book that helped Swift Boat John Kerry's presidential ambitions. His latest offering is "The Late Great U.S.A.: The Coming Merger With Mexico and Canada," which became a best seller on The New York Times's business list this summer. Corsi plays on growing nationalist fears. He sees a scenario in which a North American Union is born and shares a currency, the "amero." Even some right-wing standard-bearers regard the fears as over-blown. Jed Babbin, editor of the conservative newspaper Human Events, says: "I guess there are people who believe in [the plan for a North American Union]. But there are people who believe in Bigfoot." "The evidence is out there," says Corsi. [Newsweek, 12/1/07]

Corsi is an anti-Muslim bigot

Corsi: Islam is "a worthless, dangerous Satanic religion," Muslims are “RAGHEADS.” Media Matters documented in 2004 that Corsi was a frequent participant on the FreeRepublic.com forum, where he posted numerous bigoted comments.

CORSI: Let's see exactly why it isn't the case that Islam is a worthless, dangerous Satanic religion? Where's the proof to the contrary? (04/24/2004)

CORSI: Islam is like a virus -- it affects the mind -- maybe even better as an analogy -- it is a cancer that destroys the body it infects... No doctor would hesitate to eliminate cancer cells from the body. (11/26/02)

CORSI: Islam is a peaceful religion as long as the women are beaten, the boys buggered, and the infidels killed. (11/22/2002)

CORSI: How's this as an analogy -- the Koran is simply the "software" for producing deviant cancer cell political behavior and violence in human beings. (02/15/2002)

CORSI: Think the liberal press will ever let out that these 2 were lovers -- typical Islamic boy-buggering -- older man, younger man -- black Muslims? I doubt it. Not a pretty picture, but one certain to be hidden by PC media. (11/08/2002)

CORSI: Isn't the Democratic Party the official SODOMIZER PROTECTION ASSOCIATION of AMERICA -- oh, I forgot, it was just an accident that Clintoon's first act in office was to promote "gays in the military." RAGHEADS are Boy-Bumpers as clearly as they are Women-Haters -- it all goes together. (11/18/2001)

Corsi also wrote that "Boy buggering in both Islam and Catholicism is okay with the Pope as long as it isn't reported by the liberal press." [Media Matters, 8/6/04]

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http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/jerome-corsi-and-larry-klayman-threaten-to-sue-gateway-pundit/

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Jerome Corsi and Larry Klayman Threaten to Sue Gateway Pundit

By Jared Holt | January 31, 2019 1:01 pm

It’s worth noting that many in Stone’s orbit—a right-wing media universe that includes Fairbanks—have sought to smear and discredit Corsi, believing that the former Infowars writer is directly responsible for Stone’s ensnarement in the Mueller probe. Stone was indicted last Friday for allegedly lying to federal officials about his communications with senior Trump campaign officials about WikiLeaks releases that were published during the summer before the 2016 election. Corsi and Stone are currently threatening to sue each other for defamation.

“All of this is kind of smoke. It means nothing in terms of what Mueller has and Roger should take it seriously,” Klayman said. “Dr. Corsi has been the hero here. He’s actually sued Robert Mueller twice with criminal complaints, with civil complaints. I haven’t seen Roger do that.”

Last year, Corsi filed a lawsuit against Mueller accusing that the special counsel of goading him to provide false testimony and of leaking grand jury secrets.

On Newsmax TV, Fairbanks defended WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, with whom she has a personal relationship, and argued that Corsi could not be considered a credible source on WikiLeaks. She went on to assert that Corsi had made numerous false predictions about WikiLeaks releases, had plagiarized her work to promote QAnon conspiracy theories, and had “no basic understanding” of how WikiLeaks operates. She also pointed out that Corsi once solicited charity donations to pay a cancer doctor that didn’t exist.

“The fact that anybody is taking him seriously at all makes me completely just—it makes me laugh,” Fairbanks said.

Klayman told Cardillo that Corsi wouldn’t hesitate to bring defamation cases and that “we can sort this out in court if she wants to get to the bottom of it.” That was echoed by Corsi on Twitter, where he claimed that Gateway Pundit owner Jim Hoft had been “put on legal notice,” and that he had demanded the outlet issue a retraction of Fairbanks’ claims.

Jerome Corsi and one of his lawyers are waging threats to sue against The Gateway Pundit, an outlet that has been overwhelmingly supportive of Corsi before he began singing to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators in the Justice Department probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election. Corsi admits that he corroborated evidence that the Mueller team had involving the interactions he had with Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone,who was arraigned on Tuesday, with regard to the WikiLeaks dumps of emails hacked from the Clinton campaign by Russian intelligence operatives.

Larry Klayman, the estranged founder of Judicial Watch who is representing Corsi as he processes through Mueller’s probe, appeared on NewsmaxTV yesterday with host John Cardillo to spar with Gateway Pundit contributor Cassandra Fairbanks, who had taken to Twitter the day before to call Corsi “a deranged old man,” and to criticize Mueller for taking information from him. Corsi is also represented by New Jersey attorney David Gray.

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It’s worth noting that many in Stone’s orbit—a right-wing media universe that includes Fairbanks—have sought to smear and discredit Corsi, believing that the former Infowars writer is directly responsible for Stone’s ensnarement in the Mueller probe. Stone was indicted last Friday for allegedly lying to federal officials about his communications with senior Trump campaign officials about WikiLeaks releases that were published during the summer before the 2016 election. Corsi and Stone are currently threatening to sue each other for defamation.

“All of this is kind of smoke. It means nothing in terms of what Mueller has and Roger should take it seriously,” Klayman said. “Dr. Corsi has been the hero here. He’s actually sued Robert Mueller twice with criminal complaints, with civil complaints. I haven’t seen Roger do that.”

Last year, Corsi filed a lawsuit against Mueller accusing that the special counsel of goading him to provide false testimony and of leaking grand jury secrets.

On Newsmax TV, Fairbanks defended WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange,with whom she has a personal relationship, and argued that Corsi could not be considered a credible source on WikiLeaks. She went on to assert that Corsi had made numerous false predictions about WikiLeaks releases, had plagiarized her work to promote QAnon conspiracy theories, and had “no basic understanding” of how WikiLeaks operates. She also pointed out that Corsi once solicited charity donations to pay a cancer doctor that didn’t exist.

“The fact that anybody is taking him seriously at all makes me completely just—it makes me laugh,” Fairbanks said.

Klayman told Cardillo that Corsi wouldn’t hesitate to bring defamation cases and that “we can sort this out in court if she wants to get to the bottom of it.” That was echoed by Corsi on Twitter, where he claimed that Gateway Pundit owner Jim Hoft had been “put on legal notice,” and that he had demanded the outlet issue a retraction of Fairbanks’ claims.

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Fairbanks told Right Wing Watch that no legal notice was sent.

“We didn’t receive legal notice. He and his lawyer called my boss ratting on me, threatening lawsuits and saying they were going to Mueller about me,” she wrote to us via email. “I told Jim to tell them to contact my lawyer, as I am only a contributor to Gateway and it doesn’t really concern him. Corsi’s lawyer is just an idiot.”

Klayman did not answer our request for comment via email.

(Article updated at 1:58 p.m.)

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1/19 roger charged, house raided

TRMS wonders why big risk to lie on credito sp vs corsi, why does it matter?

pbs gop guy wonders why use corsi to connect to russians if direct channel (a cutout?)

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2...is August 2, 2016, when Corsi sent an email to Stone. In that email, Corsi says that Assange is planning a document dump on October 2 to cause the most damage possible. (Do you Wikileaks fans FINALLY understand what this fraud is?) In preparation of that, Corsi says that....

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/mueller-target-jerome-corsi-once-wrote-a-trippy-childrens-book

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Mueller target Jerome Corsi Once Wrote a Trippy Children’s Book

Corsi has gone from cutthroat college debater to one of America’s greatest nuts

Will Sommer

11.30.18

Long before Jerome Corsi became a target for Special Counsel Robert Mueller, or one of the country’s most prominent birthers, or a conduit for the swift boat attacks against John Kerry, he wrote a children’s book. Called The King, the Dragon, and the Witch, the 1972 picture book by Corsi imagined a universe where a king and his friend, a dragon, “devise a plot to rid themselves of a wicked witch.”

It was a whimsical world, one personified by the book’s cover, which shows the king and the dragon holding bouquets of flowers in a forest while the witch jumps in the background. And it reflects a part of Corsi’s biography that many people—especially those just now being acquainted with the man—probably didn’t imagine existed.

For those who have followed his career, Corsi is one of the country’s most enduring conspiracy theorists, forever at the heart of the obscene sagas that often show politics at its most cringe-worthy. He’s found himself there yet again during the Trump era, becoming the latest character to take a leading turn in the special counsel probe into Russia’s election meddling.

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Corsi is alleged to have been a conduit for Trump confidant Roger Stone and Wikileaks during the 2016 campaign, at the time when the latter was gearing up to publish hacked Clinton campaign emails. Corsi nearly pleaded guilty to lying about his contacts with Stone before, apparently, changing his mind about cooperating with Robert Mueller. Instead, this week, he has shared a draft of the charge against him to the media—and, on Wednesday, declared grimly that he’d rather die in prison rather than cut a deal.

If that is, indeed, the outcome, it would be a capstone to a life filled with twists. Among other things, Corsi is almost assuredly the only man who can claim to have both been inspired by Barack Obama’s mentor Laurence Tribeand question Obama’s birthplace.

Corsi declined to comment for this piece.

Corsi grew up in Ohio, the son of a liberal union executive. Despite his father’s politics, he turned to Republican activism when he was still young. In 1967, while still at Cleveland’s Case Western Reserve University, Corsi agreed to “bird-dog” the mayoral bid of Democrat Carl Stokes. In an early version of today’s campaign trackers, Corsi started attending each of Stokes’s rallies and speeches, counting the crowd and reporting back to his employer on how audiences reacted to Stokes’s speeches.

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At Case Western, Corsi earned a reputation for cutthroat tactics on the college debate circuit. And he brought that with him to Harvard. Tribe, who encountered Corsi on the college debate circuit, told The Daily Beast that Corsi had a reputation for “nasty and unprincipled” tactics in debate tournaments.

“Hearing Corsi’s name always conjured nothing but negatives,” Tribe said, though he couldn’t specify what exactly Corsi did in debates to spark that conjuring.

Corsi also crossed paths on the debate circuit with Bob Shrum, who later became one of the Democratic Party’s most high-profiles campaign strategists. Shrum, who judged some of Corsi’s matches, describes Corsi as an “OK” debater.

“I also had the sense that Corsi went from being a left-wing conspiracy theory person to being a right-wing conspiracy theorist,” Shrum said.

Shortly after he left college, Corsi began to write the first of his many future books. The early material featured little of the conspiracies and paranoia that would mark his later work.

In 1968, he co-wrote Shoot-out in Cleveland, the book-length version of a government study on a Cleveland showdown between black nationalists and police. It presented a nuanced portrayal of race relations, including criticism of the police for their handling of tensions with the public.

At Harvard, Corsi earned a doctorate in political science and, with it, the “Ph.D.” after his name that would prove crucial to his credibility when he began pushing conspiracy theories decades later. In his Harvard dissertation on how governments should handle free speech issues, Corsi mentioned a liberal Harvard professor Michael Walzer, and thanked Tribe.

Tribe told The Daily Beast he had not known that “the deceitful Jerome Corsi” had mentioned him in the dissertation and he didn’t appear particularly moved by the news. “The fellow is a crackpot,” Tribe said, “and a sleazy one to boot.”

In the 1980’s, Corsi moved from teaching into banking and insurance, writing several articles and books about the industry. He appears to have been affiliated with various insurance companies, but mostly as an independent financial adviser. But in 1995, Corsi created the kind of wild-eyed project that foreshadowed his future political hoaxes.

That year, Corsi led a group of investors, mostly from Minnesota, who had collected $1.2 million to create a mutual fund to invest in post-communist Poland. Once Corsi and the other lead investors got to Poland, though, Corsi disappeared from the rest of the group, according to The Boston Globe. The other investors eventually realized that the money they had sent to Poland was gone. The FBI launched an investigation, according to investors who told the Globe they were interviewed by agents, but no charges were filed.

“It was a sad story for a lot of people,” one investor told the Globe.

By that point in time, Corsi had begun developing an interest in foreign affairs and Islam that he said was sparked by 1979’s Iranian revolution. By 2004, Corsi was posting on the conservative web forum Free Republic, a Bush-era hive of right-wing internet activity, and accusing Muslims and Catholics of being pedophiles and, in the case of Muslims, “ragheads.”

"RAGHEADS are Boy-Bumpers as clearly as they are Women-Haters,” Corsi wrote. “It all goes together.”

It’s unclear what precisely prompted Corsi to start involving himself in these communities. But he quickly became deeply versed in the world of right-wing internet commenters, regularly dropping pejorative nicknames for prominent Democrats. After deciding Al Gore was soft of Islamic terror, for example, Corsi dubbed him “Mullah Ali-Gore-ah.”

Corsi truly came to national attention in2004 by co-authoring Unfit for Command, a book filled with inaccurate smears about then-Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry’s service in the Vietnam War. He tried to leverage the controversy surrounding the book, which he co-authored with a college debate pal who had long been a Kerry foil, into a political career, claiming at one point that he would move from New Jersey to Massachusetts to challenge Kerry for his Senate seat.

But that never happened. Instead, Corsi established himself as a personality on the fringes of right-wing publishing and soon became synonymous with the worst impulses of conservative media.

“‘In the world of putrid right-wing pond scum, Corsi is one of the biggest bottom-feeders of them all,” Democratic strategist James Carville said in 2004.

Corsi secured columnist jobs at right-wing outlets like WorldNetDaily and InfoWars where, among other things, he suggested that the 9/11 attacks were an inside job. He also authored a flurry of books on everything from the Kennedy assassination (surprisingly, he doesn’t believe that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone) to “new scientific evidence” that Adolf Hitler survived World War II.

Now living in New Jersey, Corsi eagerly attached himself to the birther conspiracy theory surrounding Obama. And as one of the country’s most prominent birthers, Corsi was in contact with Donald Trump, promising him a copy of his book “proving” Obama’s birth certificate was fake and explaining the details of the conspiracy theory to the future president.

With Trump’s election, Corsi has not slowed down. During the past few years he has promoted a wide variety of outlandish conspiracies, including the QAnon conspiracy theory (before theanonymous poster behind QAnon denounced him).

As Corsi faces pressure from Mueller, his one-time allies have turned on him, suggesting that he is obviously too unstable or senile to be believed. Stone dismissed Corsi last week by saying Corsi thinks the 1969 moon landing was staged—an idea that Corsi denies, and that appears to derive from a satirical 2011 Esquire article about Corsi.

Stone and InfoWars boss Alex Jones, who fired Corsi as InfoWars’s Washington bureau chief earlier this year, fumed on air about Corsi on Monday. Jones said Corsi was “senile” and drinking heavily, claiming that he had to call an ambulance for Corsi when they appeared together in Washington in April.

“He didn’t know who he was the next day,” Jones said.

Though he didn’t respond to requests for comment about his background, Corsi did offer up a response to his former boss, saying that—contra Jones’ claims—an ambulance was never called.

“Judge for yourself,” Corsi said.

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why is he the 1st to not cave? (manafort?)

Monday morning, MSNBC reported that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has offered a plea deal to Jerome Corsi, a longtime right-wing conspiracy theorist with ties to President Donald Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone. Under the agreement, Corsi would reportedly cop to one count of perjury related to his testimony about WikiLeaks and Julian Assange.

But CNN promptly reported that Corsi will not sign the agreement, and would rather take it to trial.

"They can put me in prison the rest of my life," he told reporters on a phone call. "I am not going to sign a lie." He added that he does not know what will happen next.

Corsi, who has worked for the right-wing conspiracy theory sites WorldNetDaily and InfoWars, wrote a book that sought to prove President Barack Obama was not born in the United States, and was a proponent of the Pizzagate and QAnon theories alleging a massive, secret sex trafficking ring — and worse — at the highest levels of government.

Mueller has reportedly been investigating Corsi in an attempt to ascertain how close Stone was to Assange and WikiLeaks as they distributed stolen emails from Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman — likely obtained from a hacker affiliated with the Russian military. The Justice Department is reportedly considering a charge against Assange in a separate investigation, although the details have not been disclosed.

Stone previously bragged about having a backchannel to WikiLeaks, but has walked that back as his legal liability mounts.

So far, Mueller has been a master at wrangling pleas and cooperation agreements from suspects, including Trump's campaign manager. It remains to be seen what will happen if he takes Corsi to trial. But it is clear that Mueller is closer than ever to getting to the bottom of what really happened between WikiLeaks and Trump's allies.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Corsi

Jerome Robert Corsi (born August 31, 1946) is an American author, political commentator, and conspiracy theorist.^[3][4] His two *New York Times* best-selling books, Unfit for Command (2004) and The Obama Nation (2008), attacked Democratic presidential candidates and have been criticized for including numerous inaccuracies.^[5][6][7]

In other books and columns for conservative sites such as WorldNetDaily and Human Events, Corsi has discussed conspiracy theories, such as the alleged plans for a North American government; the theory that President Barack Obama is not a United States citizen;^[8] criticism of the United States government for allegedly covering up information about the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001;^[9] and alleged United States support of Iran in its attempts to develop nuclear weapons.^[10][11][12]

In 2017, he became the Washington, D.C., bureau chief for the conspiracy theory website InfoWars, but no longer works for the website.^[13]

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Early life and education

Jerome Corsi was born in East Cleveland, Ohio to Alice, née Hanlon, and Louis E. Corsi, a Democratic Party activist and a leader of the United Transportation Union.^[14] He graduated from St. Ignatius High School in 1964, and graduated from Case Western Reserve University in 1968. He received a PhD in political science from Harvard University in 1972.^[15]

In 1972 Corsi published his doctoral dissertation, Prior Restraint, Prior Punishment, and Political Dissent: A Moral and Legal Evaluation, which discussed the 1968 Democratic National Convention and Vietnam War protests in the context of government tolerance of "internal political activism."^[16]

Career

Corsi began to work in banking and finance in 1981.^[17] In 1995 he helped launch a mutual fund to invest in formerly Communist Poland after the fall of the Soviet Union, which eventually lost $1.2 million, much of it from a group of about 20 Minnesota investors.^[18][19] Some of the investors blamed the organizers, including Corsi, for their investment in the former Communist country. Two investors sued Corsi and his partners, claiming that the organizers had given their personal guarantee backing up the investment, and won judgments against them.^[18] They did not collect from Corsi, because, as one investor claimed, the money "had been moved into his wife's name ... There was nothing to get out of him".^[18] The FBI found no basis for bringing criminal charges.^[18] Until his 2004 book, Corsi was a financial services marketing specialist.^[20]

In January 2005, Corsi told the Boston Herald that he planned to run for John Kerry's Senate seat in Massachusetts in 2008 as a Republican or Independent candidate.^[21] He later said his wife had "vetoed" this plan. Then Corsi stated: "Howard Phillips of the Constitution Party asked me to consider seriously running for president in 2008 and I am doing so."^[22] He then agreed to be nominated at the Constitution Party National Convention,^[23][24] but he dropped out in July 2007.^[25]

In January 2017, Corsi announced that he was leaving his position as a senior staff writer for far right fringe website WorldNetDaily to open and lead the Washington, D.C., bureau for conspiracy theory website InfoWars.^[26] By mid-2018, he was no longer working there.^[13]

Special Counsel investigation

In September 2018, Corsi was subpoenaed to testify in the Special Counsel investigation, reportedly for his contacts with Roger Stone.^[27] Corsi also turned over computer, phone and email records.^[28] The Office of the Special Counsel reportedly has information suggesting Corsi possessed advance knowledge that WikiLeaks had hacked the emails of John Podesta.^[28] Corsi has denied that he had any advance knowledge of the hack, or that he has had any communication with anyone involved in the hack.^[28] Corsi announced on November 12, 2018, that he expected to be indicted for perjury within days.^[29][30] Eleven days later he confirmed he had entered plea negotiations with Mueller prosecutors.^[31]

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Jerome Corsi, former Infowars Washington bureau chief, has been subpoenaed in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible collusion between President Trump’s campaign staff and Russian officials.

Maggie Haberman at The New York Times reports that Corsi has been subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury on Friday, where he is expected to be asked about his discussions with GOP dirty trickster Roger Stone, a longtime confidant of Trump who served as a campaign adviser. Corsi’s lawyer told Haberman that Corsi “fully intends to comply with the subpoena.” From The Times:

Mr. Corsi, who has worked with the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on his Infowars operation, has dealt with Mr. Stone on and off for years. Mr. Corsi was also one of the people whom President Trump, before he was a candidate, contacted for information about former President Barack Obama’s birth certificate in pressing the false claim that Mr. Obama was not born in the United States.

Mr. Corsi’s name came up when federal agents stopped and detained a professor and author, Ted Malloch, at a Boston airport last March. Mr. Malloch told NBC at the time that, among other questions, federal investigators asked him about Mr. Stone, whom he had met a handful of times, about WikiLeaks and about Mr. Corsi, who had helped edit one of his books.

In March, we were first to report that Corsi challenged Mueller to a fight behind the Department of Justice. During an episode of “The Alex Jones Show” hosted by his then-boss, Corsi grew increasingly upset at Mueller,telling Jones that he wanted to tell Mueller, “Let’s go out in the backyard of the Justice Department. You’ve got to have some—let’s duke it out. I mean, you want to behave like a thug? You want to behave like that? Well, this is what you deserve. Let’s duke it out. You’re finished. You’re a hack. The whole investigation is a criminal set-up.”[pix]

Corsi’s current narrative—and the subject of his latest book—supposes that covert forces within the Trump administration are systemically destroying the so-called “deep state” in which, Corsi believes, Mueller is a key figure.

Haberman also reported that Corsi no longer works for Infowars.

Tags: Jerome CorsiRoger Stoneconspiracy theoriesRussia InvestigationInfoWars

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https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/here-are-6-stunning-facts-about-infowars-alt-right-conspiracy-buff-jerome-corsi

Prior to the 2000s, far-right conspiracy theorist and author Jerome Corsi was little known in the publishing world and earned his living in the financial services sector. But in recent years, Corsi (who turned 72 on August 31) has become a prominent figure on the alt-right—and in 2017, he left his position as a staff writer for World Net Daily to become the Washington bureau chief for Alex Jones’ Infowars. World Net Daily is so far to the right that even right-wing journalists for the National Review and the Weekly Standard shy away from it, but it was a good place for Corsi to build his brand and promote way-out conspiracy theories. And at Infowars, conspiracy theories—however outrageous or over the top—are always welcome.

Here are six stunning facts about Corsi’s history.

1. Corsi Was a Leading Pizzagate Proponent in 2016

After becoming an ardent supporter of Trump’s presidential campaign in 2015, Corsi went on to become a leading proponent of Pizzagate—the goofy conspiracy theory that John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign manager, operated a child sex ring underneath Comet Ping Pong, a pizzeria in Washington, DC. The theory went viral in 2016 after Podesta’s e-mail account was hacked and WikiLeaks made his e-mails public; according to the Pizzagate theory, those e-mails contained coded messages proving that Clinton and other high-ranking Democrats were involved in the ring. Of course, the theory has been totally debunked by Washington, DC’s police department, but that didn’t prevent Corsi from promoting it. And Pizzagate became absolute hell for James Alefantis, Comet Ping Pong’s owner, when an alt-right gunman named Edgar Welch stormed the restaurant with an assault rifle (Welch pled guilty to weapons and assault charges).

2. Corsi Was a War Hawk During the Bush Era

Back in the George W. Bush years—before Corsi allied himself with Alex Jones—Corsi was more of a neocon, pounding the war drums with his 2005 book, “Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb,” and painting 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry as a traitor in “Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry” (which Corsi wrote with John O’Neill). Yet Corsi was critical of Bush, accusing him of being a “globalist,” favoring open borders and trying to merge the U.S., Canada and Mexico into a unified North American state—and in 2008, Corsi called for Bush’s impeachment.

3. Corsi Briefly Ran for President in 2008

When wingnuts decide that the Republican Party and Libertarian Party aren’t right-wing enough, one of their options is the far-right Constitution Party—which Corsi is a member of. According to Corsi, theConstitution Party’s Howard Phillips (who died in 2013 and was a founding member of the party) urged him to run for president in the 2008 election. And Corsi agreed to be nominated at the Constitution Party National Convention but dropped out in July 2007 and endorsed anti-gay theocrat Chuck Baldwin as the nominee.

4. Corsi Accused John McCain of Jihadist Connection

During the 2008 GOP presidential primary debates, Sen. John McCain famously declared that he would follow Osama bin Laden to the depths of hell in order to capture the al-Qaeda leader himself and make him pay for the 9/11 terror attacks. But in 2008, Corsi questioned McCain’s anti-jihadist credentials by claiming that a Kosovo group tied to al-Qaeda was supporting his presidential campaign. Corsi claimed, “Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain has enjoyed strong support from a lobbyist group that backs the Kosovo Liberation Army despite allegations the KLA is a Muslim terrorist group with ties to criminal drug networks and al-Qaida.”

5. Corsi Was a Leading Birther During Obama’s Presidency

Corsi devoted two different books to anti-Barack Obama conspiracy theories: first “The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality” in 2008, then “Where’s the Birth Certificate?: The Case That Barack Obama Is Not Eligible to Be President” in 2011. While “The Obama Nation” claimed that Obama was a closest Islamist who wanted to undermine the U.S. military, “Where’s the Birth Certificate?” established Corsi as one of the leading voices of the racist birther movement—which insisted that Obama wasn’t really a U.S. citizen and therefore, wasn’t qualified to be president.

6. Corsi Unsuccessfully Tried to Sue Esquire in 2011

Obama’s citizenship has been well-documented, and his official, government-issued birth certificate clearly states that he was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4, 1961. Bearing that in mind, Esquire ran a satirical article in 2011 shortly after the release of “Where’s the Birth Certificate?” saying that the book had been recalled. It was a joke, but Corsi wasn’t laughing—and Corsi filed a frivolous lawsuit against Esquire, seeking damages of $285 million. But in 2012, Corsi’s lawsuit was thrown out in federal court on the grounds that satire is protected by the First Amendment.

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Some local talk radio shows and fake news websites are pushing a new conspiracy theory from Infowars that the CIA hacked into a Hawaii state government database to forge former President Barack Obama’s birth certificate. One of the radio hosts pushing the conspiracy theory has previously been cited as an analyst on a local ABC affiliate.

On December 12, Jerome Corsi of the conspiracy theory outlet Infowars claimed that investigators for former Maricopa County, AZ, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, headed by his chief investigator Michael Zullo, had found “evidence that the CIA and or other government entities illegally hacked into Hawaii Department of Health records searching for” Obama’s records. (President Donald Trump pardoned Arpaio in August after he was charged with criminal contempt because of his treatment of undocumented immigrants.) Corsi, who has been a chief figure of the birther movement, added that the “evidence” “strongly suggests the CIA played a role in the forgery” of Obama’s birth certificate.

Some local talk radio stations have hyped Infowars’ report. New Orleans talk radio host Jeff Crouere -- a Townhall writer who has been featured as a “political analyst” on ABC’s New Orleans affiliate WGNO -- calledCorsi’s report a “bombshell” on his radio program (which is carried by a station affiliated with Louisiana Public Broadcasting) and said, “I’ve said from the beginning that birth certificate [Obama] released was a fraud.”

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Some stations have invited Corsi and Zullo as guests on different radio shows and allowed them to push the extremely dubious allegation. Corsi hyped his report on Weekend Wake Up with Chuck and Julie on Denver, CO, radio station KNUS, where Corsi said that the “CIA played a major role in, I believe, creating” Obama’s long-form birth certificate that was released in 2011. Corsi also promoted the conspiracy theory on The Peter Boyles Show, which also airs on KNUS. In response to Corsi’s “report,” Boyles said that Obama’s “social security number is fraudulent” (Boyles has previously allowed guests to push birtherism on his program). Zullo spoke about the article on the showYour Turnon Northwest Florida radio station WEBY, where the host called the report a “bombshell” that’s “shaking the Earth” and lauded Infowars.

Additionally, multiple fake news websites have lauded the report, with some of them also calling it a “bombshell” and claiming that it showed the CIA, “possibly with the help of other government agencies, forged Obama’s documentation.” Some of these fake news websites also used their verified Facebook pages to push the conspiracy theory. The Infowars report was also hyped on the pro-Trump subreddit “/r/The_Donald,” a conduit for conspiracy theories.

This is not the first time this year that an Infowars conspiracy theory citing Arpaio has reverberated in the right-wing echo chamber with the help of fake news websites. In March, the outlet, trying to back Trump’s false claimthat Obama illegally wiretapped Trump Tower, asserted that Arpaio had documents showing that Trump and his family had been surveilled by the National Security Agency (NSA) for years. That report subsequently spreadto other far-right outlets and fake news websites, along with The Drudge Report.

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Jerome R. Corsi is best known as the co-author of the book Unfit for Command with John E. O'Neill, which played a key role in the election year attack on the war record of Democratic Presidential hopeful John Kerry by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. In August 2008, he released a book critical of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

A biographical note at W:{orldNetDaily:(style="background-color:#ffff66;"):}:, where Corsi is a staff writer, states that he "received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in political science in 1972" and that he "is anexpert on political violence and**terrorism**".^[1]

Corsi also serves as editor of WorldNetDaily's "Red Alert," described as a "weekly online global financial strategies newsletter.^[2]

Activism

After the November 2004 Presidential election, Corsi emerged as one of the leading advocates for the U.S. government to take a hard line with the Iraniangovernment. A January 2005 article in the Financial Times (UK) described Corsi as a "prominent backer" of the Alliance for Democracy in Iran: "He believes the freeze on nuclear development agreed between Iran and the European Union will collapse by March and that Israel, supported by the US, will then launch military strikes," it stated.

In February 2005, Corsi appeared as "spokesman" for the Iran Freedom Foundation (IFF), a newly established 501(c)(3) non-profit group.

During the 2006 election season, Corsi co-wrote a book with J. Kenneth Blackwell, an African American who was running for Ohio governor. In the fall of 2006, Corsi wrote numerous columns for WorldNetDaily attacking Blackwell's opponent, Ted Strickland. Corsi denied coordination with or compensation from Blackwell's campaign for writing the articles.^[3]

Corsi has been a booster of the Minuteman Project, even co-authoring a book with founder Jim Gilchrist, but Corsi has had an apparent falling out with Gilchrist after Gilchrist endorsed Mike Huckabee for president. Corsi used articles he wrote for WorldNetDaily to prod Gilchrist into retracting his endorsement.^[4]

Corsi has also been an activist against the "North American Union", joining a coalition of fellow conservatives to fight against what they argue is a plan to create a free trade zone across North America--without providing credible evidence of such a conspiracy.

Attacks on Barack Obama

In August 2008, Corsi published The Obama Nation, a book highly critical of Barack Obama. Media Matters for America^[5], PolitiFact.com,^[6] and Obama's campaign^[7] found numerous errors in the book. Corsi responded by claiming that critics "failed to prove a single falsehood contained in pages of the book,"^[8]even though at the same time he issued several "corrections to the next printing" of the book.^[9]

In October 2008, Corsi went to Kenya "at the invitation of Christian missionaries" worried about "therise of Islam" there, further claiming that he was going "to investigate Sen. Barack Obama's ties to the prime minister, Raila Odinga."^[10] While in Kenya, Corsi attempted to hold a press conference in which he planned to announce evidence of purported ties between Obama and Odinga,^[11] but "police shut down" the press conference before it was to begin, and Corsi and his publicist were detained for several hours.^[12] The two were released several hours later and allowed to board their previously scheduled flight out of Kenya.^[13]Corsi blamed Obama for his brief detention, telling one radio host to "call Barack's office and ask him why I'm being detained," adding, "[I]t's pretty dangerous to write a critical book of Barack Obama."^[14] Corsi later wrote numerous article for WorldNetDaily touting the evidence he obtained to support his claims of ties between Obama and Odinga.

Corsi cited a pair of emails purportedly written by Obama setting up an Obama aide as a liaison between Obama and Odinga,^[15]but according to the Politico, the emails "appear not to have been written by a native English speaker, unless 'I will kindly wish...' is a phrase I'm just unfamiliar with. They have the unmistakable flavor of solicitations from dying African princes, who need only your bank account details to make you wealthy beyond measure."^[16] Corsi also presented a document to support the claim that Obama donated "nearly $1 million" to the campaign of "foreign thug" Odinga,^[17] but PolitiFact.com debunked the claim months earlier,^[18]and the document that Corsi presented as evidence of the claim is markedly different from the document PolitiFact used, even though both contain the same information.^[19] Corsi's overall claims that Obama had a close relationship with Odinga have also been debunked.^[20]

Published Works

• The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality, Threshold Editions, August 2008, ISBN 1416598065.
• The Late Great USA: The Coming Merger With Mexico and Canada, WND Books, July 2007, ISBN 0979045142.
• With Jim Gilchrist (and foreword by Congressman Tom Tancredo), Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders , World Ahead Publishing; 1st edition (Hardcover), July 2006, ISBN 0977898415.
• With J.:{ Kenneth Blackwell:(style="background-color:#ffff66;"):}:, Rebuilding America: A Prescription for Creating Strong Families, Building the Wealth of Working People, and Ending Welfare,WND Books, May 2006 (Hardcover) ISBN 1581825013.
• With Craig R. Smith, Black Gold Stranglehold, WND Books, October 2005, ISBN 1581824890.
• Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought The Bomb and American Politicians, WND Books, April 2005. ISBN 1581824580. Amazon.com
• With John E. O'Neill and Jeff Riggenbach, Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry, Regnery Publishing, August 2004. ISBN 0895260174. Amazon.com
• Other books by Jerome R. Corsi listed at Amazon.com.

Articles by Jerome R. Corsi

Contact Information

• Email: jcorsi AT wintersoldier.com
• Email: jcorsi AT worldnetdaily.com

Related SourceWatch Resources

• Coalition to Block the North American Union
• Iran Freedom Foundation
• Minuteman Project
• North American Union
• North American Competitiveness Council
• Swift Boat Veterans for Truth
• U.S. National Guard Troops along the U.S.-Mexico border

References

1. ↑ Jerome Corsi, "Soros supports mullahs: The left embraces yet another enemy," WorldNetDaily, January 14, 2005; accessed August 7, 2008.
2. ↑ Red Alert newsletter, WorldNetDaily.com, accessed August 7, 2008.
3. ↑ Terry Krepel, Single-Minded Smears", ConWebWatch, October 26, 2006.
4. ↑ Terry Krepel, "In Bed -- And Out of Bed -- With Sources", ConWebWatch, January 24, 2008.
5. ↑ "Unfit for Publication: Corsi's *The Obama Nation* filled with falsehoods," Media Matters for America, August 4, 2008.
6. ↑ "Errors abound in anti-Obama book,", PolitiFact.com, August 20, 2008.
7. ↑ "Unfit for Publication: An Investigative Report on the Lies in Jerome Corsi's 'Obama Nation,'" FightTheSmears.com, August 14, 2008.
8. ↑ Jerome Corsi, "Corsi rebuts Obama's 'Unfit for Publication," WorldNetDaily, September 7, 2008.
9. ↑ "Even as Obama Nation author Corsi claimed Obama campaign didn't "prove a single falsehood," he corrected several of them," Media Matters for America, September 8, 2008.
10. ↑ "WND's Corsi in Kenya to probe Obama ties," WorldNetDaily, October 2, 2008.
11. ↑ "Reports to confirm Obama's ties to ally of Muslims," WorldNetDaily, October 7, 2008.
12. ↑ "Kenya holds Corsi 'incommunicado'", WorldNetDaily, October 7, 2008.
13. ↑ "Sendoff to Corsi: 'See you in hell,'" WorldNetDaily, October 8, 2008.
14. ↑ "Calling in to Quinn & Rose from Kenya, Corsi said of his detention: 'Call Barack's office and ask him why I'm being detained,'" Media Matters for America, October 8, 2008.
15. ↑ Jerome Corsi, Proof Obama backed Odinga," WorldNetDaily, October 10, 2008.
16. ↑ Ben Smith, "Breaking: Obama's native language not actually English," Politico, October 10, 2008.
17. ↑ Jerome Corsi, "Obama raised $1 million for foreign thug's election," WorldNetDaily, October 14, 2008.
18. ↑ "'Not a cent' from unrelated Obama," PolitiFact.com, April 18, 2008.
19. ↑ Terry Krepel, "Jerome Corsi's Bogus Journey," ConWebWatch, October 20, 2008.
20. ↑ "Obama did not take sides in Kenya," PolitiFact.com, August 1, 2008.

External links

General

• Jerome Corsi postings Postings and Replies, Free Republic, accessed July 2006. Jerome R. Corsi = jrlc on Free Republic.
• Jerome Corsi news archive, WorldNetDaily.
• Jerome Corsi column archive, WorldNetDaily.

2004

• "MMFA investigates: Who is Jerome Corsi, co-author of Swift Boat Vets attack book?" Media Matters for America, August 6, 2004.
• "Carville: 'In the world of putrid right-wing pond scum, Corsi is one of the biggest bottom-feeders of them all'" and "Corsi apologized 'if anybody was offended' by slurs; vanished from *Hannity & Colmes* lineup," Media Matters for America, August 11, 2004.
• "*Unfit* book materials show Corsi more than just an 'editor'" and "Savage on Corsi's bigotry: 'Is that racist? ... Is that offensive to you? ... I don't see a problem ....'," Media Matters for America, August 12, 2004.
• "Corsi attempted to defend *Unfit for Command* after Kerry called book 'a pack of lies'," Media Matters for America, September 14, 2004.
• "Discredited *Unfit* co-author Corsi now a WorldNetDaily columnist," Media Matters for America, October 1, 2004.
• "Corsi distorted Kerry's Iran plan; suggested Kerry accepted bribes," Media Matters for America, October 22, 2004.

2005

• Guy Dinmore, "Neocons turn their attention to Iran", Financial Times, January 18, 2005.
• "UPI reported that discredited *Unfit for Command* co-author Jerome Corsi is pondering Senate run against Kerry, but left out key facts," Media Matters for America, January 25, 2005.
• "Carpetbagger Corsi wrong about Massachusetts voters," Media Matters for America, January 28, 2005.
• "'The Point' peddled discredited anti-Kerry author Corsi's new book," Media Matters for America, February 9, 2005.

2006

• Terry Krepel, "Swiftly False Revisionism", ConWebWatch, February 15, 2006.
• Chuck Baldwin, "My radio interview with Jerome Corsi," RenewAmerica, June 23, 2006.

2007

• Alex Koppelman, "U.S. to merge with Mexico and Canada?", Salon.com, July 16, 2007.
• Alex Koppelman, "The ballad of Ramos and Compean", Salon.com, September 5, 2007.

2008

• Terry Krepel, "In Bed -- And Out of Bed -- With Sources," ConWebWatch, January 24, 2008.
• "Obama did not take sides in Kenya," PolitiFact.com, August 1, 2008.
• "Unfit for Publication: Corsi's *The Obama Nation* filled with falsehoods," Media Matters for America, August 4, 2008.
• "Confronted by Brewer over falsehood, Corsi responds with two more," Media Matters for America, August 6, 2008.
• Jim Rutenberg and Julie Bosman, "Book Attacking Obama Hopes to Repeat ’04 Anti-Kerry Feat," The New York Times, August 13, 2008.
• Kenneth P. Vogel, "Wild theories of 'Obama Nation' author," Politico, August 13, 2008.
• John K. Wilson, "Jerome Corsi's Lies: Inside The Deceptions Of The Best-Selling Anti-Obama Book," Huffington Post, August 14, 2008.
• "Unfit for Publication: An Investigative Report on the Lies in Jerome Corsi's 'Obama Nation,'" BarackObama.com, August 14, 2008.
• Andrew Romano (August 15, 2008). "Sheridan: Can Obama be 'Swiftboated'?", Newsweek.
• "'The Nation's Deathbed' documentary on SPP ... + *CORSI*?," "ThisCanadian," August 6, 2008.
• "Errors abound in anti-Obama book,", PolitiFact.com, August 20, 2008.
• Brian C. Mooney, "Failed venture follows anti-Obama author," The Boston Globe, August 20, 2008.
• Terry Krepel, "Jerome Corsi's Bogus Journey," ConWebWatch, October 20, 2008.

2009

• Terry Krepel, "Jerome Corsi, Badly Trained Economist," ConWebWatch, March 4, 2009.

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Other notable conspiracy theorists put in an appearance at Freedom 21. Jerome Corsi — a man who has made a career of Catholic and Islam-bashing and is best known for co-authoring the error-ridden Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out that attacked John Kerry's war record — laid out several conspiracies during his keynote speech.

Corsi, who recently made headlines for his appearances on the racist radio show "The Political Cesspool," was also there to hawk his latest (and, once again, error-filled) book, Obama Nation. Corsi warned that the North American Union is imminent and that the Trans-Texas Corridor (TCC), a superhighway linking Mexico, the U.S., and Canada, must be stopped.Corsi described Washington, D.C., as "a day at the circus" and opined that Congress should be "put on a barge and sent out to sea." "It's time to make the U.N. into a parking lot," Corsi added.

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The Nation / By *Max Blumenthal*

Jerome Corsi: How a Racist, Conspiratorial Crank Became a Top GOP Anti-Obama Point Man

Corsi's success represents the apotheosis of a long, strange trip from the furthest shores of the right into the national spotlight.

August 23, 2008  |

These are good times for Jerome Corsi. Already notorious for his factually challenged book-length takedown of 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, Unfit For Command, the 61-year-old Corsi has another hit on his hands. His new book, Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality has made Corsi a hot commodity again on theright-wing radio circuit, the bane of the Obama campaign and catapulted to the top slot on the New York Times bestseller list. With his newfound notoriety, Corsi has brought his pathographic anti-Obama narrative to hundreds of thousands of readers -- and millions on radio and TV -- just as he did with Kerry. Corsi has become the court bard of the conservative movement. "The goal is to defeat Obama," Corsi told the New York Times. "I don't want Obama to be in office."

Corsi's success represents the apotheosis of a long, strange trip from the furthest shores of the right into the national spotlight. During George W. Bush's first term, Corsi was a little-known financial services marketing specialist. In 1995, according to the Boston Globe, he coaxed twenty people into a shadowy investment venture in Poland that ultimately lost them a total of $1.2 million. "It ruined my career in the brokerage business, and it was a sad story for a lot of people," said Bradley Amundson, one of those enlisted into Corsi's bungled scheme. The FBI opened an investigation but never filed any charges.

Corsi had dabbled off-and-on the fringes of conservative backlash politics for nearly three decades. In his spare time, which he appeared to have lots of, Corsi busied himself at his computer, firing off opinions on the far-right websiteFree Republic, marked by their sexual and racial obsessions.

In a comment typical of the dozens he posted under the handle "jrlc," Corsi wrote, "Anybody ask why HELLary couldn't keep BJ Bill satisfied? Not lesbo or anything, is she?" In another, he ranted, "Isn't the Democratic Party the official SODOMIZER PROTECTION ASSOCIATION of AMERICA -- oh, I forgot, it was just an accident that Clintoon's [sic] first act in office was to promote 'gays in the military.' RAGHEADS are Boy-Bumpers as clearly as they are Women-Haters -- it all goes together."

Then he composed Unfit For Command, suddenly vaulting into best-sellerdom. Surrounded by the media buzz of talk radio and Fox News, Corsi no longer plied the seamy troll-zones of the right-wing blogosphere.Overnight, he had become a conservative folk hero. But as Bush's popularity waned during his second term, Corsi's star dimmed. He tried to reignite it by co-authoring a book with "prophecy expert" Michael Evans, Showdown with Nuclear Iran, calling on the United States and Israel to attack Iran "before it's too late," and another, Black Gold Stranglehold, claiming to expose the Big Lie that will "enslave" Americans: "the belief that oil is a fossil fuel and a finite resource." Corsi's conspiracy theories consolidated his cult status, but he did not revive the brightness of his Swiftboating campaign. As another presidential election approached, however, Corsi followed his well-trod path back to renown.

In early 2007, Corsi huddled with anold friend, Howard Phillips, a veteran conservative operative who had attempted to organize the anti-government militia movement into a cohesive political bloc during the 1990s. Corsi emerged from their discussion convinced of his destiny. He would declare his campaign for the presidential nomination of the ultra-right Constitution Party, enthusiastically embrace the party's call for a complete halt on immigration, banning abortion even in cases of rape and incest, and upholding its official platform that the "U.S. Constitution established a Republic under God, rather than a democracy." With this momentous announcement, Corsi hoped to cast himself as the last, best hope to save America from the godless, globalist duocracy conspiring to merge the United States, Mexico and Canada into a "North American Union." (His latest flop, published in 2007, was a screed entitled, The Late Great USA: The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada.)

In July 2007, Corsi spoke before the Texas Constitution Party. At the time, he remained focused on foiling the ambitions of Hillary and Bill Clinton. "I don't want Bill Clinton anywhere near the White House," Corsi proclaimed. "We had enough serial rape going on when he was president." But Corsi didn't want a Republican in the White House either, especially not SenatorJohn McCain. The war-scarred McCain, Corsi wrote in a column for the far-right webzine WorldNetDaily, is a possible jihadist dupe who "has enjoyed strong support from a lobbying group that backs ... a Muslim terrorist group with ties to criminal drug networks and Al Qaeda." Even George W. Bush was now treasonous. "Bush," he told the Texas Constitution Party, "is post-America and post-God," a figure so indebted to foreign interests that he had allowed "communist China" to "run its gunboats up the Mississippi." In Corsi's mind, both parties were fronts for the money-masters, the Trilateralists, the plotters of Bohemian Grove -- the "elitists who want to destroy the nation-state."

"They don't want to offend anybody. They don't want to offend Mexico. They don't want to offend God," he railed, accidentally inverting what he meant to say. "They take God out of my money. I think we ought to offend Mexico! I think we ought to offend the sexual abusers! I think we ought to respect God."

Corsi's audience went wild with applause, cheering almost as loudly as they did when he recounted a self-congratulatory tale of hanging up on a telemarketer because he was from India. Despite the mounting enthusiasm for his candidacy, Corsi unaccountably withdrew from the race just days after his Texas address. He promptly endorsed Chuck Baldwin, a theocratic Baptist pastor who had left the Republican Party in 2000 to protest what he viewed as Bush's extreme liberalism. Bush, according to Baldwin, was "in bed with homosexuals" (or "sodomites" as he likes to call them) and had gone soft on abortion providers, whom Baldwin believed should be marched en masse to the gallows.

"Chuck [Baldwin], I know personally. He's a man of God," Corsi told the Constitution Party's national convention in May. "He believes in the Constitution and he believes in the United States of America."

Baldwin also believes that "moneychangers" of a certain Chosen People are "Destroying America -- and Christians Don't See It." That is the title of a commentary he wrote in February of 2008. In it, he wrote: "The moneychangers of Jesus' day were the equivalent of the international bankers of our day. With the consent and approbation of the Jewish leaders, these bankers set up shop in the Temple. Their purpose was to exchange whatever currency the Jewish worshipper brought with him or her into Jewish currency, which would then be used to purchase whatever sacrifice the worshipper required." For proof, Baldwin cited the investigations of his associate, "Dr. Jerry Corsi," who had bravely "exposed the moneychangers who are the driving force behind the burgeoning North American Union."

Backed by Corsi, Baldwin seized the Constitution Party's nomination this May. Then he unfurled a, calling for "an independent investigative committee to analyze" whether the attacks of 9/11 were an inside government job.

Corsi, for his part, shared Baldwin's skepticism. "The government's explanation of the jet fuel fire is not a sufficient explanation," Corsi in January on the radio show hosted by Alex Jones, a fellow Baldwin supporter who promotes himself as "the grandfather of what has come to be known as the 9/11 Truth Movement."

"With people like you starting to question 9/11 with the science," Jones marveled, "boy that's really gonna ... "

"That's what rattles the cage," said Corsi in a self-satisfied tone.

In late 2007, with Obama in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, Corsi gleaned a new opportunity to "rattle the cage." He punched out a proposal for an anti-Obama attack book, Obama Nation, and floated it to right-wing publishers. Mary Matalin, the longtime Republican consultant and former senior adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, was hunting for titles for her two-year-old publishing imprint, Threshold, a conservative division of Simon and Schuster. When Corsi's proposal landed on her desk, she was thrilled.

Matalin promptly signed Corsi to a lucrative deal, positioning Obama Nation as Threshold's premier release of the summer season. In anticipation of heavy sales, Matalin ordered the printing of 475,000 copies. When the book was released in early August, conservative foundations and think tanks ensured its early success with a massive bulk buy, propelling it to number one on the New York Times bestseller list.

Like Unfit For Command, which wrongly claimed that Kerry had falsified combat reports in order to earn medals in Vietnam, Obama Nation was larded with crackpot smears cobbled together from assorted right-wing blog posts. Corsi asserted, for example, that Obama had "extensive connections to Islam," that he may have snorted cocaine in the Senate, and that he has staffed his campaign with card-carrying communists (including the former youth politics reporter at The Nation, Sam Graham-Felsen, an official Obama blogger and self-described progressive Democrat).

But even as Media Matters for America documented an extensive litany of falsehoods and misrepresentations in Obama Nation, and a nearly unanimous chorus of reviewers panned the book -- "poisonous crap," according to Time columnist Joe Klein -- the Obama campaign could not afford to repeat Kerry's fatal mistake of ignoring Corsi and leaving the debunking to the press. On August 14, the Obama campaign released a forty-one-page "investigative report on the lies in Jerome Corsi's Obama Nation, entitled, Unfit For Publication. While the booklet systematically undermined the credibility of Corsi's writing, it also underlined the pivotal role Corsi played in the Republican attack machine.

Thrown on the defensive by the revelation of Corsi's myriad factual errors, Matalin rushed to her author's defense. Obama Nation, she told the New York Times, "was not designed to be, and does not set out to be a political book. Instead, it is "a piece of scholarship, and a good one at that." Following Matalin's lead, the conservative movement rallied to Corsi's side. Rush Limbaugh hailed Obama Nation as a "pretty damn good" book; Fox News host Sean Hannity hosted Corsi twice on his top-ratedHannity and Colmes, asking him during his second appearance whether Obama was ever a drug dealer. Meanwhile, the National Review's Mark Levin assailed the mediafor "wanting to know about anything [Corsi] has ever said or written and his associations." Even John McCain refused to condemn Corsi's work. When asked by a reporter about Obama Nation, McCain responded simply, "Gotta keep your sense of humor."

Though the conservative movement's most influential media personalities are clamoring for interviews, Corsi still found time to visit the fringe figures that had promoted his conspiratorial tracts during his lean years between campaigns. On August 4, Corsi reunited with Alex Jones, the 9/11 "Truther," to claim that Obama "really" was a Muslim. "We should not have anybody as president who -- both their parents aren't Americans," Jones barked. "Bottom line, that's always been the way it is." Two weeks later, Corsi scheduled a spot on something called "James Edwards' Political Cesspool," a show he had already appeared on in July.

Who is James Edwards? A 28-year-old self-described "white nationalist," he has leveraged sponsorship from neo-Nazi and Holocaust denial groups to become America's most popular white supremacist radio host. On his website, Edwards has boasted of his friendship with neo-Nazi activist David Duke, and written "slavery is the greatest thing that ever happened to" African-Americans.

He also warned "Hollywood promotes white genocide." For Edwards, Corsi's anti-Obama attacks were only a slight detour from the racialist ranting his show usually entertains.

However, when the Southern Poverty Law Center and Media Matters reported on Corsi's planned appearance on Edwards' show, Corsi quietly withdrew, claiming through his publicist that "travel plans have changed." Bigger venues, in any case, await him. Once again, he's a star -- the crank acclaimed by conservatives as the greatest investigative journalist of the day.

Max Blumenthalis a Puffin Foundation writing fellow at the Nation Institute based in Washington, DC. Read his blog at maxblumenthal.blogspot.com

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