Trump operative Jerome Corsi smearing random child as Obama's supposed sex slave

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

I guessed as soon as the Allison Mack arrest was news that it was only a matter of time until conservatives started tinfoil hat theories to try to claim it was part of Pizzagate or some such shit.

Leave it to longtime Trump pal and Roseanne favorite Jerome Corsi to craft a bunch of baseless nonsense from the horseshit at 4chan.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

(linked only so you report him)

I never understand why Democrats don't sue the shit out of these guys - public figures or not, the stuff said about them by Corsi crosses the line into libel and then some.

Hopefully the parents of this kid (or kids) will see what the Sandy Hook families are doing to Alex Jones in court for his smears and likewise take Corsi to court.

But, regardless, Corsi is now circulating photos of a random child meeting the president and working them into his sick sexual conspiracy fanfics. I's like to think there's a good chance the law is being broken in his doing so.

If you have a Twitter account, please report this garbage for targeted harassment of a minor.
Maybe we can finally get this defamation king banned from Twitter.

[Me.]

1. Frankly...I Don't Care To See Such Garbage Here

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

4. This is mainstream conservatism today

Corsi has been retweeted and promoted endlessly by Trump and has met with him personally to talk strategy.
This is the message of the Republican Party in 2018.
We can ignore it and let them spread it unabated, or we can call them out, denounce them and hold the scumbag liars accountable.

[Me.]

26. I Don't Care

[grantcart]

19. Agree

[brer cat]

28. +1 nt

[highplainsdem]

30. I find it unpleasant, too. But it's the slimy underbelly of RW politics, pundits & politicians

tap into it regularly -- often with very brief mentions that seem to act like a code to let RWNJs know what they're talking about and tacitly agreeing with -- and people need to be aware that it exists.

At the very least DUers need to be aware of it so they can respond if they see it on any social media where they're active, and so they can discredit it.

A lot of DUers were apparently unaware of the Pizzagate conspiracy before it very nearly became a tragedy in December 2016. Possiblly, if mainstream media as well as more of the rational people (like DUers) on social media had commented on that nonsense earlier, it wouldn't have become so widespread on the right.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/pizzagate-shooter-apologizes-in-handwritten-letter-for-his-mistakes-ahead-of-sentencing/2017/06/13/f35126b6-5086-11e7-be25-3a519335381c_story.html

I think most Democrats tend to underestimate just how crazy RWNJs are. Their craziness needs to be exposed.

[Me.]

31. You Think Duers Aren't Aware That This Sort Of Thing Is Going On?

After the way the Obamas were treated? We know and we don't need to repeat it, give it an airing. And I don't think Duers underestimate muc, if anything, about Comrade Trump just as they didn't about the Bush administration.

[highplainsdem]

33. "This sort of thing" in general, yes. Specific conspiracy theories -- not always. And according to

a poll done by the Economist and YouGov at the end of 2016, and reported by New York mag

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/12/a-surprising-number-of-democrats-think-pizzagate-is-true.html

https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2016/12/27/belief-conspiracies-largely-depends-political-iden

and posted about here at DU then, a surprising number of Democrats seem to find the conspiracy theories credible.

Too many people get too much of their news from whatever their relatives and friends post on social media.

I wouldn't want to see a lot of threads here about these conspiracy theories. But I think we're making a mistake if we try to ignore them completely. It's better to know enough about them, including who's spreading them, to be able to discredit them.

[Me.]

35. So If People Even Some Here

Find it credible how does it help to spread it? You, the OP and I will not arrive at agreement on this.

[Hekate]

37. +1

[politicaljunkie41910]

2. Obama is a lawyer. He knows how to spell "defamation lawsuit".

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. There is so much shit like that, that people don't sue. What if each month

What if each month, they all sued the worst offender at that time, and supported each other's suits and subsidized each other as needed? (GoFundMe, etc.)

Once a month drive an evil insidious idiot into the ground. Do that a few times and they would dry up. Would have to do it every few years to keep the word circulating, but it would work.

Generally people don't sue for defamation for nonsense like this because it is time and money intensive and because it gives the miscreant publicity. But pounding a half dozen worst offenders would reduce it down to mostly amateurs and anonymous cranks.

[rusty quoin]

3. Corsi is one hell of a scum bag.

I remember his Obama Nation stacked up behind the check out in Barnes & Noble.

And it wasn’t lost on me, the play on words similar to abomination.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

6. He was the head swiftboater

and wrote the book for the Swift Boat Liars after Dubya's lawyer set up the group


and his idiotic birther book went to press after Obama got Hawaii to issue a waiver and make his longform public:


This guy is one of the GOP's top ratfuckers and backed by their party 100 percent.

[rusty quoin]

7. Yeah...ratfucker is better word for him. In fact, it is a good name for the whole political party.

They have called us the Democrat Party to emphasize ‘rat’.

[highplainsdem]

5. More insane defamation from Corsi. I believe that's Maggie Nixon, who met President Obama

during his 2010 vacation on Martha's Vineyard, when the Obamas had dinner at her mother's restaurant:

https://vineyardgazette.com/news/2010/08/30/obamas-end-their-summer-vacation

Marine One lifted off at 9:49 a.m. Mr. Obama kept a consistently low profile through most of his vacation, punctuated by frequent outings for golf. He played at the Vineyard Golf Club in Edgartown, Mink Meadows in Vineyard Haven and Farm Neck in Oak Bluffs. The Obamas dined out at the Sweet Life Cafe in Oak Bluffs, State Road in West Tisbury and on Friday night at the Beach Plum Inn in Chilmark. Their Friday night dining companions were close friend and senior advisor Valerie Jarrett, and Chicago friends Alan and Sofia King.

Sarah Nixon said yesterday that the restaurant was given 20 minutes notice of the presidential visit, but the wait and kitchen staff rose to the challenge to serve up a memorable meal. They were rewarded at the end of the night, when the President himself requested group photos. “He was kind enough to take a picture with the people that make us look good every single day,” said Mrs. Nixon.

She declined to say what the President and his wife had eaten for dinner that night. “I served them a glorious Menemsha sunset,” Mrs. Nixon said, who reported that the Obamas had gone outside to take in the view and wander the property.

Inside, the President asked Mrs. Nixon’s 12-year-old daughter for advice on the menu. “Maggie, what do you like?” he had asked. She responded: “I like horseback riding,” which drew laughter from both families.

“He couldn’t have been more gracious,” Mrs. Nixon said of Mr. Obama.

[struggle4progress]

8. Don't play cards with poor Jerome: loose screws keep falling out of his deck

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Don't build a wall with Corsi. He's six bricks short of a full load. . . . nt

[UCmeNdc]

23. Sue this MF。 Make him pay real money for this slander！

[Oneironaut]

9. Huh? I really don't understand what his word salad means.

Satanic pedophilia? What the heck are they talking about? My theory is that the bored teenagers at 4chan just make stuff up to pass the time, hoping that people are dumb enough to believe it.

[highplainsdem]

10. This is more Qanon/Pizzagate nonsense. Unfortunately hurting real people here, and

not just with the defamation of President Obama. The child he's shown with, who was 12 in 2010, is the daughter of Bob Nixon and Sarah Guinan Nixon, two filmmakers and restaurant owners. Sarah's apparently had to make her Instagram and Twitter accounts private since this nonsense got started. Bob's mother was Agnes Nixon, an award-winning writer and producer:

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

I've seen the craziest tweets about this latest conspiracy theory, even some suggesting that Trump is somehow signaling in weird code to Qanon (and vice versa) with Qanon mentioning Maggie Nix and Trump mentioning Maggie Haberman. Yeah. Really.

These people are completely crazy, and dragging as many innocent people into the Pizzagate nonsense as possible.

[exboyfil]

20. The child (now adult)

is not a public figure. I wonder if she would have better luck suing?

[highplainsdem]

27. Yes, I think she should sue. So should her family, and a friend of theirs

I noticed was being dragged into this simply because she'd taken another photo of Maggie that was on Maggie's mother's Instagram page. The conspiracy nuts googled the friend, who's a fashion designer and photographer and artist, and because some of her photos showed kids bathing and swimming who weren't fully dressed, those nuts started tweeting about reporting her to ICE for child exploitation. They'd also found the name of another friend who'd once been photographed with Hillary Clinton, which to the nuts is proof that this is someone else in the Pizzagate conspiracy. The craziness is stunning.

It's important to find out who's behind the Qanon posts. This is particularly malicious defamation, obviously done for political purposes, and with the involvement of Corsi and Alex Jones, it's possible Trump or GOP allies are in some way behind it. Just like the Pizzagate nonsense this is spinning off from, this is potentially tragic, with innocent people possibly being physically harmed by the crazies this conspiracy-mongering has been deliberately inciting.

[highplainsdem]

11. Btw, this is a 2013 article on the lovely family these conspiracy nuts are

sliming and harassing:

https://vineyardgazette.com/multimedia/national-geographic-shines-spotlight-wounded-soldiers-saltwater-therapy

[Roland99]

14. Be sure to report multiple tweets of his

[highplainsdem]

15. Report his tweets and the tweets of other conspiracy nuts defaming people this way

[dawg day]

16. Libel, slander--

File the lawsuits, people!

Lawyers, volunteer to work pro bono!

Trump is a walking lawsuit. Push him. Watch Avenatti and Tim O'Brien- they know that Trump is terrified of discovery.

Don't be nice. If he insulted you or lied about you, sue him. Harass him. You're doing god's work.

[SergeStorms]

17. Well, since the first photo of Obama with the girl......

is obviously older than the second photo - with a younger girl - the girl in question must be getting younger as time goes by.

Of course the rotten bastards spreading this ludicrous lie wouldn't notice that, nor would any of their brain-dead followers.

They're just brimming over with hate and racism for the Obamas, so little things like facts, logic, and the laws of Physics mean absolutely nothing to them.

Vicious, evil pricks!

[trueblue2007]

21. REPORT THR TWEET !!!!!!

[UCmeNdc]

22. Obama should sue this guy。 They should not let these allegations stand。

No matter how small and incredible they sound。 Make false accusers pay for making false accusations。

[malaise]

24. Yep they must all be made penniless

Meanwhile the sex scandals are linked to ReTHUGs

[Vinca]

25. People must start taking these crazies to court . . . enough is enough.

There has to be a limit to the mindless abuse some public figures like Obama are subjected to. It can't be okay to call someone a child molester for profit. Sue, sue, sue, sue, sue. The only thing they love is money, so take it.

[UTUSN]

29. Birds of a feather: CORSI and (Art BELL never-be: ) George NOORI are BFF

[mackdaddy]

32. Melinia filled and won at least two defamation suits.

I would think that she would be a public figure with Trumps decades long publicity tour, and then her being on the campaign trail with him.

She won two defamation lawsuits, one against the Daily Mail, and one against a "blogger" Webster Tarpley who both said she was a high end escort as well as being a model before the Donald.
https://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2017/02/melania-trump-settles-libel-suit-against-maryland-blogger-234730

So her lawyers sued and won on these published rumors which are a lot more benign than the total over the top trash and filth still being put out about Obama, Clinton ant their families on a daily basis.

I clicked on the tweet referenced in the OP, and though I had dropped through the rat hole into some bizzaro parallel universe of morons who believe all of this NewsMax shit.

If these people are not stopped, then these lies fester and are built on by larger and larger numbers of crazies. John Kerry should have sued this jerk into bankruptcy 14 years ago over the swiftboat book. He did not and Corsi is still spewing these knowingly deliberate lies and is a darling of the alt-right.

[justgamma]

36. Who's the pedophile?

Notice how his fingers are inside her shirt.