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underpants

(182,271 posts)
Sat Jun 19, 2021, 06:07 PM Jun 2021

"Italygate" Washington Post 💥Bizarro💥 story - too many craaaazy elements to reference or tease.

‘Italygate’ election conspiracy theory was pushed by two firms led by woman who also falsely claimed $30 million mansion was hers

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/italygate-michele-edwards-meadows-trump/2021/06/19/2f6314d2-d05f-11eb-8014-2f3926ca24d9_story.html

just posting what I can in 4 paragraphs

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=&w=916
Michele Roosevelt Edwards, then known as Michele Ballarin, is seen in Warrenton, Va., in 2013. She’s a former Republican congressional candidate who has claimed in the past to negotiate with warlords and pirates in war-torn Somalia. (D.A. Peterson for The Washington Post)


Edwards was formerly known as Michele Ballarin but changed her name last year, court records show. In 2013, The Post’s magazine explored how Edwards, once a struggling single mom, had reinvented herself as a business executive and then as a well-connected horse-country socialite who cultivated ties with senior Somali officials.

The North Wales mansion ($30 M) was for sale at the time, and Edwards was a licensed Realtor in the area, according to the firm’s website. Hers was not the firm Ford’s widow had hired to sell the property.


Italygate appears to be partly rooted in a news article published on Dec. 1 by the Italian newspaper La Verità. In the article, Daniele Capezzone, a reporter and TV commentator described as “the Sean Hannity of the Italian press” by some Italygate proponents, wrote that Trump’s team was investigating whether an official in the U.S. Embassy in Rome conspired with an unnamed Italian defense contractor to manipulate the U.S. election.


Zack, 57, has said in interviews with right-wing media outlets that she told Trump about the conspiracy theory on Christmas Eve at Mar-a-Lago, the president’s private club in Palm Beach, Fla.

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"Italygate" Washington Post 💥Bizarro💥 story - too many craaaazy elements to reference or tease. (Original Post) underpants Jun 2021 OP
Non paywall version. Like pants said, bizarre stuff! ... marble falls Jun 2021 #1
Thanks. underpants Jun 2021 #2
She stands in solidarity with Sydney Powell in the Halls of Whacketude! ... marble falls Jun 2021 #5
What is it, that faux news and other outlandish news organizations are so hard up to offer SWBTATTReg Jun 2021 #3
Q(uestion) LessAspin Jun 2021 #4
One of TFG's other recently pardoned Flinging Monkeys was palling around in Italy quite a bit... Hugin Jun 2021 #6
Whacky world. stillcool Jun 2021 #7
She's a realtor. The house is for sale. dawg day Jun 2021 #8

underpants

(182,271 posts)
2. Thanks.
Sat Jun 19, 2021, 06:32 PM
Jun 2021

I forgot that I have the subscription.

Crazy. You have to give her some credit for um ...gumption. 😳

marble falls

(56,353 posts)
5. She stands in solidarity with Sydney Powell in the Halls of Whacketude! ...
Sat Jun 19, 2021, 07:40 PM
Jun 2021

... you've always been helpful to me in all my mistakes.

SWBTATTReg

(21,856 posts)
3. What is it, that faux news and other outlandish news organizations are so hard up to offer
Sat Jun 19, 2021, 07:07 PM
Jun 2021

real news and also, to fact check the news that they actually run?

Hugin

(32,772 posts)
6. One of TFG's other recently pardoned Flinging Monkeys was palling around in Italy quite a bit...
Sat Jun 19, 2021, 07:48 PM
Jun 2021

Bannon.

stillcool

(32,626 posts)
7. Whacky world.
Sat Jun 19, 2021, 08:06 PM
Jun 2021

The idea that a person would think this story could fly is sad. The idea that it got off the ground is the stuff of nightmares. Poisoned chalice indeed.

dawg day

(7,947 posts)
8. She's a realtor. The house is for sale.
Sun Jun 20, 2021, 09:38 AM
Jun 2021

So she got in, had the interview, all under the guise she owned it.

And the interviewer trigger it, and she added more lies.

Wonder if she's going to lose her license.

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