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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"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. Shes 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 Posts 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 firms website. Hers was not the firm Fords 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 Trumps 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 presidents private club in Palm Beach, Fla.
marble falls
(56,353 posts)underpants
(182,271 posts)I forgot that I have the subscription.
Crazy. You have to give her some credit for um ...gumption. 😳
marble falls
(56,353 posts)... you've always been helpful to me in all my mistakes.
SWBTATTReg
(21,856 posts)real news and also, to fact check the news that they actually run?
LessAspin
(1,148 posts)Are there no theories .. from sketchy sources .. and parts unknown .. that they won't adopt?
Link to tweet
Hugin
(32,772 posts)Bannon.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)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)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.