This Trump appointee says it was hackers, not him, who called Obama's mom a 'w@!re'
Source: CNN
By Andrew Kaczynski and Paul LeBlanc, CNN
Updated 3:40 PM ET, Tue August 29, 2017
(CNN)President Donald Trump's appointee to a Department of Energy post says inflammatory comments that appeared to have been made by him online were the result of "cyber attacks and Internet crimes" committed against him over the past several years by "imposters in social media."
William C. Bradford, Trump's appointee to head the Energy Department's Office of Indian Energy, made the claim in response to significant evidence uncovered by CNN's KFile that suggests an account on the online commenting service Disqus belongs to him. The account was made private earlier this year but is linked to Bradford through the Google cache. The user commented on articles written by Bradford and made clear references to being the author of the articles. In one comment, the account directed a fellow commenter to contact him at Bradford's email address and phone number.
Many of the comments left by the account mirror what Bradford has said publicly. The user also made multiple references to joining the Trump administration and referenced key details that match up with Bradford's biography.
In the comments section of a September 2016 article on the conservative new site Daily Wire, the Disqus user wrote: "Well, it is a fact: Obama is the son of a fourth-rate p&*n actress and w@!re." The comment is an apparent reference to an unfounded right-wing conspiracy that Obama's mother posed for nude photos and perhaps a reference to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte calling Obama a "son of a whore."
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/29/politics/kfile-bradford-online-commenting-account/index.html
Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)Docreed2003
(16,858 posts)herding cats
(19,559 posts)NecklyTyler
(1,173 posts)C Moon
(12,212 posts)but when they are confronted in public, they deny everything.
Nazi style.
Raster
(20,998 posts)Initech
(100,062 posts)dalton99a
(81,442 posts)Initech
(100,062 posts)And when one of them gets caught guess what? They blame their problems on someone else!
BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)haele
(12,646 posts)If someone wanted to really get him in trouble and hacked his account, there'd be shitty posts like that all over the mainstream and "liberal" sites to spread "lies" about him, not just uploading articles and posting a couple times in a conservative echo chamber...
Just sayin'.
Next excuse, it would be his kid's no-good friends playing at his house that posted that...
Haele