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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 05:06 PM Aug 2017

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

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This Trump appointee says it was hackers, not him, who called Obama's mom a 'w@!re' (Original Post) DonViejo Aug 2017 OP
Yeah, right. Solly Mack Aug 2017 #1
Mmmhmm... Docreed2003 Aug 2017 #2
I bet the dog ate his homework when he was a kid too. nt herding cats Aug 2017 #3
The dog ate my homework. - AGAIN! NecklyTyler Aug 2017 #6
They're always so brave when they're at their computers or with the same filth as themselves; C Moon Aug 2017 #4
Bullshit! Raster Aug 2017 #5
+1 R Merm Aug 2017 #7
What an ass! Initech Aug 2017 #8
This guy is a documented liar: dalton99a Aug 2017 #9
Conservatives lie like it's a bodily function. Initech Aug 2017 #10
Maybe he was referring to Barron's mom. BigmanPigman Aug 2017 #11
If hackers got on his account and spoofed him, it wouldn't just be that one time... haele Aug 2017 #12
"William Bradford said...it was hackers, not him, who called Obama's mom a 'whore'" LudwigPastorius Aug 2017 #13

C Moon

(12,212 posts)
4. They're always so brave when they're at their computers or with the same filth as themselves;
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 05:22 PM
Aug 2017

but when they are confronted in public, they deny everything.
Nazi style.

Initech

(100,062 posts)
10. Conservatives lie like it's a bodily function.
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 06:10 PM
Aug 2017

And when one of them gets caught guess what? They blame their problems on someone else!

haele

(12,646 posts)
12. If hackers got on his account and spoofed him, it wouldn't just be that one time...
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 06:18 PM
Aug 2017

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

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