Posted on 12/12/2017 9:49:58 PM PST by bitt
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said he was the victim of a fake news hit on Tuesday, and has turned over to Capitol Police a document that purports to detail lurid sexual harassment accusations by a former staffer.
Why it matters: This was an apparent effort to dupe reporters and smear a senator — both symptoms of an amped-up news environment where harassment charges are proliferating and reporters have become targets for fraud.
The former staffer told me in a phone interview that she did not author the document, that none of the charges ring true, and that her signature was forged.
She said she had never heard of the document before Axios took it to Schumer's office for comment on Tuesday. Matt House, Schumer's communications director, told me:
"The document is a forged document and every allegation is false. We have turned it over to the Capitol Police and asked them to investigate and pursue criminal charges because it is clear the law has been broken."
House continued: "We believe the individual responsible for forging the document should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law to prevent other malicious actors from doing the same."
The backstory:
(Excerpt) Read more at axios.com ...
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trying to throw the brakes on the #metoo- as the Libs/demonrats are falling faster than conservatives/publicans perhaps
Fake but accurate!
Memo to Schmucky — when you encourage fake news, don’t be surprised when it comes back to bite you in the ass.
My cynicism is so out of control that it wouldn’t surprise me if chucky didn’t originate this little fiasco from start to finish.
However that would be giving him credit for being smart enough to pull it off.
Probably mcconnell and the RINOs perpetrated it and then alerted Schumer with a paper trail leading back to the WH.
Was it a forged Yearbook comment?
What ever happend to every woman deserves to be believed?
The “complainant” is currently comatose, right?
And this came out just AFTER the Alabama election results?
Is this satire or damage control?
What ever happend to every woman deserves to be believed?
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That is easing down the road with ‘one man=one vote’.
Well... if the forgers against Roy Moore get off scott free then Schumer should get the same grief that Moore got. You know, the women have to be believed, even if they’ve been shown to have forged supposed “evidence”.
Let this stupid nation live by the stupid rules they’ve espoused. Any claim that is made - even if it is an obvious lie based on forgery - has to be the undoing of whoever is targeted. It just HAS to. That’s what America has become.
A source close to Schumer said the document is full of errors:
“The document contains an allegation of inappropriate behavior on September 16th 2011 in Washington, but Schumer was in New York City.”
“It contains an allegation of inappropriate behavior by Schumer on August 25th 2011 in Washington, but Schumer was in France.”
“Schumer’s personal urologist can testify to the fact that the Senator does not have the necessary genitalia nor hormones necessary to commit such an act.”
Bingo
This must be what Cernovich was talking about in recent days ... said something like “if it’s true” then it would break because it was about somebody too senior in DNC leadership to escape scrutiny.
(A walk down history lane, aka, Packwood Street)
haha!
ah! I was wracking my brain trying to remember who told me this was coming..
too bad, so sad....
I thought the accusers are always right and must be heard.
Let’s hear the lurid details...
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