Posted on 05/06/2016 10:28:45 AM PDT by OddLane
An hour before the Libertarian Party presidential debate in New York City on Saturday, the cybersecurity guru John McAfee, one of the candidates, was smoking a cigarette outside the venue, a Ukrainian restaurant in the East Village, and explaining how he could win in November. "I would dance circles around Trump," McAfee said. "Trump likes to sling mud. It's impossible to sling mud at me—I sling it at myself first."
That is a gentle way of putting it. Four years ago, McAfee was deported to the United States from Guatemala after escaping from Belize, where authorities declared him a person of interest in the death of his American neighbor. McAfee claims the Belizean government set him up after torturing him and shooting his dog, perhaps with the approval of Hillary Clinton's State Department. In February, the FBI reportedly interviewed his ex-girlfriend about the murder. But he does not think what happened in Belize should disqualify him. "I think it makes me eminently viable—Hillary Clinton is being investigated by the FBI and she's running," he said.
McAfee, who is 70 but has a goatee and frosted tips that give him the profile of an over-the-hill Backstreet Boy, was shadowed by a gaggle of photographers and filmmakers as he loitered on the sidewalk. He told a Spike TV camerawoman that she is "sexy enough to turn a gay man straight." He told the director Billy Corben, who is making a six-part docuseries on McAfee, that his project was a disaster and that he would wind up running a shoe store. At one point, McAfee approached a camera, held his face an inch from the lens, and flicked his tongue.
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what meltdown???
Remind me to avoid Vesalka’s in the future since I don’t want to run into this freak...
Note the source. Not worth your time to consider.
Mother Jones....this dude is drinking some serious “Jim Jones Spiked Kool-Aid” and, smoking serious reefer”....End of story!!!
where do these people come up with these fantastical fantasies?
Gee with two people who should be jailbirds running, it’s starting to remind me of my old state of Illinois.
LOL !!
Mother Jones us particularly pathetic.
MacAfee would take more from Clinton, I would think.
The Libertarian Johnson could get a lift. He actually was a two-term Governor of New Mexico.
I watched the first half of the Libertarian debate, and McAfee was the purest, “old school” Libertarian. However, he is clearly nuts with his bizarre stories. I think he fried his brain with too many weird drugs.
Yeah, I don’t know how much weight I’d give to the drug-free for decades claim.
It wasn’t at Veselka, it was at the Ukrainian EV Restaurant/Ukrainian National Home place. Damned odd place for a presidential debate no matter how you slice it.
Glad he doesn’t live near me-although some of my neighbors are that same type of weird-did too many drugs in their wonder bread years...
It's actually the monthly meeting place for the Manhattan LP, IIRC.
The Left is trying to get the Libertarians to stay home.
I have given the libertarians and Gary Johnson a closer look. He is or was a CEO of a marijuana producer!
Oh hey. He seems like a nice guy, but a little flakey.
Lol, that is why I started promoting GJ to my lefty associates and family. Showing them my shock that he was a CEO of a pot manufacturer.
They are almost 100%, “what is wrong with that?”
The Freebase Party?
LOL.
I don't expect him to be Disraeli. but you would think someone who's been in public life for over 2 decades would be able to get through a 10 minute-long interview without looking completely unprepared.
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