Posted on 04/04/2016 12:17:44 AM PDT by iowamark
On several occasions in October, Donald Trump tweeted links to stories at Prntly.com, a blog that didn’t exist during the last election cycle. One story (now offline but copied here) indicated that Trump’s support from blue-collar workers was the highest since Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s.
Prntly popped up again last week as the source of a rumor about the Ted Cruz campaign. The site cut and pasted an old story about Cruz’s campaign manager, Jeff Roe. The headline suggested that perhaps Roe had approved the ad attacking Melania Trump run by an anti-Trump super PAC, but it offered no evidence to that effect.
It was, in other words, a very typical Prntly article: Mostly content from somewhere else with an unabashedly pro-Trump frame overlaid, and then shared by one of the site’s two apparent authors, Connor Balough or Shelby Carella.
The site itself, as it turns out, is a near-perfect reflection of the candidate that it loves. It, too, started out as a business that had nothing to do with politics. It, too, proclaims that it is the best. And it, too, is not afraid to just say anything that it feels like and hope that people flock to it as a result.
In its original iteration, Prntly was a printing business, founded by a guy from Albany named Alex Portelli. Portelli, 27, has run or currently runs a number of small businesses.
A few years ago, Portelli was arrested for selling ecstasy in Upstate New York and sentenced to prison. It was there, he wrote in a blog post a few years ago, that he embraced libertarianism...
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so they basically do what drudge does ?
More for the Trump supporters on the supposed sex scandal and who was behind it: http://mobile.wnd.com/2016/04/did-trump-operative-push-cruz-sex-scandal-tale/#t7z7JkjE50eFGD7b.01
Wow, with this astonishing devotion to the journaiism craft, maybe the WaPo can find out who killed Nicole Simpson, or why Obama sealed his records! Exciting!
The lawyer who is now handling her estate said he had information that would blow the election wide open.
Didn't get the dates right.
This action has Roger Stone's fingerprints all over it.
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