They farmed it out to all the ABCNNBCBSNYTWAPO contacts, in the hopes that someone would publish it, like it wasn’t their doing.
They got no takers, even though the ABCNNBCBSNYTWAPO people wanted to, nobody wanted to be ‘first’, just in case this turned into the ‘Dan Rathergate’ of 2016.
They finally decided on Buzzfeed, an internet purveyor of questionable cat videos and misinformation.
If it turned out to be crap, it was safe to blame it on Internet trash and move on.
What they didn’t expect was McCain turning it over to The FBI and making it seem ‘real’. Then they had a problem..................
Wrong Way McCain strikes again. Such a shame he and BO’B were not members of the same party. Their similarities run parallel to the other. Neither ever chooses a winning solution.
AFAIK, it was first reported by Mother Jones on Oct. 31, 2016, but even Mother Jones didn’t share the completely unbelievable stuff!