Posted on 10/23/2018 2:42:07 PM PDT by mojito
Undercover FBI agents paid for Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum's hotel room and his ticket to the Broadway musical Hamilton during a 2016 trip to New York City, according to a bombshell trove of records that raise new questions just two weeks before next month's election.
The records include photos, a video and dozens of text messages between Gillum, former lobbyist Adam Corey and an undercover FBI agent, and they appear to refute what the mayor has said that trip and others.
His campaign has maintained – and continued to maintain Tuesday – that Gillum believed the ticket came from his brother, Marcus.
"These records vindicate and add more evidence that at every turn I was paying my own way or was with my family, for all trips, including picking up tickets from my brother, Marcus, who was with a group of his own friends," Gillum said in a statement.
But the messages show that Gillum was told the tickets came from "Mike Miller," who was an FBI agent posing as a developer looking into city corruption.
"Mike Miller and the crew have tickets for us for Hamilton tonight at 8 p.m.," Corey texted Gillum on Aug. 10, 2016.
"Awesome news about Hamilton," Gillum replied, according to the records.
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I noticed Gillum is speaking in jive. His “I’m a grown man” CYA spin on this is obviously code to his black supporters that this is a racial attack on him.
So why isn’t this clown in jail or at least charged with a RICO suit???
Racists are trying to frame poor Gillum by implying with a code that he is Monkeying things up. Im telling ya!!!
Ha. I get your sarcasm. Did you get Gillum’s “I’m a grown man” spin? That was an obvious pander to the black community. At least to me.
Corruption is the middle name of a Demonicrat; and it seems to be the middle name of the FBI as well.
the value exceeds guidelines, regardless of the source.
“This entire story strikes me as being racist. If you look hard enough in the story you can find the letters “M” “O” “N” “K” “E” and “Y.””
And if you do a character check the letter ‘K’ is in the story 33 times!
So, KKK is in the story 11 times!
As my Oriental friend would say: “That’s lastist!”
The FBI agent was not known as an FBI agent, because he was working undercover.
Given what we know about the FBI during that time, that makes sense.
“If this was a personal gift from an FBI employee...”
Undercover fbi agent...
but here in FL on the local news they have not mentioned anything about this, nor his corruption, or scandal.
He lied.
bot unusual for the left, but it stunning is that this man is more to the left and radical than obama, and still there are idiots out there who will vote for him.
Wow. Tallahassee NPR will be all over this tomorrow morning . . . not.
For those in Florida, is this a big deal? He obviously lied but will it make anyone change their vote?? Doubt the RATs care.
Now that is truly amazing. Shows he is short on winning political instincts.
Someone please wake the Desantis campaign up and tell them to run a load of advertisements on this. I know the Scott campaign would be all over this. They just seem so much more responsive. When Nelson ran an attack ad regarding Scott with a navy veteran, Scott had a response ad the next day and blanketed the airwaves. Desantis is no where near this responsive or aggressive unfortunately.
Gillum has top cover from the media and unlimited money. There is only so much DeSantis can do.
To bad the liberal media in FL won’t push this like it was the miscues of an accused Republican
We can deal with DeSantis’ ‘Trump’ hate later.
NO GILLUM. Once they get in it’s hard to get them out.
This won’t register a blip with Florida voters. They’re on a bizarre love thang with Gillum. Perhaps they see him Black Jesus II.
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