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John Podesta Is Ready to Talk About Pizzagate
Rolling Stone ^ | December 9, 2018 | Andy Kroll

Posted on 12/10/2018 9:45:31 PM PST by yesthatjallen

WASHINGTON — John Podesta has given it a lot of thought and believes the best way to deal with the trolls is to ignore them. His wife, Mary, however, takes a different approach. When angry people call their home in the middle of the night, she has a conversation with them.

“She sits on the phone and talks to them, which is disconcerting actually to most of the people who are calling just to leave a nasty message on your voicemail,” Podesta says. “When somebody actually engages them and says, ‘Why are you doing this?’ they fold pretty quickly. But she has more patience for that than I do.”

Podesta is easily forgiven for having little time for his tormentors. Since 2016, he has been the victim of a deranged and viral conspiracy theory known as Pizzagate. The theory — which has its roots in the emails stolen from his personal account by Russian hackers and dumped online by WikiLeaks — claimed that Podesta was a pedophile and that he, Hillary Clinton and a Washington, D.C., restaurateur named James Alefantis ran a child sex-trafficking ring from the basement of Alefantis’ pizzeria, Comet Ping Pong.

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Even after the arrest, Pizzagate lived on. The day after Welch stalked into Comet, Michael Flynn, Jr., the son of Trump’s first national security adviser, tweeted: “Until #Pizzagate proven to be false, it’ll remain a story.” An Economist/YouGov poll in late December 2016 found that 46 percent of Trump voters and 17 percent of Clinton voters thought Pizzagate was real. A few months later, a small rally of Pizzagate believers took place outside the White House. Protesters have stood outside Comet carrying blown-up photos of Alefantis’ god-daughter taken from his social media accounts. Strangers online have threatened to torture, rape and kill him.

“I’ve been through a lot of Washington shit in my life,” Alefantis tells Rolling Stone. He grew up in D.C., and dated David Brock, the notorious conservative journalist turned Clinton loyalist, for 10 years. “This is not my first time at the rodeo,” he says. “I had never seen this volume of specific, directed attacks.”

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For four decades John Podesta has worked at the highest levels of American politics: campaign chairman for Hillary Clinton’s historic 2016 presidential run, chief of staff to President Bill Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, counselor to President Obama and adviser to senators and congressmen. But nothing could prepare him for Pizzagate.

Speaking about the conspiracy theory and its impact on his life for the first time, Podesta tells Rolling Stone that he learned about it the old-fashioned way: from the news. As Clinton campaign chair, he had spent the final month of the 2016 race locked in hand-to-hand combat with reporters about the contents of his personal emails, which WikiLeaks was releasing in periodic batches to damage Clinton’s chances. He didn’t have time to reflect on the hack, let alone notice the conspiracy theories bubbling up about him on websites like Reddit and 4Chan.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 201812; alefantis; pizzafake; pizzagate; podesta; thingsrapehoaxerssay
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1 posted on 12/10/2018 9:45:31 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Podesta is basically going on defense and into CYA mode. He’s guilty as hell and he must be very nervous.


2 posted on 12/10/2018 9:53:39 PM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Rolling Stone...great track record of picking winners...

Didn’t they try to railroad the Duke lacrosse guys?

Or was it the UVA scandal?

Let me think...


3 posted on 12/10/2018 9:55:29 PM PST by pacificus
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UVA!

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/business/media/rape-uva-rolling-stone-frat.amp.html


4 posted on 12/10/2018 9:58:15 PM PST by pacificus
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To: yesthatjallen

It happens though. Michigan had Fox island. Nebraska had something. There were probably more


5 posted on 12/10/2018 10:03:31 PM PST by MarMema (don't forget to stock up on dogfood)
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To: yesthatjallen

Spirit cooking. There are photos of him doing that. Fits pizzagate perfectly. The pervert.


6 posted on 12/10/2018 10:06:31 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: yesthatjallen

Say the Russians hacked his emails enough and before long it becomes fact.


7 posted on 12/10/2018 10:10:46 PM PST by Terry Mross
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To: yesthatjallen

Lock him up.


8 posted on 12/10/2018 10:13:03 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: yesthatjallen

I understand why this article doesn’t mention Podesta’s Abramovich email.

Because that’s where the satanic ritual part gets real.


9 posted on 12/10/2018 10:26:44 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: yesthatjallen

He can start by explaining his bothers’ freaky art collection


10 posted on 12/10/2018 10:37:33 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Deranged and viral conspiracy theory.

Not like the Russia Collusion and Donald Trump. Nope. Not a bit.


11 posted on 12/10/2018 11:12:12 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: yesthatjallen

I think I saw this story line in an episode on Perry Mason.......


12 posted on 12/11/2018 12:18:42 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: yesthatjallen

This John Podesta, torturing a kid by trapping him (or her) in a scalding shower at Comet Ping Pong?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJCHnio9LW4

Podesta has yet to explain the cryptic messages in his emails that were leaked by Wikileaks.

He is probably the biological father of Chester Bennington of Linkinpark (etc.), who was suicided last year. There are numerous other connections, such Jeffrey Epstein, Clinton Foundation, Haiti. Bennington was sexually abused by a powerful, politically connected man as a child. Bennington was working with Chris Cornell to expose the pedo ring of the elites. Both were murdered for this.

Those who are not familiar with how SRA works will be unaware of how the Podestas and Clintons may have personalities that are totally convinced of their own innocence and that these things are conspiracies. But the video I linked to above is of John Podesta. His emails and those of others connected to him do use code words for pedophilia and child sex slavery and trafficking. There are clear connections to extreme sexual deviancy and a pizza place in D.C. which is a popular place for kids, politicians, and sexually deviant performers. The Podesta art collection is also highly instructive. And these things are out in the open, just like the typical leftist obsession with killing babies through abortion. God knows what unspeakable horrors are done in secret.


13 posted on 12/11/2018 12:38:24 AM PST by unlearner (A war is coming... UPDATE: War has begun.)
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To: MarMema

It happens though. Michigan had Fox island. Nebraska had something. There were probably more
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Nebraska was the Franklin coverup. Boystown - State legislator held hearings could not get any one to do anything, but a book was published about it. Larry King the person in charge was eventually arrested for financial fraud. This was decades ago and the boys said they were taken to Washington DC.

The Franklin Cover-up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska Aug 16, 2011
by John W. DeCamp

https://www.amazon.com/Franklin-Cover-up-Satanism-Murder-Nebraska/dp/0963215809/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1544517811&sr=1-1&keywords=Franklin+Coverup


14 posted on 12/11/2018 12:48:31 AM PST by greeneyes
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To: yesthatjallen

Interesting timing.


15 posted on 12/11/2018 12:51:13 AM PST by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lordf for everything you have. Don't waiting. Do it today.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Ben Swann does honest reporting on the issue, tells what is not known and what is, as well as why a real investigation maybe should happen. Short less than 6 min. Video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GZFHLAcG8A

CBS News Ben Swann does a “Reality Check” on Pizzagate


16 posted on 12/11/2018 12:54:34 AM PST by greeneyes
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To: greeneyes

Yeah. I tried to read that book. It was just too horrific.


17 posted on 12/11/2018 1:19:46 AM PST by MarMema (don't forget to stock up on dogfood)
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To: DesertRhino

Oh you reminded me! The brother with the pictures/ art. Omg. So horrible.


18 posted on 12/11/2018 1:20:46 AM PST by MarMema (don't forget to stock up on dogfood)
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To: BenLurkin

Thank you!, I just posted about that...should have the entire thread first.


19 posted on 12/11/2018 1:21:38 AM PST by MarMema (don't forget to stock up on dogfood)
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To: reasonisfaith

“I understand why this article doesn’t mention Podesta’s Abramovich email.

Because that’s where the satanic ritual part gets real.”

I was wondering if they’d ignore that part.


20 posted on 12/11/2018 1:31:59 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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