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Recursion

(56,582 posts) Wed Oct 31, 2018, 07:06 AM Oct 2018

Help me out here (making sense of the Wohl plot)

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The catastrophic stupidity of this has left me with a lot of questions.

1. Was Burkman actually offering $10K for fake stories?

2. Was somebody else?

3. Was Wohl trying to smear Mueller or was this an O'Keefe-style thing to embarrass the media?

4. Who gave that moron a hedge fund to run?

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Help me out here (making sense of the Wohl plot) (Original Post) Recursion Oct 2018 OP

It's probably three or four channels removed from the Trump campaign? kentuck Oct 2018 #1

Did the republican scumbag have kremlin support, too? Achilleaze Oct 2018 #2

I'm also trying to wrap my head around it... Demwolv Oct 2018 #3

I wouldn't be surprised if Stone or someone else was running this smear campaign manor321 Oct 2018 #4

Ya, but as far as a Ratfucking goes, this was amatuer night at the comedy bone. Volaris Oct 2018 #6

My responses blogslut Oct 2018 #5

It could have worked several ways Maeve Oct 2018 #7

Snopes has quite a good summary: Denzil_DC Oct 2018 #8

Thanks. Snopes certainly got this up in record time. Hortensis Oct 2018 #9

Allow me to simplify the story for you. brooklynite Oct 2018 #10

kentuck

(111,110 posts)

1. It's probably three or four channels removed from the Trump campaign?

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Oct 31, 2018, 07:08 AM

Oct 2018

It looks like a final, desperate lunge at trying to kill the Mueller investigation?

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)

2. Did the republican scumbag have kremlin support, too?

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Oct 31, 2018, 07:10 AM

Oct 2018

Or was this solely a republican scumbag operation to further undermine American justice and American democracy?

Demwolv

(88 posts)

3. I'm also trying to wrap my head around it...

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Oct 31, 2018, 07:46 AM

Oct 2018

At first I believed it was Wohl trying to take down Mueller...

But then it seemed as though he was trying to play the media since the "first" woman didn't seem to be real...

THEN a real women came out and said she got the offer e-mail and that was corroborated by multiple sources... This woman has never met Mueller so even if she took up the offer, wouldn't that be easy to prove?

What was this really? I can't wrap my head around the amount of stupidity this took.

manor321

(3,344 posts)

4. I wouldn't be surprised if Stone or someone else was running this smear campaign

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Oct 31, 2018, 07:51 AM

Oct 2018

Volaris

(10,274 posts)

6. Ya, but as far as a Ratfucking goes, this was amatuer night at the comedy bone.

Reply to manor321 (Reply #4)

Wed Oct 31, 2018, 09:14 AM

Oct 2018

Stone is better at this, and by god Karl Rove must be pissed that they didn't learn anything...

This was a C-Grade attempt at an A-Grade ratfucking. The ghost of Lee Atwater is gonna FIND these incompetents lol...happy Halloween, losers!

ON EDIT:
If you're gonna try and take down the moral and legal equalivlant of the incarnation of Elliot Goddamn Ness, you had better not screw around with it...you're only gonna get one shot at it lol...
VOTE, AND HELP MR MUELLER OUT.

Remember remember to vote this November; the Russian Rat-fucking and Plot...
I can tell of no reason, this ratfucking treason should EVER be forgot.

blogslut

(38,015 posts)

5. My responses

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Oct 31, 2018, 07:56 AM

Oct 2018

1. He may have had money to pay but he was probably gonna find a way not to pay.

2. I would not be surprised.

3. Wohl and Burkman were in on this scam together. They probably thought they could take down Mueller and #MeToo and the Media.

4. His father is a lawyer, of whom I know nothing but I bet he's got money and connections.

Maeve

(42,288 posts)

7. It could have worked several ways

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Oct 31, 2018, 09:23 AM

Oct 2018

A-the media could have fallen for a fake story from the non-existant woman and looked dumb.

B-they could have gotten someone(s) to accuse Mueller of sexual harassment and tarnished him.

C-they could have found some actual dirt on Mueller and used that to destroy the investigation.

HOWEVER--they made the Keystone Kops look like pros and tried to have it several different ways at once, thus the whole thing blew up in their faces. Also, they never expected the mess to be turned over to the FBI and now they are so screwed. (Who goes to the FBI? They sure wouldn't, so why would they expect Mueller to do so? Crooks assume everyone else is a crook and can't imagine how honest people think)

Denzil_DC

(7,256 posts)

8. Snopes has quite a good summary:

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Oct 31, 2018, 10:20 AM

Oct 2018

https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/10/30/comically-flawed-attempt-smear-robert-mueller-explained/

One issue it doesn't mention is that the St. Regis Hotel's 19th floor where the assault is alleged to have taken place is apparently a gym, not residential, but you know, details.

But the story's still developing, twists and turns and all - look forward to the Holiday Inn press conference on Thursday, which Burkman claims is still going ahead!

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

9. Thanks. Snopes certainly got this up in record time.

Reply to Denzil_DC (Reply #8)

Wed Oct 31, 2018, 10:32 AM

Oct 2018

They undoubtedly had a lot of research on these characters already on file.

It'll be interesting if that conference takes place in the form claimed -- he's in criminal territory now.

brooklynite

(94,724 posts)

10. Allow me to simplify the story for you.

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Oct 31, 2018, 10:35 AM

Oct 2018

Wohl is an idiot.

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