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UCmeNdc

(9,589 posts)
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 01:22 PM Jan 2019

MAGA troll behind plot to smear Mueller kindles new racist 'birther' movement to derail Kamala Harri

MAGA troll behind plot to smear Mueller kindles new racist ‘birther’ movement to derail Kamala Harris

Jacob Wohl, an Internet troll who plotted to smear special counsel Robert Mueller as a sexual predator, has launched a new conspiracy theory falsely suggesting that Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is not an American citizen.

In a tweet on Tuesday, Wohl said that Harris should be disqualified from the presidential race because her parents were not born in the U.S. The attack resembled racist “birther” claims that were made against President Barack Obama by President Donald Trump and others.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/maga-troll-behind-plot-smear-mueller-kindles-new-racist-birther-movement-derail-kamala-harris/

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MAGA troll behind plot to smear Mueller kindles new racist 'birther' movement to derail Kamala Harri (Original Post) UCmeNdc Jan 2019 OP
There is another thread here on this but it is an important story because this russian asset Eliot Rosewater Jan 2019 #1
And who's going to listen to dickwad Wohl, who's lied in the past, and is a flat out joke to all? nt SWBTATTReg Jan 2019 #2
Chris Cuomo listened to it. His tweet.. Kahuna7 Jan 2019 #15
Here we go again Va Lefty Jan 2019 #3
I say bring it alt right trolls....you want to go mainstream?? Let's do this and expose America to UniteFightBack Jan 2019 #4
Where was Whol when Ted Cruz ran for President? ProudMNDemocrat Jan 2019 #5
And the there is John McCain UpInArms Jan 2019 #10
Where her parents were born is irrelevant DavidDvorkin Jan 2019 #6
depends on Americans being stupid - usually a good thing to bet on. rurallib Jan 2019 #9
So true, unfortunately. DavidDvorkin Jan 2019 #18
Unfortunately, he has lots of dry tinder on the far left where some happy to trash her.(nt) ehrnst Jan 2019 #7
Yep - definitely JustAnotherGen Jan 2019 #8
Smears only work if you pay attention to them and grumpyduck Jan 2019 #11
Would you really expect less? akraven Jan 2019 #12
Donald Trump's mother was not born in the US... HipChick Jan 2019 #13
Apparently the dunce cannot read the Constitution. Sneederbunk Jan 2019 #14
Once again the horseshoe left+right unite for "mutual interests" Blue_Tires Jan 2019 #16
case in point: Blue_Tires Jan 2019 #22
Idiot doesn't know Trump's mother was born in Scotland. pnwmom Jan 2019 #17
The Madman retweeted his father David Wohl not two days ago. Tommy_Carcetti Jan 2019 #19
JFC that twerp is back? Blue Owl Jan 2019 #20
Can we please catapult that dipshit into oblivion? Initech Jan 2019 #21

Eliot Rosewater

(31,097 posts)
1. There is another thread here on this but it is an important story because this russian asset
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 01:23 PM
Jan 2019

is not alone and the attack on our candidates will intensify.

I had a dream, by the way, people did NOT bad mouth our candidate last time and none of this happened.

Kahuna7

(2,531 posts)
15. Chris Cuomo listened to it. His tweet..
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 02:21 PM
Jan 2019

Last edited Tue Jan 22, 2019, 04:00 PM - Edit history (1)

on edit: He was getting dragged so severely that first he tried to claim that everybody misinterpreted his tweet. Then he just deleted it all together.



 

UniteFightBack

(8,231 posts)
4. I say bring it alt right trolls....you want to go mainstream?? Let's do this and expose America to
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 01:25 PM
Jan 2019

the opportunists fools that you are.
These are the voices that gain traction is the republicscum party.

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,485 posts)
5. Where was Whol when Ted Cruz ran for President?
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 01:26 PM
Jan 2019

Last edited Tue Jan 22, 2019, 01:58 PM - Edit history (1)

Cruz was born in Canada of an American mother and Cuban exiled father.

The smear against Kamala Harris is going to go nowhere.

UpInArms

(51,253 posts)
10. And the there is John McCain
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 01:41 PM
Jan 2019
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2008/may/12/born-usa/

There's no mention of where this all took place. And that's probably no accident. John Sidney McCain III was born Aug. 29, 1936, in the Panama Canal Zone, where his father, a Navy officer, was stationed.

If McCain is elected president, he'd be the first born outside the 50 states.

But there's more than trivia at play. McCain's birthplace has given rise to one of the more vexing and inconvenient questions of the campaign season: If McCain wasn't physically born in the United States, can he be president?

Ultimately, the issue is rooted in legal opinions (albeit some stronger than others), not facts, and so PolitiFact's customary True-False ratings don't quite fit here. Speculation about how the Supreme Court might rule would be just that. But as the issue has been much discussed and argued, we thought it would be worthwhile to lay out some of the facts behind the main arguments.

Article II of the constitution states: "No person except a natural born citizen ... shall be eligible to the Office of President."

grumpyduck

(6,199 posts)
11. Smears only work if you pay attention to them and
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 01:44 PM
Jan 2019

believe them. Unfortunately, too many people do both.

Honestly, sometimes I think that some people have this... pathological, or something... need to be angry and will find any excuse to do so. An old friend of mine who just happens to be a Republican still sends me stuff about Benghazi. Fourteen or so years later. WTF????

And please don't tell me what to do about him. We've been down this road before.

akraven

(1,975 posts)
12. Would you really expect less?
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 01:52 PM
Jan 2019

But Obama served 2 FULL terms...… unlike the dude occupying OUR White House will.

Sneederbunk

(14,208 posts)
14. Apparently the dunce cannot read the Constitution.
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 02:08 PM
Jan 2019

Also there were 7 presidents with at least one foreign-born parent.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
16. Once again the horseshoe left+right unite for "mutual interests"
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 02:22 PM
Jan 2019

because the usual suspects on the alt-left are smearing Harris just as bad

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,085 posts)
19. The Madman retweeted his father David Wohl not two days ago.
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 03:36 PM
Jan 2019

Just in case you don't think this has the Trump stamp of approval all over it.

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