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MelissaB

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Sun Aug 20, 2017, 12:50 PM Aug 2017

Amateur sleuths hunt for Trump bombshells

A lot of people have dedicated countless hours to shedding light on Trump and bringing him down. This article highlights one that I follow closely. I posted the link to his document months ago. At the time, it was a google document. It got too big and is now back at reddit.

He has "sources", but usually doesn't post info unless he is pretty much 100% sure about it.

There is no "drama" following him like other twitter posters.

In addition, he retweets important articles and posts that I would miss because I don't follow that many people on twitter. Because I follow him, I don't have to.

Shout out to PostimusMaximus on twitter. https://twitter.com/PostimusMaximus

Reddit document here: https://www.reddit.com/r/TrumpInvestigation/wiki/doc#wiki_2.1.1._general

Amateur sleuths hunt for Trump bombshells

From San Francisco to Belfast, self-assigned Bob Muellers work long hours for no pay to unearth buried secrets.


By DARREN SAMUELSOHN

Nearly 3,000 miles from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Washington offices, another investigation into President Donald Trump is underway. This one unfolds in the public libraries and coffee shops of San Francisco, where a self-employed 40-year-old named Geoff Andersen has worked since November for 16 hours a day, seven days a week, burning through nearly $45,000 in personal savings and donations from friends and family in pursuit of hidden truths about Trump’s rise to power.

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The armchair Trump researchers may not appear on television or enjoy front-page bylines. But some generate loyal readership for their work.

One of them goes by the Reddit handle of PostimusMaximus, and declined to give his real name for fear of cyber attacks. Initially focused on trying to vet the accuracy of the controversial dossier on Trump written by a former British intelligence operative, his Reddit page has grown into an extensively detailed timeline of the Trump-Russia saga that reflected countless hours of work. (Sample entry: “Starting in 2014, Trump oddly Tweeted Nine Times to Deleted Russian Twitter Accounts About Running for President.”) It now covers more than 40,000 words under 56 chapter headings. (“There is quite a bit still missing,” he apologizes.)

With fewer than 9,000 subscribers on Reddit and only a few thousand Twitter followers, PostimusMaximus does not command a mass audience. But the followers he does have are devoted ones: “I was starting to worry they’d gotten you,” one reader wrote after a recent gap between updates.

More: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/20/trump-bombshells-robert-mueller-sleuthing-241811



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