A liberal activist desperate to take down President Donald Trump paid thousands of dollars for what turned out to be forged documents, revealing a willingness among Trump’s critics to believe almost anything that might hurt his presidency.
The Israeli flew to Rome in January to meet with an Italian businessman who promised him a set of potentially explosive documents on Trump in exchange for $9,000 in cash, reports Buzzfeed News. The documents appeared to prove ExxonMobil had secretly bribed the president to nominate Rex Tillerson as his secretary of state, and the man eagerly passed them on to Democrat operatives and journalists. But they turned out to be forgeries.
The story is a look inside a growing market for information and is just one example of the lengths Trump’s opponents will go in the hopes of toppling his presidency, and gives a glimpse inside the growing market for potentially damaging information on him. Scam artists have taken note, Buzzfeed reports, and are whipping up elaborate schemes to tempt activists with fake information for a price.
The forged documents regarding the ExxonMobil bribe involved a network of people, including the Italian businessman, who claims to be a knight, an American felon who spends time digging up dirt on Trump, and the Israeli who fell for the scam.
“Such forged documents also feed the hunger of a growing audience on the left that seems willing to believe virtually any claim about Trump’s supposed bad deeds,” Buzzfeed reports.
Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith cautions journalists to watch out in a companion piece: “And those of us covering the story and the stew of real information, fantasy, and — now — forgery around it need to continue to report and think clearly about what we know and what we don’t, and to resist the sugar high that comes with telling people exactly what they want to hear.”
```USE THE DOCUMENTS FROM THE SNOWDEN LEAKS WITH ALL THE FANCY CLASSIFICATION MARKINGS AND AGENCY SYMBOLS AS A TEMPLATE```
Likely they will think they have something big that is so secret it will be too hard to verify and rush to publish it.
Logan Diaz
it like renaissance times when the rich and powerful were on the quest for ancient knowledge
Logan Scott
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William Richardson
bump for operation con the msm
Jonathan Young
out kiked
Hunter Diaz
this. we have to make it look official.
John Parker
>in the 3000's the Holy Grail will be remembered as the one dick pic Trump had saved somewhere, but never found. >fountain of youth gets perverted into child blood after he reveals a massive centuries long pedophilia ring >the Sabbath is only remembered on Nov 8th every year, the birth of the newlord and the first day of dynastic perfection >They will live past the Revelations, but people will call it the Day of the Rope and warn against walking any road that would lead to it happening again
1000 years of prosperity and advancement come from this Presidency guys, our 8 year memeing is nothing compared to that. Think bigger, then think bigly, then think yuge.
Luis Russell
hrmmm, so basically we come up with anohter pee gate but this time sell it for cash. good goy gooooooood
Isaac Cox
>This coming after an article a week ago about how Trump supporters will believe anything
Jaxon Sanchez
bumpen-schtasen
Isaiah Mitchell
interestingly, Trump seems to have been 100% aware of these guys before Sup Forums EVER was.
he mentions them by name seven (7) times in this clip detailing what is happening over in Syria with chuck: youtube.com/watch?v=sx-TgSOTpAc
Eli Scott
FAKE NEWS
SAGE
Justin Miller
wew
Nathan Flores
We need a Betsy Devos story where she bribed her way in with links to the KKK to destroy black children's education.
Ayden Williams
>Mentions the bogs by name 7 times >7 times >7 WEW!! PRAISE KEK!!!!!
Story is Trump actually works for the Chinese and is helping them purchase as much of the US as they can by pushing their currency devaluation efforts as bad, so that now, they will be seemingly pushed to increase its value compared to the dollar allowing them literally buy the entire country. Say Trump owns shares in several factories in China under the name "Mister Miagi," and they implant spy tools in childrens toys so that they can brainwash them into not believing in Global Warming.
Henry Davis
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Jordan Foster
Trump listens. Too many here don't.
Aiden Morales
Whoever can claim victory for Sup Forums wins. Make it look real as you can and poke around for journos willing to take the bait
Wyatt Baker
What? He was trolling because that was what Obama said dumbass, he wasn't involved in an election fucktard he got appointed
Austin Reed
I think that was the joke. Or not. I don't know. Obviously replaced "Obama" with "Sessions"
Oliver Cox
Hi Buzzfeed.
Ryder Smith
5/10 LARP
Luke Hughes
It has to be something semi-believable but easily seen as retarded upon inspection, like the Russian prostitute piss thing.
Josiah Richardson
I have the Trump piss tape
Pay me $6 million or I destroy it
Jaxon Richardson
A+ idea
Ryder King
at the very least they will waste resources verifying documents.
lets besiege them with fake news. Let's do some gas lighting of our own.
Asher Evans
tl;dr photoshop = NEETBUX?
Josiah Rivera
This is it. This is the pic that's going to sink Trump. You betcha.
