XPost: uk.politics.misc, uk.legal, alt.politics.uk   
   From: burfordTjustice@tues.uk   
      
   On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 07:25:28 -0400   
   burfordTjustice  wrote:   
      
   > How many have trader/cindy/bob bought?.....LOL   
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   > Liberals Are So Desperate To Take Down Trump They’re Paying Thousands   
   > For Fake Docs   
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   > 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.   
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   > 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. (RELATED: Former   
   > CIA Director Says No Evidence Of Trump-Kremlin Collusion)   
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   > 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.   
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   > 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.   
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   > “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.   
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   > 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.”   
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