The top post on r/The_Donald, the largest pro-Trump community on the internet, links to a screenshot of a 4chan post that claims “/pol/acks (/pol/ users) mailed fanfiction to anti-trump pundit rick wilson about trump making people piss on a bed Obama slept in” and that “the cia has concluded that the russians plan to blackmail Trump with this story we made up.”
Reacting to published reports on Tuesday night, Trump tweeted in all-caps: “FAKE NEWS-A TOTAL POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!” No one has been able to confirm the veracity of the information contained within the documents. Then last week, the heads of America’s intelligence agencies were said to have provided a summary of the unverified reports to both President Obama and President-elect Trump. The New York Times reported Tuesday night that details of the reports were swirling in the fall of 2016. The intelligence-community documents had reportedly been shopped to several news outlets in the months leading up to the election, and were alluded to in a Mother Jones article the day before the 4chan post. It’s going to be something that weighs on him,” he added.įor what it’s worth, Wilson has been the object of ire and ridicule on 4chan before, particularly after an MSNBC appearance in which he referred to some Trump supporters as “childless single men who masturbate to anime.” So it is conceivable 4chan’s story was invented to seek further retribution. “He thought he could bullshit his way through it. “Trump always knew it was out there,” Wilson said. Reached by phone earlier in the evening, Wilson told The Daily Beast that the Russian allegations were “making the rounds before anyone talked about it publicly.” He said that they were being discussed as early as a year and a half ago. “The information was out there looooong before the 4chan posts,” he replied to another user. Wilson dismissed all of r/The_Donald and 4chan’s claims in a tweet Tuesday night. The report made public Tuesday, which was reported to have been shared privately with both Trump and President Obama, was not a well-kept secret in media and political circles in the run-up to the election, making it possible to leak to 4chan, where users post anonymously. Wilson himself had been publicly pronouncing that a bombshell involving Trump was set for imminent release a month before the election, even going so far as to say that it could end the race. Wilson’s access to a shocking Donald Trump story had been flaunted by himself and others many weeks before the 4chan post.
It also doesn’t explain how this would have gotten to intelligence agencies. There are no details in the post, which is archived here, about what was allegedly told to Wilson-simply that the user purportedly gave him fake information.
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