Trump’s nominee for attorney general believes that an agent of Israel was involved in an extortion attempt connected to his high-profile sex-trafficking investigation.
Oh perish the thought that the new Attorney General would look into the Israeli connection in the Jeffrey Epstein saga! Maybe all those elected who have been blackmailed should be forgiven their sins in this case to help reveal the much bigger scandal and rot fueling genocide in the middle east! T
I pity anyone still relying on MSM for a balanced worldview. DropSite is required reading along with The Lever and Unherd. Breaking Points clued me in to the Gaetz blackmail story a few months ago and I've been sharing it since the nomination was announced. I'll be sharing this post, too. Keep up the great work.
“it was made clear to Mr. Novak that this is not acceptable by the Consulate General and he must never be involved in such matters again.” It's amazing the government of Israel gave a stern warning instead of firing Novak, even only under the appearance of participation in extortion of a sitting US lawmaker. How is it that Scott Adams was communicating with Novak on this? Was Novak telling everyone? I guess there are things to look forward to while the country moves towards fascism.
WTF! Scumbags all around. Gaetz, Novak, Alford and the "criminals tied to the IDF in the U.S.”. ??? So far, what I have gleaned from the events surrounding the genocide: Israel is a very sick corrupt hateful sadistic "country". My country and several NATO countries are supporting this population of monsters. To WHAT end?? It looks like it will end badly for all.
Any Israeli who is NOT a monster should get out. Why would a Jew with good values, which I assume some must have, stay there while perfectly decent people are being tortured and exterminated. Of course, those decent Jews have been there through multiple attacks on the original residents of that area: Palestine. None have clean hands or hearts.
Of course. It happened when Shahid Buttar was falsely accused of sexual assault. As someone who has worked on how sexual assault is covered my entire life, since I was abused at 5 and my family was on Oprah over it in the 80s, my aunt was among the first women to be arrested protesting this stuff, Ryan just went and covered a false story. He knew it was false. And he left it up with out correction for months. It is Islamophobic for a few reasons—if it were a white man it would not have been the process but because Muslim men are stereotypical misogynists they jumped to conclusion it was true instead of doing the vetting I have seen done of any other white man that was accused of same thing. But it also helped contribute to Islamophobia in that every male that has ever run for Congress who is Muslim has been falsely smeared a sexual predator. So it keeps them out of running. And it also contributes to a lack of representation that leads to current war we are in now and people like Tlaib getting censured. It is not about one individual but a systemic problem that creates the atmosphere for attacks on Muslim communities.
It is not really tax deductible unless you give a significant amount which I highly doubt your readers are doing. So you should be clear about that. $25 here or there will do nothing for your taxes. If you are giving to the tune of hundreds or thousands that is a different story, but likely no one meets the threshold for it to matter. Plus Ryan Grim is an Islamophobe and appears to support pedophile Matt Gaetz. As a childhood sexual assault survivor who was interviewed by Grim at one point and was source in his stories, I was extremely disappointed in his actions. Not to mention the number of stories I have pitched him on behalf of sexual assault survivors, which I will never do again.
Of course. It happened when Shahid Buttar was falsely accused of sexual assault. As someone who has worked on how sexual assault is covered my entire life, since I was abused at 5 and my family was on Oprah over it in the 80s, my aunt was among the first women to be arrested protesting this stuff, Ryan just went and covered a false story. He knew it was false. And he left it up with out correction for months. It is Islamophobic for a few reasons—if it were a white man it would not have been the process but because Muslim men are stereotypical misogynists they jumped to conclusion it was true instead of doing the vetting I have seen done of any other white man that was accused of same thing. But it also helped contribute to Islamophobia in that every male that has ever run for Congress who is Muslim has been falsely smeared a sexual predator. So it keeps them out of running. And it also contributes to a lack of representation that leads to current war we are in now and people like Tlaib getting censured. It is not about one individual but a systemic problem that creates the atmosphere for attacks on Muslim communities
You were the representative for his election PAC and worked to discredit his accuser. He sued Hearst Co. over its article about the claims, but the suit was dismissed due to it not presenting evidence which clearly established the sexual harassment claims were false.
(I have to admit, her claims seemed to amount more to his being kind a of a jerk to her through some slightly sexualized bullying and she was accused of making similar claims against her husband, so maybe its all a wash, but he sounds like a guy who lacks judgment in his interactions with women he doesn't like.)
No I was not a representative for an election pac. There is a verified lie. I also never worked to discredit anyone. What happened because I was there was a group of people…I saw them…created this story and pushed it. As someone who has been a sexual assault survivor myself I told them it was wrong. I would not go along with their effort to lie. I was a volunteer on Buttar’s camp who watched a group of people completely fabricate the story. As said I spent my entire career actually forming the basis for the me too movement since the 80s. Ryan’s role is that he was the editor of the piece that a Akela wrote. He KNEW that this story was false and it had been out there for a while. Instead of correcting it when written he let it sit there for months wrong. In fact everything in the piece is still wrong right down to where I live. I am a witness on the lawsuit you describe above. It was always a long shot. But you portray it inaccurately. The situation was that the claim was always a lie…it was whether or not Hearst had a responsibility for printing the lies. It is very hard to prove that a news outlet acts with reckless disregard for the truth, so while they clearly printed lies as presented the issue was that they were not responsible because we could not prove they did it with “recklessesness”! But the point is this… I have pitched maybe 1000s of stories on the press before and many related to the metoo movement. I have never seen anyone print something without verifying it to be true first. But that didn’t happen here. Ryan went with it first and then corrected months later. That is wrong. And it wouldn’t happen with a white man.
From casetext of suit: "Approximately ten minutes after the First Article was published online, SBCC representative Patricia Brooks emailed Mr. Garofoli, offering to connect the San Francisco Chronicle with 'some people who can speak about [Mr. Buttar's] character and other claims [Ms. Croydon] has made in the past that are false-including one who alleges that she also made false claims about her husband.'"
"The next morning, on July 22, 2020, Ms. Brooks emailed Mr. Garofoli asserting that 'Ms. Croydon's allegations about Mr. Buttar were false,' and that 'a number of voices had been left out' from the First Article. The email thanked Mr. Garofoli for his coverage and suggested that 'there is a lot more to this story that we think will be illuminating, and we want to make sure Shahid's full thoughts are addressed and his position is heard'."
So you are saying now that the claims were made up from whole cloth and that there was never any unpleasant interaction between Mr. Buttar and Ms. Croydon? If that was the case why did Mr. Buttar wait until 2023 to file his suit? Why didn't he sue her from the get-go when she first published the accusations in an essay?
Yes I am saying they were made up entirely—in fact it was Ryan grim who reported eventually about it being made up. The issue is it took him two months to do so. That interaction never happened at all. The story never changed from me. I was always a volunteer in the campaign who saw this happen. For the sake of the lawsuit I was called a representative but FEC records can verify that I was never paid. I was simply someone who was there and saw it and had experience. I was acting professionally and with my values because I never would smear a sexual assault survivor. Never in my life. Yet, this woman was lying. I watched a group of people fabricate the story. He waited to file the lawsuit because he thought that the paper would correct it before it came to that but they did not. We were hoping people would act ethically, but they did not. And he didn’t sue croydon because she is a professional liar as exposed by many articles out there. Anyone can post anything online. She never filed a police report or anything like that. She was just lying. That is not really something you can sue someone over, unfortunately.
There are a lot things I have built a strong career on.
1. Media literacy and truth and accuracy in the press.
2. Never smearing sexual assault survivors.
3. Standing up against false accusations. Among my other projects are the national registry of exonerations. There are plenty of people sitting in jail for this very thing. It is wrong.
The lawsuit simply said that yes journalists have a right to publish lies because of freedom of speech on an election candidateS That is wrong but it is the law.
These are my strong values. They were all violated here, and it disgusts me.
And since I got a notification that an Aaron Murray commented to me: Thanks for making it clear that you have absolutely no idea what Ryan Grim stands for. 🤡
I can’t find the comment here, but Ryan Grim shouldn’t stand for anything. That is not his job. His job is to report the facts. But considering I have been pitching stories to Ryan Grin about prominent figures and sexual assault in the metoo movement since his days at Huffington Post, I am pretty sure I know him quite well.
Thanks to Ryan for covering the elections in Sri Lanka. I am here now on a birding trip with a local guide who is filling us in on the governmental corruption over the last 30 years. We watched as local villagers made their way out of the hills, 5 or 6 miles, to cast their votes in the parliamentary elections which gave the new president a parliament that will work with him to make the reforms he promised and has already begun. It is thrilling to watch and provides a tiny antidote to the US elections.
I'm so excited to see that Ryan is on Ralph Nader's show this week! I've listened to Ralph for as long as I can recall. I got this great habit from my Mom.
What I would like to know is who are these "criminals tied to the IDF in the U.S.” that Charles Johnson refers to?
They aren't by any chance member of the Bratva, the Russian mafia, members of which infiltrated Israel during the mass immigration of Russian Jews into Israel in the 1970s?
Sometimes we need the perspectives that these legacy Tea Party politicians belong to a social clique harboring suspicions of people they have met in the course of socializing with while in government, hence enemies within equals those they know personally.
Oh perish the thought that the new Attorney General would look into the Israeli connection in the Jeffrey Epstein saga! Maybe all those elected who have been blackmailed should be forgiven their sins in this case to help reveal the much bigger scandal and rot fueling genocide in the middle east! T
I pity anyone still relying on MSM for a balanced worldview. DropSite is required reading along with The Lever and Unherd. Breaking Points clued me in to the Gaetz blackmail story a few months ago and I've been sharing it since the nomination was announced. I'll be sharing this post, too. Keep up the great work.
“it was made clear to Mr. Novak that this is not acceptable by the Consulate General and he must never be involved in such matters again.” It's amazing the government of Israel gave a stern warning instead of firing Novak, even only under the appearance of participation in extortion of a sitting US lawmaker. How is it that Scott Adams was communicating with Novak on this? Was Novak telling everyone? I guess there are things to look forward to while the country moves towards fascism.
I was wondering if Mr.Levinson is truly dead or one of the CIA'S undead
What a tangled web we weave...
WTF! Scumbags all around. Gaetz, Novak, Alford and the "criminals tied to the IDF in the U.S.”. ??? So far, what I have gleaned from the events surrounding the genocide: Israel is a very sick corrupt hateful sadistic "country". My country and several NATO countries are supporting this population of monsters. To WHAT end?? It looks like it will end badly for all.
Any Israeli who is NOT a monster should get out. Why would a Jew with good values, which I assume some must have, stay there while perfectly decent people are being tortured and exterminated. Of course, those decent Jews have been there through multiple attacks on the original residents of that area: Palestine. None have clean hands or hearts.
I could read this ten more times and still be confused, amazed and entertained.
Of course. It happened when Shahid Buttar was falsely accused of sexual assault. As someone who has worked on how sexual assault is covered my entire life, since I was abused at 5 and my family was on Oprah over it in the 80s, my aunt was among the first women to be arrested protesting this stuff, Ryan just went and covered a false story. He knew it was false. And he left it up with out correction for months. It is Islamophobic for a few reasons—if it were a white man it would not have been the process but because Muslim men are stereotypical misogynists they jumped to conclusion it was true instead of doing the vetting I have seen done of any other white man that was accused of same thing. But it also helped contribute to Islamophobia in that every male that has ever run for Congress who is Muslim has been falsely smeared a sexual predator. So it keeps them out of running. And it also contributes to a lack of representation that leads to current war we are in now and people like Tlaib getting censured. It is not about one individual but a systemic problem that creates the atmosphere for attacks on Muslim communities.
It is not really tax deductible unless you give a significant amount which I highly doubt your readers are doing. So you should be clear about that. $25 here or there will do nothing for your taxes. If you are giving to the tune of hundreds or thousands that is a different story, but likely no one meets the threshold for it to matter. Plus Ryan Grim is an Islamophobe and appears to support pedophile Matt Gaetz. As a childhood sexual assault survivor who was interviewed by Grim at one point and was source in his stories, I was extremely disappointed in his actions. Not to mention the number of stories I have pitched him on behalf of sexual assault survivors, which I will never do again.
Can you give examples of Mr. Grim's Islamophobia? I haven't seen any indication of such.
Of course. It happened when Shahid Buttar was falsely accused of sexual assault. As someone who has worked on how sexual assault is covered my entire life, since I was abused at 5 and my family was on Oprah over it in the 80s, my aunt was among the first women to be arrested protesting this stuff, Ryan just went and covered a false story. He knew it was false. And he left it up with out correction for months. It is Islamophobic for a few reasons—if it were a white man it would not have been the process but because Muslim men are stereotypical misogynists they jumped to conclusion it was true instead of doing the vetting I have seen done of any other white man that was accused of same thing. But it also helped contribute to Islamophobia in that every male that has ever run for Congress who is Muslim has been falsely smeared a sexual predator. So it keeps them out of running. And it also contributes to a lack of representation that leads to current war we are in now and people like Tlaib getting censured. It is not about one individual but a systemic problem that creates the atmosphere for attacks on Muslim communities
You were the representative for his election PAC and worked to discredit his accuser. He sued Hearst Co. over its article about the claims, but the suit was dismissed due to it not presenting evidence which clearly established the sexual harassment claims were false.
(I have to admit, her claims seemed to amount more to his being kind a of a jerk to her through some slightly sexualized bullying and she was accused of making similar claims against her husband, so maybe its all a wash, but he sounds like a guy who lacks judgment in his interactions with women he doesn't like.)
https://casetext.com/case/shahid-buttar-for-cong-comm-v-hearst-commcns-1
No I was not a representative for an election pac. There is a verified lie. I also never worked to discredit anyone. What happened because I was there was a group of people…I saw them…created this story and pushed it. As someone who has been a sexual assault survivor myself I told them it was wrong. I would not go along with their effort to lie. I was a volunteer on Buttar’s camp who watched a group of people completely fabricate the story. As said I spent my entire career actually forming the basis for the me too movement since the 80s. Ryan’s role is that he was the editor of the piece that a Akela wrote. He KNEW that this story was false and it had been out there for a while. Instead of correcting it when written he let it sit there for months wrong. In fact everything in the piece is still wrong right down to where I live. I am a witness on the lawsuit you describe above. It was always a long shot. But you portray it inaccurately. The situation was that the claim was always a lie…it was whether or not Hearst had a responsibility for printing the lies. It is very hard to prove that a news outlet acts with reckless disregard for the truth, so while they clearly printed lies as presented the issue was that they were not responsible because we could not prove they did it with “recklessesness”! But the point is this… I have pitched maybe 1000s of stories on the press before and many related to the metoo movement. I have never seen anyone print something without verifying it to be true first. But that didn’t happen here. Ryan went with it first and then corrected months later. That is wrong. And it wouldn’t happen with a white man.
From casetext of suit: "Approximately ten minutes after the First Article was published online, SBCC representative Patricia Brooks emailed Mr. Garofoli, offering to connect the San Francisco Chronicle with 'some people who can speak about [Mr. Buttar's] character and other claims [Ms. Croydon] has made in the past that are false-including one who alleges that she also made false claims about her husband.'"
"The next morning, on July 22, 2020, Ms. Brooks emailed Mr. Garofoli asserting that 'Ms. Croydon's allegations about Mr. Buttar were false,' and that 'a number of voices had been left out' from the First Article. The email thanked Mr. Garofoli for his coverage and suggested that 'there is a lot more to this story that we think will be illuminating, and we want to make sure Shahid's full thoughts are addressed and his position is heard'."
So you are saying now that the claims were made up from whole cloth and that there was never any unpleasant interaction between Mr. Buttar and Ms. Croydon? If that was the case why did Mr. Buttar wait until 2023 to file his suit? Why didn't he sue her from the get-go when she first published the accusations in an essay?
Yes I am saying they were made up entirely—in fact it was Ryan grim who reported eventually about it being made up. The issue is it took him two months to do so. That interaction never happened at all. The story never changed from me. I was always a volunteer in the campaign who saw this happen. For the sake of the lawsuit I was called a representative but FEC records can verify that I was never paid. I was simply someone who was there and saw it and had experience. I was acting professionally and with my values because I never would smear a sexual assault survivor. Never in my life. Yet, this woman was lying. I watched a group of people fabricate the story. He waited to file the lawsuit because he thought that the paper would correct it before it came to that but they did not. We were hoping people would act ethically, but they did not. And he didn’t sue croydon because she is a professional liar as exposed by many articles out there. Anyone can post anything online. She never filed a police report or anything like that. She was just lying. That is not really something you can sue someone over, unfortunately.
There are a lot things I have built a strong career on.
1. Media literacy and truth and accuracy in the press.
2. Never smearing sexual assault survivors.
3. Standing up against false accusations. Among my other projects are the national registry of exonerations. There are plenty of people sitting in jail for this very thing. It is wrong.
The lawsuit simply said that yes journalists have a right to publish lies because of freedom of speech on an election candidateS That is wrong but it is the law.
These are my strong values. They were all violated here, and it disgusts me.
And since I got a notification that an Aaron Murray commented to me: Thanks for making it clear that you have absolutely no idea what Ryan Grim stands for. 🤡
I can’t find the comment here, but Ryan Grim shouldn’t stand for anything. That is not his job. His job is to report the facts. But considering I have been pitching stories to Ryan Grin about prominent figures and sexual assault in the metoo movement since his days at Huffington Post, I am pretty sure I know him quite well.
Thanks to Ryan for covering the elections in Sri Lanka. I am here now on a birding trip with a local guide who is filling us in on the governmental corruption over the last 30 years. We watched as local villagers made their way out of the hills, 5 or 6 miles, to cast their votes in the parliamentary elections which gave the new president a parliament that will work with him to make the reforms he promised and has already begun. It is thrilling to watch and provides a tiny antidote to the US elections.
I am now wiping the slime off.
Howdy everyone,
I'm so excited to see that Ryan is on Ralph Nader's show this week! I've listened to Ralph for as long as I can recall. I got this great habit from my Mom.
https://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/p/cabinet-of-curiosities
I love Drop Site news!
What I would like to know is who are these "criminals tied to the IDF in the U.S.” that Charles Johnson refers to?
They aren't by any chance member of the Bratva, the Russian mafia, members of which infiltrated Israel during the mass immigration of Russian Jews into Israel in the 1970s?
Ask Bibi, I'm sure he can fill you in.
Sometimes we need the perspectives that these legacy Tea Party politicians belong to a social clique harboring suspicions of people they have met in the course of socializing with while in government, hence enemies within equals those they know personally.