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Jacob Wohl Tried to Create a Fake Counter Protest to His Own Press Conference
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Will Sommer
05.07.19 5:28 PM ET
Joshua Roberts/Reuters
Hapless pro-Trump operative Jacob Wohl appears to have staged a fake protest against himself, only to have it become immediately apparent that he was behind it.
Wohl and his ally, Republican lobbyist Jack Burkman, have been planning to hold a press conference Wednesday at Burkmans Northern Virginia house to push a baseless sexual assault smear against Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg. But on Monday, Burkman tweeted a link to an Eventbrite event page called the Protest Against Homophobic Bigots which he claimed was being used to organize a protest against his press conference with Wohl.
Hundreds of leftist protestors are set to descend on our Wednesday Press conference, Burkman tweeted, Burkman tweeted. We WILL NOT surrender to the mob! Weve called in extra security to guard our safety and that of our partners in the media.
Before Burkmans tweet, no other Twitter account had ever promoted the event page. And it quickly became apparent as to why. Reporter Justin Duckham noticed that the Eventbrite pages organizer used the email address wohlthinktank@gmail.com an email address also used by Wohl.
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underpants
(182,769 posts)Response to babylonsister (Original post)
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2naSalit
(86,536 posts)pretty much tells it right there, the next two words make it exponentially worse!
rampartc
(5,403 posts)milo or ann coulter can rent a mob, call them "antifa," incite them to violence, and blame us for obstructing free speech.
Cartoonist
(7,316 posts)Full of laughing gas.
Generic Brad
(14,274 posts)magicarpet
(14,144 posts)Tarc
(10,476 posts)As much of a toerag as he is, something has always seemed off about him being "caught" so easily in these various shenanigans. Seriously, who could be so daft to make a counter-page/site with an e-mail containing your own name as the source?
It's like a bad Scooby-Do villain.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)He's the Dunning-Kruger effect in full bloom. A guy so stupid, he has no idea how ridiculous he is. He makes Elmer Fudd look like Professor Moriarty.