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Friday, 1 February 2019
The falling-out of Roger Stone and Jerome Corsi
Roger Stone and Jerome Corsi fall out in the context of the Deep State Mueller witchhunt
Yesterday I reported on the following:
It has been so long since I covered the InfoWars circus that I had to do a bit of research on what is happening.
The first thing I noticed was the absense of any coverage by infowars.com and any mention of their Washington DC correspondent, Jerome Corsi who is now being described as an "ocasional contributor"
The Mueller Investigation seems to have all the morbid fascination of the Stalinist show trials of the 1930's.
Imagine. They turned out (CNN in tow) to arrest Roger Stone in the early hours with fully- armed SWAT team, machine guns pointed at Stone's chest and made his 72-year old wife stand out in her nightgown barefoot.
Unless you are a card-carrying liberal fascist it would be hard to see the injustice of this.
Yesterday I reported on the following:
It has been so long since I covered the InfoWars circus that I had to do a bit of research on what is happening.
The first thing I noticed was the absense of any coverage by infowars.com and any mention of their Washington DC correspondent, Jerome Corsi who is now being described as an "ocasional contributor"
The Mueller Investigation seems to have all the morbid fascination of the Stalinist show trials of the 1930's.
Imagine. They turned out (CNN in tow) to arrest Roger Stone in the early hours with fully- armed SWAT team, machine guns pointed at Stone's chest and made his 72-year old wife stand out in her nightgown barefoot.
Unless you are a card-carrying liberal fascist it would be hard to see the injustice of this.
Friday the Mueller Special Counsel sent 20-29 armed FBI operatives in six vehicles and a CNN camera crew to film the arrest of Trump associate Roger Stone at his home in a predawn raid.
Roger Stone was arrested barefoot and in his shorts outside his apartment.
On Monday Roger Stone told Judge Napolitano in a FOX Nation interview that his 72-year-old wife was also forced to stand outside barefoot and in her nightgown.
For some strange reason this was not aired on CNN who had a camera crew at Stone’s home during the arrest.
Here Roger Stone talks about his experience.
In an apparent bid to protect Roger Stone, Infowars has been waging a war on former employee Jerome Corsi
18 January, 2019
Alex Jones’ Infowars outlet is waging a public relations campaign against its own former Washington, D.C., bureau chief Jerome Corsi, who appears to be increasingly entangled in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
After reports surfaced on September 5 that Corsi had been subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury convened by Mueller, Infowars used its website and social media account to signal how Corsi should testify. The since-suspended Infowars Twitter account tweeted on September 5, “Want to know what former InfoWars DC bureau Cheif (sic) Jerry Corsi will tell Mueller’s grand jury?” The tweet linked a 2017 Infowars article authored by Corsi that attempted to defend Donald Trump confidant and Infowars host Roger Stone -- who is also embroiled in the Mueller investigation -- against accusations that Stone was involved in the release of emails that Russian intelligence officers stole from Clinton campaign chair John Podesta. The implicit suggestion of the tweet was that Corsi, a former Infowars employee, should give testimony absolving Stone, a current Infowars employee, of any wrongdoing.
The Infowars tweet presaging Corsi’s testimony echoed a tactic employed by President Donald Trump during Mueller’s investigation. On December 3, Trump tweeted: “‘I will never testify against Trump.’ This statement was recently made by Roger Stone, essentially stating that he will not be forced by a rogue and out of control prosecutor to make up lies and stories about ‘President Trump.’ Nice to know that some people still have ‘guts!’”
Trump’s public coercion of Stone raised questions about whether the tweet constituted criminal witness tampering.
Later, as Corsi’s legal woes increased -- beginning in November when Corsi said he expected to be indicted -- Infowars turned on him and labeled him a traitor, with Stone driving the majority of attacks.
In evaluating the conflict between Infowars and Corsi, it’s hard to know whose claims about the hacked emails to believe -- if any -- because the major players are all inveterate liars. But it's clear that after trying to play nice with Corsi, Infowars has taken out its knives.
How Corsi and Stone got tangled in Mueller's investigation
Corsi and Stone are both reportedly under investigation by Mueller’s team for the same reason. On October 7, 2016, WikiLeaks released emails stolen from Podesta just hours after news broke of a 2005 recording in which Trump bragged about sexually assaulting women. According to U.S. intelligence agencies, the emails were hacked by individuals working on behalf of the Kremlin. Part of Mueller’s investigation is to determine if Trump associates colluded with Russia, and Corsi and Stone’s contacts with WikiLeaks in 2016 have brought them both under scrutiny. Stone, who testified about WikiLeaks before a closed session of the House Intelligence Committee in September 2017, has denied having knowledge of the hacked emails before they were released, but he has also offered an ever-changing story in public remarks about what happened in 2016. Corsi is under investigation because Mueller reportedly has emails suggesting that he served as an intermediary between Stone and Wikileaks.
Background: Jerome Corsi and Infowars
Corsi, a conspiracy theorist best known for driving the “birther” smear about President Barack Obama that Trump later championed, joined Infowars as the outlet’s Washington, D.C., bureau chief on January 30, 2017. Corsi had spent years working at conspiracy website WND, and he was friendly with Infowars prior to joining the outlet. (For example, a July 2015 Infowars article references an appearance Corsi made on The Alex Jones Show in support of then-candidate Trump.)
Corsi’s role with Infowars helped the fringe outlet gain additional access within the Trump administration. In May 2017, Infowars announced that Corsi had been granted temporary credentials to attend press briefings at the White House, and controversy quickly erupted because of the outlet’s history of pushing conspiracy theories about the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting and numerous other tragedies. Sure enough, on May 22, 2017, Corsi broadcast live from an empty James S. Brady Press Briefing Room and discussed his hopes of obtaining a permanent pass. Infowars founder Alex Jones, clearly pleased with the imbroglio, told his listeners that the press pass wasn’t that important because “most of the meetings don’t happen at briefings, they happen at dinners, like he was at one with the vice president a few nights ago,” adding, “Oop, maybe I’m not supposed to say that.”
In March 2018, when Corsi still worked at Infowars, he threw a major on-air tantrum about Mueller. Corsi was upset about reports that the FBI had recently detained and questioned Ted Malloch at the direction of Mueller’s team. Malloch, an informal Trump campaign adviser and frequent Infowars guest, was reportedly questioned about Stone and about WikiLeaks’ release of the hacked Podesta emails. (When Malloch was detained, Infowars called him an “Infowars Correspondent” in an article.)
Corsi repeatedly tweeted about the detention on March 28 and 29, writing that he was going to “POUND” Mueller, claiming, “MUELLER in PANIC MODE grabs Ted Malloc (sic),” and writing that he was joining an “EMERGENCY BROADCAST” on Infowars to talk about the detention. In an appearance on the March 29 broadcast of The Alex Jones Show, Corsi challenged Mueller to a fistfight, saying, “I'm fed up with this. I want to say to Mueller, let's go out in the backyard of the Justice Department. You got to have some -- let's duke it out. I mean, you want to behave like a thug? … Well this is what you deserve.”
Perhaps it was Corsi who was in “PANIC MODE.” In November, it was revealed that Mueller is in possession of emails that suggest Corsi and Stone knew that WikiLeaks had Podesta’s stolen emails before they were released. Stone emailed Corsi in 2016 telling him to “get to” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, and Corsi forwarded the message to Malloch before later reporting back to Stone to share what he said Assange’s future plans were.
A January 17 Infowars article claimed that Corsi was dismissed by the outlet in June 2018 “because of his failure to adequately establish a Washington bureau, his failure to maintain White House press credentials, and his generally poor work performance.” The article further claimed that “The Washington Post is set to publish a false story claiming that Jerome Corsi was hired by Infowars at the behest of Roger Stone as part of a ‘hush money’ operation and that this is a line of inquiry for the Mueller investigation into Russian collusion.”
Did Infowars attempt to influence Corsi’s testimony before Mueller’s grand jury?
Infowars’ response to the September 5 report that Corsi had been compelled to testify could easily be interpreted as an attempt to influence Corsi’s dealings with Mueller’s team. The since-suspended Infowars Twitter account tweeted on September 5:
The tweet linked to an Infowars.com article authored by Corsi and published in March 2017, which denied that Stone had anything to do with WikiLeaks’ release of hacked emails.
Then on September 12, Infowars published a video with the headline “What Will Jerome Corsi Tell Mueller’s Grand Jury?” that teased Stone’s appearance with “Alex Jones live via Skype to discuss former Infowars Bureau Chief Dr. Jerome Corsi’s upcoming testimony before Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s grand jury.” In the video, both Jones and Stone claimed that they had not spoken to Corsi since Mueller subpoenaed him. Stone went on to say that if Corsi testified “truthfully,” it would be “entirely exculpatory” for him “because you see it was Dr. Corsi who educated me to the fact that Tony Podesta along with his brother John were deeply involved in Ukraine.” Stone’s reference to Podesta and Ukraine is an attempt to argue that his infamous August 2016 tweet that “it will soon the Podesta’s time in the barrel” was not a reference to having foreknowledge of the hacked emails, but instead referred to a different matter. As with the September 5 Infowars tweet, the article and video appear to pressure Corsi to testify in a certain way about Stone.
Infowars turns on Corsi
As Corsi’s legal troubles worsened over the following months -- on November 26, Corsi said he would reject a plea deal from Mueller, and in January, it was reported that several Corsi associates, including his stepson, had also been subpoenaed -- Infowars turned on its former Washington, D.C., bureau chief. A search of Infowars.com shows headlines about Corsi began to take on a more negative tone in November (i.e., “Explosive! Roger Stone Responds To Corsi’s Flip-Flop Concerning Working With Assange”).
In January, Infowars has turned up the heat even more. On January 2, it published an article with the headline “Roger Stone Believes Jerome Corsi Works for Mueller,” and on January 17, it posted an article titled “Roger Stone Explains His Beef With Jerome Corsi and Larry Klayman.” The outlet also promoted a video where “Roger Stone calls out Jerome Corsi for lying about fabricating a cover story together to hide foreknowledge of Wikileaks publishing of the Podesta emails.”
Here’s a list of all the Infowars headlines and subheads mentioning Corsi since September:
SEPTEMBER 2018
[9/5/18]
[9/12/18]
NOVEMBER 2018
[11/26/18]
[11/29/18]
[11/30/18]
JANUARY 2019
[1/2/19]
[1/17/19]
Infowars broadcasts have followed a similar pattern; the January 2 broadcast of The Alex Jones Show was advertised with the tagline: “Joining today’s broadcast is Roger Stone breaking down what he calls the ‘treachery’ of Dr. Jerome Corsi.”
Jones set up Stone’s appearance by making a number of very personal attacks on his former employee Corsi. He began by claiming that “I don’t go after Corsi with any pleasure” before saying that he fired Corsi after encountering him at a Washington, D.C., restaurant “drunk off his ass.” Jones also said that Corsi started “talking massive crap about me, Roger, everybody” at the restaurant, that Corsi is a “lunatic,” that he is “like fruit, his expiration date has hit,” and that he has no respect for Corsi.
For his part, Stone said that Corsi “was perfectly willing to bear false witness against me on multiple points that are complete fabrications.” Jones ended the segment with a rant, screaming, “I will not sit there and watch some piece of crap Russian agent like Mueller accuse [Stone] and me of being goddamn -- I said I wouldn’t do it, lord, I apologize -- accuse me of something I haven’t done. I’m sick of it.”
Update (1/22/19): Corsi sued The Washington Post on January 21 and alleged in a civil complaint that he had remained on the Infowars payroll until January 18, earning $15,000 a month. He claims that the payments were terminated after a Washington Post reporter made inquiries about them at Infowars.
An alt-Right response
An alt-Right response
The real reason Jerome Corsi just threw Roger Stone under the bus
Roger Stone gives his version - he's pretty angry!
Roger Stone Explains His Beef With Jerome Corsi and Larry Klayman
Right now, it seems the only winner is the Deep State. Have they got Trump in their sites?
Expressed in a melodramatic way...
Sunday, 9 September 2018
Apple bans Alex Jones
Apple Permanently Bans Alex Jones From Entire Platform
8
September, 2018
Apple
permanently banned Alex Jones' Infowars app
from its App Store late Friday, depriving the conservative host one
of his last remaining conduits to reach a mainstream audience.
The New York Times reports
that an Apple spokeswoman said the app was removed under company
policies that prohibit apps which contain content that is "offensive,
insensitive, upsetting, intended to disgust or in exceptionally poor
taste," however she did not note what specific content resulted
in the app's removal.
Jones
and his empire have also been banned from YouTube, Facebook, Google
Podcast, Spotify, iHeartRadio, MailChimp, Disqus, Linkedin, Flickr,
Pinterest and several others in what silicon valley swears wasn't a
coordinated "unpersoning" of Jones.
"Because
I play devil's advocate, because I play both sides, they've taken me
out of context, they
are using me as a test case to
try to bring an EU style web censorship," Jones said several
weeks ago. "They've got mainline Democratic senators saying they
ought to restrict Fox News, Tucker Carlson, Matt Drudge, the
President himself. They
are misrepresenting what I've said and done and are using that to set
a precedent for internet wide de-platforming, censorship beyond what
Russia does, what China does, ahead of the midterms (election).
The whole thing is fake."
Apple's app
removal comes just over a month after the company removed his
from the iTunes service on Aug. 5, while leaving his app in the
App Store.
Apple
users who have already downloaded the Infowars app will not be
affected. Google, meanwhile, has allowed the Infowars app to
remain available to Android users, which runs around 80% of the
world's smartphones.
On
Thursday, one day after Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey appeared on Capitol
Hill to tell lawmakers how his company doesn't discriminate
against conservatives, the company permanently
banned Jones from
the platform for insults hurled at CNN's Oliver Darcy on Wednesday.
Twitter
told the Daily Beast that
the final straw was when Jones said of Darcy and CNN:
"Look at this right here. Goes around policing and calling for censorship, and then claims that Trump's wrong - there's no censorship of conservatives. You are incredibly shameful man. You're just - look at you. You are literally an anti-American, anti free speech coward. You're going to go down in the history books as the criminal news network.
This is one of the main people right here who thinks we have no memory. Who sits there and lobbies. Sits there and lobbies people to take other news off... when CNN is the fakest WMD gulf Arab state dictatorship-funded... unbelievable." -Alex Jones
"Those
are the eyes of a rat," Jones added.
Oddly,
Darcy tweeted an article about Jones's banning within 60 seconds of
Twitter's announcement. A collusion of
sorts? Someone has thin skin.
Not
only was Jones booted from Twitter - the company said they will
monitor any attempts to circumvent the ban.
[T]his time, Twitter went a step further , saying it will continue to monitor reports about other accounts potentially associated with Jones or Infowars and will "take action" if it finds any attempts to circumvent the ban.
Jones had about 900,000 followers on Twitter. Infowars had about 430,000.
In a voicemail left with The Associated Press, Jones expressed disbelief that the incident with Darcy could have led to his ban. "He says horrible lies about me and edits things I've said," Jones said. "He's the one that's been abusing me." -ABC
Remember
when the ACLU would have raised hell over something like this?
Paul
Joseph Watson Goes Nuclear On Twitter And MSM After Alex Jones Ban
8 September, 2018
UK journalist
Paul Joseph Watson and longtime Infowars editor-at-large has
absolutely unleashed on Silicon Valley social media giants and
the MSM alike, after Alex Jones and his Infowars empire
were finally kicked
off of Twitter following
a heated exchange with CNN's Oliver Darcy last week.
Watson
himself earned a "12 hour review" by Twitter following
Jones's removal.
Paul Joseph Watson is under a 12-hour review. He is an employee of InfoWars but does not own or manage the accounts.
This just feels like bullying.
And why is left-wing cyberbully Vic Berger still on here? $twtr
The
Infowars founder has now been blacklisted from over a dozen Silicon
Valley platforms for "hate speech" - conveniently ahead of
this November's midterm elections.
Midterms are coming up and we can't have wrongthink on here.
I'm going to bet that @PrisonPlanet is next followed shortly by @Cernovich
Watch:
Oddly,
CNN's Darcy published an article about Jones's Twitter ban within 60
seconds of Twitter's announcement. Nothing to see here...
Twitter and CNN's Oliver Darcy both announced the Alex Jones news at precisely 4:47pm. Interesting
One of @PrisonPlanet's best.
"This is a free speech crisis. If you don't think 20 SJWs working at Twitter or Facebook getting to decide who has free speech is a problem, then I'm done with you." youtube.com/watch?v=C1jeXM…
"This is a free speech crisis. If you don't think 20 SJWs working at Twitter or Facebook getting to decide who has free speech is a problem, then I'm done with you." youtube.com/watch?v=C1jeXM…
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