This is a story about how political operatives tried to take down a presidential candidate, and ended up just humiliating themselves.
It's also a story about how a smear was spread by right-wing websites -- and was cleaned up by newsrooms that took some time to check the facts.On April 29 someone shared a post titled"Pete Buttigieg Sexually Assaulted Me" on Medium, a site that lets anyone upload stories, essays and any other bit of text. It was attributed to a college student named Hunter Kelly.
Burkman helped fuel the Seth Rich conspiracy theories. Last year, Burkman and Wohl had worked together to try to pin a fake sexual assault allegation on special counsel Robert Mueller. The matter was referred to the FBI for investigation.When CNN asked Kelly for some corroboration of his claims before agreeing to do an interview, Kelly didn't respond. Around 7:30 p.m., Kelly texted:"I was set up.
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