Purveyor of fake election "news" kills himself

[someoneyouknow]

During the 2016 presidential campaign fake news, real fake news, came fast and furious across the internet highway. Some of it came from Russia in its collusive attempt to sway the election for the con artist. Other fake news came from the Breitbart tabloid as its former head worked on the campaign trail. Still other fake news came from Paul Horner.

Who? You might know him from such fake stories as former president Obama being gay or a Muslim, or how protestors were being paid to demonstrate at con artist rallies.

Authorities found Horner dead on his bed, apparently killed through drug use. In damning statements made before his death about those who voted for the con artist, Horner all but called them uneducated idiots.

In an interview with The Washington Post in 2016, Horner said he thought Trump won the White House because of him. Horner said Trump's supporters didn't fact-check his stories before posting them.

"My sites were picked up by Trump supporters all the time. I think Trump is in the White House because of me. His followers don't fact-check anything — they'll post everything, believe anything. His campaign manager posted my story about a protester getting paid $3,500 as fact. Like, I made that up. I posted a fake ad on Craigslist," he told The Washington Post in November.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/paul-horner-fake-news-writer-found-dead/

 

[sr71plt]

That describes Trump dupes/dopes pretty well.

 

[sr71plt]

The Russians have always been good at making a political assassination mop-up action appear to be suicide.

 

[Hypoxia]

I knew the conspiracy theories would fly as soon as I saw the headline yesterday. The basic play is, whodunnit? Clinton? Tromp? Putin? McConnell? Merkel? Netanyahu? Kim? Bannon? McCain? Mueller? Moore? Arpaio? Munchkin? So many suspects...

 

[sr71plt]

Well, yes, but the Russians actually do it--fairly often. So it's not a stretch when the death is in their favor.

I have a book out in one of my pen names from several years ago that I wrote by pulling an actual case out of the drawer that I had tucked away as the story passed my desk with I headed a news agency in the Mediterranean. During the cold war, the Russians failed in a plot to insert a cadre of spies into NATO in Brussels. They whisked them all away in the night before we could roll them up. And they sent them all to Cyprus and gave them all new identities. For a while. And only for a while, because when the dust settled they began killing them off in Cyprus so they couldn't talk. It was only good reporting that got all of the dots connected on that one. It's standard procedure in Russia. The East Germans had made an art of it. North Korea uses it for leadership control purposes. The Iranians and Libyans have dabbled in it. Oh, and one other country that I know of and won't mention.

It's not just a theory when it's common operating procedure. It becomes a method then.

 

[Hypoxia]

... and one other country that I know of and won't mention.
We have our suspicions.

It's not just a theory when it's common operating procedure. It becomes a method then.
And thus a platform.

I'll go conspiracy theory mode. USA guy who pulls tricks like Russki meme shops goes dead. Russkis have history of making operatives dead. Sure looks like Russki 'wet' op. Which makes good cover for anyone else, who know where the blame will fall.

Yes, any party could have done him. Even his dealer.