Did Skippy just resurface and get triggered by Nicole Kiprilov or is this old? I could have missed it. Relates to pizzagate for obvious reasons.
John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s former campaign chairman, has gotten his fair share of scrutiny from the right-wing media like the Daily Caller regarding a variety of conspiracy theories.
So when junior Nicole Kiprilov asked him how he was dealing with accusations of being involved with the now-debunked “Pizzagate” scandal, that he owned 75,000 “undisclosed” shares of stock from a company with Russian Kremlin ties and Uranium One being a client of the Podesta Group—among other allegations—he didn’t hold back.
“This is how the alt-right does fake news," Podesta said. "It’s personally painful because a lot of this is really total bullsht. My family and I have been put through this Pizzagate bullsht now for a year—which has totally been debunked, by the way."
During the talk titled "One Year Later: America's Role One Year After the Election that Shook the World" in Penn Pavilion Wednesday night, Podesta went on to push back on the student's other points, and noted that such allegations are not rare on the internet. He also discussed the Trump presidency and the 2016 election at the event, which was part of the Ambassador Dave and Kay Phillips Family Lecture series.
“My relationship with the company that you talked about, that was based in Boston, an American innovative company—I totally disclosed [my relationship with it]. Fox [News] has had to correct that twice," he added in response to Kiprilov's question. "I could go down the rest of your list. I have no relationship to the Podesta Group and haven’t for 15 years. You can stick with it. The one thing I will tell you is you have a lot of company on Twitter and on the internet, so have at it.”
The allegations regarding the 75,000 shares and regarding his involvement with Uranium One through the Podesta Group—a lobbying firm he ran with his brother until he departed the firm in the 1990's—have received public scrutiny.
Kiprilov said she didn’t believe in Pizzagate, a conspiracy theory claiming that Clinton and her top aides were running a child-trafficking ring out of a pizza parlor. But she said she asked the question because she was curious as to how he deals with such claims.
“Pizzagate was a conspiracy theory, but the other allegations, I don’t know,” Kiprilov said. “If he had been a bit calmer and more mature in answering the questions, I would have been satisfied. I was disappointed that he got so angered and triggered by my question.”
A self-identified Republican who says she is not part of the alt-right, Kiprilov said she felt that Podesta misunderstood the nature of her question.
"I did not imply that I believed any of this," she said. "I think he immediately assumed I did, so he lumped me with the alt-right crowd, which was very unfortunate that he jumped to that conclusion.”
The junior said she spoke with him after the event to clarify that she was not part of the alt-right and to try to get what she deemed a satisfactory answer from him. She said that he then noted he tries to ignore conspiracy theories to protect his family, but tries to address some of the ones that are not rooted in hate.
Before opening the floor to the question-and-answer time in which Kiprilov asked the question, the former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton and counselor to President Barack Obama spoke on a wide range of subjects, from his thoughts on the Trump administration to the Clinton campaign strategy.
He said his biggest regret from the Clinton campaign was not publishing Clinton’s emails the day the New York Times reported that she was using a private email server. He said that he did not do it later because he handed them over to the State Department.
“People could have seen what was there and wouldn’t have been into all of this 13 months of trying to scrape through what all of this was about,” Podesta said. “What they would have seen is a hard-working, smart, diligent and dedicated person—someone who got a lot done as Secretary of State.”
The Federal Bureau of Investigation ruled in 2016 that it wouldn’t charge Clinton for putting classified information on a private email server while serving as President Obama’s Secretary of State. Podesta said that former FBI Director James Comey’s decision to reopen the investigation less than two weeks before the election had an effect on the results of the contest.
“That definitely tightened the race in the last week,” he said. “But you’ve got to be built to be able to win. We got more votes, but weren’t able to win.”
Although Podesta said that he didn’t think the Russian efforts to fiddle with voting on election day succeeded, he thought their meddling with influence through bots, Facebook ads and fake news did.
“I do think that had an effect," he said. "It eats away at you underneath. You don’t fully sense it because it’s not bubbling up to the mainstream.”
In a recently-released book, Donna Brazile, interim chair of the Democratic National Committee, alleges that Sen. Bernie Sanders never had a fair chance against Clinton in the primary because Clinton was able to control the financing, strategy, and money raised in a joint fundraising committee. Podesta said the joint-fundraising agreement in question was to be used only for the general election, not for the primaries.
“We raised money for the DNC purposefully, lawfully and consistently with what previous Democratic nominees had done to be used in the general election. Donna now looks back on that and says that indicated that fix was in,” Podesta said. "The truth is Senator Sanders was able to compete vigorously in a calendar that had been preset before either one of them was in the race, and he lost."
http://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2017/11/we-got-more-votes-but-werent-able-to-win-john-podesta-talks-2016-election-conspiracy-theories
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Iam7777777 ago
No one ever fucking said they were operating out of cpp. "Been debunked". It was never... What was stated was his fucking emails that are clearly pedo code and indeed much worse. This is classic quixotic, straw man build and take down To distract and obfuscate from the screaming obvious evidence. Explain the fucking "art". The spirit cooking, the mangled hand photo, the "pizza for 1 hour", (remember the nypd busted for advertising cheese pizza), hrc and silsby, Haiti, the skippy video.
He agreed to interview with the weakest female "journalist" he could find. If it wasn't for guilt and evidence he'd be on Ellen, Oprah, gma, etc...bot he ain't. He's in hiding and spends his time projecting guilt and offering straw man excuses with ignorant cunt reporters from the local Peace Corp girl scout troop.
Are_we_sure ago
People said this all the time. People claimed that children were being held in cages that an old video of a kid having a tantrum and screaming on the side walk was a child being held under CPP and crying for help (and the videographer didn't notice this because the screams were only picked up by the camera's microphone.)
Several people went to Comet Ping Pong and videoed themselves speculating on the scary vibe they felt it was or to look for the basement or the spooky back room.
It was only when this was exposed as nonsense did people drop the idea. Then they got all excited about BUCKS HAVING A BASEMENT. They speculated about tunnels under CPP and a tunnel connected Bucks.
They did this all the time.
The MSM has trouble saying what pizzagate because it's such a load of tangential nonsense. You can't summarize how you get from Podesta's emails to child trafficking in less than 5 sentences.
Screaming obvious evidence? I think you mean fever dreams
Iam7777777 ago
Who said? Some obscure quip from where? All we've ever seen or heard was cover up from the left. Npr iinterview, Megyn Kelly bs cover up piece. Countless "debunked" stories. Now this one. There are real questions about emails that didn't get wiped...with a cloth. Real questions about screaming kids, sick art, sick photos. He had never faced nor answeref any of these most basic questions. Only bs lollypop smiles and questions from ignorant cunts. Real and provable? This isn't a court of law but any case is usually bits- Until someone sings. 6500 pedo arrests and counting...we sit and hope.
Are_we_sure ago
The very board we are posting on as this in executive summary
And they have actually found zero evidence for child sex trafficking. And the evidence they cite is things like the murals on the walls. No wonder people say it's debunked.
So no actual evidence then? Just some bad art criticism? And you wonder why people say it's debunked. Pizzagate was always prebunked because the conclusion came before the evidence.
I'll bite, what screaming kids are you talking about?
This has always been the heart of Pizzagate a giant completely unsupported allegation. And trying to tie in real actual cases as evidence that are completely unrelated. Sandusky, Saville, Dutrox, etc.
The debunked connection between Hillary Clinton and Silsby. The debunked connectioned between Alefantis and Silsby.
finska ago
I have read your rubbish for a year now.....just go.....its over......your evil cult has lost.....its physics.... the observation effect....too many eyes on you now you cant twist and affect reality anymore......be gone. Your job is done here.
Are_we__sure ago
Physics? don't be stupid.
Metaphysics, maybe.