Jacob Wohl Busted Creating Fake Smear Against Pete Buttigieg

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Trump’s favorite troll Jacob Wohl is back in the headlines, once again for drumming up phony assault charges against someone he believes is a political enemy of Donald Trump. This time it was Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. With the help of his friend Jack Burkman, Wohl was able to put out information saying that Buttigieg had sexually assaulted a young man a few months ago, a claim that quickly blew up in their faces. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Yesterday, new started popping up that a young man was accusing South Bend Mayer and current Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg of sexual assault that took place a few months ago. Almost immediately after these stories popped up, it was revealed that not only were they completely fake, but they were actually the brainchild of Donald Trump's favorite Twitter troll Jacob Wohl. And of course his good friend and noted liar, Jack Burkman, the daily beast decided to dig into this a little more. And in fact, even before the story came out yesterday, they had already been digging into this and found out that yes, there's actually two people that Wohl and Burkman had, uh, contacted to try to drum up these false accusations against Buttigieg. So daily beast reaches out to the first one. The first one who chooses to remain nameless, uh, said that yes, they contacted me. I met with them. I recorded the conversation and I didn't go through with it. I didn't want to. I am a Trump supporter. Yes, but I'm not going to do this. After that one fell through. Apparently Wohl and Burkman weren't happy, so they decided to get on Twitter, or excuse me, Facebook. They found a guy who was a Trump supporter and said, hey guys, we're going to fly you out. Meet with us, which he did on Sunday. The Guy said, I'm not, I'm not comfortable with any of this. And then Wohl and Burkman decided to use this guy's name anyway, created a fake Twitter account, created a fake medium account.

Okay. Using this guy's name and his picture from Facebook. Okay. Crafted this story that they posted where the guy said, I had been sexually assaulted by Mayor Pete back in February. I was too drunk to consent, but that is what happened. More details will follow. Uh, the guy's name was hunter Kelly daily beast reaches out to a hunter, Kelly Hunter. Kelly says, no, this never happened. I don't know why. And this, this is essentially this poor guy, Hunter Kelly. It's kind of destroyed his life right now.

Daily beast confirmed that that was him and that it was his name and his picture being used for this, a fake Twitter and fake medium account. He was not in control of it. It was Wohl and Burkman behind the entire thing. Now Hunter Kelly has had to go have his sister and her husband pick him up and basically take him away because now he's terrified of the vindictiveness of Wohl and Burkman as is the other anonymous person the daily beast spoke to. But they also, uh, the first guy, the anonymous guy who the conversations daily beast went and actually had a, uh, audio forensic specialist look at this and confirm that. Yep. That's Jacob Wohls voice. So here's my question. This is not the first time Jacob Wohl has done this. It will not be the last time Jacob Wohl has done this. So why is this kid allowed to walk free?

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