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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1138931)	6/3/2019 3:11:43 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By rdkflorida2 Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577966

Since Stormy was involved with your idol, shouldn't she be counted as one of your crowd? She even slept with the Great Scumbag when his wife was pregnant. And then there's the Playmate who was screwing the Vile One in hopes of making money off him. He introduced that g/f to his son (who has now followed in his daddies footsteps) and took her into his home to view his wife's bedroom while she was gone. Even Avenatti was trying to scam some money Donnie's mistress Stormy. Just cause he badmouthed your idol doesn't mean he wasn't flocking to the Vile One.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1138931)

6/3/2019 3:18:35 PM

From: Brumar89

Respond to of 1577966

Only the Best People

Over the weekend the Daily Beast (which has really turned into a serious place with great reporting) got to the bottom of who, exactly, created the faked "drunk Nancy Pelosi" video.

You'll never guess.

His name is Shawn Brooks. He's from New York City. He's a super-duper, gigantic Trump fan.

Also, he lies all the time.

The Daily Beast lays out the chronology:

On May 22, a Donald Trump superfan and occasional sports blogger from the Bronx named Shawn Brooks posted a video clip of Nancy Pelosi on his personal Facebook page. The clip showed Pelosi at her most excitable, stammering during a press conference as she voiced frustration over an abortive infrastructure meeting with the president. Brooks’ commentaryon the video was succinct: “Is Pelosi drunk?”Thirteen minutes later, a Facebook official told The Daily Beast, Brooks posted a very different Pelosi video to a Facebook page called Politics WatchDog—one of a series of hyperpartisan news operations Brooks runs (with help, he claims). This clip had been altered to slow Pelosi down without lowering the pitch of her voice. The effect was to make it sound as though the Speaker of the House was slurring her words drunkenly while criticizing Donald Trump.

Fifteen minutes after that, the same doctored video appeared on a second Facebook page Brooks manages, AllNews 24/7. This clip was identical to the Politics WatchDog video on every way, except that it didn’t carry the Politics WatchDog branding that was superimposed over the earlier video. Whoever posted it had access to the director’s cut.

"Whoever." Riiiiiiight.

But here's where it gets awesome:
Brooks acknowledged that he’s involved in the management of both Politics WatchDog and AllNews 24/7, the Facebook pages that sent the bogus video on it’s viral tear. To the outside observer, the two pages are unconnected, but after a tell-tale link on one of the pages led The Daily Beast to Brooks, he admitted that the ad revenue for both outlets goes directly into his personal PayPal account.
You know how I said Brooks was a liar? Here's why:

Over the course of an hour-and-a-half interview, Brooks insisted repeatedly that he wasn’t the one who posted the Pelosi clip on Politics WatchDog. He claimed he’s just one of half-a-dozen administrators who jointly control the page and its content. It was one of the others, he said, who debuted the doctored video. “It was a female admin who posted it.”He declined to identify the “female admin” or any of his other supposed colleagues. And a Facebook official told The Daily Beast that they simply don’t exist.

According to the official, there were indeed six other accounts registered alongside Brooks as page administrators, but the company determined last week that all six of them were controlled by Brooks. Facebook deleted those accounts under its real-name policy, the Facebook official said.

And here's the cherry on top. Is Shawn Brooks an internet mastermind? Not exactly "Brooks [is] a 34-year-old day laborer currently on probation after pleading guilty to domestic battery."

That's right. Just another hard-working, American-born man excited about how President Trump is making America great again.

Are you noticing a pattern here?

We have Trump Superfan Shawn Brooks.

We have Trump Superfan Cesar Sayoc.

We have Trump Superfan D.C. McAllister.

We have Trump Superfan Alex Jones.

We have Trump Superfan Laura Loomer.

And Milo. And Julie Kelly. And Michael Cohen. And Roger Stone. And Jacob Wohl. And Charles Johnson. And at some point you start thinking about that scene in The Dark Knight where Batman stops Harvey Dent from trying to kill one of the Joker's henchmen:

Batman: His name's Schiff, Thomas. He's a paranoid schizophrenic, a former patient of Arkham. The kind of mind the Joker attracts.

You see lots more of these types flocking to the Joker throughout the movie. The punk kids who help him take out Gambol's crew. The crazy 18-wheeler driver. The big fat guy who lets the Joker sew a bomb into his guts.

Don't get me wrong: Every presidential administration has its weirdo hangers-on. But the people you see arrayed around Trump—the people who are his staunchest, fiercest defenders—are different. By several orders of magnitude. There is no comparing them to the riff-raff of the Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon—really any administration of the modern era.

Why is that?

This is not a rhetorical question, exactly. There are plenty of great people who like Trump. But what is it about him that is like a magnetar for crazy?