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Note the source (a plant working undercover for notorious rightwing shit-stirrer James O'Keefe), but this is still a bad look.

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[–] morphballganon@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 day ago

as staffer admits to tampering with evidence, as well as revealing there are republicans in the files to redact, as well as revealing allegiance to known pedophiles and thus is likely also a pedophile themselves

ftfy

[–] 2piradians@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

All else aside, if you're a Deputy Chief for DOJ you don't go around blabbing about the inner workings of government to inflate your importance while trying to impress someone with whom you've been on 1-2 dates.

Since he's not able to grasp this, what the hell is he doing with a high ranking DOJ job? For that matter, who goes talking about work on a date?

[–] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

what the hell is he doing with a high ranking DOJ job?

Have you seen this administration?

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 3 points 2 days ago

For that matter, who goes talking about work on a date?

You must never dated in any major city... it is disgusting but that's literally how people get dates and spouses. Good thing is that counterparty who falls for it are self selecting, so they deserves each other.

"power couple"

🤡

[–] BussyGyatt@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

why are rawstory are the only ones covering this? not cnn, reuters, ap, fox, bbc, only rawstory has the courage to cover this bombshell reporting?

totally unrelated question, hasn't james o'keefe earned a bit of a reputation?

this isn't a bad look, its journalistic malpractice.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

According to memorandum there are a few other sites covering this, but yeah none of the majors. It possible's they're wary since O'Keefe stinks like shit.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 3 points 2 days ago

Massie just named Paulson as a pedo.

Paulson bank rolls speaker johnson so blocked release of epstein files last month and trump...

All four people running ads against massie in Kentucky are Jewish billionaires, including paulson.

[–] ganksy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Thank you for pointing out the source. Very skeptical