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> Looks like Podesta is everything the 'Drain-the-swamp' Trump supporters hate. This deal is probably fueling a lot of comments on their social platforms right now.

lol Podesta is pretty much ground zero of the Pizzagate conspiracy. Only thing that would be juicier to Trump supporters would be Huawei also hiring Hillary Clinton and Jeffery Epstein.

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Pizzagate was a crafted phenomenon. Whoever prepared this, they managed to collate pieces of genuine information with fake ones, inaccuracies, planted images and so on. It could be 4chan, but it could be Russians as well. And while the Internet was buzzing about it, mainstream media felt it's too ridiculous to discuss, so the debunking arrived too late.

Have you seen the paintings in Tony Podesta's house? I know art is subjective, but if I saw someone who collects the type of art Tony does, I would stay as far away as possible, and maybe report them for it.

Actually, I haven't. What I do know is that he donated some artworks by Maria Marshall to a museum.[0] I find the work of this particular artist repulsive and I would think twice before entering any relationship with a person who is collecting this kind of art. Nevertheless, it's not enough to accuse him of pedophilia.

In any case, if there had been any truth in the accusations, Trump had more than enough time to follow all the leads and find something that could be used as a proof. So everything we have is a smear campaign.

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/episode-346-fighting-wildfires...

Report them to who? Not sure there's a US government agency that's interested in getting reports of people having art that offends someone's sense of morality. Maybe some CCP agency is what you're interested in?

> Pizzagate was a crafted phenomenon

Maybe. The emails that kicked off pizzagate don't seem to be crafted to me.

> the realtor found a handkerchief (I think it has a map that seems pizza-related. Is it yorus?

The emails were using coded language around pizza. These emails spawned pizzagate.

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