The bizarre rise and dramatic fall of Louise Mensch and her ‘Blue Detectives’ (Brutal Takedown)

Think Progress ^ | Jan 19, 2018

[Tea Party Terrorist]

Led by British gadfly Louise Mensch (269,000 followers on Twitter currently) and going by a handful of names and hashtags — including #TeamPatriot — this coterie largely avoided any kind of original reportage, instead opting to try piece together open-source information that they believed journalists elsewhere had overlooked. In the early days of the Trump administration, they were, as BuzzFeed’s Charlie Warzel wrote, a “mooring force” for the anti-Trump “Resistance.” With Mensch’s 2017 op-ed in the New York Times on Russian hacking, this group — which Warzel termed the “Blue Detectives” — appeared ascendant.

A year on, though, the group is in tatters, roundly mocked by experts on Russian-American relations, ignored by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his staff, and barreling quickly toward irrelevance. Where these “Blue Detectives” once looked like they may unearth some kind of smoking gun linking Trump and the Kremlin — or could at least help fill in certain missing pieces of the puzzle — they are now as derided, and derisive, as their earliest critics pegged them.

[Tea Party Terrorist]

Considering the source, this is brutal.

[31R1O]

Her and that 🤡 Claude Taylor #bestsources.

[mojito]

Both Louise Mensch and Kurt Eichenwald are repugnant and repulsive. I do retain a small reserve of sympathy for them in that I think it's pretty clear that they are both organically, clinically mentally ill - Eichenwald has admitted to neurological disorders and Mensch has talked about her years of drug abuse - and that their families should remove them from twitter to spare them from further humiliations.

[demsux]

Isn’t Preistrop (FBI) married to a Mensch?