Posted on 02/02/2020 11:16:04 AM PST by MAGAlady
Someone broke into investigative reporter John Solomon’s car parked near the White House the night before the senate impeachment trial began.
The thief stole John Solomon’s laptop which contained sensitive information on former Vice President Joe Biden and Ukraine.
The break-in, which happened across from the White House’s Eisenhower Executive Office Building, was described as a “professional job” and authorities believe the individual(s) used a sophisticated electronic jamming device to open the car’s lock.
“It’s a pretty professional job,” John Solomon told RCI of the break-in, “but it’s probably just a coincidence.”
“It was probably just a street criminal searching for pass codes,” he added. “Or it could be someone searching for my Ukraine stuff, we don’t know at this point.”
It appears to be a targeted political hit because Solomon said nothing else was taken from his car, including cash.
Paul Sperry of Real Clear Investigations reported:
On the night before the Senate impeachment trial began, someone broke into veteran Washington investigative journalist John Solomon’s car parked near the White House and stole his laptop, according to a D.C. Metropolitan Police Department report obtained by RealClearInvestigations.
The computer contained notes on Ukraine and former Vice President Joe Biden and other sensitive information, Solomon, 52, said in an interview. He said he was preparing to launch a new podcast and news site at the time.
Though the laptop has since been recovered, the investigation is still open. “The case has been assigned a detective and is under investigation,” MPD spokesman Sean Hickman told RCI.
The Secret Service is also involved in the matter, which appears suspicious. Break-ins are rare in the high-security area where the crime occurred, just outside the White House perimeter, and a sophisticated device appears to have been used to get into the vehicle.
The computer and bag, which also contained his U.S. Capitol press security badge, were discovered the next day nearly a block away from where his car had been parked. The contents of the bag had been dumped out on a picnic bench near the FDIC building. The location had no security cameras, so there is no known video surveillance footage that can be reviewed. Authorities described it as one of the few “dark spots” in the area.
Award-winning investigative reporter John Solomon has been targeted by Dem Rep. Adam Schiff for his explosive reporting on Ukraine and the Biden crime family.
In December, Schiff (illegally) obtained John Solomon’s phone records and published his call history in a report.
Schiff smeared Solomon as a reporter who published “conspiracy theories” to “push false narratives” about Ukraine’s interference in the 2016 election to help Hillary Clinton.
John Solomon said he is working with computer forensics to see whether his hard drive was scanned by the thief.
Calling B.S. on this. No way he leaves this in a car. and of course its Gateway Pundit, which prints at least one preposterously false story per week (usually from the “former” Bernie-Babe Cassandra Fairbanks)
WHY would you ever leave something like that in your car if it were investigative/ secret in nature? In DC? In any urban center? I Love John Solomon’s work but I think that’s really stupid.
Hopefully he had backups of the Info.Would be such a waste to collect it and then have it stolen.
That’s my hope
No matter the encryption given enough time and resources (the Government has plenty of both) whatever is on there will be known. This was a move to see how much dirt Soloman has on the rats.
It was a professional theft.
I had started a new job as livery driver in staten Island.
Only maybe 8 years ago. I was still quite sick from a years long illness but I could drive, so it gave me something to do until I fully recovered.
I left a CHEAP GPS in my car and forget what a white trash neighborhood it had become.
Got to my car 12 hours later...broken window..stolen GPS
I’ve made the South Shore of Staten Island sound like Utopia. And it is compared to the other boroughs (don’t know about queens).
But there ARE a few white trash neighborhoods spotted about.
And I learned the hard way to never leave anything in the car again.
“WHY would you ever leave something like that in your car if it were investigative/ secret in nature? In DC? In any urban center? I Love John Solomon’s work but I think that’s really stupid.”
Maybe it was a honey trap.
theft, or murder, with CASH LEFT
heralds the clowns or FIB or their wetworks:
the UKRANIAN Crowdstrike which they use to
alter elections in the USA.
why? because there has never been punishment
for their sedition or treason.
NONE even as Americans FUME and prepare ...
The deep state strikes again. These folks really need to have their necks stretched.
I smell another attempt to get something on Trump. Will claim Watergate type attempt to steal documents.
Like we are expected to believe that this entire area isn't under intense 24 hour a day video surveillance. Right.
The Secret Service is also involved in the matter, which appears suspicious. Break-ins are rare in the high-security area where the crime occurred, just outside the White House perimeter, and a sophisticated device appears to have been used to get into the vehicle.
The computer and bag, which also contained his U.S. Capitol press security badge, were discovered the next day nearly a block away from where his car had been parked. The contents of the bag had been dumped out on a picnic bench near the FDIC building. The location had no security cameras, so there is no known video surveillance footage that can be reviewed. Authorities described it as one of the few “dark spots” in the area.
Yes...he is a bright guy, and I think knows well the forces arrayed against him.
The theft should have been caught on several security cameras.
“You don’t leave valuables in your car in plain view.”
Kind of makes me think it was a setup.
Are laptops really high theft items? They all have embedded serial numbers and as soon as they’re turned on and connected to the Internet they can probably be traced.
“Some people” might think it could be a “Plant”!
John Solomon doesn’t seem to lack in playing the Game!
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