I believe JR furnished you with numerous links.
If it is a problem for you, just drop it instead of carrying on about it.
If I read his post correctly he posted what his search was and as of yet was unable to find the original source for the information. He then tried a different search phrase and still no luck. Those were the same search phrases I used plus a few more. No more luck other than going back to twitter as the original source. Those tweets are not from news organizations or even blogs...just folks on the street spreading the same information.
Did you provide the actual tweet from GQ yet ...that verified the information...that mentioned Jeff Roe and Ben Shales? you wrote that you had it perhaps I missed your post on the matter.
Actually it is a problem for me and I will tell you why. So far the information is unverifiable. FR keeps popping up in the searches regarding the information. I have gone through the links and so far there is nothing there except for tracking back to twitter. GQ has nothing on their site or their Twitter site. There is no Ben Shales on twitter (well there is one but no posting in five years.
Either the information is true or it is not true. If true that Jeff Roe secured the rights to the Melania pic and then passed it on the Make America Awesome Pac...that would be an FEC violation. It would also doom Cruz because he stated emphatically that his people had nothing to do the the Melania pic. This goes to the core of Cruz’s truthfulness.
I am a Trump supporter, but I do not want to pass around information that is demonstrably false...maybe you do or don’t care, I don’t know. Maybe you support Cruz...I don’t know one way or another. But if information is going to be posted on FR it should be true so its merits can be argued. I am getting very close to declaring that Jeff Roe did not secure the rights to the Melania pic. I do not know who did, but so far I can not find an independent source other than random twitter posts and blog comment entries.
You said you had the actual GQ tweet naming the information...I wish you would link it so I can state that I was wrong or right.