Posted on 11/21/2016 7:33:31 PM PST by TigerClaws
WASHINGTON Days before the presidential election, James Alefantis, owner of a local pizza restaurant called Comet Ping Pong, noticed an unusual spike in the number of his Instagram followers.
Within hours, menacing messages like were on to you began appearing in his Instagram feed. In the ensuing days, hundreds of death threats one read I will kill you personally started arriving via texts, Facebook and Twitter. All of them alleged something that made Mr. Alefantiss jaw drop: that Comet Ping Pong was the home base of a child abuse ring led by Hillary Clinton and her campaign chief, John D. Podesta.
When Mr. Alefantis discovered that his employees were getting similar abusive messages, he looked online to unravel the accusations. He found dozens of made-up articles about Mrs. Clinton kidnapping, molesting and trafficking children in the restaurants back rooms. The articles appeared on Facebook and on websites such as The New Nationalist and The Vigilant Citizen, with one headline blaring: Pizzagate: How 4Chan Uncovered the Sick World of Washingtons Occult Elite.
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Bump.
Snopes says “RESEARCH IN PROGRESS.”
Not calling it a FALSE story yet - and this is the faaaaaar left Snopes.
http://www.snopes.com/pizzagate-conspiracy/
Well I didn’t know nothing about this.
If the NYT’s is denying it, there must be something to it.
Very interesting that this hit the NYTimes.
Mr. Alefantis, an artist born and raised in Washington, co-founded Comet Ping Pong 10 years ago as a casual spot for clay oven pizza. The restaurant has kid-friendly features like Ping-Pong tables and a craft room.
Flak.......fire........target.
Fake news, fake news, fake news, fake news.
To ruin credibility of investigators as predicted.
Anything that exposes evil done by the elite will be decried as fake news.
It doesn’t spend any effort refuting any specific allegation with facts. That would have been very helpful, if they are indeed not involved in anything criminal. Instead it was a human interest story about the poor put upon pizza owners.
I am pretty sure that is a different lawyer by the same name. I saw that on Reddit. They tracked down addresses.
Why do they describe catering and facility rental payments as donations?
Makes me doubt everything else they say.
Spot on.
They aren’t related (twittergate and pizzagate). And it wasn’t the pedos’ accounts who were banned, it was the discoverer of them! A few of the researchers were banned.
Not a single exculpatory fact is listed other than their denial, and numerous suspicious facts are omitted. Just to name one, the revolting pedo worship artwork on the walls of that place is simply described as ‘modernist’.
I don’t believe the entirety of the conspiracy theory, but parts are plausible. I have no doubt, for example, that poor Haitian children are being sex trafficked. I also can’t believe how hysterical some FReepers are about this. (And you guys don’t post your lists of hokum and tortured logic to me.)
I do enjoy that the Slimes felt a need to write a story like this, even though they actually couldn’t show how the rumors were false and obviously didn’t spend much time on research.
Pepe wins again!
Could have a business address and work one, though does seem strange a DOJ lawyer would have a side legal business - unless he were working for ‘a friend.’
I would have found it helpful if the article had supplied an explanation as to what is “an hour of pizza”.
That’s interesting. Tax write-off? Money laundering?
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