Trump official behind fake Biden web site
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So this is the new angle, "Metoo stories about Biden are due to RUSSIAN BOTS!"
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It's a Trump campaign official - completely innocent.
They also have websites for all the other D candidates. |
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Y'all really think this looks like a Biden website? Photos of his creepy touching and sniffing of girls? Give me a break. These stories sound so bad until you actually bother to look at what is being talked about. |
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https://joebiden.info |
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I've seen much worse examples. I supposed it can be argued that the Trump campaign's concern - the not-real-bright blue collar brigade who fell for Trump's crap are the most likely to fall for something like this, but that would be disrespecting the deplorables and we're not supposed to do that, I guess. |
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"Website featuring creepy Joe Biden is run by Trump consultant." So close!! |
The plan is to divert google searches away from the legit Candidate site to a fake, derogatory one.
How accurate or defamatory these are is secondary: every click that goes to the wrong page hurts the candidate. It's a very despicable tacit, but not new. |
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If so, should be easy enough to have it taken down. Or better still, pointed at the legit website. |
If it's clearly labeled as parody on the site, I don't think it's illegal, nor should it be.
If it's not clearly labeled, it should be illegal. |
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Biden is failing fine all by himself, no help is needed
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Don't get upset about this. Get even. |
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If I was motivated enough, I'd set up a Poe-Trump website and sell KAG-swag, invitations to places where Ivanka stuff is sold and plenty of others ways to make the nutters give their money to me instead.
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Other than the actual url, the whole thing looks very transparently like a parody site. Pretty well done, I thought.
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I'm still trying to figure out what Trump organization this guy is an officer in.
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By "Trump Official" you mean "Republican consulting agency guy" I guess?
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... or are you suggesting that they would be doing that on their own without compensation? |
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What *is* the official Trump campaign organization, anyway? Who are its officers? Where is it headquartered (some Trump property, no doubt)? Etc. --- Hell, I'm a full-time employee of an organization. Nobody in their right mind would call me an official in this org. |
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I was the first to point out that this was a Trump Campaign project, not a White House one.
But someone "official" in the Trump campaign must have agreed to this and keeps signing the cheques. So I see nothing wrong with calling this a "Trump campaign official" project. |
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Someone in the Trump Campaign ordered it and is paying for it? That's a claim that requires more evidence. Or maybe not. This wouldn't be the first time political partisans have indicted each other on nothing more than innuendo, circumstance, and their own partisan bias. Hell, there's a lot more evidence that Hillary Clinton committed crimes, and the State Department and DOJ suppressed them, than there is that this guy actually got paid by the Trump Campaign for this site. Not that it matters much to me. I'm not seeing a big problem here either way. I'm more interested in the epistemological question, and how it interacts with our partisan biases in debate. You want people to believe this is an official Trump campaign website. You want me to admit that it's an official Trump campaign website. The partisan in me says, of course you want that, but can you prove it? The contrarian in me says you can claim this stuff all you want, but until you bring evidence, it didn't happen. --- In before, "you're just defending Dear Leader because of how racist you are!" and assorted other deranged crap. |
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Nobody is disputing that the guy in question has gotten or is getting a paycheck for work he's done at the request of the Trump campaign. That actually creates some clear dots to connect, that aren't present in TGZ's own body of work. It's still connecting the dots, though. |
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The Trump campaign has blessed this move, explicitly or implicitly. So yeah, someone with authority in the chain is ok with this. |
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Any normal campaign would have told him to shut them down. The fact that Trump didn't means they are ok with it. Which is the same as supporting it. |
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If an actual, accredited officer in the Trump campaign organization issues a statement saying that the campaign didn't ask for it and isn't paying for it, and whatever the guy does with his own resources on his own time is his business as a private citizen, would you agree that it's not an official website? |
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I'm of the mindset that this means little to me. I live in the tech world, I can identify fake sites easily, especially one that looks like that. That being said, as we have concluded in other threads, words mean things. These sites weren't requested, they weren't paid for, they were done by a person on their free time that also happened to work for the company that Trump does business with. That's it, I have no dog in this race. |
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And all this for a Joe Biden parody website. So what if the Trump campaign doesn't go after it? |
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