The pro-Trump fake news website that’s finding an audience — with Trump’s help - Prntly and Marshall Report

[ABX]

Prntly and The Marshall Report were already on our list of known fake news sites for a while. Unfortunately, because so many are citing it, including Trump himself, many believe it is a real news site. 

- Fake, Parody, and Satire websites for reference - http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,200208.0.html

On several occasions in October, Donald Trump tweeted links to stories at Prntly.com, a blog that didn’t exist during the last election cycle. One story (now offline but copied here) indicated that Trump’s support from blue-collar workers was the highest since Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s.

It'’s not clear what the basis for the claim was beyond that Trump led in Rust Belt states — like Ohio, which he lost — but, no matter. Trump was enthusiastic...

.... The site for Prntly listed a New Hampshire address and boasted of a “POLITICAL SEASON SALE.” In a news release last October about Portelli giving $10,000 to a random person in Central America, the site bragged that it was “serving several presidential campaigns at the moment.” (There were no payments to Prntly from presidential campaigns in the last half of 2015.).....

....It seems, then, that Portelli finally hit on a money-making scheme that worked. Grab content from other sites, slap on a provocative headline, push it out. In another election cycle, the sketchy sourcing and dubious conclusions the site puts forward might simply be ignored — much less by a presidential candidate. In the year of Trump, though, Prntly has overcome those limitations.....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/02/in-the-year-of-trump-a-made-up-news-website-run-by-an-ex-convict-finds-success/ 

[ABX]

Interesting thing on the Central American connection---

....For eight years, Sepúlveda, now 31, says he traveled the continent rigging major political campaigns. With a budget of $600,000, the Peña Nieto job was by far his most complex. He led a team of hackers that stole campaign strategies, manipulated social media to create false waves of enthusiasm and derision, and installed spyware in opposition offices, all to help Peña Nieto, a right-of-center candidate, eke out a victory. On that July night, he cracked bottle after bottle of Colón Negra beer in celebration. As usual on election night, he was alone. - See more at: http://www.teaparty.org/confessions-political-hacker-rigged-elections-decade-152295/#sthash.pghyqOnP.dpuf.....

[Frank Cannon]

This feels like it has Roger Stones finger prints all over it.

[ABX]

This feels like it has Roger Stones finger prints all over it.

If people think Karl Rove is bad, Roger Stone is like Rove with no soul and a better understanding of modern media.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

If people think Karl Rove is bad, Roger Stone is like Rove with no soul and a better understanding of modern media.

The guy is a loser too. Didn't he run Dole's campaign? Rove at least has a few winners under his belt.

[Frank Cannon]

The guy is a loser too. Didn't he run Dole's campaign? Rove at least has a few winners under his belt.

He ran Doles campaign until his swingers ads in the Village Voice came to light.

[ABX]

The guy is a loser too. Didn't he run Dole's campaign? Rove at least has a few winners under his belt.

He even helped Al Sharpton.
http://www.salon.com/2004/02/03/sharpton_8/

For a while (70s, early 80s) Stone pretended to be a Conservative but he really is a game player. He even called politics his performance art.

[ABX]

He ran Doles campaign until his swingers ads in the Village Voice came to light.

I forgot about that one. Yea, Stone had a hankering for a bed full of variety at the same time.




hmmmm... Come to think of it, maybe this is where the DC Madame 'shocker' is going?

[jmyrlefuller]

For the record, Prntly has (or at least had) other hoax interests as well. I have far too often found myself debunking its vague and often-catastrophic weather predictions and exposing Dmitri Voltova's anti-upstate New York screeds masquerading as rankings.

The thing is, the site seems to have originally been a business card sales company.

[Sanguine]

For later.

[Bill Cipher]

Trump pimping a fake news website.  Go figure.