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american_ideals

(613 posts)
Thu May 25, 2017, 09:24 PM May 2017

Louise Mensch: some collected facts

I do not know what to think about Louise Mensch. She could well be a Murdoch-funded conservative agitator. But she could also be what she claims - an anti-authoritarian who wants to bring down this president. And so I thought I would try to collect everything I knew and see if anyone else could chime in.

What we know:
Mensch is a former conservative MP from England who married an American, moved to the US, worked for Murdoch running Heat Street, a News Corp foray into the Internet (Fox News for the Internet age, if you will).

It looks like there are two possibilities for her current motivations:

1. She became anti-Trump sometime in 2016, and started a blog dedicated to exposing the Trump-Russia ties.

2. She stayed pro-Trump after the election and created a blog to fool the left, making them look like conspiracy theorists to discredit the real Trump-Russia ties.

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Here are observations I've noted. If you have anything to add, do it in replies below and I'll collect facts here.
This will be long.

First, her posts on internet or technology, especially using whois data, are rough at best. She doesn't know very much at all about anything technological. That said, when she says Russia hacked US entities and used that data to influence the election, this could well be true.
The FBI said in Oct 2016 Russian hackers were involved.
Also, WSJ article today claims DCCC important data was released by Russian hacker to at least one GOP operative.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/florida-gop-operative-received-stolen-documents-from-alleged-russian-hacker/


On Brexit:
- Mensch has denied that Russia or the right could have used nefarious means, including social media, to influence Brexit. Tweet: "Absolutely true but much harder with the majority older voters who voted Brexit"




- But perhaps her strong view on Brexit shades her view on hacking of Brexit.
Her NYT pro-Brexit op-ed Feb 2016 https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/12/opinion/louise-mensch-britain-better-off-out-of-europe.html


- Past with Heat Street. She's written some bad articles about Hillary.



But I just went through her history. There's a ton of pro-Evan McMullin articles, and a decent number of anti-Trump articles. http://imgur.com/a/AWKR6


- Photo with Milo at Trump Tower? Day after election?

- She claims 1. She posted the Milo pic, and 2. "I didn't approve of his views or agree with them. but I liked his chutzpah for quite a while."

- My question: was that really at Trump tower?

- Her claimed past views on hillary.
- Recently Mensch claims she has been #nevertrump throughout.


- Mensch deleted a lot of tweets.



- John Schindler, Tom Nichols are pro-Taylor but are refraining from comment on Mensch. Schindler has been talking about Putin and Russia since 2012/13, and Tom Nichols is fairly level headed.





I've thought that Mensch's sources were likely UK - GCHQ. But if Schindler doesn't know who her sources are, then where is she getting info from?
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Louise Mensch: some collected facts (Original Post) american_ideals May 2017 OP
Choose real news... FarPoint May 2017 #1
Could well be. I don't know for sure. I'm trying to put together what we know american_ideals May 2017 #2
We can only speculate at this point. FarPoint May 2017 #4
I'll work on expanding this later american_ideals May 2017 #3

american_ideals

(613 posts)
2. Could well be. I don't know for sure. I'm trying to put together what we know
Thu May 25, 2017, 09:34 PM
May 2017

to help decide. Even if it just helps me.

FarPoint

(13,697 posts)
4. We can only speculate at this point.
Thu May 25, 2017, 09:44 PM
May 2017

We can breathe a little now knowing that this crime family is now being investigated. Let them do their job for now.

american_ideals

(613 posts)
3. I'll work on expanding this later
Thu May 25, 2017, 09:36 PM
May 2017

Until then, if anyone knows when and where that Milo pic was taken, please let me know.

If really taken at Trump Tower, that kind of sullies her anti-Trump rep, right?

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