Some sneaky Democrats hacked into Donald Trump’s Gab account. Then, rather than report about the black-hat pirate raid on Trump’s private information, the rabidly liberal rag The Intercept turns around and tries to point the finger at conservatives.
Create the news, then report it
It’s not surprising to conservatives that the alleged journalist who tried to report artificially created fake news about Trump has inside ties to the publisher of the illegally hacked leak. He may have some inside info about the hack attack itself but Micah Lee isn’t talking about that.
The whole sordid saga begins with the penetration by cyber-criminals into the far-right social media platform Gab. The burglars made away with “the e-mail addresses and encrypted passwords of all 4 million of the site’s users and the content of more than 39 million posts, including everything posted to 7632 private groups.”
Once the anti-conservative hackers had their hands on the treasure trove of data, they knew just what to do with it. They may have had a buyer already lined up before the strike. In any event, the hackers graciously “leaked them to the radical transparency group Distributed Denial of Secrets.”
Micah Lee knew ahead of time that the leak was coming. That’s because he happens to be “on the DDoSecrets advisory board.” Hmmm. According to his report, he was practically foaming at the mouth to get his hands on the information.
“When I got my hands on the Gab data, the first thing I did was look up Trump’s account. And the first thing I noticed was the e-mail address associated with it,” Lee pens in his muck-raking report. Oh my God, it has an email. One that thankfully was sand-boxed into a dead end for security reasons. Like, in case Gab got hacked or something.
The rabidly progressive writer tried to turn it into a grassy knoll scale conspiracy and it blew up in his face.
As per my policy of not communicating with non-Christian and/or communist journos, I will not be replying to this non-story.
It's not a real email address, therefore it is not checked. It's just a placeholder email I used when creating the account almost five years ago. pic.twitter.com/BK1bCldFNe
— Gab.com (@getongab) March 3, 2021
Gab Founder says ‘So what?’
Lee’s bombshell revelation is that Gab CEO Andrew Torba owned the email associated with Trump’s “verified Gab account.” [email protected]. He describes in his report how he was driven to learn “Why was Trump using this obscure e-mail address, and what is Kuhcoon?”
He dashed off a few hundred words of never-Trump diatribe on the subject, then found out the real reason and spent the rest of the day drinking.
In the course of his dogged investigation, Lee uncovered Torba also founded Kuhcoon. Then it was renamed and he sold it off. “Automate Ads” was “acquired by AdHawk in 2017.” It became “a tech startup that offered automated Facebook ad campaigns.” Torba left Kuhcoon when he founded Gab in August of 2016.
Lee thought he uncovered Watergate or something when he wrote in his report that “Trump’s account is the only one on Gab that uses an e-mail address from Kuhcoon.com.” As proof of nefarious purposes, he adds, “I sent an e-mail to [email protected], but the e-mail bounced.” There’s a good reason for that, Gab CEO Torba notes. It was supposed to do that.
Rather than waste his time talking to Mica Lee, so it could be used against him in a slanted propaganda fake news report, Torba went straight to the public. He tweeted out on the official Gab account, “As per my policy of not communicating with non-Christian and/or communist journos, I will not be replying to this non-story. It’s not a real email address, therefore it is not checked. It’s just a placeholder email I used when creating the account almost five years ago.”
He personally set up President Trump’s account as a courtesy. No big deal. He doesn’t need no steenking email when he owns the company. “I’m a site admin. I don’t need an email address to access an account Gab runs. What a rube.”
