Cernovich claims he is trying to find the hoaxer.
“This is the journalist process CNN doesn’t go through,” Cernovich said on Periscope on Tuesday. “CNN, they go ‘oh shit, Don Jr. got an email about Wikileaks before anybody else? Boom boom boom front page news.’ But me, I go oh, wait, hold on a minute, let’s chill.”
In fact, Schumer’s office said, CNN and other outlets including the
Washington Post, BuzzFeed,
The New Yorker, and ABC News all received the document on Tuesday, around the same time as Cernovich and Johnson. None of those outlets posted in advance about being in possession of documents that would “end the career of a U.S. Senator” though.
“Whoever did this -- I don’t know if it was a deep state operation, a Soros thing, or if it was just a prankster,” Cernovich said on Periscope, “but somebody’s in a lot of trouble for forging documents.”
Cernovich and Johnson both have dubious records as journalists. Johnson infamously
misidentified a college student as a woman who falsely accused University of Virginia students of rape. He also
falsely accused then-congressional candidate Cory Booker of lying about his address, and falsely accused a
New York Times reporter of
posing for Playgirl. Cernovich fanned the flames of the Pizzagate hoax, a conspiracy theory that accused high-level Democrats of running a child sex-trafficking ring through a pizzeria.
