Originally published by WAYNE MADSEN REPORTS, a subscription-only website
Written by Wayne Madsen
publication date: Nov 28, 2017
November 28-29, 2017 -- Republicans own "Pizzagate"
If the Republican Party is good at anything, it is projecting their faults and scandals on others. The so-called "Pizzagate" scandal, which is now "honored" by its own Wikipedia entry, is a case in point. After hackers released emails of Hillary Clinton's campaign manager John Podesta during the 2016 presidential campaign, GOP operatives began spreading ludicrous allegations that Podesta's emails contained coded references to child sex trafficking and even satanic child sacrifice. "Cheese pizza" was said to stand for child pornography and the alleged child sex trafficking ring was echoed by anonymous users on 4chan and the fringe site Godlike Productions.
No one took these allegations seriously except for conspiracy quarters like Alex Jones's Infowars. One of the chief promoters of the bogus Pizzagate story was current Infowars host Mike Cernovich, a failed attorney originally from the small community of Kewanee, Illinois.
Cernovich, without a shred of evidence, alleged that Comet Ping Pong, a northwest Washington family-friendly pizza restaurant, and its owner, James Alefantis, were harboring abducted children in a basement of the eatery. There is no basement but that was not known to Edgar Welch, who drove to the pizzeria from North Carolina and fired three shots from his AR-15 semi-automatic rifle after he discovered there was no basement at Comet Ping Pong.
Neighboring DC businesses and pizzerias in other cities were also victimized by the Pizzagate conspiracists. These included Besta Pizza, three doors away from Comet Ping Pong, as well as Little Red Fox cafe, the Politics and Prose bookstore, and the Terasol French bistro. Roberta's pizzeria in Brooklyn, New York was also targeted by those who claimed the establishment served the interests of the Clintons. East Side Pies in Austin, Texas was targeted for harassment by those who believed the pizzeria was a CIA front and an extension of the Illuminati. The presence of Alex Jones and his motley crew of ne'er-do-well conspiracy kooks cannot be ruled out as a factor in the harassment of East Side Pies. The FBI investigated the harassment directed against all the businesses targeted by the Pizzagate promoters.
Cernovich decided to abandon the practice of law for vigilantism when he led the "Gamergate" operation that targeted females in the video gaming industry. Cernovich made fun of breast cancer and rape. In 2003, Cernovich was charged with rape while a law student at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. The criminal charges were later dropped to misdemeanor battery and Cernovich served a sentence of community service. His criminal record was later expunged.
Cernovich decided to abandon the practice of law for vigilantism when he led the "Gamergate" operation that targeted females in the video gaming industry. Cernovich made fun of breast cancer and rape. In 2003, Cernovich was charged with rape while a law student at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. The criminal charges were later dropped to misdemeanor battery and Cernovich served a sentence of community service. His criminal record was later expunged.
Recently, Cernovich has attacked the nine women who have come forward with accounts of being sexually assaulted by Alabama GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore, some when they were underage. Cernovich was aided in his attack on the Alabama accusers of Moore by Jack Prosobiec, a Lieutenant junior grade in the Naval Reserve whose active duty billet is assigned to Navy Operational Support Center in Washington, DC. Born in the Philadelphia area, Prosobiec's reserve unit is at the Joint Reserve Intelligence Support Element Dekalb in the Chicago suburbs. In March 2017, Prosobiec resigned from the Office of Naval Intelligence and the press officer for the Naval Reserve Forces confirmed that Prosobiec's access to classified information had been suspended and his security clearance was under review. Prosobiec has also appeared numerous times as a guest on Infowars, an operation that has drawn the likes of GOP dirty tricks operatives Roger Stone and James O'Keefe.
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| Cernovich Navy assignment - checking urine samples |
Cernovich has an interesting connection to a pizzeria in the same vicinity where Prosobiec's Navy Reserve unit is located. Cernovich's cousin, John Cernovich, owns Cerno's 1898 Bar & Grill in Kewanee, a restaurant that specializes in pizza. Mike Cernovich's website is titled "Cerno."
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The northern Illinois area also includes Yorkville, where disgraced former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert, a Republican, molested and assaulted underage boys when he was a Yorkville high school wrestling coach. Local Illinois observers believe Mike Cernovich, knowing something about the pizza restaurant business from his extended family, cooked up the entire "Pizzagate" controversy because he understood how it could be punishing for the targeted businesses.
More importantly, Cernovich and his confederates wanted to draw attention away from Donald Trump and other top Republicans and their own involvement with sexual abuse of underage females.
Yorkville continues to be "ground zero" for child sexual molestation charges against Hastert, who was released in August of this year from the Federal Medical Center in Rochester, Minnesota after serving a prison sentence for crimes associated with paying hush money to "Individual A," who Hastert molested when the victim was a teen. In another legal action, "Richard Doe," an alias, alleges that Hastert molested him when he was 9-years old.
Doe's lawsuit alleges that in the spring or summer of 1973 or 1974, when Doe was around 9-years old and in the fourth grade, he was riding his bike in Yorkville and stopped at what was then the state Game Farm Building to go to the restroom. While on the toilet, Doe said he heard "a male voice mutter something outside the stall door." Doe's statement continues, "Suddenly, the stall door opened and a large man [who was later identified as Hastert] entered the stall. . . [Doe] believes the man’s genitals were exposed at that time. Hastert grabbed [Doe] by the neck, bent him over the toilet, and proceeded to forcefully sodomize [Doe]." Doe said he saw Hastert's face but did not know who he was.
After the alleged assault took place, Hastert left the restroom.
The lawsuit states that several weeks after the alleged attack, Doe was in gym class at Yorkville Grade School, which is located next door to the old Yorkville High School, where Hastert was a teacher and coach at the time. Doe claims Hastert walked into the gym class and talked to his teacher, who happened to be Jean Kahn Hastert. Doe said upon recognizing Hastert, he began “shaking and crying.” Hastert then approached Doe. The lawsuit states, "Hastert took [Doe] by the neck and led him into the hallway. . . In the hallway, Hastert dropped to his knees and asked [Doe] if he told anyone about the assault. [Doe], still crying, said no. Hastert warned [Doe] against reporting the attack, threatening that Hastert’s father was the sheriff and, if [Doe] told, his parents would be put in jail.”
More importantly, Cernovich and his confederates wanted to draw attention away from Donald Trump and other top Republicans and their own involvement with sexual abuse of underage females.
Yorkville continues to be "ground zero" for child sexual molestation charges against Hastert, who was released in August of this year from the Federal Medical Center in Rochester, Minnesota after serving a prison sentence for crimes associated with paying hush money to "Individual A," who Hastert molested when the victim was a teen. In another legal action, "Richard Doe," an alias, alleges that Hastert molested him when he was 9-years old.
Doe's lawsuit alleges that in the spring or summer of 1973 or 1974, when Doe was around 9-years old and in the fourth grade, he was riding his bike in Yorkville and stopped at what was then the state Game Farm Building to go to the restroom. While on the toilet, Doe said he heard "a male voice mutter something outside the stall door." Doe's statement continues, "Suddenly, the stall door opened and a large man [who was later identified as Hastert] entered the stall. . . [Doe] believes the man’s genitals were exposed at that time. Hastert grabbed [Doe] by the neck, bent him over the toilet, and proceeded to forcefully sodomize [Doe]." Doe said he saw Hastert's face but did not know who he was.
After the alleged assault took place, Hastert left the restroom.
The lawsuit states that several weeks after the alleged attack, Doe was in gym class at Yorkville Grade School, which is located next door to the old Yorkville High School, where Hastert was a teacher and coach at the time. Doe claims Hastert walked into the gym class and talked to his teacher, who happened to be Jean Kahn Hastert. Doe said upon recognizing Hastert, he began “shaking and crying.” Hastert then approached Doe. The lawsuit states, "Hastert took [Doe] by the neck and led him into the hallway. . . In the hallway, Hastert dropped to his knees and asked [Doe] if he told anyone about the assault. [Doe], still crying, said no. Hastert warned [Doe] against reporting the attack, threatening that Hastert’s father was the sheriff and, if [Doe] told, his parents would be put in jail.”
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| Hastert's Clock Tower in Plainfield |
The lawsuit alleges that “Hastert violated [his] duty by sexually assaulting [Doe] and both threatening [Doe] to prevent him from reporting the crime and failing to inform [Doe] that he had a cause of action against Hastert."
Doe said it was 1984 or 1985, when he was 20 or 21, when he "began to comprehend the scope of the malevolent acts perpetrated by Hastert on him as a child."
It was during that period that Doe visited the Kendall County State’s Attorney’s Office to report the crime and spoke to then-State’s Attorney Dallas Ingemunson.
Unbeknownst to Doe, Ingemunson, considered the political kingmaker of Kendall County in his role as county Republican Party chairman, was a major promoter of Hastert’s political career and served as Hastert's personal lawyer and business partner.
Doe's suit states that, "Upon hearing [Doe’s] report, Ingemunson threatened to charge [Doe] with a crime and accused him of slandering Hastert’s name." Ingemunson's threats "traumatized [Doe], repressed the sexual assault by Hastert, and . . . intimidated [Doe] into silence."
Although his father ran a restaurant, Dennis Hastert is said by Yorkville friends to have been more comfortable going to "Pizza Hut."
There is a Pizzagate scandal involving the trafficking and molestation of children, but it has everything to do with the GOP of [closeted] gays, old men, and pedophiles. Trump's fabulists -- Cernovich, Prosobiec, Stone, Jones, and O'Keefe -- can rant all they want, but sheer facts have never been on their side.
And, in another pizza reference to GOP child molestation, WMR has learned that one of the underage female victims of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein was abducted at the age of 12 from in front of a pizza shop. But, more on that later . . .
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