Cops Investigate After Far-Right Trolls Promote Forged Doc Claiming Sexual Harassment By Chuck Schumer

Media Matters reports:

Right-wing media trolls Mike Cernovich and Chuck Johnson promoted a forged document that accused Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) of sexually harassing a former staffer, then quickly walked back their claims when the document was reported to police as a forgery.

In a now-deleted tweet, far-right Twitter troll Mike Cernovich promoted claims by Chuck C. Johnson, who has a history of harassing journalists, saying he was “currently reading the sexual harassment settlement documents of a major Democratic US Senator.”

According to Axios, the document Johnson purported to be reading was a forgery and an attempt to “dupe reporters and smear” the Democratic Senator. After catching wind of the attempted smear, Schumer reported the forged document to the Capitol Police who are investigating the incident.

Via Wonkette:

You could smell the fuckery a mile off — “One of many red flags: No lawyer for the staffer is named.” But still Mike Cernovich (do click through for his Official Journalismist Photo!) and Chuck C. Johnson (same!) spent days promising they were going to TAKE DOWN A SENATOR.

But even a blind, demented, devil-possessed squirrel gets a nut sometimes, and somehow Mike Cernovich figured out that the document was a hoax. Want to watch a 23-minute video of that asshole congratulating himself for being a big boy journalist who only wears pull-ups at night now and doesn’t tweet out unconfirmed slander?

Big story or Big hoax? Mike Cernovich takes you behind the scenes https://t.co/29x6nWXori

— Mike Cernovich ?? (@Cernovich) December 12, 2017

The full Wonkette piece is pretty funny.