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Matt Orfalea, hired and then fired and then possibly rehired by Jane, is still bashing Biden...
...along with the ubiquitous "The Intercept":
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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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Matt Orfalea, hired and then fired and then possibly rehired by Jane, is still bashing Biden... (Original Post)
George II
Mar 2020
OP
Anybody that thinks bernie isn't giving his blessing to this isn't paying attention
Thekaspervote
Mar 2020
#4
marble falls
(63,122 posts)1. This guy ....
Prankster phone-banked as Biden volunteer—and told voters he has dementia
Biden does not have dementia.
Mar 9, 2020, 10:31 am
https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/joe-biden-campaign-bernie-sanders-supporter-dementia/
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The digital director of Joe Biden’s campaign is claiming on Twitter that a Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) supporter posed as a Biden volunteer and told people that Biden has “dementia.”
The digital director Rob Flaherty said Matt Orfalea was live-streaming himself as he used Biden’s phonebank tool to call supporters and tell them negative things about the candidate.
“I like when he says: ‘Someone on the Biden campaign is making me out to be a terrible person.’ My guy, you are doing that just fine on your own,” Flaherty tweeted.
I like when he says: "someone on the biden campaign is making me out to be a terrible person"
In response to the incident going viral on Twitter, Orfalea tweeted that the Biden campaign incorrectly characterized him as a “former Bernie employee.”
“I respect Bernie Sanders’ life work a great deal. But I have absolutely no affiliation with his campaign,” Orfalea tweeted about Flaherty’s accusations.
I respect Bernie Sanders' life work a great deal. But I have absolutely no affiliation with his campaign. Months ago I made a video exposing all the media's lies and they became briefly interested in working w me but we ultimately decided no. Check it out: https://t.co/GpawhYCIMr
— Matt Orfalea (@0rf)
March 9, 2020
It’s unclear what exactly Orfalea said in the live stream because the video is no longer available to the public, but one Twitter user recorded part of the live stream and shared it.
In the two-minute snippet, Orfalea said he started the phone calls by posing as a Biden volunteer and saying they should vote for the candidate. But he goes on to tell the callers that Biden has supported the Iraq war, has been “totally cool” with cutting Social Security, and that the candidate doesn’t actually have severe problems with forgetfulness. (Biden does not have dementia.)
“I did bring up that some people might try to smear Joe as having dementia, but the facts are that he only forgot that he was running for president–briefly,” Orfalea said in the recording.
Orfalea is referencing the numerous times that Biden accidentally says something incorrect—like that he’s running for U.S. Senate or calling his wife his sister.
After tweets surfaced about the live stream video, Orfalea tweeted in his own defense.
“I didn’t plan to publish the full vid but feel compelled to now so you can see I simply called people interested in learning about Joe Biden to inform them about Joe Biden,” he tweeted. “Mainly focused on Iraq War & his willingness to cut social Social Security. That’s it!”
However, the video has been set to private.
Biden and Sanders are battling it out for who will be the Democratic nominee for president.
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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Walleye
(37,564 posts)2. This asshole! Joe does not lie
Swift boating from the left.
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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Thekaspervote
(35,227 posts)4. Anybody that thinks bernie isn't giving his blessing to this isn't paying attention
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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
oasis
(51,934 posts)6. Bernie's surrogates want Bernie to be President more than Bernie.
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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
IronLionZion
(47,490 posts)7. What is the deal with this guy? He seems obsessed
Maybe Biden did or said something to offend him and he's on a long term quest for vengeance.
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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
nolabear
(43,442 posts)8. Jane kind of freaks me out.
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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Green Line
(1,128 posts)9. The entire Sanders team freaks me out
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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
showblue22
(1,026 posts)10. Benefit of doubt
There are far too many people giving Bernie the benefit of doubt. Several campaign staff plus Jane follow this guy. Something is wrong with him. He acts 16 but he's in his 40's.
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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)11. These people are Sanders' true faces.
And obviously his wife's. This tweet seems to have been deleted. What? Publicly associating with lying liars hired for their talent in creating malicious swiftboating is bad for their image?!
Seriously, I want a return to a life without these people. We all should be able to read about our nation and issues without their toxic inputs.
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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden