Sekulow Attacks!

After Politico profile about “amateur sleuths” highlights—count `em—three Shooting the Messenger Trump scoops, Donald J. Trump-affiliated lawyer Jordan Sekulow tells Fox News that I and other independent researchers are “wasting all of their time”

This week I was featured in a Politico profile about “self-assigned Bob Muellers” who are doing independent research into Donald Trump’s Russia and business connections.

The article, by Darren Samuelsohn, highlighted three stories first published on this blog. One of them, that Donald J. Trump’s former business partner Tevfik Arif tried to scrub details of his arrest (and later acquittal) for human trafficking from the Internet, was picked up by The Daily Beast last month.

The article also mentioned that I’d “documented Wikipedia editing records that show how Felix Sater, a Russian-born real estate developer and Trump business partner, may have used a pseudonym to delete information about his criminal history from Trump’s Wikipedia page,” and that I’d “identified about a dozen posts written under Trump’s name on his now-defunct Trump University blog that appeared to plagiarize content from news outlets including CNN, USA Today and The New York Times.”

Shortly after Politico’s article, Jordan Sekulow, director of the American Center for Law and Justice and the son of Jay Sekulow, Trump’s legal adviser during the Mueller investigation, appeared on Fox News to denounce me and the other featured researchers—including Brooke Binkowski, managing editor of highly respected fact-checking website Snopes—without disclosing his ties to Trump.

Here’s the clip, plus excerpt:

Sekulow: I think it’s wonderful that these people who are – who want to bring down the president – are wasting all of their time and money to do so. I don’t even think the special counsel is going to be able to find anything on the president, so good luck to these sleuths who are, again, spending all they’ve got to try and bring this president down. It does underscore, though, just how much hatred there is out there for this President of the United States, who was elected so overwhelmingly by the American people.

To which I say: If a part-time blogger like me with zero resources can locate and publish the kind of damning info I have on Trump, I can only imagine what the Mueller investigation is turning up!

For the record—savvy cat that I am—I found my scoops without spending a single penny.