Media Darling Buttigieg Accused of Sexual Assault

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The mayor of South Bend, Indiana and an upstart 2020 presidential candidate has been accused of sexual assault.
“My name is Hunter Kelly. I am 21 years old. This is by far the hardest thing I have ever had to do. For the past three nights, I have not slept even a single hour. I have vomited eight times,” Kelly said in a Medium blog post.
He continued:
I was sexually assaulted by Mayor Pete Buttigieg. I didn’t know who he was back in February, only that he told me he was an important politician. When I started seeing him on television three weeks ago as a Presidential candidate, I thought about coming forward.
I am a gay man. I have been grappling with my identity for a number of years. I live, work, and attend college in rural Michigan. I know that by coming forward, I will make a hard life even harder. But I must do so — I must do so — for my country, for other gay men like me, and most importantly to stop a very bad man from becoming President of the United States.
I must confess that this is the toughest thing I have ever had to do. For two weeks now, I have been contemplating suicide. I see myself jumping from a building or a bridge. I know that years and years of counseling may lie in front of me.
Kelly did not share the whole story of his encounter with Buttigieg.
“In the days and weeks ahead, I will share my full story with the nation,” his post finished.
This story is developing…


Big League Politics has been looking into the accuser. Here’s what we found:
There is a Facebook page under the name “Hunte Kelly,” which has been active for years and whose photos match the profile photo of the Medium blog where Kelly made his accusation.
Compare a Facebook photo:
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To the Medium photo:
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In the Medium post, Kelly describes himself as a 21-year-old who attends a college in rural Michigan. That description fits with a post on the Hunte Kelly Facebook page, which says he began a program at Ferris State University in 2018. Ferris State is, indeed, in rural Michigan. It is well north of Grand Rapids.
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A Ferris State Dean’s list post from fall of 2018 also shows that a Hunter Kelly is enrolled, and apparently a good student.


Some Facebook posts show that Kelly is a Trump fan:
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Hunter Kelly also has an Instagram account, which lists him as a Ferris State student. The profile photo appears to match both Facebook and Medium, though the account itself is set to private.
Hunter Kelly also has a recently-opened Twitter account, which he used to share his Medium post Monday.
The account recently posted a Tweet explaining that he has received hundreds of phone calls and messages from reporter, and is sorting through them to do an interview.
“I’ve received hundreds of phone calls today from journalists doing dogged reporting. They’ve called my school, my friends, my family and people who barely know me. I’m now sorting through my messages to do an interview about my horrific experience. Please pray for me,” he said.
I've received hundreds of phone calls today from journalists doing dogged reporting. They've called my school, my friends, my family and people who barely know me. I'm now sorting through my messages to do an interview about my horrific experience. Please pray for me.
— Hunter Kelly (@realHunterKelly) April 29, 2019
Either this is an elaborate hoax, and one for which Kelly’s life will surely be ruined, or he’s actually got a story to tell about Buttigieg.
The only other possibility is that someone stole his identity and made up the allegations in order to spite the candidate.
This story is still developing.

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/breaking-media-darling-buttigieg-accused-of-sexual-assault/
 
For liberals it doesn’t matter as long as the perp is liberal.

There’s nothing “liberal” about the totalitarian left. Their hypocrisy is deafening when things like this come up. And it looks like Medium has taken down the accusation. Apparently they were able to prove that the accusation is false.
 
There’s nothing “liberal” about the totalitarian left. Their hypocrisy is deafening when things like this come up. And it looks like Medium has taken down the accusation. Apparently they were able to prove that the accusation is false.

"UPDATE— The 21-year-old Hunter Kelly posted on Facebook message that contradicted his statements on Pete Buttigieg.

A Facebook user Hunter Kelly says that the sexual assault allegations levied against Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a 2020 presidential candidate, are a hoax perpetrated by conservative hoaxer Jacob Wohl."
 
There’s nothing “liberal” about the totalitarian left. Their hypocrisy is deafening when things like this come up.
Isaiah
Chapter 32



5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.
6 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
7 The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.




And it looks like Medium has taken down the accusation. Apparently they were able to prove that the accusation is false.
Were they able to? Or did they just claim to?
I'll wait and see.



EDIT: NEVER MIND

"UPDATE— The 21-year-old Hunter Kelly posted on Facebook message that contradicted his statements on Pete Buttigieg.

A Facebook user Hunter Kelly says that the sexual assault allegations levied against Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a 2020 presidential candidate, are a hoax perpetrated by conservative hoaxer Jacob Wohl."
 
Isaiah
Chapter 32



5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.
6 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
7 The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.





Were they able to? Or did they just claim to?
I'll wait and see.



EDIT: NEVER MIND

Just happened to be reading this on another forum when Brian made that reply and I saw it on the activity page.
 
A biased outlet (Daily Beast) gives this as an explanation for what happened:


A pair of right-wing provocateurs are being accused of attempting to recruit young Republican men to level false allegations of sexual assault against Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg.

The details of the operatives’ attempt emerged as one man suddenly surfaced with a vague and uncorroborated allegation that Buttigieg had assaulted him. The claim was retracted hours later on a Facebook page appearing to belong to the man.

A Republican source told The Daily Beast that lobbyist Jack Burkman and internet troll Jacob Wohl approached him last week to try to convince him to falsely accuse Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, of engaging him sexually while he was too drunk to consent.
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Neither Burkman nor Wohl responded to repeated requests for comment on this story. But after The Daily Beast contacted them last week, traces of the scheme disappeared from the web and social media.
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On Monday, a separate individual using the name of Hunter Kelly published a post on the site Medium in which he alleged that Buttigieg sexually assaulted him in February.
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Kelly wrote that he did not control the newly-created Medium and Twitter accounts that posted the allegations under his name.
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“It's important for everyone to know that I was not sexually assaulted and would never falsely accuse anyone,” he wrote. “To keep it brief for now, I was approached by a political figure to come to DC to discuss political situations from the standpoint of a gay Republican. When I arrived they discussed Peter Buttigieg and started talking about how they would be working a campaign against him.”

“I went to bed and woke up to a fake Twitter @RealHunterKelly and an article that I in no way endorsed or wrote. I have since left and am working on a formal statement to give to everyone including the Buttigieg family.”

After publication, Kelly told The Advocate that Wohl and Burkman flew him to Washington D.C. on Sunday evening to participate in the scheme. But Kelly said he didn’t realize what they had planned, and that he didn’t consent to their publication of the Buttigieg allegations under his name.
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More: https://www.thedailybeast.com/far-r...e-pete-buttigieg-with-bogus-sex-assault-claim
 
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