Breaking: Jerome Corsi, responsible for some of the slimiest conspiracy theories, is in talks with the Mueller probe.
Conservative writer and conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi is in plea negotiations with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, according to a person with knowledge of the talks.
The talks with Corsi — an associate of both President Trump and GOP operative Roger Stone — could bring Mueller’s team closer to determining whether Trump or his advisers were linked to WikiLeaks’ release of hacked Democratic emails in 2016, a key part of his long-running inquiry.
This may be the big news we were expecting around this time. Corsi has been proclaiming for a while now that he was going to be indicted for “falling into a perjury trap,” which is the official TrumpCo phrase for “lying.”
Corsi provided research on Democratic figures during the campaign to Stone, a longtime Trump adviser. For months, the special counsel has been scrutinizing Stone’s activities in an effort to determine whether he coordinated with WikiLeaks. Stone and WikiLeaks have repeatedly denied any such coordination.
Stone has said that Corsi also has a relationship with Trump, built on their shared interest in the falsehood that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States.
Media Matters lists some of his other ideas:
Islam: "a worthless, dangerous Satanic religion"
Catholicism: "Boy buggering in both Islam and Catholicism is okay with the Pope as long as it isn't reported by the liberal press"
“John Fucking Commie Kerry” : "After he married TerRAHsa, didn't John Kerry begin practicing Judiasm? He also has paternal grandparents that were Jewish. What religion is John Kerry?"
“Senator Fat Hog Clinton” :"Anybody ask why HELLary couldn't keep BJ Bill satisfied? Not lesbo or anything, is she?"
And this is they guy who was taken seriously on his attack on John Kerry, coauthoring Unfit for Command, the Swift Boat attack that helped ruin his Presidential campaign
Then, in 2011, he came out with Where’s the Birth Certificate?, and he and Trump where on their way.
Much of Where's the Birth Certificate? rehashes old, debunked stories meant to cast doubt on Obama's birth in Hawaii. But the book also claims that even if Obama was born in the United States, he still might not be a "natural-born citizen" because of his father's foreign citizenship, which would make him ineligible for the presidency. To make this argument, Corsi dredges up a constitutional theory popular in white supremacist and anti-immigrant circles, making an invidious distinction between those granted citizenship by the 14th Amendment and those who were citizens under the Constitution as originally written.
So, sing out, Jerome, you nasty pile of slime.
If Mueller could prove that Corsi learned about Podesta’s emails from Assange or another person in contact with him, he could try to link WikiLeaks’ releases to Stone or others in Trump’s world.