{"id":382269,"date":"2018-10-25T00:25:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T23:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-us-army-vet-lawyer-kurt-schlichter-says-mail-bombs-could-be-a-leftist-scam\/"},"modified":"2018-10-25T00:25:54","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T23:25:54","slug":"prison-planet-com-us-army-vet-lawyer-kurt-schlichter-says-mail-bombs-could-be-a-leftist-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-us-army-vet-lawyer-kurt-schlichter-says-mail-bombs-could-be-a-leftist-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb US Army Vet &#038; Lawyer Kurt Schlichter Says Mail Bombs Could be a \u201cLeftist Scam\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p>Ben Shapiro says anyone suggesting a \u201cfalse flag\u201d is \u201cderanged\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Joseph Watson<\/strong><br \/>PrisonPlanet.com<br \/>October 24, 2018 <!-- NO_ADS_IN_ARTICLE --><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/241018tweet1.jpg\" alt=\"null\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>U.S. Army Veteran and trial lawyer Kurt Schlichter has sensationally claimed that the mail bombs targeting the Clintons, George Soros, CNN and others could be a \u201cleftist scam\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Responding to the wave of suspicious devices that have been discovered today, Schlichter, who is a Fox News contributor, suggested that the entire plot could be a political hoax designed to make conservatives look bad.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I don&#8217;t think a conservative did it, but it&#8217;s possible, and that hypothetical person is a criminal who tarred decent Americans on the right.<br \/>But considering the perfect timing &amp; the track record of hoaxes &amp; bombing on the left, don&#8217;t tell us to pretend it can&#8217;t be a leftist scam.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KurtSchlichter\/status\/1055142897987739649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 24, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think a conservative did it, but it\u2019s possible, and that hypothetical person is a criminal who tarred decent Americans on the right. But considering the perfect timing &amp; the track record of hoaxes &amp; bombing on the left, don\u2019t tell us to pretend it can\u2019t be a leftist scam,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the respondents to the tweet appeared to agree with Schlichter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot a single person they were sent to is actually where they were sent to. Nor do any of the targets have any current power of office. Seems unproductive from that stand point,\u201d said one.<\/p>\n<p>However, conservative commentator Ben Shapiro said that anyone who suggested the attempted attacks were part of a \u201cfalse flag\u201d must be \u201cderanged\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If your first reaction to some evil person sending bombs to a variety of politicians on one side of the aisle is &#8220;FALSE FLAG,&#8221; you are officially deranged.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benshapiro\/status\/1055135806648537089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 24, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As we reported earlier, Alex Jones also predicted months ago that the \u201cOctober surprise\u201d would take the form of attacks&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/us-army-vet-lawyer-kurt-schlichter-says-mail-bombs-could-be-a-leftist-scam.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Shapiro says anyone suggesting a \u201cfalse flag\u201d is \u201cderanged\u201d Paul Joseph WatsonPrisonPlanet.comOctober 24, 2018 U.S. Army Veteran and trial lawyer Kurt Schlichter has sensationally claimed that the mail bombs targeting the Clintons, George Soros, CNN and others could be a \u201cleftist scam\u201d. Responding to the wave of suspicious devices that have been discovered today, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-382269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}