Jacob Wohl: Truth is an Obsolete Concept

Truth is an obsolete concept. It's something that can't be thought about in linear, binary true-false, facts-non-facts--you can't do that any more. It's just not the way it works. The veracity of the information I spread isn't important. All that matters is how far those claims travel and how many people believe them.

Jacob Wohl



Young Mr. Wohl is a world class internet troll. For a time he worked as a, "reporter," for the online right wing publication, The Gateway Pundit. He is also a former financier. His business practices were so sketchy he was banned for life by the National Futures Association. That was right before the Arizona Corporation Commission forced his companies to pay restitution to clients plus a fine of $5,000 after it found them guilty of 14 counts of securities fraud.

That's quite the resume' for a guy who won't turn 22 years old until this December.

But wait, as certain TV ads say, there is more.

Given his history of behavior it seems only natural Jacob Wohl is a huge fan of Donald John Trump.  However, Mr. Wohl isn't just another anonymous member of, The Great and Almighty Base. He is important enough to have posed with The Big Orange Guy for a photo op and had at least one of his twitter posts retweeted by the current President of the United States of America.

So how does a young fellow make such an impression on the so called leader of the free world? Well, in 2018 he and his pal, lobbyist Jack Burkman, tried to frame Special Counsel Robert Mueller for sexual misconduct with a woman. The purpose of the operation was simple. Discredit Mueller and either severely hamstring, or end his investigation into the connection between Trump's 2016 campaign and the Russians.

It wasn't a particularly well thought out plan. According to Wikipedia a Vermont Law School Professor received a call from an outfit called Surefire Intelligence. The Surefire agent asked her to divulge, "past encounters with Mueller," then offered her cash if she would discuss Mueller's behavior over the phone.

That proved to be a problem since the Professor, Jennifer Taub, told the caller she had never even met Mueller. After hanging up she called Mueller's office to tell them about the call. Mueller's people promptly called the FBI.

Then, as Mac Davis once said in a movie, came the weird part. In mid October 2018, a person claiming to be a woman named, Lorraine Parsons began emailing journalists across a broad spectrum of media. The mysterious, Ms Parsons claimed Surefire Intelligence had been hired by Burkman to offer her, $20,000 to sign a false affidavit accusing Mueller of sexual misconduct. Not surprisingly, "Lorraine Parsons," refused to speak on the phone to any of the reporters she had emailed.

Within a day The Gateway Pundit printed accusations by, Lorraine Parsons against Mueller. Then, less than 24 hours later, Gateway deleted the article. The following day Wohl tweeted Mueller's office was behind the entire Parsons deal in order to distract the public from a press conference he and Burkman were holding on November 1st which would feature the actual woman who had been Mueller's victim. Both Burkman and Wohl admitted Parsons didn't exist while denying either of them had anything to do with the hoax.

Mueller's alleged victim never showed at the presser, Wohl and Burkman told the assembled media she was in fear for her life and in hiding. The woman, Carolyne Cass, later told USA Today she had hired Surefire Intelligence through a Craiglist ad on an unrelated matter which they didn't resolve. She also said she had been offered a job by Surefire employee, Matthew Cohen. She told USA Today a document bandied about by Wohl which described Mueller's aggressions was totally fabricated and her signature was a forgery. In the immediate aftermath of the press conference The Gateway Pundit fired Jacob Wohl's ass.

But hold on you say. Just who are these devilish rascals at Surefire Intelligence? Well, it turns out Matthew Cohen was an online identity used by, Jacob Wohl. Surefire was created by him in 2018. Its website posted pictures of so called, "operatives," one of which was an altered photo of Wohl. Another was of the actor, Christoph Waltz. Wohl, ever the one for details, also created employee profiles on the LinkedIn professional site, some of which featured photos of other celebrities.

Of course the Mueller plot is only one of many in this brave new world of right wing internet politics. Just last month Wohl and Burkman tried to pull the same scam on democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. It didn't even get as far as the Mueller charges did. As soon as the gay Trump supporter they were trying to enlist as Buttigieg's victim found out what they were up to he blabbed to everyone about their mendacity.

In the past, Wohl has stated candidate Kamala Harris is ineligible to run for President because when she was born her parents had yet to become U.S. citizens. (She was born in Oakland, CA which automatically made her a citizen.) He also posted, through a fake Twitter account he had created, she used sex to further her professional and political career. In February of this year he traveled to Minneapolis in order to accuse congresswoman Ilhan Omar of marrying her brother, so he could get American citizenship. While there he claimed, "Somali Jihadists," controlled swaths of the city and Minneapolis police had declared those neighborhoods, "no go zones," when it came to patrolling them. Minnesota republican state Representative Pat Garofalo called the allegations, "a lie," and, "a farce."

Yes, but as we've seen, lies don't mean anything to Jacob Wohl. As he so succinctly put it, "All that matters is how far those claims travel and how many people believe them."

Tragically, in this day and age, a vast number of people absolutely believe Wohl's toxic lies. No, not because they make any sense, they certainly don't, or even if they are subsequently proven false which they always are. It's because the yokels in those red MAGA hats want to believe them.

And Jacob Wohl, even at the tender age of 21, knows it.


sic vita est


5-7-19