By Robert Laurie ——Bio and Archives--March 3, 2017
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Juan Thompson, 31, was arrested in St. Louis by the FBI for making at least eight bomb threats and the cyberstalking of an ex-girlfriend. Thompson was a former reporter for The Intercept, and was fired after it was discovered that he made up sources and stories, including one about Charleston shooter Dylann Roof.If you don't remember this incident, all you really need to know is that Thompson was fired after he invented a person by the name of "Scott Roof" who he claimed was Dylann Roof's cousin. He also cooked up a bunch of phony quotes and attributed them to the fictional source. In other words, he was a pioneer in the field of left-wing "fake news."
The criminal complaint states that threats made to the Jewish establishments across the country by Thompson were under his name and the name of his ex-girlfriend, and occurred after the relationship ended. The threats were made by both email and phone calls. Dozens of Jewish Community Center bomb threats have occurred throughout the country since President Donald Trump’s election, and liberal groups and politicians have attacked Trump for them. The president condemned the threats during his address to Congress, but he reportedly said earlier that day, “sometimes it’s the reverse, to make people — or to make others — look bad.” Thompson’s Twitter account, which is referenced in the criminal complaint, espouses communist and anti-Trump beliefs. Several tweets from the Twitter account are mentioned in the criminal complaint.Here are a couple of now-ironic recent tweets from Thompson:
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