{"id":5334,"date":"2020-01-23T13:23:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T17:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=5334"},"modified":"2020-01-23T13:23:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T17:23:53","slug":"how-does-the-msm-keep-this-radioactive-adam-schiff-story-so-covered-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=5334","title":{"rendered":"How does the MSM keep this radioactive Adam Schiff story so covered up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About the Adam Schiff and Ed Buck Photo Rumor\u2026<\/h2>\n<p><!--more-->RedState<\/p>\n<p>On Monday both RedState and I were tagged in a tweet thread by Jack Burkman, a lobbyist\/podcast host based in Washington, D.C., claiming that a \u201csenior House Republican\u201d had sent the site \u201ca salacious photo of Adam Schiff and Ed Buck\u201d and expressing confidence that the site would \u201cdo the right thing.\u201d For those who aren\u2019t aware, Buck is a major Democrat donor (and friend of Hillary Clinton, Ted Lieu, and Adam Schiff) who preys on gay homeless men. Buck \u201chires\u201d the men for \u201cparty and play\u201d activities in which he force feeds them meth, binds them, sometimes tortures them with hand tools, and basically rapes them. Two men died of overdoses in his West Hollywood apartment and a third man nearly died before the Los Angeles DA\u2019s office\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.redstate.com\/jenvanlaar\/2019\/09\/19\/ed-buck-nearly-kills-third-man-la-district-attorney-finally-files-criminal-charges\/\">finally arrested the monster<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Upon reading Burkman\u2019s tweet thread I was surprised because neither I or the anyone at the site had received such a transmission.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UPDATE: A senior House Republican has transmitted the salacious photo of Adam Schiff and Ed Buck to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RedState?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RedState<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>After watching the heroic reporting of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jenvanlaar?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JenVanLaar<\/a> on the Katie Hill matter, we\u2019re confident they will do the right thing<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jack Burkman (@Jack_Burkman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jack_Burkman\/status\/1219302451414614016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Adam Schiff was a regular at Ed Buck\u2019s Los Angeles meth dens <\/p>\n<p>While we all wait for Red State, who enjoys better 1A legal protections than us, to publish the uncensored photos (as they did in the Katie Hill matter) here are are some previews <\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t forget Ed Buck\u2019s victims <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/f7HStaa93k\">pic.twitter.com\/f7HStaa93k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jack Burkman (@Jack_Burkman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jack_Burkman\/status\/1219439391162146816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 21, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Late Monday, Burkman posted a tweet saying they were waiting for RedState to publish \u201cuncensored photos.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">While we all wait for Red State, who enjoys better 1A legal protections than us, to publish the uncensored photos (as they did in the Katie Hill matter) here are are some previews<\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I had planned to ignore the tweets, but after seeing that tweet I direct messaged Burkman, gave him my phone number, and asked him to call me so I could ask him what he was talking about. (I had never met or corresponded with Burkman or Wohl before that time.) A short while later, Burkman and Jacob Wohl called, as they documented in this tweet Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Adam Schiff is in big, big trouble <\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s about to join Katie Hill in the congressional trash-heap <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XwJ0T5eQ99\">pic.twitter.com\/XwJ0T5eQ99<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jack Burkman (@Jack_Burkman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jack_Burkman\/status\/1219779931577573376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 22, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I explained to them that neither myself nor any of our writers had received such a photo, so I was confused about these tweets. When I asked what the photo depicted, I was told that it showed Schiff sprawled on a ratty couch in Ed Buck\u2019s West Hollywood drug den\/torture chamber, with Ed Buck nearby, and with a skinny younger black man who was wearing only a thong. I was told that all three of the men looked like they were on drugs, and that what looked like drug paraphernalia was on a table in the photo. The photo was allegedly part of the evidence seized from Buck\u2019s apartment during an FBI raid (Buck is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.out.com\/crime\/2019\/11\/01\/ed-buck-will-be-jail-until-2020-after-trial-delay\" rel=\"noopener\">currently in federal custody<\/a>\u00a0awaiting trial on charges he provided methamphetamine leading to the death of Gemmel Moore). I was told how the photo had come into the possession of the unnamed \u201csenior House Republican\u201d (an explanation Burkman has published on Twitter as well).<\/p>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"2\">\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-2\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--cta js-clickToOpenTarget\" lang=\"en\" data-click-to-open-target=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jack_Burkman\/status\/1219779931577573376\" data-iframe-title=\"Twitter Tweet\" data-scribe=\"page:tweet\" data-twitter-event-id=\"3\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweetContainer\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweet\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hearing this, I replied that if such photos were sent to us we would have to have them digitally analyzed and I\u2019d have to be able to independently verify with my law enforcement sources in the Buck investigation that the photo was legit. Then there would be internal discussions about if and when we would publish it. If we as an editorial team decided to promote a story in advance of publication, that promotion would occur on the site and on our official social media accounts.<\/p>\n<p>In my mind, the issue was finished at that time since no one at the site had such photos and, clearly, we couldn\u2019t publish what we didn\u2019t have. I haven\u2019t been in communication with Wohl or Burkman since that time.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I would not be at all surprised if such a photo existed. It\u2019s well known that Schiff and Buck are friends, and there are rumors in California political circles about the nature of the relationship between Buck and Schiff. Ed Buck is an extremely evil man (on a Jeffrey Epstein level), and if Adam Schiff has been involved in Buck\u2019s criminal, inhumane activities that information should be brought forward and Schiff should be held to account.<\/p>\n<p>Since I don\u2019t know Burkman or Wohl other than through this episode, I\u2019m not assigning any malicious intent behind them dragging me and RedState into whatever is happening here. Whether they intended to or not, though, their tweets imply that both I and the site are involved in some opposition research conspiracy with them and the NRCC. Journalists on the left could use these tweets to allege that I and\/or the site are engaged in a blackmail\/extortion scheme against Adam Schiff. That response wouldn\u2019t be without precedent; in October and November 2019 I was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/red-state\/redstates-reporting-about-katie-hill-ethical-nightmare-and-warning-sign\" rel=\"noopener\">falsely accused of blackmailing Katie Hill<\/a>\u00a0by numerous left-wing writers and major publications on the basis of tweets made by people I\u2019ve never met. I was even falsely accused of participating in an opposition research conspiracy with the man who had me blackballed in California politics (as retribution for reporting misconduct by a GOP officeholder) simply because the man tweeted and wrote Facebook posts saying he\u2019d received hundreds of photos of Hill.<\/p>\n<p>In closing, I will reiterate: No one at RedState has received any photos of Adam Schiff at Ed Buck\u2019s drug den and we are not in contact with Jacob Wohl or Jack Burkman about any such photos.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.redstate.com\/jenvanlaar\/2020\/01\/22\/about-that-adam-schiff-rumor...\/\">https:\/\/www.redstate.com\/jenvanlaar\/2020\/01\/22\/about-that-adam-schiff-rumor&#8230;\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the Adam Schiff and Ed Buck Photo Rumor\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}