Special Counsel Robert Mueller will be accused of sexual assault during a Thursday press conference at 12:00pm Eastern at the Rosslyn Holiday Inn in Washington, D.C.
That’s according to conservative lobbyist Jack Burkman, who said Thursday he was set to reveal the “first” of Mueller’s multiple “sex assault victims.”
“I applaud the courage and dignity and grace and strength of my client,” Burkman tweeted —
Some sad news. On Thursday, November 1, at the Rosslyn
Holiday Inn at noon, we will reveal the first of Special Counsel Robert
Mueller's sex assault victims. I applaud the courage and dignity and
grace and strength of my client. pic.twitter.com/wZVQeHD45r— Jack Burkman (@Jack_Burkman) October 30, 2018
Burkman has long been an outspoken critic of Mueller, and has repeatedly called on President Donald Trump to fire the special counsel. The Washington Times reported in February that Burkman has offered a $25,000 reward to any whistleblower that would come forward with evidence of wrongdoing connected to Mueller’s team.
Mainstream media outlets Tuesday speculated that the accusations have been falsified, which Burkman denied —
The allegations of paying a woman are false. The left is trying to defend Mueller against sex assault allegations so they attack me in desperation. The establishment media knows that Mueller may go down over this–they want to deflect attention.
— Jack Burkman (@Jack_Burkman) October 30, 2018
NBC News reports that Mueller’s team has referred to the FBI allegations that at least one woman was “offered money to make false claims” about the former FBI director.
“When we learned last week of allegations that women were offered money to make false claims about the special counsel, we immediately referred the matter to the FBI for investigation,” said special counsel spokesman Peter Carr.
The press released by Mueller’s team didn’t specify what the alleged false claims were, but the referral to the FBI suggests that Mueller’s office believed there was a potential crime for federal law enforcement to investigate.
New York Magazine reporter Yashar Ali tweeted that he’d received a tip from a woman named Lorraine Parsons last Wednesday, saying she was offered a large sum of cash from Burkman if she filed false accusations against Mueller. As of yet, Burkman has not put forward the name of the woman prepared to come forward and has yet to offer any evidence.
In other words, the rumors could be a politically motivated effort to discredit the special counsel’s office as it enters a critical stage of its investigation into Russian election meddling.
Burkman said the sexual assault allegations are credible and dismissed effort to discredit them as “a hoax” —
The woman to whom we allegedly offered payment–Lorraine Parsons–does not exist. The allegations are an outright joke. This entire backstory is a hoax designed to distract the nation from my press
conference on Thursday, which is where all eyes need to be.— Jack Burkman (@Jack_Burkman) October 31, 2018
Burkman made headlines in 2017 after being shot twice in the back and run over in a Washington, D.C. parking garage during his private investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails and the unsolved murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich.
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