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Today, Explained

Who framed Mayor Pete?

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Two right-wing operatives tried to frame Mayor Pete Buttigieg for sexual assault. It didn’t go as planned. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.2

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0:05.6

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0:13.5

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0:30.0

There was a press conference this morning that you might have missed.

0:35.0

Well, there are these stories out there, these reports about a kidnapping that took place

0:40.3

of a young 19-year-old man.

0:43.5

Various media outlets have repeated this, everyone from the Daily Beast to the New Yorker

0:49.6

and so on.

0:50.6

You might have missed it because it was held in a driveway in Northern Virginia.

0:56.5

There was some sort of kidnapping and a subway sandwiches.

0:59.7

There was a 19-year-old involved.

1:01.4

The press conference was mostly given by a guy named Jacob Wol to double down an allegations

1:08.0

against Mayor Pete Buttigieg, allegations that could end his presidential campaign.

1:14.9

The thing is, they won't.

1:17.9

Well, summer has been covering this very messy smear for the Daily Beast.

1:22.5

So this very thinly sourced sexual assault allegation surfaced on the website Medium.

1:28.3

A young man named Hunter Kelly claimed that he had been sexually assaulted by the mayor.

1:33.6

He really didn't have any details and he sort of said, I will be revealing my story later.

1:39.6

And what was the story that he revealed later?

1:41.8

The post was very vague.

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