Liz 'Fauxcahontas' Warren Out to Save You Heap Big Wampum -- Fight Shrinkflation
Ilhan Omar's Victory Lap Over Earmarks For Squad Members' Districts Goes Over Like...
BLM Continues to Try to Destroy Free Speech Rights of Kyle Rittenhouse --...
Architect of 'Equity-Based Algebra' Accused of Fraud
Aaron Rupar Corrects Elon Musk Who Says MSNBC Won't Allow Even One Republican...
That Was Fast! Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Signs Legislation to End so Called...
The Atlantic ‘Targets’ Student Who Says the Military Should Execute Joe Biden
David Hogg Gets Dragged... Again... For Crowing About the 'Office of Gun Violence...
Democrats Turn Trump’s ‘Bloodbath’ Into a Meme
RFK Presented His Competition a Gift Wrapped with a Giant Red Bow When...
Bigger Problems Than Just a Bridge: MASSIVE Police Shortages in Baltimore Lead to...
Gov. Kathy Hochul Tells Anti-Choice Extremists Not to Underestimate Women’s Rage
What Could Go Wrong? Israel Asked to Protect US Forces at Gaza Pier...
BREAKING: Family of Former Senator Joe Lieberman Shares Tragic News Per Politico (Watch)
Dr. Jill Biden: Before WWII, Berlin Was the Center of European LGBTQ Culture

Strobe Talbott claims that Russian-backed separatist has admitted shooting down #MH17; Update: Now it's all very 'murky'; Update: Tweet deleted

Strobe Talbott, President of the Brookings Institution and former Deputy Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton, is claiming that Russian separatist Igor Girkin (also known as “Igor Strelkov” or simply “Strelkov”) has taken responsibility for shooting down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.

Advertisement

Stanford University professor Michael McFaul, who was the U.S. Ambassador to Russia up until February 2014, said the same thing earlier today:

Both tweets are being widely circulated on Twitter, each with more than 2,000 retweets at the moment.

We have seen the same claim made elsewhere, including here and here.

There are, however, serious doubts about the authenticity of Strelkov’s “admission”:

https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/489821307177943040

McFaul himself, who seemed quite sure of himself earlier, is now backpedaling:

He also retweeted this:

Talbott, on the other hand, has doubled down:

Advertisement

The truth will come out. As always, remain skeptical. Twitchy will update as news develops.

Update:

And just like that, Talbott is now hedging his bets, too. All of a sudden it’s all very “murky”:

Update:

And McFaul says he was “just putting out all reports” for the benefit of his readers:

Next he’ll be telling us that Tom Hanks is dead.

Update:

Now he seems to be saying it’s his job to present the latest rumor as truth:

Update:

Talbott has now deleted one of the tweets (the one at the top of this post). Poor Strobe. That trick never works!

 

Join the conversation as a VIP Member

Recommended

Trending on Twitchy Videos

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement