For this post, we have to work backward to Tuesday night, when Playboy correspondent Alex Thomas was reporting that the National Republican Congressional Committee was shopping around the images of Katie Hill after obtaining them from a radio host.
here — this is my story but backed up with multiple sources and audio (not at all attached to Playboy) about how a local radio host in California approached the National Republican Congressional Committee with the Katie Hill images before the first stories ran in RedState. pic.twitter.com/RJZg96fuS4
— Alex Thomas (@AlexThomasDC) October 30, 2019
i'm clearing the rest with lawyers and will be releasing it soon to show that the NRCC was shopping around the Katie Hill images and that they got them directly from right-wing radio host Joe Messina.
— Alex Thomas (@AlexThomasDC) October 30, 2019
again, all of this is backed up with multiple sources inside the NRCC and audio that I have of Messina saying that he offered the Katie Hill photos to the National Republican Congressional Committee before the first stories ran anywhere. Messina was the first to admit he had them
— Alex Thomas (@AlexThomasDC) October 30, 2019
So the NRCC was shopping around the Katie Hill photos before Twitchy sister-site RedState first published them? That seems unlikely.
DC has a revenge porn law that makes distributing nude photos with intent to do harm a crime. The folks at the NRCC should be worried. Also ashamed of their conduct. The NRCC has become a vile organization. https://t.co/ESARyQlIdM
— Emily C. Singer (@CahnEmily) October 30, 2019
Let’s fast-forward to Wednesday morning. Chris Pack is the communications director for the NRCC:
Come on, Emily. You should know better than to take at face value the late night texts of a reporter from a smut publication who is trying to use this to win a Pulitzer Prize (he literally said that).
— Chris Pack (@ChrisPack716) October 30, 2019
is this an official NRCC statement? https://t.co/AbI5YoOYaE
— Alex Thomas (@AlexThomasDC) October 30, 2019
the story is rock solid.
— Alex Thomas (@AlexThomasDC) October 30, 2019
No, that would be this: "We never shopped, possessed or circulated photos of Congresswoman Hill. We didn’t see the photos until they were published, just like everyone else." https://t.co/FRsiB777Uf
— Chris Pack (@ChrisPack716) October 30, 2019
cc: @CahnEmily
— Chris Pack (@ChrisPack716) October 30, 2019
.@NRCC communications director: "We never shopped, possessed or circulated photos of Congresswoman Hill. We didn't see the photos until they were published, just like everyone else." @RepKatieHill @KatieHill4CA https://t.co/jdrOjl8zEX
— Kyung Lah (@KyungLahCNN) October 30, 2019
so this checks out actually. the NRCC might have never had their hands on the photos. but they were offered them and tried to connect multiple reporters with the man who did have them, a radio host in California. https://t.co/7MATYDFVcK
— Alex Thomas (@AlexThomasDC) October 30, 2019
Wait, we were told the night before that the NRCC “was shopping around the Katie Hill images.” And the next evening, the story is that “the NRCC might have never had their hands on the photos.” That’s not rock solid.
I’m old enough to remember yesterday(!) when @AlexThomasDC accused us of being in possession and circulating the photos of Katie Hill of sexually preying on her subordinates. And and that he had audio to back it up! Turns out he’s just full of it. How pathetic. https://t.co/MGitWpGjHx
— Chris Pack (@ChrisPack716) October 30, 2019
Huh.
— ?Grim Creature? (@jtLOL) October 31, 2019
“My story was garbage until I tried to make it a story. Then it turned out it was still garbage”.
— jp (@JohnPlatner) October 30, 2019
Don't let this deter you from pretending a predatory congressperson is the victim. Truth to power!
— Anthony Bialy (@AnthonyBialy) October 31, 2019
This seems very personal for you.
— Aaron et politica ingenio ??? (@peekaso) October 31, 2019
Good job good effort
— Oscar Buck Wilde (@dorn_bruce) October 30, 2019
I’m sorry this is happening to you.
— Jshep72 (@j_shep72) October 31, 2019
Does this mean the whole thing was bullshit? What the hell is actually going on?
— R.D. (@RebuildBridges) October 30, 2019
Where’s your audio that supported your theory? Or does the whistleblower have it?
— Wittorical (@Wittorical) October 30, 2019
Awe, you going to be okay?
Need a tissue?— Freeze (@Freeze82970441) October 30, 2019
Worst retraction ever.https://t.co/YgD34WqL9P
— The Daniel Black Project (@LeftismP) October 31, 2019
So you’re a liar and a dumbass
Yup… checks out
— Malak Kobbe (@Malak_Kobbe) October 31, 2019
Hey, why no link to your newsletter in this one?
— Gibberish-ish (@gibberishness5) October 31, 2019
?? life comes at you fast sometimes. Go get some ice cream, it might make you feel better and you’ll still get your scoop today.
— factsruingreatstories (@factsruingreat1) October 31, 2019
Related:
'This is incredible': Politico senior media reporter runs interference for Katie Hill by trying to manufacture dirt on RedState's Jen Van Laar https://t.co/QLsjdOWj8c
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) October 28, 2019