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Anti-Trump Activists Fall for Hoax Documents in Effort To Take Trump Down
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An international cabal of Democrats had egg on its face after shelling out thousands of dollars to scammers for what it believed — wrongly — was secret and damaging information about the president of the United States.

According to BuzzFeed, one of those who fell victim to scammers was Yoni Ariel, described by Israeli news source Haaretz as a “journalist and political operative” acting “at the behest of Democratic political activists in the U.S.” and tipped off about the existence of the documents by a lawyer long associated with an organization for Democrats abroad.

Ariel was told that he could obtain 35 pages detailing a transaction of $1.6 billion between ExxonMobil, the European office of a Chinese mining company, and the Trump Organization.

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Ariel believed these documents proved that former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson bribed Trump to obtain his appointment as secretary of state, with money passing from ExxonMobil to Trump via a Chinese go-between.

Eager to get his hands on those documents, Ariel flew from Tel Aviv to Rome with $9,000 dollars in cash provided by left-wing sources, having consulted multiple organizations and individuals associated with the Democrats, including another Democrats-abroad organization and a former Democrat National Committee operative in Washington, D.C.

When he arrived, he met an Italian man who claimed to be a businessman. Ariel exchanged the money for the allegedly damning documents.

After arriving back in Israel, Ariel was on a mission to distribute these documents to Democrat publications as well as to BuzzFeed News, which then determined that the documents were fake.

Ariel said he believed the documents were authentic and that he wanted to damage Trump.

“Would I have done it at my own expense? No. Would I have been pleased if it had turned out to be true? Yes, I would have been pleased,” Ariel said.

According to The Daily Caller, this was not an isolated case, as there is a “growing market for potentially damaging information” about President Trump.

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