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Jerome Corsi
Jerome Corsi
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Jerome Robert Corsi, East Cleveland (Ohio), V.S., 31 augustus 1946 is een Amerikaans auteur, politiek commentator en samenzwerings-theoreticus.[1][2]

Zijn twee New York Times bestsellers, Unfit for Command (2004) en The Obama Nation(2008), waren aanvallen op Democratische presidentskandidaten en werden bekritiseerd omdat ze talrijke onnauwkeurigheden bevatten.[3][4][5]

In andere boeken en columns voor conservatieve websites, zoals WorldNetDaily en Human Events, besprak Corsi samenzweringstheorieen, zoals de gesuggereerde plannen voor een Noord Amerikaanse regering; de theorie dat president Barack Obama geen Amerikaanse burger;[6] kritiek op de Amerikaanse regering voor het vermeend toedekken van informatie over de terroristische aanslagen op (/11 2001;[7] en de vermeende Amerikaanse steun aan Iran in zijn inspanningen om kernwapens te ontwikkelen.

In 2017, werd hij de Washington, D.C., bureauchef van InfoWars. de website voor samenzweringstheorieen, maar hij werkt niet langer voor de website.[11][12]

In 2018 werd Corsi gedagvaard door Speciale Aanklager Robert Mueller over zijn contacten met voormalig Donald Trump adviseur Roger Stone en over voorkennis van WikiLeaks-onthullingen over gestolen emails van Hillary Clinton emails. Hoewel Corsi claimde dat hij een pleit-deal met Robert Mueller afwees, en zulke contacten of kennis ontkende, toonden concept-gerechtelijke documenten in november aan dat hij Stone verscheidene keren e-mailde om hem op de hoogte te houden van gestolen e-mails, die Wikileaks op het punt stond vrij te geven.

Afkomst en opleiding

Jerome Corsi werd in 1946 geboren in East Cleveland, Ohio, in het gezin van Alice Hanlon en Louis E. Corsi, een Democratische Partij-activist en leider van de United Transportation Union. Hij rondde zijn studie aan de St. Ignatius High School af in 1964 en studeerde af aan de Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland in 1968. Hij behaalde een PhD-graad in Politieke wetenschappen aan Harvard University in 1972.[14][15]

In 1972 publiceerde Corsi zijn proefschrift Prior Restraint, Prior Punishment, and Political Dissent: A Moral and Legal Evaluation, waarin hij de Democratische Nationale Conventie en protesten tegen de Vietnamese Oorlog ter discussie stelde binnen de context van het gedogen van "intern politiek activisme."[16]

Carriere

Corsi was van 1981 tot 2004 werkzaam in het bankwezen en de financiele dienstverlening.[17]. In 1995 was hij als organisator betrokken bij een investeringsproject in het Polen van na "de Wende". dat uiteindelijk een verlies van $ 1.2 miljoen opleverde. De investeerders claimden schadeloosstelling en daagden de organisators, waaronder Corsi, voor de rechter, die hen in het gelijk stelde. Echter, van Corsi wisten zij geen cent los te krijgen. "Het geld was op naam van zijn vrouw gezet............Er was geen cent van hem te vangen". En de FBI vond geen argumenten om strafvervolging in te stellen. Totdat zijn eerste boek in 2004 uitkwam bleef Corsi werkzaam als marketing specialist voor financiele diensten. [18][19] [20}.

In januari 2005 vertelde Corsi de Boston Herald dat hij van plan was zich kandidaat te stellen voor John Kerry's zetel in de Senaat voor Massachusetts in 2008, als Republikeins of Onafhankelijk kandidaat.[21] Later zei hij dat zijn vrouw dit plan had "gevetoed". Daarna verklaarde Corsi: "Howard Phillips van de Constitution Party vroeg mij om serieus om mij kandidaat te stellen voor president in 2008, en dat doe ik!"[22] Daarna stemde hij in om voorgedragen te worden tijdens de Constitution Party National Convention,[23][24] maar hij viel in juli 2007 af als kandidaat.

In januari 2017 maakte Corsi dat hij als senior staf-redacteur van het uiterst rechtse website WorldNetDaily. Dat stelde hem in staat om het in Washington, D.C. gevestigde, bureau for conspiracy theory website InfoWars te openen en te leiden.[26]. Medio 2018 was hij er niet langer werkzaam.[12]

Onderzoek van de Speciale Aanklager naar Russische inmenging

In september 2018 werd Corsi gedagvaard om te getuigen in het onderzoek van Speciale Aanklager Robert Mueller, volgens diverse bronnen vanwege zijn contacten met Trump-kompaan Roger Stone.[27] Corsi droeg ook bestanden van zijn computer, telefoon en e-mail-verkeer af.[28] Naar verluid heeft het Kantoor de Speciale Aanklager informatie die erop wijst dat Corsi voorkennis had dat WikiLeaks de e-mails van Democratisch campagneleider John Podesta hard gehackt.[28]

Corsi ontkende dat hij enige voorkennis had van de hack, en/of dat hij enige communicatie voerde with met eeb betrokkene bij de hack.[28] Corsi maakte op 12 november 2018 bekend dat hij binnen enkele dagen zou worden aangeklaagd voor meineed.[29][30] Elf dagen later bevestigde hij dat hij in onderhandeling was voor een pleit-deal met aanklagersvan Mueller.[31] Op 26 november verklaarde Corsi dat hij een door de Speciale Aanklager voorgestelde pleit-deal op een punt van meineed afwees, omdat hij niet moedwillig iemand had misleid.[32][33]

Concept gerechtelijke documenten, onthuld in november, toonden aan dat Corsi twee maanden voordat WikiLeaks released gestolen e-mails van de Clinton campagne publiceerde, sent e-mails stuurde naar Trumps campagne-adviseur Roger Stone. Hij informeerde Stone er daarbij over dat WikiLeaks de e-mails in "porties" zou vrij geven, met inbegrip van de geplande data en dat de "beoogde impact zeer beschadigend" zou zijn ." Stone stuurde Corsi ook een e-mail hem adviserend contact te maken met Julian Assange "om de bungelende (WikiLeaks) e-mails te pakken te krijgen." Corsi vertelde Mueller's onderzoekers dat hij de aansporing negeerde, maar de onderzoekers ontdekten dat hij de uitvoering had overgedragen aan een compagnon in Londen, die Corsi later identificeerde als Ted Malloch, die werkte bij de Trump-campagne en in april 2018 werd ondervraagd door Mueller's onderzoeksteam.[34]

Corsi retained advocaat Larry Klayman, die in december ten behoeve van Corsi een request indiende voor een gerechtelijk onderzoek naar de tactiek van de Speciale Aanklager[35] en het aanhangig maken van een rechtszaak, waarin Mueller en andere overheidsautoriteiten " Corsi's grondrechten hebben geschonden en vertrouwelijke informatie van de grand jury hebben gelekt".[36] Later werden The Washington Post, eigenaar Jeff Bezos, en een verslaggever toegevoegd als gedaagden.[37]

Op 25 januari 2019 bevestigde Corsi dat hij “Persoon 1” is, zoals vermeld in de federale aanklacht tegen Roger Stone en voorspelde hij dat hij gevrijwaard zou blijven van beschuldigingen. Voor de zekerheid liet zijn advocaten zijn volledige onschuld nog in een formele juridische verklaring vastleggen en publiceren. [38]

Publicaties en samenzweringstheorieen

Corsi heeft gepubliceerd over diverse onderwerpen, waaronder Democratische politici en samenzweringstheorieen [39] Volgens The Guardian website, is de katholieke Corsi door de Amerikaanse pers ervan beschuldigd "dat hij anti-Islamitisch is", "anti-katholiek", "anti-Semitisch en "homofoob, en verder dat hij raciale vooroordelen cultiveert in een poging om " blank Amerika angst aan te jagen".[40] Corsi schreef een kritische biografie van de toenmalige Democratische presidentskandidaat John Kerry, getiteld Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry (2004). In 2005 publiceerde hij Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American Politicians, dat claimde dat Democratische politici worden omgekocht met Iraans geld en de islamitische Ulamas in Teheran aan wapens helpen. [41] In hetzelfde was hij co-auteur van Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil' (2005) , met Craig R. Smith.

In 2006, he co-authored Showdown with Nuclear Iran: Radical Islam's Messianic Mission to Destroy Israel and Cripple the United States with Michael D. Evans. In August 2006 he published Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders with Minutemen founder Jim Gilchrist. This book criticized President George W. Bush's border protection policies, accusing him of furthering plans to create a North American Union.[42] Corsi co-wrote the book Rebuilding America (published May 2006), with Kenneth Blackwell, then Ohio secretary of state and a Republican candidate for Governor of Ohio.[43]

In March 2008 Corsi claimed in WorldNetDaily that a "Muslim terrorist group with ties to criminal drug networks and al-Qaida" has given "strong support" to John McCain.[44]

In 2007 Corsi wrote that he himself is not a Republican and complained that "the Republican Party is controlled by what used to be called the 'Rockefeller Wing'".[45] In addition, Corsi called for the impeachment of George W. Bush.[46][47] On August 15, 2008, Corsi endorsed Constitution Party presidential candidate Chuck Baldwin, who had campaigned to reopen the investigation into the September 11, 2001 attacks in support of the 9/11 Truth movement.[48]

Corsi has also referred to Martin Luther King, Jr. as a "shakedown artist".[49][50][51]

FactCheck.org called Corsi's The Obama Nation "a mishmash of unsupported conjecture, half-truths, logical fallacies and outright falsehoods".[52] Obama's campaign has criticized Corsi as a "bigoted fringe author" for these claims, as well as "the bizarre, conspiratorial views that Jerome Corsi has advocated in his broader work".[9][10][53][54] Corsi has also appeared on INN World Report, a news program on Free Speech TV, to advance his claims.

Unfit for Command

Main article: Unfit for Command In August 2004, Corsi's Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry, with attributed coauthor John O'Neill, was published by Regnery Publishing. The book sold more than 1.2 million copies.

The main theme of Corsi's portion of the book was to criticize Kerry's antiwar activities after returning from Vietnam, and to dispute many of his and other antiwar activists' assertions that U.S. soldiers had committed war crimes and atrocities, burned down villages, and murdered innocent civilians in Vietnam. Kerry gained notoriety, the book argues, by bringing to light such horrific events as the My Lai Massacre, thus damaging the image of the U.S. Military in the Winter Soldier hearings.

The other theme of the book was that Kerry's four-month tour in Vietnam had been marked by cowardice under fire and fraudulently obtaining medals. In that regard, the book contained statements by some veterans of the Vietnam War who served with John Kerry on Swift Boats, several of whom executed affidavits in support of their claims; these claims were repudiated by other veterans who served with Kerry and often were disproven by outside sources, including the Navy's official records.[55]

After controversial comments Corsi had made at the Free Republic website were publicized by the Media Matters for America website, John O'Neill claimed that Corsi was not actually a co-author of the book Unfit for Command, but rather was "simply an editor".[56][57] Nevertheless, O'Neill described Corsi as the book's "coauthor" in a 2007 letter to The New York Times.[58] Scott Swett and Tim Ziegler describe Corsi's efforts in writing the book, referring to him as one of its "authors" in their book To Set the Record Straight.[59]

In 2007 Corsi, along with Bill Gertz, Lt. Col. Robert (Buzz) Patterson, Joel Mowbray, and Richard Miniter, sued Regnery's parent company, Eagle Publishing, claiming the company "orchestrate[d] and participate[d] in a fraudulent, deceptively concealed and self-dealing scheme to divert book sales away from retail outlets and to wholly owned subsidiary organizations within the Eagle conglomerate".[60] The suit was dismissed on June 30, 2008.[61]

The Obama Nation Main article: The Obama Nation Corsi's book The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality was released on August 1, 2008, and is critical of Barack Obama and his candidacy for President. In response, the Obama campaign issued a 40-page rebuttal called "Unfit for Publication" on his website FightTheSmears.com, alleging factual errors.[62] Corsi proclaimed the Obama report a confession that the most serious charges against Obama were true, because, he said, the campaign report cited minor issues, responded to charges different from those that Corsi had made, and implicitly confirmed many of Corsi's allegations.[63][64]

Many of the accusations made in the book are unsubstantiated, misleading or inaccurate.[65][66][67][68][69]

According to The New York Times, "Significant parts of the book, whose subtitle is 'Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality,' have been challenged in the days since its debut on Aug. 1."[69] The book made its first appearance on The New York Times' Best Sellers list for nonfiction hardcovers at No. 1.[70] Corsi conducted over 100 interviews promoting the book,[69] including a scheduled appearance[71] on The Political Cesspool, a white supremacist[72][73] radio talk show. He previously appeared on the show on July 20,[74] but he canceled his August 17 appearance, citing a change in travel plans.[75] In August 2008, Corsi appeared on Alex Jones' radio show and promoted The Obama Nation.[76]

In a debate with Corsi on Larry King Live, Paul Waldman, a senior fellow at Media Matters for America, accused him of using "baseless innuendo" as a tactic to "smear" Obama.[77]

On October 7, 2008, Corsi and his media consultant Tim Bueler were detained by immigration authorities in Kenya while engaged in further research related to the book, allegedly for failure to have a work permit. Corsi had scheduled a press conference to announce the claim that Obama had raised a million dollars for the election campaign of Kenyan prime minister Raila Odinga, and had helped run Odinga's campaign as a strategist, including setting the stage for the campaign of violence and bloodshed that had brought Odinga to power after a disputed election. The meeting was interrupted by Kenyan immigration officials when they detained Corsi.[78][79] Corsi was eventually deported.[80][81]

Black Gold Stranglehold Corsi has also promoted the theory of abiogenic petroleum origin (as opposed to the scientifically accepted theory for the formation of petroleum from biological matter).[82][83] In his book Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil, Corsi disputes the academic consensus that oil is fossil fuel and says that dinosaurs cannot turn into oil.[84] The scientific consensus is that oil is not formed from dinosaurs, but from fossilized plant remains.[85] Corsi says that the scientific views of petroleum formation are accepted, because it would be "disastrous — both to oil companies and to politicians in office" in terms of pricing to admit that oil is not a scarce commodity.[86]

Atomic Iran In 2005 Corsi's Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American Politicians was published by WND Books with an introduction by Craig R. Smith, Chairman of the Board of Owens & Minor. In the book he claims Democratic politicians are corrupted by Iranian money and are helping the mullahs, who seek nuclear weapons, in Tehran.[41] Corsi accused an aide for John Kerry of helping the mullahs, who strongly rejected the claim.[41] To promote the book, Corsi appeared in conservative venues such as on Hannity & Colmes on April 8, 2005, at The Heritage Foundation,[87] and on WEJEW Radio.[88]

On the topic in April 2005, Corsi wrote "An atomic Iran is imminent... mullahs may have bomb by June."[89] One year after the publication, Corsi wrote in his WorldNetDaily column, "I told you so", and claimed his book was right about failed talks.[90] The book was taken as highly controversial, generating opposing views.

Where's the Birth Certificate? Main article: Where's the Birth Certificate? Corsi wrote Where's the Birth Certificate?, a book that questions Obama's American citizenship. Prior to its May 2011 release, the book enjoyed a buzz-building teaser article in the heavily trafficked Drudge Report website, but Obama released his long-form birth certificate three weeks before the book was published. Shortly after the book's publication, Esquire issued a satirical report that the book had been recalled,[91] which prompted Corsi to sue Esquire for damages of over $285 million.[92] The lawsuit was dismissed in a United States district court in a decision stating that satire is protected by the First Amendment and noting, "Having become such well-known proponents of one position on the issue, plaintiffs cannot complain that the very intensity of their advocacy also became part of the public debate. Those who speak with loud voices cannot be surprised if they become part of the story."[93][94]

North American Union conspiracy theories Corsi claimed that "President Bush is pursuing a globalist agenda to create a North American Union", a theoretical continental union of Canada, Mexico, and the United States, that will supplant the United States.[95] In 2007, he predicted a new unit of currency, called the Amero, which would replace the Dollar for this union within ten years.[96] The "Union" is a theme in two of his books The Late Great U.S.A.: The Coming Merger With Mexico and Canada[45][97] (2007) and Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders (2006) as he explained on The Conservative Caucus's TV show.[42] On December 15, 2006 Corsi reported for the first time he "had found a major intellectual leader behind the push to integrate North America suggesting that a crisis of 9-11 proportions might be just what was needed to advance the process toward establishing a North American Union and the Amero."[98]

In 2007 he claimed that a North American Union driver's license had been created[99] and that the United States Department of State was in talks to "move toward a transatlantic union".[100] That same year he claimed: "Virgil Goode, R-Va., has introduced a House of Representatives resolution expressing congressional opposition to construction of a NAFTA superhighway or entry into a North American Union with Mexico and Canada."[101] The validity of those claims was criticized in Newsweek and the author noted: "Corsi offered a warning: President Bush's supposed determination to force North American integration, he told the audience, could cost the GOP the 2008 presidential election. Corsi may have a conspiratorial bent. But he sure knows how to spin stories that shake up an election – and at least one candidate seems happy to help him."[102]

John Hawkins, a fellow writer for Human Events, responded: "Yesterday, Jerome Corsi was prattling on about the North American Union again after Michael Medved deservedly spanked him for spreading conspiracy theories. While I don't think Corsi is any more worthy of being taken seriously than those who think Jews rule the world or the 'Truthers' who think President Bush is responsible for 9/11, I thought I would respond to him one last time."[103] John Hawkins listed Corsi as number three on his list of "The Most Annoying People on the Right", and wrote: "Nobody has worked harder to convince people that the completely moronic North American conspiracy theory is real than the right's version of Dylan Avery, kooky Jerome Corsi."[104] Additionally, conservative Hugh Hewitt said Corsi is "from the fringe".[105]

In October 2009, his book America for Sale: Fighting the New World Order, Surviving a Global Depression, and Preserving USA Sovereignty was published, which alleges "the globalists' plan to put America up for sale, from its financial services firms to public infrastructure such as highways and airports".[106] To promote the book, he appeared on Sean Hannity's show on Fox News and then discussed the issue on Coast to Coast with George Noory.[106]

9/11 conspiracy theories Main article: 9/11 conspiracy theories According to Corsi, "A video clip widely circulated on the Internet shows a test that pulverized an F-4 fighter on impact with a hardened target, providing evidence to answer members of the 9/11 Truth movement who question why so little identifiable airplane debris remained after the hijacked American Airlines Boeing 757 hit the Pentagon."[107] Audio and a YouTube video were circulated, especially among those questioning Corsi's credibility of Corsi's January 29, 2008 interview on Alex Jones's radio show.[108][109][110] In the interview Corsi discusses "the findings of Steven Jones, physicist and hero of the 9/11 Truth movement who claims to have evidence that the World Trade Center towers collapsed due to explosives inside the building, not just the planes hitting them, during the attacks".[108] Corsi cites Jones's findings of microscopic forensic evidence that seemingly negates the U.S. government hypothesis that the aircraft's jet fuel-fed heat alone was sufficiently hot to collapse the steel superstructure of the buildings.

Hunting Hitler On January 2, 2014, Corsi released his book Hunting Hitler: New Scientific Evidence That Hitler Escaped Nazi Germany. According to the publisher's description, the book explores claims made in 2009 by three U.S. professors who believe that Adolf Hitler did not die in 1945 and instead escaped Berlin.[111] In an interview with Newsmax TV on January 20, 2014, Corsi said of the Nazi leader's alleged escape discussed in the book: "Hitler was removed from the bunker by a helicopter, flown from Austria to Spain, and put on a submarine, the U-530, and brought across the ocean to Argentina."[112]

Private life Corsi has been married twice. His first marriage to Joy Dugan on May 8, 1970, ended in divorce. He married his second wife Monica in 1991.[113] He currently lives in Denville Township, New Jersey.[114][115]

Bibliography Corsi, Jerome Robert (1972). Prior Restraint, Prior Punishment, and Political Dissent; A Moral and Legal Evaluation. Boston, Massachusetts: Thesis (PhD) Harvard University (ProQuest document ID:754860281) (Publication Number: AAT 0231683). OCLC 76982330. Lewis, Ralph G. and Jerome R. Corsi. To Make the World Safe for Picnics: The 1972 Political Conventions in Miami Beach. 1974 O'Neill, John E. and Jerome R. Corsi. Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry. Regnery Publishing, 2004. ISBN 0-89526-017-4. Corsi, Jerome R. (2005). Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American Politicians. Nashville, Tennessee: WND Books. ISBN 978-1-58182-458-2. OCLC 57475793. Corsi, Jerome R. and Smith, Craig R. (2005). Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil. Nashville, Tennessee: WND Books. ISBN 978-1-58182-489-6. OCLC 61228601. Blackwell, Kenneth and Jerome R. Corsi. Rebuilding America: A Prescription for Creating Strong Families, Building the Wealth of Working People, and Ending Welfare. WND Books, 2006. ISBN 1-58182-501-3 Corsi, Jerome R. The Late Great U.S.A.: The Coming Merger With Mexico and Canada. WND Books, 2007, ISBN 0-9790451-4-2. Corsi, Jerome R. (2008). The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality. Threshold Editions. ISBN 978-1-4165-9806-0. Corsi, Jerome Robert (2009). America for Sale: Fighting the New World Order, Surviving a Global Depression, and Preserving USA Sovereignty. Boston, Massachusetts: Threshold Editions. ISBN 978-1-4391-5477-9. Corsi, Jerome R. (2010). The Shroud Codex. Threshold Editions. ISBN 978-1-4391-9041-8. Corsi, Jerome Robert (2011). Where's the Birth Certificate?: The Case that Barack Obama is not Eligible to be President. WND Books. ISBN 978-1-936488-29-2. Corsi, Jerome R. (2012). Saul Alinsky: The Evil Genius Behind Obama. Paperless Publishing. ISBN 978-0-98465-864-0. Corsi, Jerome R. (2013). Who Really Killed Kennedy?: 50 Years Later: Stunning New Revelations About the JFK Assassination. WND Books. ISBN 978-1938067105. OCLC 858128054. Corsi, Jerome R. (2014). No Greater Valor: The Siege of Bastogne and the Miracle That Sealed Allied Victory. Nelson Books. ISBN 978-1-59555-521-2. Corsi, Jerome R. (2018). Killing the Deep State: The Fight to Save President Trump. Humanix Books. ISBN 978-1-63006-102-9.

See also

Swiftboating

Timeline of investigations into Trump and Russia (2019)