ENERGY/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s appointee to a Department of Energy post says inflammatory comments that appeared to have been made by him online were the result of ‘cyber attacks and Internet crimes’ committed against him over the past several years by ‘imposters in social media.’
William C. Bradford, Trump’s appointee to head the Energy Department’s Office of Indian Energy, made the claim in response to significant evidence uncovered by CNN’s KFile that suggests an account on the online commenting service Disqus belongs to him. The account was made private earlier this year but is linked to Bradford through the Google cache. The user commented on articles written by Bradford and made clear references to being the author of the articles. In one comment, the account directed a fellow commenter to contact him at Bradford’s email address and phone number.
Many of the comments left by the account mirror what Bradford has said publicly. The user also made multiple references to joining the Trump administration and referenced key details that match up with Bradford’s biography…
Bradford told CNN’s KFile in an email from his personal account on Monday [8-28-17]: ‘I cannot comment on an ongoing federal investigation into multiple cyber attacks and Internet crimes committed against me over the past several years, to include email intrusions, hacking, and impostors in social media.’
A spokesperson for the FBI declined to comment. Representatives from the Department of Energy also declined to comment.”
-Andrew Kaczynski and Paul LeBlanc, “This Trump appointee says it was hackers, not him, who called Obama’s mom a ‘w@!re’,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, Aug. 29, 2017 03:40pm