Bumbling conservative provocateur Jacob Wohl pitched investors this spring on a scheme to use fraudulent news stories to manipulate political betting markets, according to a fundraising document obtained by The Daily Beast.
It’s not clear how Wohl, who has become notorious for failing at nearly every dirty tricks plot he hatches, would have pulled any of it off. On Tuesday, Wohl denied any connection to the ACPI fundraising document. But The Daily Beast obtained an email sent from Wohl’s account making the investment pitch, and also spoke with an investor who said Wohl had asked him to contribute tens of thousands of dollars to the effort.
“ACPI plans to produce positive cash-flow by selling intelligence to friendly campaigns and by placing bets alongside our backers on the political outcomes that we influence,” the document reads. The group also planned to create “high-impact political publicity stunts” to affect political races. The pitch praises two recent headline-grabbing conservative efforts—the GoFundMe campaign to fund the border wall and anti-Muslim activist Laura Loomer handcuffing herself to Twitter’s New York office—as activities to emulate.
This would not be Wohl’s first attempt at creating an “intelligence agency.” To find women to accuse Mueller of sexual assault in 2018, Wohl used a front organization called Surefire Intelligence, which purported on its website to be a group of highly trained former intelligence officers. Instead, a shadowy picture of the group’s leader, when brightened, revealed the person to be Wohl himself. Other pictures of Surefire employees were just pictures of models and Hollywood actor Christoph Waltz.
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