The scandals of the Padmore Post

By: Lucie Peyrebrune

Silver Spring, Md. -- The Padmore Post is a publication that has been riddled with scandals for the past few days. From impersonating and assaulting journalists from other publications to some other questionable tweets, the Post can’t seem to go a day without scandal.

Here are some, just to name a few:

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The day of Jacob Warren v. Buttigieg, the Padmore Post was under review and shut down by the chair of the FEC (Federal Election Commission) for taking a photo during the trial and posting it on PadPost’s Twitter, which was then quickly deleted.

During Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s mental breakdown, Padmore Post staffers pulled Buttigieg into their newsroom, where one of their reporters poured water on him after he faked fainting. These reporters were the only ones who witnessed Buttigieg’s breakdown, and Buttigieg claimed in his testimony that they seemed to be prioritizing helping him rather than trying to get a story out of him. So, it seems interesting that they didn’t start supporting Buttigieg until after he had this breakdown in their newsroom, during which they were publishing his slanderous comments about Warren and her campaign team on their Twitter.

Originally, the Padmore Post seemed to be working against Buttigieg’s campaign.

However, they were quick to use his emotional breakdown to their advantage when they began posting tweets captioned with Buttigieg’s statements against Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren and the Democratic Party.

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The Post’s continuously swaying opinion didn’t go unnoticed by the Direction, though. Below is a tweet from the Daily Direction’s reporter Oliver Goldman.

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Not to mention the time that their reporters broke into the Daily Direction’s newsroom and hacked one of the Direction’s reporter’s Twitter accounts.

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Or the time that Charlie Wiebe, another Post reporter, stole one of the Direction’s press passes, pretended to be a Direction reporter, and claimed that the publication had been inventing all of its stories. The voice heard in the video the Post tweeted was confirmed to be Wiebe’s by the FBI.

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It’s also peculiar how it wasn’t afraid to call out Asha Henry, Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren’s media strategist, for assault after she accidentally opened the door which hit Post reporter Judy Goldstein after Goldstein attempted to bug a private meeting. Keep in mind that Goldstein appeared to be fine later.

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Yet, when the National Broadcast Association tweeted that one of their staff members had been punched by Goldstein, the Post simply retweeted it.

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And one shouldn’t forget about the Post’s other questionable tweets:

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When asked about all of these scandals, the Padmore Post’s Editor-in-Chief, Bobby Padmore, said, “they’re scandals.” However, he was quickly corrected by Post writer Mercedes Pierce. “There is no hard evidence of any of them, and that is why we are still thriving,” she said.

So, basically, the Post did confirm that the scandals took place.