On October 30th, the far-right site Gateway Pundit published documents alleging that Robert Mueller, who is heading up the investigation into foreign interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections, sexually assaulted a woman in 2010. The firm that produced this “investigation”
was quickly revealed to be SureFire Intelligence, which has a tiny digital footprint prior to the Mueller allegations.
Jacob Wohl, a 20-year-old conservative activist who is most well known for his reports from “
hipster coffee shops in downtown LA” about how Trump is secretly popular among young liberals, tweeted about the allegations against Mueller a day before they surfaced on Gateway Pundit, which he also writes for.
The “intelligence firm” that prepared the allegation, SureFire Intelligence, was linked to Wohl due to DNS registration records saved on
CuteStat.com. These records show that someone using the email
jacob.wohl@nexmanagement.com was involved with the domain registration for surefireintelligence.com.
The “intelligence” firm itself seems legitimate at first glance, with over a dozen employees working there according to LinkedIn, a somewhat professional-looking website at
surefireintelligence.com, a Twitter page, and a few posts on
Medium [note: deleted, archived
here] referencing it. However, under any actual scrutiny, all of these facades fall apart.