Jerome Robert Corsi was born on August 31,1946 and is an American conspiracy theorist and author.
32 Facts About Jerome Corsi
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In 2018, Jerome Corsi was subpoenaed by the Mueller special counsel investigation over his contacts with former Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone and foreknowledge of WikiLeaks releases of stolen Clinton emails.
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Jerome Corsi claimed that he turned down a plea deal with Robert Mueller, and denied any such contacts or knowledge.
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Jerome Corsi graduated from St Ignatius High School in 1964, and graduated from Case Western Reserve University in 1968.
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Jerome Corsi received a PhD in political science from Harvard University in 1972.
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Jerome Corsi began to work in banking and finance in 1981.
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Until his 2004 book, Jerome Corsi was a financial services marketing specialist.
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In January 2005, Jerome Corsi told the Boston Herald that he planned to run for John Kerry's Senate seat in Massachusetts in 2008 as a Republican or Independent candidate.
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In January 2017, Jerome Corsi announced that he was leaving his position as a senior staff writer for far right fringe website WorldNetDaily to open and lead the Washington, DC, bureau for conspiracy theory website InfoWars.
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In 2019, Jerome Corsi unsuccessfully sued InfoWars and Alex Jones for defamation.
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In September 2018, Jerome Corsi was subpoenaed to testify in the Special Counsel investigation, reportedly for his contacts with Roger Stone.
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The Office of the Special Counsel reportedly has information suggesting Jerome Corsi possessed advance knowledge that WikiLeaks had obtained the hacked emails of John Podesta.
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Jerome Corsi has denied that he had any advance knowledge of the hack, or that he has had any communication with anyone involved in the hack.
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Jerome Corsi announced on November 12,2018, that he expected to be indicted for perjury within days.
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On January 25,2019, Jerome Corsi confirmed that he is "Person 1" cited in the federal indictment of Roger Stone and predicted that he won't face charges.
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Gray attributed Jerome Corsi's shifting stories to a poor memory and his well-established habit of picking "truthful facts woven in a way that you don't have to worry about the things that are inconsistent".
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In May, 2020, Jerome Corsi was caught accidentally emailing a Mueller prosecutor, Aaron Zelinsky, about another case, showing Jerome Corsi personally had his contact information in his email, and suggesting he had been working with him directly.
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Jerome Corsi had been attempting to e-mail Vladimir Zelenko, who made exaggerated claims about hydroxychloroquine-antibiotic-zinc cocktails and their alleged efficacy in treating COVID-19 that were not supported by peer-reviewed evidence.
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Jerome Corsi has written about many subjects, including Democratic politicians and conspiracy theories.
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Jerome Corsi wrote a critical biography of then Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry called Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry.
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Jerome Corsi co-wrote the book Rebuilding America, with Kenneth Blackwell, then Ohio secretary of state and a Republican candidate for Governor of Ohio.
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In 2007, Corsi called for the impeachment of George W Bush.
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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".
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Jerome Corsi has appeared on INN World Report, a news program on Free Speech TV, to advance his claims.
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Jerome Corsi conducted over 100 interviews promoting the book, including a scheduled appearance on The Political Cesspool, a white supremacist radio talk show.
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Jerome 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.
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Jerome Corsi has promoted the theory of abiogenic petroleum origin.
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Jerome Corsi accused an aide for John Kerry of helping the mullahs, who strongly rejected the claim.
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Shortly after the book's publication, Esquire issued a satirical report that the book had been recalled, which prompted Jerome Corsi to sue Esquire for damages of over $285 million.
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Jerome 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.
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Jerome Corsi cited Jones's findings of microscopic forensic evidence that seemingly negated the US government hypothesis that the aircraft's jet fuel-fed heat alone was sufficiently hot to collapse the steel superstructure of the buildings.
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On January 2,2014, Jerome Corsi released his book Hunting Hitler: New Scientific Evidence That Hitler Escaped Nazi Germany.