Final-Fan said:
Kasz216 said:
Final-Fan said:
Look, I think we're getting bogged down. Let me repeat what I thought was the key part, and which if I'm not mistaken you didn't really address:
"If he alerted McRae to the fact that the Obama clan was lying about the translation error, wouldn't that get them even MORE fired up to send him out for documents etc.? So I'm not seeing his motive to lie here even if he's a scammer, and even supposing his conduct in this situation was COMPLETELY dictated by his scamming plans." |
He did though... when he said he had those secret documents.
If he says they were covering it up right there on the interview... where is the money in that? You've already got a confession WITH someone calling them out as a liar. Do you really need to look for Kenyian documents that may or may not exist. Brother McRae likely just doing it for attention/political gain in the first place.
Every rare once in a while though, shit like this kicks up actual skeletons in the closet. Sometimes the exact thing being alleged, other times unrelated things.
If anything a coverup there BENEFITS him financially as they need more proof. While a straight up confession screws him out of more money... because they DON'T need him looking for documents.
Nor do I think he contacted McRae, I think he was likely contacted by them, and just found a way to use the situation to his benefit.
Heck, even if they really believe he's from Kenya. Why pay for documents that may or may no surface even and make you look stupid, when you have a confession. You don't need evidence when you get a confession, it's when investigations close.
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I really disagree. I mean, leaving aside the generally worse reliability of testimony vs. other evidence, they could poke holes in it like she was confused and thought he was asking about her son for some reason (instead of grandson). In fact McRae actually makes that exact mistake in the tape, and they only refer to the subject of the question as "he" or "him" outside of that one sentence where he confuses son and grandson. (Correction -- now that I look at it, he says "son" three times and "grandson" only once.)
So really I don't think there would be any way people COULD just leave it at that -- they would surely seek more and better proof to really put the nail in the coffin. And who better to recruit for that than their man on the spot who already produced such great results? And then there's the talk show circuit -- "oh yeah, I was there when the lid blew off the fake president's secret history!" Fame, fortune, and a book deal. All forgone because he thought he had better chances of making it big as an African email scammer.
I am utterly unconvinced of your position here.
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He doesn't really sound like the kind of guy that would make in on the "Talk show" circuit. Which, you don't actually make money on.
So, you'd have to hope he'd make money on a book deal.
A book deal... for what? Being in the room when it happened? That's a paragraph deal, not a book deal.
I doubt the random driver who was there when kenedy got shot got rich or got a book deal and that was far more important.
