Hollywood actor George Takei has blamed the spread of sexual assault allegations against him on Russian bots.
"A friend sent me this. It is a chart of what Russian bots have been doing to amplify stories containing the allegations against me," Takei
posted on Twitter, along with a picture of a trending topics chart featuring his name at the top. "It's clear they want to cow me into silence, but do not fear, friends. I won't succumb to that."
"By way of background, when I criticized Putin's anti-LGBT policies publicly, Russian bots attacked my [Facebook] page relentlessly, and we had to develop special security measures and ban all traffic from within the Russian Federation and the Ukraine," he added in another post. "I am accustomed to their practices."
Takei, a prominent
anti-Trump, left-wing activist, has since deleted the posts.
Comment: Twitter users have rightfully roasted Takei for his nonsensical 'Russian bots' rationale:
There are many more users blasting him on Twitter. Also, it was only last month that Takei went on the Howard Stern show where he referenced "grabbing other men" to persuade them into having sex:
From
The Hollywood Reporter:
Takei, a staunch opponent of the Republican president, initially was silent, then said "uh oh" and laughed. Stern asked again and Takei said, "Some people are kind of skittish, or maybe, um, uh, afraid, and you're trying to persuade."
Stern and his co-host, Robin Quivers, persisted, asking Takei whether he ever held a job over somebody for sex and he said no.
Quivers asked if he did "this grabbing at work." Takei said, "It was either in my home. They came to my home."
Takei responded to the criticism that came after the Howard Stern interview went viral by giving a rather pathetic excuse: that when he's on the Howard Stern show,
he plays a "caricature of a naughty gay grandpa", as if that is actually a real thing and not something he made up out of thin air. Clearly Takei's liberal brain has deteriorated beyond a point where logic and rational thought are still in control.
Comment: Twitter users have rightfully roasted Takei for his nonsensical 'Russian bots' rationale:
There are many more users blasting him on Twitter. Also, it was only last month that Takei went on the Howard Stern show where he referenced "grabbing other men" to persuade them into having sex:
From The Hollywood Reporter: Takei responded to the criticism that came after the Howard Stern interview went viral by giving a rather pathetic excuse: that when he's on the Howard Stern show, he plays a "caricature of a naughty gay grandpa", as if that is actually a real thing and not something he made up out of thin air. Clearly Takei's liberal brain has deteriorated beyond a point where logic and rational thought are still in control.