Sometimes there are events that just create a weird spidey sense.  Here’s a few oddly disconnected things that might possibly have an intersection in the 2016 election:

FIRST:
Remember that odd character that showed up to a 2015 Donald Trump town hall event in New Hampshire that asked a seemingly weird and awkward question?
The guy pictured at left asked Donald Trump about deporting Muslims, about terrorist training camps in the U.S., and about President Obama being Muslim.
The entire thing just seemed like a set up at the time because of the way it was framed, and the media instantaneously jumping at the opportunity to hit Trump for not defending Obama strongly enough.
The media ran with the odd guy story for a few days, and what really made it suspicious was how the guy immediately left the building and the media’s seemed indifference to locate him etc.   It all just seemed rather odd at the time.
Well, check this out.

This guy showed up at a Las Vegas Thursday October 6th, and heckled Tim Kaine.  Look at the physical similarity:

Same guy?  You decide:

SECOND:

Remember that odd story that some people initially freaked out about where the random person walked into a courthouse in California and filed a rape allegation against Donald Trump in April, and somehow the media became almost instantly aware of it?
The entire set-up/law suit was really sketchy.  The person who filed claimed they didn’t have a lawyer; they claimed they didn’t have any money; the address given did not match the name, the phone number was disconnected, and the name given didn’t show up on any local listing…. and that’s only the beginning of the odd stuff.

( Via Daily Mail ) Donald Trump’s attorney told DailyMail.com on Friday that a lawsuit claiming Trump raped a 13-year-old girl at billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious ‘sex parties’ appears to be a hoax.

Trump had already ‘categorically’ denied the claims but attorney Alan Garten’s statement signals that the Trump campaign is eager to swat down the allegation before it gains any more traction.

‘The allegations are not only categorically false, but disgusting at the highest level and clearly framed to solicit media attention or, more likely, are politically motivated,’ Garten told DailyMail.com in a statement. ‘To be clear, there is absolutely no merit to these claims and, based on our investigation, no evidence that the person who has made these allegations actually exists.’

In a followup telephone interview, Garten cited a litany of specific indications that the lawsuit is a hoax perpetrated by ‘someone with some level of legal background.’

The address listed on the lawsuit exists, he said, but ‘there is no indication or record that that person’ named as the lawsuit plaintiff ‘ever resided there. So we believe it is a false address.’

He also said the phone number listed on the lawsuit papers rings to voicemail and publicly available records tie it to another person.

‘There is no record that the phone number is tied to the person who has made these allegations,’ he said.

‘We believe that this person does not exist.’

The suit details claims made by a woman named as ‘Katie Johnson,’ with a home address named as what turned out to be an empty, foreclosed property at ‘Twentynine Palms’ in California.

Neighbors told reporters that the home has been empty since the death of its owner, David Stacey, last October. The property went into default soon after and on April 11 – just 15 days before the lawsuit was filed – the bank officially foreclosed.  (read more)

After a few days the entire story just disappeared.

Then, in June 2016 Jezebel reported on the odd happenings behind the scenes.  Someone was desperately trying to seed the media with the story:

JUNE 16, Katie Johnson – In recent weeks, several national press outlets have retailed a set of very unflattering allegations about Donald Trump—namely, that he raped a 13-year-old at a 1994 orgy hosted by notorious celebrity sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

What no one’s reported on yet is the fact that the recent round of coverage is the culmination of an almost year-long campaign to quietly push these allegations into the public discussion, and maybe make some money in the process.

The stories are based on lawsuits filed by Trump’s accuser against him and Epstein. News organizations on the right and left have started poking at those claims, gingerly and skeptically: The allegations are beyond the pale, even for Trump, and there’s little sourcing for them beyond the lawsuit itself.

On August 5 of last year, a Gawker Media employee received an unsolicited voicemail tip from someone identifying themselves as Al Taylor, “the PR person for the Erotic Heritage Museum in Las Vegas.” Taylor requested that someone from Gawker return his call because, he said, “I’ve got some good info on Donald Trump for you, it might be very interesting for your site.” In addition to managing public relations for a museum “designed to preserve wonders of the erotic imagination,” Taylor is a former producer for the syndicated tabloid news show Inside Edition.

A Gawker.com reporter returned the call, and the “info” that Taylor claimed to have was explosive. Over the next few months, the Gawker reporter and Taylor, along with another tabloid producer named Mike Smith and videographer Jonathann Launer, engaged in a series of telephone and email conversations about Trump.  (read more)

Yesterday, the story surfaced again, only this time it is attached to a federal judge in New York, Ronnie Abrams (below left), who is the slightly younger sister of an ABC legal journalist Dan Abrams (below right).  Apparently the lawsuit was refiled in New York, the names were changed around and Judge Ronnie Abrams has ordered a hearing:

( Via Fusion ) Just before the Washington Post published video showing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump advocating for sexual assault against women, a federal judge in New York ordered a December hearing in a lawsuit claiming that Trump raped multiple underage girls who were procured for Trump by the infamous “billionaire pedophile” Jeffrey Epstein.

The lawsuit, which identifies Trump’s victims solely as “Jane Doe,” “Maria Doe”—who allegedly disappeared after protesting her treatment at Trump’s hands—was refiled in New York last week after being dropped in California, and added a new witness, “Joan Doe,” who confirmed Jane’s account. A fourth woman, “Tiffany Doe,” who is present in both suits, confirmed the accounts as well. The hearing is set for December.

The lawsuit, which accuses Trump of raping Jane multiple times at parties hosted by Epstein and seeks $75,000 in damages, is itself the subject of controversy. As Jezebel’s Anna Merlan reported earlier this year, the suit was originally filed in California district court by a Katie Johnson last year and was pushed by multiple (male) PR professionals and lawyers who denied her the ability to speak to Johnson even while creepily imploring her to cover the lawsuit.

When it was refiled in New York in June, without the name Katie Johnson attached, several claims from the original lawsuit were gone, including that Trump had thrown money at his victim and told her to get an abortion and that Trump had referred to Epstein as a “Jew bastard.” Also gone: Johnson’s request for $100 million in damages. (Trump has denied all charges; Epstein is a convicted pedophile who also partied quite a lot with Bill Clinton.)

Shady as the people behind the lawsuit might be, federal judge Ronnie Abrams decided there is enough to move forward with the case, and has ordered both sides to provide information that will help her decide whether to move the suit along to a trial or a settlement procedure.  (read more)

So a federal judge who is the sister of an ABC analyst just happens to grant some status to a severely sketchy lawsuit which has been peddled to the media for a year, filed in California, subsequently dropped and refiled in New York after contact with Gawker journalist(s) and legal teams….  ????
Tell me that doesn’t absolutely reek of Team Clinton.