In November 2016, the conspiracy theory grew to encompass many other claims, one of which was that Tony and John Podesta (the latter Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, the former his brother) had a connection to the abduction of missing British girl Madeleine McCann:I’m not into consp. Theories at all, but no one can deny those suspect sketches are identical to podesta bros.
This is the work of an 'artist' Tony Podesta admires a lot. So much so the artist is mentioned in interviews from by gizmosia. Did you know that four days ago on Tuesday, June 27, 2017, John Podesta testified before Congress in a closed-door hearing? John Podesta is a longtime Democratic Party operative who was White House chief of staff in Bill Clinton’s administration, White House counselor in the Obama administration and, most recently, chairman of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.
Comet Ping Pong— Kacey (@KaceyIlliot1669)Did the brothers pose for these sketches? Call Scotland Yard @ + 1212 — StuffUNeedToKnow (@CkitOutPassitON). Images of 2013 police sketches known as “efits” (short for “Electronic Facial Identification Technique,” or computer-generated composite images) were alongside images of the Podestas with little additional information or context. The implication of such non-detailed posts was the Podesta brothers eerily resembled men wanted in connection with the kidnapping of Madeleine McCann in Portugal on 3 May 2007.However, the efit sketches depict only one man, who was sought as a witness to the kidnapping (not necessarily as a perpetrator of, or an accessory to, the crime). The digitally generated images were released in October 2013 alongside renewed from police to the public for any information in the McCann cold case:Police have issued two efits that they believe are descriptions of the same man, who is now being sought as a priority by the British detectives leading the new McCann inquiry.He was seen in the vicinity of the Praia da Luz resort in Portugal six years ago at the time that the three-year-old went missing. Despite numerous appeals for information over the years, the man has not come forward to talk to investigators in Portugal or Britain.Descriptions of the suspect were given to the Portuguese inquiry by two witnesses after Madeleine disappeared.It is only now, after Metropolitan police detectives cross-referenced all the information gathered by Portuguese detectives, private investigators and the mobile phone data from the resort, that the significance of the witness statements has been fully understood. In an appeal to be broadcast on Monday night on BBC1’s Crimewatch, Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood of the Metropolitan police will call for anyone who recognises the man to contact him immediately.It is true that some reports referenced the man (singular) as a “suspect,” but reports also listed a number of other factors that didn’t match the Podestas:The inquiry is focusing on 41 suspects and requests for assistance have been issued to 30 countries in a bid to identify and eliminate these people, 15 of whom are British.
Crimewatch will feature other efits of individuals that the police would also like to trace The depicted individual was described by the witnesses as white, aged between 20 and 40, with short brown hair, of medium build, medium height and clean shaven.John Podesta was in December 2016, mearing he was between 58 and 59 at the time of McCann’s disappearance, while the man depicted in the efits was described as being between the ages of 20 and 40. Mistaking a man of 40 for one of 58 is already a stretch, and mistaking a 60-year-old man for a 20-year-old one is exceedingly unlike.Some versions of the rumor claimed that John Podesta was in Portugal around the time of the incident, but an e-mail about a trip which occurred several months after Madeleine McCann vanished. In another version, Podesta was in Portugal at the time of the disappearance by an unnamed law enforcement source, information that was as implausible as it was unreliable, being backed by no substantive evidence.An unrelated (yet notable) aspect of the Podesta brothers and their purportedly eerie resemblance to the Madeleine McCann abduction sketches was that before Pizzagate captivated internet investigators, some individuals were invested in separate theories the idea that McCann’s parents Gerry and Kate McCann were depicted in both the same sketch and other police drawings. One version of the rumor provided an account from a witness claiming that Gerry McCann closely resembled the suspect police had been seeking:They gave police witness statements — they had seen a man carrying a child on that night. Martin Smith senior, described the man as resembling Gerry McCann, carrying a little girl resembling Madeleine McCann, around the time that Kate McCann supposedly discovered her daughter to be missing.Such rumors disregarded the fact that law enforcement agents had access to both the sketches they themselves generated as well as to Gerry McCann.