Mensch also claimed that former Congressman Anthony Weiner was brought down as the result of a Russian intelligence operation to put the Clinton emails back in the news in the final days of the 2016 presidential election, saying: "I can exclusively report that there is ample evidence that suggests that Weiner was sexting not with a 15 year old girl but with a hacker, working for Russia, part of the North Carolina hacking group ‘Crackas With Attitude’, who hacked the head of the CIA, and a great many FBI agents, police officers, and other law enforcement officials." When the 15-year-old girl went public with her story for an article in "Buzzfeed", Mensch still insisted that Weiner was speaking to hackers posing as underage girls, while he happened to also be in touch with a real 15-year-old girl at the very same time.