WTF?

Can we find any of them?

Jackpot.

Unfortunately I agree that it is a metaphor. In context the next quote reads how many politicians liked her etc. Insert "looked up to her as a mother." In any case we can debunk or confirm this easily with adoption records.

Anybody find out which Adoption Agencies they used? I have been searching for hours and i can't find anything

That's the point they are not mentioned in obituary. You would think they would add this. It seems odd to give a specific number of figurative number of adults she "adopted" With the info from pizzagate it raises flags. I'm sure at the time of the article it wouldn't. Raising millions in fundraising dinners because of her great cooking and relationship to John and Tony is possibly innocent. Nancy Pelosi mentioned her secret ingredient in meatballs after her death on Senate floor. Could be just really great food i guess..Its like all of this so far, she's a great person or raised them in this elite pedo enviornment that may unbelievably include cannibalism.

I'm skeptical about this after having read the article. Maybe someone could look in to actual adoption records to see if they can tie her (or any of the podestas at this point..) to adopting kids.

This article gave me the idea to do some family history. I looked at John Podesta's grandma from Greece, and make the case that she herself was trafficked from Greece. https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1458517

Until there is something else, I would have to say it was meant figuratively.

What is she doing with 25 kids????

Where do people think they are getting children for these pedophile parties???

Expose #PizzaGate #FosterGate #ForcedAdoptionGate www.Americastaken.com www.familiesmatterusa.wordpress.com

https://archive.is/o9Yf4

74% of child runaways likely involved in sex trafficking were in the custody of SOCIAL SERVICES and FOSTER CARE!!!!

Figuratively used? Ok, good argmument. But why not "around 20", "more than 20", "more than a dozen", "two dozen". NO! 25. Exact number. SUUURE!

And she became influential because she cooked and was interested in politics. SUUURE!

And Mr. Alefantis is among the 50 most powerful people in DC, according to GQ-mag because he is making Pizza...

She knew her pastas and sauces too.

She had two lives.

What the hell? Is this article a tribute to her in some way?

The op is a shill. Come on. Article clearly saying she "adopted" other adults as a "mama" to everyone... Stop fucking upvoting this until this person with a brand new account provides adoption records showing she literally adopted literally 25 literal children.
Stop it!

Seems to be a non-sensical sentimental thing said by a son about his recently deceased mother.

OMG 68 and 25 adoptees, who in the hell allows this to happen?? This may well be the missing link we were looking for. Dig deep maybe hidden clues in this Mary see in the article is says adopted another 25 people people NOT children, so any age Full steam ahead ------------------------------------> "Save the little people"

No matter how they said it, what they didn't say is who the Fuck the adopted were and where they are now

She had two sons, but she adopted another 25 people during the time she came to Washington, said her older son, Tony Podesta, a Washington public affairs strategist.

She had two lives. She was a wife and mother in Chicago, but then she came to Washington and became friends with presidents and senators who always enjoyed her wit and willingness to say anything to anybody.

I don't think it means what you're implying. I believe it was meant to indicate that she came to DC and "adopted" washington elites who liked to hang out with her, etc.

Look up the legal filings when she died. They might be listed. She's either an amazing woman, or something's up.

She was either terrible, or amazing

Holy crap - who are these other people 25 and not word on any of them??? We need to move away from CPP news is having too much fun poking holes in that one and I recon if it is what people think its been cleaned to within and inch of its life. THIS is where the real story is.

I don't think Tony Podesta meant adoption literally. He said 'people' not 'children.' Baffling!

So, her legacy was her cooking? No mention of her influence on the 25 lives she took responsibility for? No photos of her with her klan? This is just one more surreal cog in this bizarro world we are discovering.

The way the article worded it, she could have adopted the people over a long period of time, and starting when she was much younger.

She had two sons, but she adopted another 25 people during the time she came to Washington... Mrs. Podesta moved to Washington in 1987 .

She moved there in 87, not 2008. Between then and when she died (assuming 2007, since that is the date of the article) is a 20 year range, making it 1 kid most years. Seems like a lot, but there's a bunch of batshit Baptist Holy Roller types who collect kids like that too. A lot of them were probably older, and given the task of taking care of the younger ones, like the Buddy System in a lot of fundie houses like on 19 Kids and Counting.

WOW that is unreal!!! and the ramifications of hiding such a spirit of GIVING?!