a collection of curious characters and interesting events
The SPLC’s Hate Watch group announcement that they’d found a White Nationalist working for the State Department was disturbing news. Also disturbing is that Matthew Gebert and his wife, Anna, both studied in Russia. That should raise some eyebrows, if not red flags. Matthew Q. Gebert was born in North Carolina in 1981, but grew up in Stratford New Jersey.
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Cindy Yang’s former boss described Cindy Yang as unsophisticated. I’m not sure if he was trying to protect her or throw her under the bus (I’m leaning towards the bus) but unsophisticated isn’t the way I’d describe someone who started multiple businesses, organized major events, and managed to get into Art Basel. Cindy not only had a booth exhibiting art
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The Safari Night event at Mar-a-lago was to be held tonight, but it has been postponed with no new date for the event given. No doubt the event was cancelled because Trump decided he needed another golf vacation at Mar-a-lago. It wouldn’t look good if Trump was at Mar-a-lago at the same time as Safari Night. You have to wonder
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One of Cindy Yang’s numerous companies declared bankruptcy last year. FuFu International was one of Cindy’s oldest American businesses. It began as FuFu Spa and Massage on November 13th, 2012, but changed names to FuFu International just two weeks later. Besides being a massage parlor, FuFu International was an art gallery, most likely named after her father, Fuming Yang. FuFu
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Curious things happened in the summer of 2016 as the Trump campaign began recruiting Asian Americans to become members of an Asian Pacific American Advisory Committee. And by curious, I mean suspicious. And by suspicious, I mean we need to make sure Congress follows through on asking for an investigation into Cindy Yang. But I am very happy to report
Read moreI don’t know who in hell was operating the @WhiteHouse Twitter account today but they might be in some trouble. The account sent out several tweets attacking Senators Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren. The tweets were in regards to statements the Senators made about ICE, however the White House tweets made incorrect accusations and seemed more like an attempt to
Read morePaul Manafort could be called many things but dead would not be one of them. Manafort’s name no longer comes up in a search of the inmate database on the Northern Neck Regional Jail website. This doesn’t mean he killed himself or was stuck with a shiv in the showers. It doesn’t mean Manafort has escaped and fled to Russia
Read moreMichael Cohen was denied an emergency restraining order against Michael Avenatti today. U.S. District Judge James Otero determined Cohen wasn’t able to satisfactorily prove he would suffer “immediate, irreparable injury” and so decided against Cohen’s request. The restraining order was essentially an attempt to shut Avenatti up, to keep him off talk shows and news programs. Each television appearance or
Read moreTrump is tweeting about Paul Manafort after not mentioning him for months. It looks like Trump is trying to downplay his involvement with Manafort by convincing Twitter that he wasn’t around very long. But Manafort was Trump’s campaign manager for 5 months and that was long enough for him to pick Mike Pence for Trump’s VP. It’s interesting that Manafort’s name
Read moreJoy Ann Reid managed to make a Brokeback Mountain out of a molehill. But this time she had help. As the world knows, Joy made some mean homophobic comments on her blog a decade ago. She apologized for those remarks back in December of 2017. That was fine, that was appropriate and any drama or scandal should have ended then.
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