Unearthed Video Exposes Nasty Drama Inside Michael Flynn’s Nonprofit
“You met your match, bitch!”
How hard can it be to offload some groyper dolls? That’s the question facing an aggrieved Nick Fuentes fan, who claims he’s been “ruined” after attempting to sell a $23 plushie version of the cartoon toad that symbolizes Fuentes’s movement.
Last month, Fuentes was contacted via a paid chat on his show by “Soy Toys,” a business that sells these types of meme-themed stuffed animals. The account’s operator said he had gone long on groyper dolls only to get his Instagram storefront banned because of their affiliation with Fuentes.
“You ruined me, can u buy out the inventory?” the store owner wrote to Fuentes.
The groyper king was intrigued.
“Your groyper plushie’s pretty nice,” Fuentes said on his show. “You know what? Maybe. Get in touch.”
But Fuentes soon soured on the deal, as the man bugged him via paid chats to hurry up.
“It’s not my fault you bought all these stupid stuffed animals!” Fuentes, not exactly nice to his fans in even the best circumstances, fumed a few days later. He added several racist and homophobic insults. And, well, the deal now appears to be off.
Today, we’ve got one of the best kinds of newsletter—one about some conspiracy theorists and some surreptitiously recorded audio. Let’s dive in.
–Will
IN THE EARLY HOURS OF JUNE 8, Pizzagate conspiracy theorist Liz Crokin was hanging out in Venice, Florida with the niece and nephew of Trump-world hero Michael Flynn.
Venice is a locus of MAGA activity, which means it is often a prime location for intra-movement drama. And, sure enough, with White Claws and other alcoholic seltzers strewn across a living-room table, things got ugly. The Flynn siblings, Edward and Kristen Hall, accused Crokin of trying to get one over on the Flynn family. Video I obtained of the confrontation shows insults were leveled and the n-word was dropped even though all the participants were white.
Crokin, a former entertainment journalist who has promoted Pizzagate and QAnon, is one of the most prominent conspiracy theorists in the country. At the time of the argument, she was also close to the Flynn family, serving on the board of an anti-trafficking initiative housed within Michael Flynn’s nonprofit, America’s Future.
The Hall siblings play significant roles in America’s Future, as well. On LinkedIn, Kristen Hall describes herself as the organization’s director of research development. Edward Hall, a rapper, frequently speaks and performs at its events.
So the fact that this trio was clashing was yet further indication that a dramatic implosion is taking place inside Michael Flynn’s political apparatus. But why? The video offers some clues. My conversations with people in and around the situation provided others.
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