He called her a tradthot, not a thot. There is a difference. Tradthots seek attention and validation on the Internet (talking the talk) rather than doing their duty of being barefoot, pregnant, and chained to the stove (walking the walk).
Really fucked up that 3 letter agencies can just steal your money without any reason.
Like, in not clown world, one would expect that being cleared of charges would mean you get your money back, but apparently no. They can just keep that. For hookers and blow.
I still don't know what the hell happened with this thing. Hoping for a detailed explanation. I'll forgive any of Lauren's misdeeds, but sounds like there isn't much to forgive.
sounds like bidens doj wanted to cut down on conservative influencers while the dnc paid actual money to liberal influencers to promote them. So they cooked up a case that was so flimsy it couldn't go to court but they spread it to the news to smear them
Granted, the only evidence we have is the document from Biden's DOJ. So take that for what it's worth.
But I don't think Chen & her husband have completely clean hands here. Both Chen & Donovan, along with the 6 influencers, got blinded by greed because the financial terms offered were so good that they didn't bother to ask any questions where the source of it was.
I think it's still up for debate whether Chen & Donovan knew that they were getting involved & accepting Russian money from the start. The paperthin Belgian rogue billionaire financier shtick was laughable. Chen & Donovan got greedy that they were offered something like 800k/annually themselves to simply be the go-between the RW talent & the European financiers.
The DOJ documents though suggest that at least midway through Chen & Donovan knew the true identity of what they'd gotten themselves into. The DOJ has correspondence from Chen & Donovan callling their contacts "the Russians" when they were supposed to be corresponding with representatives of a Hungarian shell company.
The DOJ also had correspondence where their Russian contact specifically asked Chen/Donovan to cover a Moscow terrorist incident in a certain light, which they passed it along to Benny Johnson to cover the story. So they also did have some direct editorial input.
The legal case against them arises from all the stupid sanctions resulting from the 2022 Ukraine war. I'm not terribly bothered by breaking new globohomo warmongering edicts. And you are likely correct that there's not enough of a case to actually prosecute them, as it would've happened already before Trump took office.
But Chen & Donovan are at least guilty of greed and accepting questionable financing without disclosing that fact to their RW audience.
The civil forfeiture of their lifetime assets is complete BS though no matter your opinion on how guilty or foolish they were.
Unless there's evidence to the contrary, you 100% should assume that this was an entrapment operation. They are willing to kill people, so fabricating some Russian connection and funneling too-good-to-be-true funds to YouTubers for making videos they were making anyway is expected
Especially considering that different lawyers were involved by several parties before anything was signed to make sure everything appeared on the up and up.
Not to mention the named "Russians" have no contact information or verification as to their identities, making them unavailable for comment or deposition. Legally speaking, we don't even know if they are even REAL.
It's been a while, but IIRC the talk about "the Russians" was in respect to a couple of editors who were Russian but had nothing to do with the financing of Tenet.
The fact that Chen & her husband Liam Donovan mentioned that they are broke & "living abroad" suggests they left the US in April 2025 after their work visas expired but didn't return to Canada.
I doubt that they returned to China/Hong Kong which is the other jurisdiction I believe Chen has citizenship ties.
I don't blame them for not returning to Canada given Carney's victory.
TBH, in a lot of ways Pierre Poilievre's "Conservative" MPs were more bad faith & pro-Ukraine when they showboated in front of her last year when Chen got subpoenaed to attend a national security hearing remotely last year labeling her as a Russian asset.
Wonder where they ended up.
There's some kek here as well that Chen & Donovan ended up doing the anchor baby thing in the end.
Is this over her being a “Russian asset”?
Yes, and the investigation was quietly dropped with no charges but her seized assets aren't being returned.
More proof intelligence agencies control our country.
Portraying a tradthot? Why because she's attractive? She never shows cleavage or wears revealing clothing. What exactly makes her thot?
Shes online
Call her a grifter then, not a thot.
He called her a tradthot, not a thot. There is a difference. Tradthots seek attention and validation on the Internet (talking the talk) rather than doing their duty of being barefoot, pregnant, and chained to the stove (walking the walk).
No trad thots are literally just whores who pretend to be traditional. You sometimes have some retarded takes
Really fucked up that 3 letter agencies can just steal your money without any reason.
Like, in not clown world, one would expect that being cleared of charges would mean you get your money back, but apparently no. They can just keep that. For hookers and blow.
That money was spent almost as soon as it was seized, why would they return it? They're our betters after all.
https://nitter.poast.org/TheLaurenChen/status/1963573964900634894
Archives but can't see the statement https://archive.is/wXuoP https://archive.ph/wip/Q1qa6
I still don't know what the hell happened with this thing. Hoping for a detailed explanation. I'll forgive any of Lauren's misdeeds, but sounds like there isn't much to forgive.
sounds like bidens doj wanted to cut down on conservative influencers while the dnc paid actual money to liberal influencers to promote them. So they cooked up a case that was so flimsy it couldn't go to court but they spread it to the news to smear them
Granted, the only evidence we have is the document from Biden's DOJ. So take that for what it's worth.
But I don't think Chen & her husband have completely clean hands here. Both Chen & Donovan, along with the 6 influencers, got blinded by greed because the financial terms offered were so good that they didn't bother to ask any questions where the source of it was.
I think it's still up for debate whether Chen & Donovan knew that they were getting involved & accepting Russian money from the start. The paperthin Belgian rogue billionaire financier shtick was laughable. Chen & Donovan got greedy that they were offered something like 800k/annually themselves to simply be the go-between the RW talent & the European financiers.
The DOJ documents though suggest that at least midway through Chen & Donovan knew the true identity of what they'd gotten themselves into. The DOJ has correspondence from Chen & Donovan callling their contacts "the Russians" when they were supposed to be corresponding with representatives of a Hungarian shell company.
The DOJ also had correspondence where their Russian contact specifically asked Chen/Donovan to cover a Moscow terrorist incident in a certain light, which they passed it along to Benny Johnson to cover the story. So they also did have some direct editorial input.
The legal case against them arises from all the stupid sanctions resulting from the 2022 Ukraine war. I'm not terribly bothered by breaking new globohomo warmongering edicts. And you are likely correct that there's not enough of a case to actually prosecute them, as it would've happened already before Trump took office.
But Chen & Donovan are at least guilty of greed and accepting questionable financing without disclosing that fact to their RW audience.
The civil forfeiture of their lifetime assets is complete BS though no matter your opinion on how guilty or foolish they were.
The problem is how much can you trust Biden doj and what they say. At this point, for all we know it was an op
Unless there's evidence to the contrary, you 100% should assume that this was an entrapment operation. They are willing to kill people, so fabricating some Russian connection and funneling too-good-to-be-true funds to YouTubers for making videos they were making anyway is expected
Especially considering that different lawyers were involved by several parties before anything was signed to make sure everything appeared on the up and up.
Not to mention the named "Russians" have no contact information or verification as to their identities, making them unavailable for comment or deposition. Legally speaking, we don't even know if they are even REAL.
It's been a while, but IIRC the talk about "the Russians" was in respect to a couple of editors who were Russian but had nothing to do with the financing of Tenet.
I don't think we'll ever find out the whole story.
Unless Chen goes full tell-all. But then she will be biased herself and can't be fully trusted either.
The fact that Chen & her husband Liam Donovan mentioned that they are broke & "living abroad" suggests they left the US in April 2025 after their work visas expired but didn't return to Canada.
I doubt that they returned to China/Hong Kong which is the other jurisdiction I believe Chen has citizenship ties.
I don't blame them for not returning to Canada given Carney's victory.
TBH, in a lot of ways Pierre Poilievre's "Conservative" MPs were more bad faith & pro-Ukraine when they showboated in front of her last year when Chen got subpoenaed to attend a national security hearing remotely last year labeling her as a Russian asset.
Wonder where they ended up.
There's some kek here as well that Chen & Donovan ended up doing the anchor baby thing in the end.
Why would I give her money?
Because the Russians stopped.
DaFuq she did to her face?
She was decent looking.
I don't understand what the problem is. Is accepting Russian investment money or donations illegal?