Lauren Chen, of the Tennent Media fiasco, just posted something on X that instantly made me go Red Curtain of Blood angry:
Original: https://x.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1982669177371632117
Archive: https://archive.is/RoV6G
She still banks at Bank of America.
SHE STILL BANKS AT BANK OF AMERICA
I mean, does anyone pay f***ing attention AT ALL?
At least she's still alive but...yeah, that's pretty fucking retarded.
Politics or nah, BoA is fucking terrible. Conservative, lib, doesn't even matter. They will fuck you. No one should bank with BoA. I hate them.
Yes, she started posting again last month, I think it was, after the FBI terminated the investigation with no results. Cost her and her husband a lot of money in legal fees, though, which was probably the point.
Hard to feel too bad for Chen & her Canuck husband even if one believes that it was partisan lawfare on behalf of Biden's DOJ.
They were getting paid something like 3/4 of a million dollars to LARP as media moguls and hand out 10s of millions in thinly disguised Russian monies for slop content to the likes of Tim Pool & Dave Rubin.
Though Rubin & Pool were the ones to ultimately come out on top, making 8 figures for a year's worth of slop content, escaping prosecution and suffering very little reputational damage to their already sellout profiles.
Chen & Donovan also managed to push out two hapa anchor babies while hanging out on work visas in the US of A, giving them more passport options to globetrot around with.
Chen's year of radio silence, then announcing her return (and two US anchor babies) with no real resolution of the Tenet Media allegation gong show and simply returning to social media like nothing happened, is so surreal and unsatisfying.
I suppose the only difference is that the DOJ is now under Trump control rather than Biden (though she remained underground for the first 6 months or so of the changing of the POTUS admin).
The old Trudeau government, with the backing of the Poilievre Conservatives and the now deposed Jagmeet Singh NDP, tried to find her in contempt of Parliament when she was subpoenaed to appear before a national security committee remotely last year to answer questions about Russian collusion. To which she continually repeated a Pleading the 5th statement from her lawyer even though Canada doesn't have such protections.
Trudeau has now resigned and Mark Carney was elected in April with essentially Trudeau's entire cabinet still intact, so it's hard to imagine that much has changed for Chen up north. However, AFAIK, despite threats to try to use Parliamentary tools to actually make her testify and answer questions substantively, nothing really came of that either.
All the other Tenet Media talent has carried on with business as usual as well: Tim Pool, Dave Rubin, Benny Johnson, Matt Christiansen (though the loss of his Tenet income and the massive debt he took out on his mortgage partially resulted in the breakdown with his longtime decade-long partnership with his cohost Blonde).
Lauren Southern is presumably still a resident in Canada and similarly went radio silent with the Tenet break same as Chen. She did resurface months before Chen though to accuse Andrew Tate and others of rape to drive engagement for another tell-all book.