You. Tube Stars Who Met With Feds to 'Grow' Trump- Themed Business Were Paid by Trump Campaign. A pair of familiar faces from the 2. US Commerce Department’s Twitter account Monday afternoon. But by Tuesday morning they were gone. You. Tube stars Lynnette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson—better known as “Diamond” and “Silk,” respectively—were invited to the Commerce Department’s headquarters this week, apparently to discuss ways in which they could expand their business. The pair runs a political blog aimed at promoting President Trump and denigrating his critics.

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A particular scene in "Maya the Bee's" first season showed a penis etched on the inside of a tree trunk. At a press conference on Sunday, angry citizens ran off Jason Kessler, the organizer of a disastrous rally for white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other members of the.

The Commerce Department revealed Diamond and Silk’s visit in a photo posted on the department’s official Twitter account, which said the duo had met with the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) to “discuss how to grow their business and build their brand.” The tweet was deleted hours later. A Commerce spokesperson told Gizmodo the tweet was deleted “out of an abundance of caution” as the department was not clear it had received permission to post the photo. Diamond and Silk were here to talk about minority business development,” the spokesperson said.

They reached out to the Acting National Director of MBDA, [whom] they had met previously, to discuss how best to help the minority business community.”The spokesperson declined to elaborate on how the Commerce Department was helping Diamond and Silk “build their brand.” At present, they offer only two products in their online store, both Trump- branded pins. Monday’s meeting was arranged by Chris Garcia, a former Trump campaign advisor whom the president appointed acting head of the MBDA this year. The meeting would seem perfectly innocent, were it not for the fact that Diamond and Silk were paid Trump campaign consultants. The Trump campaign denied paying Diamond and Silk for their regular on- stage appearances at political rallies. But an amendment to the campaign’s 2. FEC report, released in May 2. Watch State Of Emergency Mediafire. You. Tube stars were in fact cut a check shortly after the election: a meager $1,2.

Questions had been raised by reporters last summer over what Trump aides brushed off as coincidence: Ace Specialties, a company the Trump campaign reportedly paid more than $2 million for campaign swag, also supplied the pro- Trump merchandise sold on Diamond and Silk’s website. A campaign spokesperson told ABC News in April 2. Diamond and Silk “have never been paid by the campaign, which you can verify in our FEC reports.

There is no connection with Ace. We very much appreciate the unwavering support and enthusiasm, from Diamond and Silk.”Daniel Scavino, a Trump campaign advisor who now serves as the director of White House social media and assistant to the president, first invited the bloggers to attend a Republican debate in November 2. Politico reports. Two months later, Trump introduced Diamond and Silk at an event in Iowa by noting, “They’ve become very famous and very rich.” Later asked by a Politico reporter what Trump meant when he said they’d grown “very rich,” Diamond replied: “Ask Donald.”The pair went on to “stump for Trump” in Mississippi, South Carolina, and Iowa, drawing energetic responses from crowds of 1. Days before the Nov. Lara Trump, the president’s daughter- in- law, at a North Carolina event, where they accused then- candidate Hillary Clinton of considering herself a “slave master.”While their ties to Trump are often portrayed as a mere chance encounter, the pair now frequently rub elbows with the conservative elite. They’ve landed repeat appearances on Sean Hannity’s Fox News program as well as his radio show.

In April, they attended the wedding of White House political aide Omarosa Manigault, a quiet affair at the Trump International Hotel in Washington. Now after having been declared paid Trump campaign consultants, a former Trump campaign staffer is ushering the You. Tube celebrities into a federal office building, allegedly to help expand their Trump- themed business—the very existence of which remains curious, given Trump’s propensity for suing people who try to profit off his name, even when their name also happens to be Trump.

Watch Jason Kessler, Organizer Behind Disastrous White Supremacist Rally, Get Run Out of His Own Press Conference. At a press conference on Sunday, angry citizens ran off Jason Kessler, the organizer of a disastrous rally for white supremacists, neo- Nazis and other members of the so- called alt right in Charlottesville, Virginia that ended in mass violence this weekend.

Local paralegal Heather Heyer died and dozens were injured after suspected member of neo- Nazi group Vanguard America ran over counter- protesters with his car, while two police officers died in a helicopter crash. The hundreds of event attendees staged brawls in the streets with anti- racist activists while guarded by rifle- toting militiamen, all largely with impunity from the police. So yeah, there might be a reason Charlottesville simply wasn’t interested in whatever Kessler has to say. According to a video posted by WVIR- TV’s Henry Graff, members of the crowd chanted “shame” as Kessler approached the podium. Kessler, for what it’s worth, seemed to be doing his best to incite the crowd.“Today I just want to come before you, and I want to tell you the story of what really happened before this narrative is allowed to continue spinning out of control,” Kessler started his vile statement.

YouTube stars Lynnette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson—better known as “Diamond” and “Silk,” respectively—were invited to the Commerce Department’s. Get the latest music news, watch video clips from music shows, events, and exclusive performances from your favorite artists. Discover new music on MTV.

The hate that you hear around you? That is the anti- white hate that fueled what happened yesterday. What happened yesterday was the result of Charlottesville police officers refusing to do their job.”“I disavow anything that led to folks getting hurt,” Kessler continued. It is a sad day in our constitutional democracy when we are not able to have civil liberties like the First Amendment. That’s what leads to rational discussion and ideas breaking down and people resorting to violence.”That sounds an awful lot like a threat of continued violence if white supremacists don’t get their way thinly veiled as an appeal to discourse, and Charlottesville residents seemed more than done listening. In a video tweeted by Buzz.

Feed News’ Blake Montgomery, the crowd swarmed the podium. Subsequent photos and videos showed Kessler being rushed away by police in body armor.“Her name was Heather, sir!” a man shouted at Kessler as he was escorted to a police station. Her name was Heather, Jason. Her blood is on your hands .. Of course, Kessler didn’t have anything else to say for himself worth hearing.

In a subsequent video posted by journalist Brook Silva- Braga, he responded to the question about the death by again saying the real cause was the “denial of First Amendment rights” to him and his compatriots. Kessler also denied any personal responsibility whatsoever for what occurred, saying “I don’t know what happened.”.