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Welcome back to False Flag! True media sicko that I am, I cleared my schedule Tuesday to read American Canto, disgraced reporter Olivia Nuzzi’s new memoir of her affair with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The reviewers have not been kind. And after reading it, I agree! Still, the book does have one funny detail. As her affair with the then–presidential candidate Kennedy heated up, Nuzzi decided that the would-be lovers couldn’t be at Mar-a-Lago at the same time.
She feared that Trump—a veteran philanderer himself—would discern their affair based only on a sort of ambient horniness, perhaps making a quip to his presidential entourage that would unravel the whole thing.
“With one scan, he might clock our energy with total precision,” Nuzzi writes of Trump, adding that he is “hypersensitive to the primal Homo sapien [sic] frequency.”
Does Donald Trump really possess a sort of second sight for adulterous sexual frisson? Let me know in the comments.
And please consider subscribing to Bulwark+! The right-wing influencer takeover at the Pentagon this week demonstrates that covering these people is more important than ever.
–Will
MAGA Influencers Take Heat Over Qatar Junket
“Wow, America’s like really third world compared to these places.”
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Emily Saves Qatar
WHILE MOST AMERICANS SPENT THANKSGIVING at home with turkey and cranberry sauce, three prominent right-wing influencers opted for a more rarefied holiday destination: the nation of Qatar.
The Gulf Arab monarchy is on a clear campaign to charm Donald Trump and those around him, starting with the “gift” of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet (supposedly to the Air Force, not Trump) in May, and extending to the building of new facilities at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho (which Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth inaccurately reported as a Qatari military base). The latest Qatari charm tactic has less to do with aviation than with recreation for some B-list MAGA social media personalities.
In social media posts, prominent right-wing influencers Emily Wilson (better known as “Emily Saves America”), Caitlin Sinclair, and Rob Smith documented their visits to luxe Doha restaurants, a nightclub, the Formula 1 Qatar Grand Prix, and even an audience with Serena Williams. They posted videos of themselves walking the red carpet at the Formula 1 “Paddock Club,” where tickets can run into the mid-four figures.
And of course, there were meetings with Qatari officials to discuss what Smith robotically called “mutually beneficial military and financial partnerships” with the United States.
While it’s not clear who paid for their trip, the assumption that some Qatari group was behind their good times and Smith’s new pro-Qatar stance has roiled the right, with one Newsmax contributor calling it proof of a “hostile subversion campaign.”
Hardcore Israel supporter Laura Loomer has been on a days-long meltdown over the trip, at one point declaring that she’d rather eat canned tuna and beans in her apartment than sell out to the Qatar lobby in such a way. The influencers, by comparison, appear to have dined at Cipriani Doha, a place so fancy its online menu doesn’t even have prices.
Wilson shot back, claiming, falsely, that Loomer has been divorced twice.
While the right’s feuding is certainly funny, the fight over the Qatar trip points to something larger. As Qatar and Israel increasingly grapple with one another for the loyalty of Republican personalities, even the most ridiculous MAGA influencers appear to be worth fighting over—and splashing out on.
Most of the heat has focused on Wilson, whom False Flag readers may remember as one part of the vicious influencer engagement ring drama earlier this year or for her stance that slavery should be legal on a state-by-state basis.
That’s because, until now, Wilson has been solidly in Israel’s camp, even saying she wants to convert to Judaism for her Jewish boyfriend.