They “treat me very nicely.”
If you were wondering about that bizarre question above from the Trumpandemic rally this morning, recall that the questioner was the one who traveled with Rudy Giuliani to Ukraine to get the dirt on Biden for the blockbuster OAN documentary.
The videos present a panoply of allegations revolving around Marie Yovanovitch, George Soros, and the Franklin Templeton investment firm.
Based on interviews with deeply compromised characters such as former prosecutors general Yuriy Lutsenko and Viktor Shokin, OAN heralds the “documentary series” as debunking the impeachment narrative put forth by House Intelligence Committee chair Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA).
Among other things, OAN host Chanel Rion claims to have been told that 1,000 Ukrainian troops were ordered to the capital “within hours of news breaking of our presence.”
She also says that the group decided to leave the country abruptly after they learned that “media was closing in on our location.”
Upon arrival at the airport, Rion added, they were greeted by dozens of black Mercedes cars. Both Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Pinchuk and global right-wing boogeyman George Soros were spotted in the area, Rion reported.
A Pinchuk spokeswoman told TPM in a statement that the oligarch “vigorously den[ies]” the report.
“[Pinchuk] had NO idea and NO interest when and where this crew was going to depart,” the spokeswoman told TPM. “In addition we’d like to mention that Mr Pinchuk doesn’t use Mercedes and he has no idea about the visits to Ukraine of Mr. Soros for the last several years.”
Here’s a little taste of it:
Wonkette had an excellent rundown on Rion. Apparently, she is engaged to Courtland Sykes, a wingnut candidate for the Senate in Missouri who describes her this way on his official website:
Chanel Rion is an American author, political illustrator and commentator, who was born in Texas and grew up in Missouri, and overseas—in France and South Korea.
Chanel has become widely known as the best political illustrator in the country for constitutional conservative and anti-leftist causes and as President Trump’s most stalwart graphic warrior against leftism.
Chanel is also the developer, author, and illustrator of the first three volumes of her traditional girl’s mystery series. Chanel’s mission is to promote the spirit of the traditional family, and the self-reliance, ingenuity, independence, and strength of American girls who believe in traditional homes, in conservative values, in having faith, and in having lives and futures that encourage families to succeed at home.
What a gal! Wonkette continues:
Chanel also has an extensive “about me” section on her own site, in which she discusses how her family fled America after Clinton was elected — fearing communism — in order to go to South Korea, and then to France. The reason they went to France, apparently, was so that the family could see how bad socialism really was.
A large part of the second half of her very long About Me section is dedicated to discussing her career as a political illustrator:
Chanel has become widely known as the best political illustrator in the country for constitutional conservative and anti-leftist causes and as President Trump’s most talented and stalwart graphic warrior against leftism.
Chanel has been frequently described as one of Hillary Clinton’s “worst nightmares” because she stands as a fierce foe of anything Clinton, of everything Obama, and as a total and unrelenting enemy of academic left-liberalism and political correctness anywhere—she’s out to stamp it out and when Chanel skewers the enemy, it can be a powerful thrust—sometimes shocking, always articulate—linguistic and graphic gems that strikes the heart of the insanity of the political left.
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Another conservative broadcaster adds, “Nobody captures the enemy graphically like Chanel. People are wearing her T-Shirts, putting up posters of her political art on walls all over world—hell, she even does Merkle and May—where it’s almost illegal to draw them in Germany and England.”
“Political illustrator” is otherwise known as political cartoonist. And nobody has ever heard of Rion or seen her cartons except on her own website. About thos alleged “traditional girls” books:
Chanel’s “Mystery by Design” series for girls Available January 1 stands apart from the gender-hostile, Hollywood “rip and hate” spirit of radical feminism that has brought so much coldness, pain, failure and disappointment to so many young women whose lives radical feminism has twisted and irreparably ruined with its toxic and confused mental stew of pointless competition, manophobia, hatred, gender-confusion and blame that radical feminism is and has always been about. She rejects it outright and wants as many girls as she can reach to reject it too.
According to Wonkette, these books are nowhere to be found and despite the fact that they seem to be unavailable Rion contends that they are being used as “language trainers” in other countries.
It also turns out that she didn’t actually go to Harvard, she took some extension courses there. She is now OAN’s “chief White House correspondent.”
Read the whole Wonkette piece. It’s unbelievable. The Daily Beast’s Will Somer has covered her too.
The president’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani made a “documentary” with this grifter. Now she is attending these press briefings that are limited to very few reporters at the White House and is asking INSANE questions which the president uses to slam the media and anyone who disagrees with him.
In the middle of the worst public health crisis in American history.