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Wa-03 Daily Beast reports Trump Protégé Joe Kent claims to have worked for fictitious company [1]
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Date: 2022-10-24
Joe Kent A person who has no visible means of support. A Grifter.
x As Trump-backed congressional candidate Joe Kent tells it, he made $122,110.36 last year as a “project manager” for a tech start-up called “American Enterprise Solutions.” One problem: there’s no record the company exists.
https://t.co/ri65NokaAs — The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) October 24, 2022
From the Daily Beast report:
As the Donald Trump-backed, alt-right-cozy Washington State congressional candidate Joe Kent tells it—in his public appearances and public filings—he made $122,110.36 last year as a “project manager” for a tech start-up called “American Enterprise Solutions.” One problem: there’s no record the company exists. The enigma of the former Green Beret’s income has prompted fevered conspiracy-mongering on fringes of the internet where his past work for the Central Intelligence Agency has marked him as a supposed “puppet of the deep state.” These suspicions have arisen despite Kent’s vaccine-bashing, endorsement from not just Trump but right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel, and his vanquishing in the August primary of Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA), one of the few Republicans to support the ex-president’s impeachment. One website, JoeKentIsCIA.com has posted multiple videos in which audience members questioned the candidate about his employment situation. In one clip from May, Kent reiterated that the name of his employer is “American Enterprise Solutions,” and maintained that “we do a wide variety of 5G conversion type of stuff.” In another, Kent told an audience member that the firm is in Virginia, and added “we have a lot of proprietary software.” But American Enterprise Solutions holds no patents or trademarks, has no licenses, no website, no social media pages, and not a single publicly announced contract with a government agency or a private wireless provider.
When The Daily Beast reached out to the Kent campaign for an explanation, the response was terse. “AES is a technology company registered in Delaware and operated out of Reston, VA,” spokesman Ozzie Gonzalez wrote in an email to The Daily Beast.
The Daily Beast couldn’t find any American Enterprise Solutions in Reston, Virginia, or anywhere in Virginia, or the rest of the United States.
That’s a problem for Joe Kent, because it appears he lied about his employment when he filed as a candidate. The Federal Government takes election filings very seriously, and there are substantial penalties foe supplying false information.
Kent kicked off his House bid last March by loaning his campaign $205,000 out of his own pocket, and has since donated a further $44,866.89 in his effort to replace Beutler.
Where did that money come from? Joe Kent? Or Peter Thiel?
This bombshell comes as Washington’s ballots just started arriving in some mailboxes yesterday. I hope to get mine tomorrow.
In other news Joe Kent wants to cut off American aid to Ukraine. Joe Kent must admire Neville Chamberlin.
x Our focus should be on getting Ukraine & Russia to the negotiating table to avoid a nuclear war. Not this foolish, hollow bravado.
No aid to Ukraine unless they are at the table. Offer Putin an out if he begins a withdrawal / ceasefire.
https://t.co/4QkKdKAhKK — Joe Kent for WA-3 (@joekent16jan19) October 23, 2022
x Joe Kent’s obsession with divisive culture wars may get him a lot of attention, but it’s not going to help people in this district. It’s not going to bring jobs home, support workers, or stop inflation.
We need a Member of Congress who knows this district & has real solutions. — Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (@MGPforCongress) October 23, 2022
Yesterday Joe Kent along with Tulsi Gabbard, held a sparsely attended rally in Bucoda Wa.
WA.- 03 Marie Gluesenkamp-Perez picks up a resounding endorsement
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez - Stop Extremism in Congress
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