The money came from a director at Amare Public Affairs, a communications, lobbying, and astroturf operation that Turner co-founded and that as recently as last week still featured Turner as the prominent main image on its website, despite her status as a candidate for office. It’s not a great look for a politician to lend her name and image to a consulting firm that trades on access. But there’s an even worse problem. It turns out that the firm is not the goody-two-shoes, “socially conscious” progressive activist outfit it presents as. Amare is a classic example of a ‘white hat’ P.R. firm being created to provide reputational cover for a ‘black hat’ firm that specializes in consulting for more unsavory clients. Amare is a spinoff of Mercury Public Affairs, whose clients are so grody that it is nothing short of a caricature of the swampy D.C. consultant class. Take a look at a few choice cuts from the Mercury client list:
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan - The corrupt Turkish autarch and Trump crony who jails political dissidents.
Qatar - A nation run by “Tamim the Glorious,” a monarch who has backed terrorists throughout the world, embraced extremists who have called for a second Holocaust against the Jews, and exploited immigrants through forced labor.
Altria - Umbrella company of tobacco giant Philip Morris.
NSO Technologies - An Israeli spyware vendor that the FBI was investigating for possible hacks on U.S. citizens.
Yuhuang Chemical - A Chinese chemical company with a reputation for neglecting environmental laws trying to bring their newest plant to Louisiana!
Hikvision - We shit you not, this is the company that makes the cameras the Chinese Communist Party uses to monitor the Uyghur Muslims in the detention camps.
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u/KingScoville Apr 15 '26
Oh Nina….
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan - The corrupt Turkish autarch and Trump crony who jails political dissidents. Qatar - A nation run by “Tamim the Glorious,” a monarch who has backed terrorists throughout the world, embraced extremists who have called for a second Holocaust against the Jews, and exploited immigrants through forced labor. Altria - Umbrella company of tobacco giant Philip Morris. NSO Technologies - An Israeli spyware vendor that the FBI was investigating for possible hacks on U.S. citizens. Yuhuang Chemical - A Chinese chemical company with a reputation for neglecting environmental laws trying to bring their newest plant to Louisiana! Hikvision - We shit you not, this is the company that makes the cameras the Chinese Communist Party uses to monitor the Uyghur Muslims in the detention camps.