If Teen Vogue wants to be counted for its Trump coverage, why not Mother Jones?
With serious roots in environmental policy and human rights, the typical grist of the periodical founded as a nonprofit in 1976 had long ago expanded to politics and crime. But with a Saturday release came a heavily reported, three-bylined exclusive that brought China and sex (already populating many Google searches this week) together under one tidy headline that included the president: “A Florida Massage Parlor Owner Has Been Selling Chinese Execs Access to Trump at Mar-a-Lago.”
David Corn, one of the article’s authors, drolly tweeted as he basked in the broader public’s interest in his magazine:
Lots of traffic for this @MotherJones scoop. Hard to figure out why. A massage parlor owner selling access to @realDonaldTrump at Mar-a-Lago? Seems pretty routine.https://t.co/PMufWtRcKl
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) March 9, 2019
Judge the legitimacy of the article yourself, judge the alleged risks to the administration and the country through the president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, judge (or not) the company that the president keeps, but there’s little denying that this is quite the twist in the already wild tale of Li “Cindy” Yang.
Hers is the “day spa” under investigation for alleged human trafficking whose client list included Patriot’s owner Bob Kraft; he’s been charged for soliciting a prostitute. She rubbed elbows with Trump at a Mar-a-Lago Super Bowl party, while presidential sons, politicians and radio personalities seem to regularly crop up in selfies with Cindy.
‘A massage parlor owner selling access to @realDonaldTrump at Mar-a-Lago? Seems pretty routine.’ David Corn
According to Mother Jones, Yang and her husband run “an investment business that has offered to sell Chinese clients access to Trump and his family. And a website for the business — which includes numerous photos of Yang and her purported clients hobnobbing at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s private club in Palm Beach — suggests she had some success in doing so.”
With its own “Florida man” angle, Mother Jones teases the tabloid-like interactions and its very real political power brokers in the article’s second headline: “The strange, swampy saga of Trump donor Li Yang.”
Read the article in its entirety.
And by the way, here’s just one Teen Vogue headline under its expanding coverage of politics, this one from last year: Donald Trump Is Still Gaslighting America. I Really Care. Do u?
