EXCLUSIVE: The Daily Beast has obtained a confession letter that Joel Greenberg wrote while working with Roger Stone to obtain a pardon… and it directly implicates Matt Gaetz trib.al/DkUOhtj
The confession letter written by Joel Greenberg in the final months of the Trump presidency claims that he and close associate Rep. Matt Gaetz paid for sex with multiple women—as well as a girl who was 17 at the time trib.al/DkUOhtj
“On more than one occasion, this individual was involved in sexual activities with several of the other girls, the congressman from Florida’s 1st Congressional District and myself,” Greenberg wrote in reference to the 17-year-old trib.al/DkUOhtj
Also, a series of private communications between Roger Stone and Joel Greenberg—also recently obtained by The Daily Beast—show Stone assuring Greenberg that he could get him a pardon in exchange for a quarter of a million dollars trib.al/DkUOhtj
Stone acknowledged Thursday night that there may be “copies of correspondence between me and Mr. Greenberg,” but he questioned whether they were complete, unedited, or accurate: “I made no formal or informal effort in regard to a pardon for Mr. Greenberg" trib.al/DkUOhtj
Director @paulfeig can’t quite believe it’s been 10 years since he directed "Bridesmaids": "It’s like, I thought we just did that movie! But it’s nice that people are still talking about it" trib.al/x8zyWf3
Director @paulfeig reveals the original Vegas stripper sequence that was planned before he nixed it to avoid comparisons to "The Hangover": "I said, 'Well, maybe they just shouldn’t get there. Maybe it should all fall apart on the plane'" trib.al/x8zyWf3
Remember when Trump insanely said that injecting yourself with bleach might be a cure for the coronavirus?
.@Willsommer and @swin24 walk us through the terrifying world of extremist bleach enthusiasts in this week’s episode Fever Dreams. trib.al/Os90A7o
Surprise surprise, they have found a following among the QAnon crowd.
That includes a scammy father-son duo who tried to form a “church of bleach” so they could claim it was their religious right to sell their chlorine dioxide snake oil. trib.al/Os90A7o
The feds didn’t buy it and now they’ve been indicted (after a brief stint on the lam in South America) in the biggest takedown yet of these dangerous bleach peddlers. trib.al/Os90A7o
She’s joined by @andrewrsorkin host of CNBC’s "Squawk Box," to help us all understand the madness behind dogecoin and all the other coins. "The 'establishment' thinks this is zany. It’s nuts,” says @andrewrsorkin trib.al/7655BsW
Meanwhile, in India, people are literally dying in the streets from COVID. Vaccine specialist @PeterHotez discusses just how dire the situation is and how it could impact health systems around the world.
The former presidential candidate says the Republican Party has plunged into a “crazy” abyss of “whack jobs,” “autocrats,” and “nutjobs.” trib.al/c3YbkoM
Dean said there are still one or two decent Republicans in Washington, but they lack the backbone to stand up to the people who have taken over the party. thedailybeast.com/howard-dean-th…
It’s only been three months since disturbing messages sent by Armie Hammer began circulating, in which the actor described his extreme kinks and cannibalism fantasies. Now, those DMs are about to become authenticated and sold as pieces of NFT art trib.al/lxNN1Pl
Brooklyn-based artist and writer Julia Morrison is behind the project and will be selling two NFT pieces on Foundation, complete with a physical lightbox of the exchanges trib.al/lxNN1Pl
“I started looking into what the hell an NFT was and once I learned that it was a way to authenticate something, I said I want to make artwork out of my text messages with Armie Hammer,” Morrison explained. "It’s like a checkmate" trib.al/lxNN1Pl
Over the course of five seasons and 50 episodes on “Broad City,” there are still so many things that Abbi Jacobson still can’t believe she and her co-creator, co-star, and real-life best friend Ilana Glazer got away with trib.al/7IfZgsl
But as Jacobson explains on this week’s episode of #TheLastLaugh podcast with @mattwilstein, the moment that still makes her laugh out loud with disbelief is when her character made a deeply personal admission to Hillary Clinton: "It’s just so unreal" trib.al/7IfZgsl
Since "Broad City's" end just over two years ago, Jacobson has embarked on her own professional journey. Now, she is co-creating and co-starring in a new serialized version of "A League of Their Own" for Amazon, which proudly embraces “queerness” trib.al/7IfZgsl