>>14212895

>Elephants

Coinky-dink. Just read a loooong article about Yasher Ali and his machinations. Jenna Ellis tweeted her support to him (surprise surprise).

The story starts off with him crying over a dead Elephant:

"The Curious Rise of Twitter Power Broker Yashar Ali

In just a few years, he’s become one of the most fearsome media figures in the country—mobilizing his vast Twitter following to promote his famous friends and punish foes. Can his own past survive similar scrutiny?

By Peter Kiefer -June 9, 2021"

"I’m extremely upset.”

Yashar Ali delivers this news as he settles into a booth in the lobby of Santa Monica’s Proper Hotel. His eyes are red and puffy—he’s clearly been crying—and his voice cracks with emotion when he speaks. Something terrible has happened, the death of a beloved friend, and Ali can’t help but spill his grief into my tape recorder as we start our interview. “He was just so resilient,” he says, sighing deeply.

The deceased, it turns out, is an orphaned elephant named Luggard, who, before he succumbed to a deadly infection, lived in a wildlife refuge in Kenya that Ali has been raising money for through his extremely influential Twitter account. “You can get people to care about animals if you help them realize that they’re just like us,” he says."

More (LOTS more) sauce: https://www.lamag.com/mag-features/yashar-ali/

This guy took down Garcetti's cabinet bid, Sharon Osborne and many more. HUGE BFF: Skillet face Teigen. Former friends he grifted now turned less friendly include a Getty and a Buell.

>>14212935

>Elephants

I buried the lead- he was a Newsom honcho, zero experience, no resume at all. From the aforementioned article:

"“There’s a little bit of the Talented Mr. Ripley in him,” says a former colleague. Though he has insinuated in public and in various profiles that he’s the scion of a wealthy Iranian family, public records show that he’s encountered a slew of financial hardships in recent years. He’s been evicted from multiple residences, defaulted on several loans, and has racked up tens of thousands of dollars in tax liens. He seems to have no fixed address, preferring to live in the homes of generous friends. (He’s currently installed in the West Hollywood house of an entertainment-industry power broker.) But sometimes he overstays his welcome. He’s been sued by a member of the Getty family over a financial dispute and fallen out with several other powerful members of San Francisco’s and Los Angeles’s entertainment and political elite.

“He’s always attached himself to rich, powerful people and to elected officials and made himself appear indispensable,” recalls a former colleague who worked alongside Ali in Newsom’s San Francisco office. Like many people interviewed for this article, he declined to speak for attribution out of concern that Ali might somehow retaliate. “I don’t exactly fear him, but he can be vengeful and very vindictive.”

Caption from pic: Ali (far left) with then-San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom and his wife, Jennnifer Siebel, in 2009. Despite a thin political portfolio, Ali parlayed fundraising for Hillary Clinton into a job as Newsom’s chief of staff.