(OPINION) ETH – Following Wednesday’s attempted coup at the capitol, Forbes – the American business magazine – has issued a warning to companies that would be considering hiring former officials from President Donald Trump’s administration.
According to the report from Yahoo News, The editor of Forbes, Randall Lane has given a stern warning to companies that choose to hire officials from President Donald Trump’s administration that they will be “heavily scrutinized”. Lane wrote in an article that after the attempted coup, there should be a “truth reckoning.” and that there would be “repercussions”
for those who have lied on behalf of Trump he went further and name-called Trump’s former press secretaries and stated that companies that employ them could be viewed as a “potential funnel of disinformation” by the magazine. “Forbes will assume that everything your company or firm talks about is a lie,” the magazine’s editor Randall Lane wrote.
“We’re going to scrutinize, double-check, investigate with the same skepticism we’d approach a Trump tweet,” Lane added. In the article, Lane named Trump’s press secretaries and a former senior counselor to the president – Sean Spicer, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Stephanie Grisham, Kayleigh McEnany, and Kellyanne Conway – and referred to the group as “Trump’s fellow fabulists.”
