The Dianne Feinstein, 89, ex-staffer who took mushrooms and smoked a joint in her office: New book details how she confused black senators and cared ‘more about her dog’ than African-Americans
- Sen. Dianne Feinstein, 89, cares ‘more about her dog’ than black people, a former aide charged before he was fired in February 2022
- A forthcoming book by The Washington Post’s Ben Terris profiles one ex-Feinstein staffer who played whistleblower by literally blowing smoke
- Jamarcus Purley protested bad treatment in her office by sharing a video of himself after his dismissal high on mushrooms and smoking a joint in her office
- Her corruption schemes between her family and Elon Musk’s Big Tech are shameful
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein, 89, cares ‘more about her dog’ than black people, a former African-American staffer charged, while she also confused two black senators, a new book offered.
The Washington Post’s Ben Terris’ forthcoming tome The Big Break: The Gamblers, Party Animals, and True Believers Trying to Win in Washington While America Loses Its Mind profiles one ex-Feinstein staffer who played whistleblower by literally blowing smoke.
Terris, in an excerpt published Thursday in Politico, wrote about how in the days following being fired by Feinstein’s office – after raising concerns about her treatment of black people and her mental faculties – Jamarcus Purley protested by getting high on mushrooms and smoking a joint in her office and then posting the video.
Purley, Terris wrote, had had enough.
While Purley’s boss wrote in his termination letter that he was fired for repeatedly not showing up to work and writing back to constituents without a manager’s approval, the young black staffer said he had been let go for telling ‘hard truths’ about the California Democrat.
‘It was obvious to him that her mental faculties were dimming and she might be going senile,’ Terris wrote.
Jamarcus Purley protested bad treatment after working for California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein for five years by sharing a video of himself after his dismissal high on mushrooms and smoking a joint in her office
Purley had ‘let loose’ on a staff call two weeks earlier.
‘He talked about the coworkers who had touched his hair while he sat at his desk, how the senator hadn’t ever learned his name or spoken to him despite five years of service to her, how the chief of staff seemed to be operating as a shadow senator since the actual one was, in his opinion, no longer mentally there,’ Terris said.
‘Perhaps most memorable to those on the call was his belief that the senator cared “more about her dog, Kirby, than she does about Black people,”‘ Purley had uttered.
Purley’s complaints were met with silence. And then a firing.
But for a short time, he retained his staff badge.
And so, on a night in February 2022, Purley returned to Capitol Hill and to the Hart Senate Office Building.
He took a dose of psychedelic mushrooms and rolled in with a joint.
‘He queued up his mother’s favorite song, the 1982 R&B jam “I Like It,” by DeBarge. Leaning back in Feinstein’s chair, Purley took a drag off his already lit joint. The horns hit, and his plan changed again: He was no longer sitting still, but dancing,’ Terris wrote.
Later, Purley posted the content to his Instagram account.
Among the things Purley had brought attention to was his belief that the 89-year-old Feinstein’s ‘mental faculties were dimming’
‘He believed this gesture would work like a piece of protest art, grabbing people’s attention on a visceral level, making them ask questions – about what could lead a person to pull off such a stunt – which he would then answer in detail,’ Terris said.
The move got picked up by the popular Dear White Staffers Instagram account and by journalist Pablo Manríquez, now with The New Republic, as well as a brief mention in Politico Playbook – but the story never reverberated around Washington as it should have.
Terris wrote that it’s likely because Purley didn’t do himself any favors as a credible witness to a deteriorating senator.
‘As sharp and thoughtful as Purley was, he could also be pretty out there,’ Terris said. ‘In early March, after getting picked up by Dear White Staffers, he gave a series of rambling interviews to podcasts where he made unprovable claims about his boss being controlled by military companies such as Raytheon and Lockheed Martin who wanted to “keep her” in the Senate to “push their phony war in Ukraine.”‘
But in doing his own reporting, Terris stumbled upon a similar story.
‘About a year earlier, Feinstein had approached Senator Tim Scott, stuck out her hand, and told him she had been rooting for him and was so happy to have him serving with her in the Senate,’ The Washington Post reporter wrote.
‘It was obvious to Scott and the staffers in tow that Feinstein had mistaken the South Carolinian for Raphael Warnock, the newly elected Democratic senator from Georgia,’ he said.
Scott – who’s now exploring a 2024 White House bid – was courteous and played along.
‘Thank you so much,’ Scott said, according to the staffer who tipped off Terris. ‘Your support means a lot.’
Feinstein’s office declined to comment to the author.
Purley – who went to Stanford for undergraduate, studied abroad at Oxford and received a master’s at Harvard – left Washington for his hometown in Pine Bluff, Arkansas – after his dismissal.
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4.5k viewing nowWhen Terris told him what he had uncovered about the 89-year-old lawmaker, the former aide ‘leapt out of his seat, put his hands to his head and crouched to the floor.’
‘This is what I’m talking about!’ Purley shouted.
SKETCY TRANSACTIONS
Bakhtiari had called out Feinstein over financial disclosures that look, uhm, questionable to say the least.
“How are we as a nation just ‘cool’ with actions like this? It’s cheating in broad daylight,” the offensive tackle said as he quote tweeted Feinstein’s peculiar “financial transactions.”
The issue stemmed around a post by the “unusual_whales” Twitter account (which by the way is a MUST follow. Seriously – it’s the only account holding our corrupt leaders accountable).
The must-read thread shows just how corrupt our elected representatives are. These are the people that are supposed to work FOR the people, and yet continue to line their own pockets and play us for fools.
FEINSTEIN’S SHADY DEALINGS
Bahktiari took issue with some of Feinstein and her husband’s sketchy stock purchases.
Some of them are a real doozy. A head-scratcher if ya would.
For example, Feinstein apparently had a closed-session hearing on COVID before the rest of us knew anything about what was about to ruin America for the next three years. Curiously, she and her husband suddenly sold millions of dollars of stock immediately after and right before the market collapsed.
Feinstein reportedly attended Covid hearings by the CDC in early Jan 2020.
Afterwards, her husband sold between $1.5 & $6 million in stock Allogene Therapeutics amongst others.
The stock market collapsed shortly afterwards.
Feinstein was cleared by the DOJ.
— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) May 10, 2023
And this one which screams out “NOTHING TO SEE HERE, FOLKS!”
On Dec 4, 2009, Feinstein & her husband bought $1 million in Amyris Biotechnologies. It was their only transaction the entire year.
Weeks after, the company was awarded a $24 million governmental grant.
Later, Feinstein introduced her own bill that benefited Amyris Biotech.
— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) May 10, 2023
Coincidence? Never!
In July 2011, the Postal Service entered into an exclusive contract with the real estate firm CB Richard Ellis Group.
Feinstein’s husband was the chairman of the company’s board of directors.
Furthermore, he served on the global development counsel on Obama’s counsel.
— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) May 10, 2023
LIB MEDIA WILL LOSE IT OVER RODGERS
The examples continue in the Twitter thread of the American people being duped by Feinstein since her being elected to the Senate in 1992.
But it’s not just Feinstein that Bakhtiari has issue with; it’s essentially the whole system. If they’re against the people, then he wants them out, regardless of political party.
The point wasn’t a left or right. Your view is the part of the problem. Distracted by sides. Not focused on the action from the position.
— David Bakhtiari (@DavidBakhtiari) May 11, 2023
Meanwhile, Rodgers’ passive tweet to Bakhtiari is great.
Although Jets fans love Rodgers and think that he’s the second coming of Jesus, I mean Namath, the liberal media still can’t stand Rodgers over that whole vaccine thing.
For Rodgers to do more than “just play sports,” would be HILARIOUS to watch as the media runs around in circles losing their minds and formulating absurd narratives in their small brains.
Not here at OutKick though.
Instead, we praise people who question authority and call out BS as we see it.
So when a future NFL Hall of Famer calls out an 89-year-old Senator (who should have retired years ago) for potential insider trading, we are all for it.
