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Porn star date proves to be mother’s ruin for top DC lobbyist
Marty Irby is one of DC’s top lobbyists, commended four times in the last six years by the Hill, largely for his work on animal wellbeing. But one client of his was less pleased with his choice of humans.
Irby represented Moms for America, the conservative education nonprofit that gathered steam during the Covid pandemic. His taste in women proved to not be to their liking: he brought the adult film star Alexa Payne as his plus-one to a Moms for America gala at Mar-a-Lago last November.
Payne, 28, starred in films including this year’s Stepmom Sex Ed 9, 2023’s Free Use Stepmom Vol. 1 and 2022’s My Sexy Little Stepsister 14, an oeuvre unlikely to be to Moms for America’s liking. She is one of a number of sex workers with whom Irby pals around, according to a perusal of his public social media profiles.
Cockburn understands that Moms for America stopped retaining Irby shortly after the event. They declined to comment.
If you thought losing the business of your socially conservative clients might bring about a change in behavior, you’d be mistaken: social media posts show that Irby was accompanied by a different sex worker to the DCI Group and Daily Caller’s Trump Inauguration Gala in mid-January. Irby had brought this same woman on a tour of Congress the year before, Facebook posts show, taking her to the offices of various Utah members – including the anti-porn Senator Mike Lee.
Irby was previously unsaddled from his role as COO of advocacy group FreedomWorks, now defunct, after rival lobbyists claimed he was “FreedomWoke.” In the years since, he’s attempted to rebrand as “MAGA Marty,” playing up his Trumpworld bona fides and highlighting his trips to the Oval Office.
To be fair, appearing in pornography doesn’t preclude someone from being a Trump supporter: OnlyFans star Amber Rose spoke on the first night of last summer’s Republican National Convention and a number of adult performers declared their allegiances in the lead-up to the 2024 election. Irby did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
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EVERYTHING IS FINE Amid stock market carnage, President Trump held up a prop $5 million immigration “gold card” in front of reporters on the plane to Mar-a-Lago yesterday. “TO THE MANY INVESTORS COMING INTO THE UNITED STATES AND INVESTING MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF MONEY, MY POLICIES WILL NEVER CHANGE,” he wrote on Truth Social this morning. “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO GET RICH, RICHER THAN EVER BEFORE!!!”
ADAMS FAMILY VALUES Mayor Eric Adams of New York said that he would stand for reelection as an Independent not a Democrat – before posing for pictures with his predecessor Rudy Giuliani at a party celebrating conservative news channel Newsmax’s IPO.
NO SHIRT, NO SHOES, NO WEAPONS In what’s being billed as the logical successor to February’s hockey brawls between the US and Canada, self-styled menswear expert “Derek Guy” challenged one of his detractors to fight him outside a Uniqlo in San Francisco tomorrow.
FYP, RIP?
TikTok’s time is running out… again…
President Donald Trump issued a stay of execution for TikTok when he entered office in January. The government was set to force its Chinese-owned holding company ByteDance to sell its US entity to an American owner or face expulsion from the app stores. Trump issued a 75-day extension to allow ByteDance the chance to find a US owner to sell a majority stake to – and that deadline expires today. What’s striking is how little anyone knows about what will happen next.
Companies ranging from Oracle to Amazon are said to have placed bids to acquire the massively popular social media company. ByteDance theoretically has to approve of any bids, and the company has been reluctant to sell off. While TikTok could be sold for an astronomical sum, the Chinese Communist party would lose easy backdoor access to the data of millions of US users.
When Congress was poised to force a sale last year, TikTok activists swarmed DC, and students across America called their lawmakers, threatening to kill themselves or the legislators if the app was banned in the US. This backfired spectacularly, demonstrating TikTok’s cultural grasp on American teens, and might be a reason for the relative silence this go around.
Another difference has been the lack of legislative or agency involvement, but that’s because the decision is entirely out of their hands. Some lawmakers who were previously anti-TikTok probably aren’t upset about, Cockburn understands, given Trump’s mercurial attitude towards the subject.
Since this email went out at 1 p.m. ET, the President has announced another 75-day extension.
Come rain or Shein
Not-so-fast fashion could be a consequence of tariffs
Will President Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs be the death of fast fashion?
In a move that could have Cockburn’s nieces weeping, a number of the countries hit by this week’s “reciprocal” tariffs are those where retail companies such as Shein, H&M, Temu and Zara profit from the exploitation of cheap labor to produce trendy, disposable clothing.
While the tariffs will inevitably hurt some shareholders, plenty of companies will be looking to adapt fast. They might look to cut profit margins, reduce production costs or shift outsourced labor from countries such as Vietnam, which faces a 46 percent tariff. The southeast Asian nation was quick to react to Liberation Day, according to a Truth Social post from Trump this morning: “Just had a very productive call with To Lam, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, who told me that Vietnam wants to cut their Tariffs down to ZERO if they are able to make an agreement with the U.S.”
Will tariffs prompt consumers to change what they buy? If the price gap narrows between more durable clothing and fast fashion, for example, we could see a return to smaller wardrobes filled with higher quality goods. Until we know where the economy is headed, Cockburn will stick to wearing the same old tattered suit.
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