Disgraced conservative media personality Lauren Chen, the founder of Tenet Media on YouTube, which provided a platform to several right-wing commentators including Tim Pool, Benny Johnson and Dave Rubin, and was exposed by the FBI in 2024 for taking millions in funding from the Russian state-owned news agency RT, resulting in Chen having her work visa revoked and being forced to return to her home country of Canada, was allowed to reenter the United States this month with assistance from officials in the Trump Administration, specifically Joe Rittenhouse, a senior adviser on consular affairs with the State Department who Chen thanked publicly on Instagram and X.
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The post Disgraced conservative media personality Lauren Chen, the founder of Tenet Media on YouTube, which provided a platform to several right-wing commentators including Tim Pool, Benny Johnson and Dave Rubin, and was exposed by the FBI in 2024 for taking millions in funding from the Russian state-owned news agency RT, resulting in Chen having her work visa revoked and being forced to return to her home country of Canada, was allowed to reenter the United States this month with assistance from officials in the Trump Administration, specifically Joe Rittenhouse, a senior adviser on consular affairs with the State Department who Chen thanked publicly on Instagram and X. first appeared on October Surprise 2016 – octobersurprise2016.org.

