Editor Victoria’s Comment ~ Ok so this is a WAPO opinion piece. I found it interesting the interest in Time Travel and Bigfoot. A fellow “crackpot”. I think we have some really amazing revealings coming up by years end.
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My colleague Ruth Marcus writes: “The acting attorney general of the United States is a crackpot.”
As though that’s a bad thing.
Which it isn’t.
The “crackpot” bit is not in dispute. In addition to his exotic legal views and his lack of relevant experience, Matthew G. Whitaker was already known to have hawked hot-tub seats for a business that shut down this year after reaching a $26 million settlement with the Federal Trade Commission for defrauding customers. But that’s just the beginning of the crackpottery.
During the current U.S. attorney general’s time on the company’s advisory board, from 2014 onward, World Patent Marketing:
● Claimed that “DNA evidence collected in 2013 proves that Bigfoot does exist,” had a website selling Bigfoot paraphernalia and planned a celebrity event called “You Have Been Squatched!”
● Asserted that “time travel” could be “possible, perhaps within the next decade” and tried to raise money using bitcoin for time-travel research by one of Whitaker’s fellow board members. The company suggested users might “relive moments from your past” or “visit your future.”
