The Irish Right-Wing Provocateurs Hellbent on Tormenting Hunter Biden
In one sense—although not in any sense that Lin-Manuel Miranda would endorse—Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney are a testament to the truism that immigrants get the job done.
These married Irish provocateurs moved to the United States more than a decade ago, published a book about a criminal abortionist, made money, made movies and wrote plays to own the libs and terminate “cancel culture,” became celebrity-darlings of the American right, and even spent quality time with their rough-hewn hero Donald Trump. (McAleer—like the 45th president, a coronavirus mask skeptic—confided recently to The Daily Beast: “I just got my Trump vaccine.”)
Not surprisingly—after years of creating a cottage industry out of climate-change denialism, corporate shilling, opposition to abortion rights, attacking the liberal establishment, and trafficking in the occasional alternative fact (accomplished with undeniable panache and an Irish knack for storytelling)—the duo have earned their share of enemies.
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