Here in The Other Washington’s 3rd CD, the race gets curiouser and curiouser. The local newpaper is on the story. MAGA Candidate Joe Kent, who ousted incumbent Jaime Herrera Beutler because she had the decency to vote to impeach TFG, has run into a wee bit of trouble. It certainly won’t stop his big backers from spending ridiculous amounts of money to elect him, but people are taking note. It seems the tech company he claims to work for, American Enterprise Solutions, couldn’t be verified. Now, Joe is a former Green Beret and CIA employee, so maybe it’s a top secret operation.

The Daily Beast put its staffers on the trail after an anti-Kent website posed the questions. They couldn’t find American Enterprise Solutions in filings for patents, trademarks, licenses, websites or online presence or any government or private wireless contracts. Of course, Joe first blamed the messenger when confronted, claiming the story was “fraudulent” but later reversed course. The tech company changed its name to Advanced Enterprise Solutions. Just a typo. A little mistake. His W-2s for 2020 and 2021, shown as proof, didn’t clear things up as well as he thought they would. Two different names, Advanced Enterprise Solutions of Milford, DE and Advanced Enterprise Solutions LLC of Herndon, VA. Just a little discrepancy in names. But wait, there’s more: The company Federal Employee ID was on one form, but redacted on the second, so who can compare? And neither name matches a registration document filed with the VA State Corporation Commission. That one is Advanced Enterprise Solutions Group LLC, a Delaware Company operating in Virginia.

Oh yeah, in true Trumpian style, that company’s annual registration fee was past due and listed as “pending inactive”…until today, when it was changed to “active”. Just a coincidence, I’m sure. And for a last bit of curious, a DC law firm stated that Kent is “employed by a US company that wishes not to be identified”. Maybe because they don’t know what the heck to call themselves?