Political analysts were gifted with a number of mysteries Monday after the release of Donald Trump’s Federal Election Commission campaign disclosure report. But perhaps the strangest was that Donald Trump had hired a fictional ad firm to do “field research.” As it happens, the people involved in the firm known as “Draper Sterling” appear to have a connection to ousted Trump campaign director Corey Lewandowski.
But reviewing the information turned up by Judd Legum at ThinkProgress, there’s another intriguing possibility.
Draper Sterling was registered with the New Hampshire Secretary of State to Jon Adkins, the co-founder of a medical device startup. Its headquarters is Adkins’ home address in residential New Hampshire.
The medical device company is actually XenoTherapeutics. According to the company website. XenoTherapeutics was created to produce a product called Xeno-Skin, a substance which will replace the cadaver skin used in burn grafts with altered pig skin. Honestly, that sounds like a terrific idea.
But what’s more interesting in Trump terms is that the chief medical officer of XenoTherapeutics is Dr. Curt Cetrulo. It’s a name that may seem slightly familiar, because the site also links to some recent news featuring Dr. Cetrulo.
A man whose penis was removed because of cancer has received the first penis transplant in the United States, at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. …
“We’re cautiously optimistic,” said Dr. Curtis L. Cetrulo, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon and a leader of the surgical team. “It’s uncharted waters for us.”
So. Donald Trump provided $35,000 to a pop-up ad agency run by two men with no apparent experience in any political research, but who are deeply involved with a medical firm. And at that firm, the CMO is the man who conducted the nation’s first penis transplant.
So could that $35,000 really be just a down payment from Trump? Could he really be buying …
Nah. It’s probably Lewandowski scamming the scammer.