by Adedotun Michael
The US Commerce Department is to help YouTube stars who campaigned for President Trump “grow their business and build their brand.”
Lynnette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson, YouTube stars better known as “Diamond” and “Silk,” respectively who run a political blog aimed at promoting President Trump and denigrating his critics were invited to the Commerce Department’s headquarters this week to discuss ways in which they could expand their business, Gizmodo reports.
The visit to Commerce Department was revealed through a photo posted on the department’s official Twitter account, which said the duo had met with the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) to “discuss how to grow their business and build their brand.”
The tweet has since been deleted.
A spokesman for the department, however, said the tweet deleted “out of an abundance of caution” as the department was not clear it had received permission to post the photo. “Diamond and Silk were here to talk about minority business development,”.
He said further “They reached out to the Acting National Director of MBDA, [whom] they had met previously, to discuss how best to help the minority business community.”
