Tran also registered the NCGP as a 527 political organization with the IRS, which is a standard tax-exempt group that focuses on influencing elections. Tran has registered himself as an Orange County lobbyist, and I confirmed this with county officials. Tran is the director, and its most prominent member is Daniel Doan, who is the cofounder of indie publisher Black Shell Media. The NCGP announced itself to the public on Monday. By Wednesday night, we both described Tran and the NCGP in the same way: a rabbit hole.
I’ve spoken with Kain throughout this week, and we’ve shared some of what we’ve found with one another. “It comes with the territory of being a real radical.” “For those who don’t know, I’m a prolific internet troll,” he wrote in the Medium blog. Kain found a blog post where Tran spoke about his plans to start a “public policy think tank” with “Jack” (who I’ve confirmed is a 17-year old). I began looking into it more on Tuesday morning and, on Wednesday, Forbes contributor Erik Kain, published an excellent story that focused on some of the inconsistencies, quirks, and past comments of Tran and the NCGP. The NCGP story nagged at me since I published it on Monday. What I’ve found over the past week is that Tran is an ambitious 27 year old who references books like The Art of Persuasion and Rules for Radicals. I’ve also found that he has multiple startups running at the same time covering religion, education, Republican election financing, and more his gaming organization is his latest scheme.
Since then, I’ve spoken with him, exchanged several emails, and communicated with NCGP’s former vice chair, who is a teenager. At the time, I noted the sloppy language of the PR copy and tried to get in touch with Tran. He is the director and founder of the National Committee for Games Policy, which announced its formation earlier this week with a press release that I reported on.
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