Mark Finkelstein
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Mark's undergrad degree is from Cornell. He has law degrees from SUNY Buffalo and Harvard. He practiced law in NYC, Mexico City, and Paris, before doing a stint as a pro tennis manager and tournament organizer. He returned to his college town of Ithaca, NY and got involved in real estate development and politics.

In 2011, Mark moved to Pecan Plantation, TX, and in 2018, to Oak Island, NC.

Mark's a dog lover who has used his small plane to do many dog-rescue flights. He speaks Spanish and French.
 

MarkF | June 1, 2024
On MSNBC's The Weekend, co-host Alicia Menendez tees up Michael Cohen, paraphrasing what Cohen had told Nicolle Wallace the day before, to say that he'll never get peace so long as Donald Trump is "with us," i.e., alive. 
MarkF | May 31, 2024
On Morning Joe, one legal analyst claims that DA Alvin Bragg and his team of prosecutors didn't "relish or rejoice" in the conviction of Donald Trump. Two legal analysts say that normal sentence for a first-time, non-violent offender like Trump would be probation, but that Trump's repeated criticisms of the judge, and his presumed lack of remorse in his pre-sentencing statement, could affect the…
MarkF | May 30, 2024
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough clings to an article by Nate Cohn of the New York Times to keep hope alive for Biden's chances in the 2024 election. Scarborough also boasts about having predicted in 2016 that Trump could win, omitting the fact that just a few days before the 2016 election, he told worried Democrats; "Just relax. Don't go under your bed and get in the fetal position and get your…
MarkF | May 29, 2024
On CNN This Morning, host Kasie Hunt agrees with a Politico article headlined, "Dems in full-blown ‘freakout’ over Biden."  Hunt: "I have to say, I feel that from sources, that they ARE freaking out about the state of the campaign."
MarkF | May 27, 2024
On CNN's State of the Union, host Dana Bash defends Joe Biden over critical remarks on his record on race that Kamala Harris made against him. Bash brushes off the remarks as having been made by Karris when she and Biden were running against each other for the Democrat presidential nomination. But as her guest Sen. Tim Scott points out, the truth of Harris's accusations can be confirmed. 
MarkF | May 25, 2024
The panel of MSNBC's The Weekend expressed its great frustration over voters not being sufficiently scared by Trump's rhetoric, and thus not stampeded into supporting Biden.
MarkF | May 24, 2024
Nervous about Trump's inroads with black and Latino voters, Morning Joe does its best to dump on Trump's rally in the Bronx, a borough where 85% of residents are black or Latino.
MarkF | May 23, 2024
Morning Joe lashes out at Nikki Haley in reaction to her announcement that, despite having been very critical of Trump during her primary run, she will be voting for him. Joe Scarborough uses a vulgarity in his tirade, and Charlie Sykes slimes Haley as a "very, very, cheap date" for Trump.
MarkF | May 22, 2024
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough says, "I wonder who's stupid enough to believe him [Trump], right? I wonder why his voters that keep going back to this guy when he lies."
MarkF | May 22, 2024
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough mocks Rudy Giuliani for marketing his own eponymously named coffee brand, lamenting, "Unfortunately, this is our world, 2024." Scarborough apparently forgot that for years, he's had his own  "Morning Joe" brand of Starbucks coffee.