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 15, 2024
On MSNBC's The Weekend, co-anchor claims that Biden plays chess, whereas Trump, at best, plays Hungry Hippos. Co-anchor Symone Sanders-Townsend chips in to suggest Uno might be a better fit for Trump. 
MarkF | June 13, 2024
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough criticizes former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan for calling Trump "unfit for office" but also saying that he doesn't support Joe Biden either, and that his policies are "terrible." Scarborough is dissatisfied that Ryan won't announce that he's voting for Biden.
MarkF | June 12, 2024
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough offers Biden a word-for-word script to be used in the upcoming debate should Trump raise the matter of Hunter's felony convictions.  Like a Hollywood director, Scarborough even provides stage directions for Biden.
MarkF | June 10, 2024
"There is an old trial lawyers’ saying 'When the facts are on your side, pound the facts. When the law is on your side, pound the law. When neither is on you side, pound the table.'”  -- Patrick Buchanan, 1975. When it came to making the case for Hunter Biden, Mika Brzezinski has managed to devise an alternative to pounding the table when the facts and the law are against you. On today's Morning…
MarkF | June 7, 2024
On Way Too Early, Molly Jong-Fast says that only "low-information voters" would let a conviction of Hunter Biden on gun charges impact their vote. She also claims that the evidence that Hunter lied on his application for a gun license in denying being a drug user is "convoluted," despite the fact that there is overwhelming evidence based on his contemporaneous statements.
MarkF | June 5, 2024
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough stages a counterattack on a Wall Street Journal article suggesting that Pres. Biden "shows signs of slipping." Scarborough claims that Biden is "light years ahead" of other leaders on foreign policy, ignoring the fact that Biden in just the past months claimed to have spoken with two foreign leaders who had been dead for years. 
MarkF | June 4, 2024
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough declares an evangelical leader guilty of "depravity" and "straight-out blasphemy" for his support of Donald Trump. Willie Geist agrees: there's a word for that: "blasphemy."
MarkF | June 2, 2024
On MSNBC's the weekend, leftist NBC historian Michael Beschloss paints an apocalyptic picture of what a Trump presidency would be: murder, arson, endless dictatorship, and anarchy.
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.