It seems as though The Washington Post’s ambiguously aged columnist Taylor Lorenz was flaunting her woke privilege on Twitter earlier this month, having openly admitted to engaging in a year-long crime spree in D.C. where she possibly stole thousands of dollars worth of potential revenue from D.C.’s Metro via intentionally fare evasion.
As mentioned earlier, Lorenz’s age is a bit of a mystery, as even her own bio on Wikipedia isn’t sure if she was born in October of 1984 or October of 1987, namely because media reports and by her own past assertions, her age seems to change when convenient.
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Lorenz gained a level of infamy earlier in 2022 when she decided to play victim during an MSNBC interview this past April, where the WaPo columnist decried the likes of online bullying and doxing, shedding what would soon be observed as crocodile tears during the interview after she decided to dox the person behind Libs of TikTok days after the fact.
Considering the doxing drama Lorenz fomented, alongside her career consisting of hit pieces on various online personalities that have been shown to spread falsehoods about the stories’ subjects, she’s been described in some circles as a “crybully,” which – while not being a term recognized by any reputable dictionary – typically refers to someone who engages in all sorts of abusive or harassing behaviors while trying to play the victim at the same time.
But what is all the more disquieting with respect to Lorenz is just how brazen she was on October 5th when she proclaimed on Twitter to have engaged in blatant fare evasion ostensibly as a young adult, telling her followers in response to a video featuring turnstile jumping at D.C.’s Metro, “This is how I rode the metro every day for a year when I was an intern, never paid for a single ride.”
Now, while fare evasion is no longer listed as a criminal offense in D.C., that update turning the offense into a civil matter (which is still punishable by a fine) didn’t come into effect until December of 2018 – a period of time where Lorenz clearly wasn’t still functioning has some kind of lowly “intern” somewhere (considering in 2018 she as working at The Daily Beast after working for Business Insider for three years prior).
Keeping the aforementioned in mind, that would mean Lorenz openly admitted to committing a year’s worth of criminal offenses, which at the time they were committed could’ve resulted in a fine of up to $300 and up to 10 days in jail per offense.
An added touch of irony in all this is that one day prior to Lorenz openly admitting to having engaged in criminal fare evasion, her employer published a report on fare evasion enforcement on D.C’s Metro, which officials in the report mentioned that fare evasion costs Metro $40 million annually.
If Lorenz was being candid in her assertion of using the Metro “every day for a year” without paying, then she could’ve wound up stealing thousands of dollars worth of rides, based upon some reasonable estimates on daily travel when paired up with Metro’s riding fees – seeing as much as over $4,000 in stolen services if she were traveling on the Metro twice a day during peak hours.
No matter how one shakes that, fare evasion is theft – and Lorenz took zero issue with bragging about how she wantonly stole the services and labor of others without even attempting to justify her illegal acts lest someone reads into her mentioning of being an “intern” at the time as somehow an allusion to her being short of cash.
But the thing is, Lorenz realistically wasn’t short on cash at all at any point in her life, even when she was an intern. While the WaPo columnist has gone to great lengths to conceal aspects of her personal life, she grew up pretty damn wealthy.
And by wealthy, we’re talking about growing up in a multi-million dollar home with a current market value of around $5.8 million. This is, of course, information that Lorenz has painstakingly gone to great lengths to keep out of the public eye, as there’s hardly much information just floating about out there on Lorenz and her family unless someone does some serious (and I mean serious) digging.
Of course, keeping personal identifying information off the internet is an easier task when you come from wealth, plus having a family member in the internet archive business likely doesn’t hurt either, as it was uncovered that Lorenz’s maternal uncle is San Francisco-based Roger Gregory Macdonald, who is the founder of Internet Archive’s (a.k.a., the Wayback Machine) Television Archive.
Macdonald directly outed himself back in February of 2020 – prior to much of the controversy surrounding Lorenz had yet to foment – tagging his niece in a Twitter post celebrating a piece she’d written for the New York Times. Unsurprisingly, Macdonald has since protected his profile on Twitter.
With Lorenz’s familial ties to one of the big dogs behind Internet Archive, it’s hardly shocking to learn that Lorenz is the only person whose Twitter account/posts can’t be archived by the Wayback Machine. Go ahead, give it a try and see if this error message below pops up when either trying to archive her account or even a singular Twitter post.
And what’s all the more convenient for Lorenz is that not only does she work in the media herself with her position at WaPo, but her younger sister Brooke also just so happens to be the director of communications at CBS – a position Brooke attained after leaving WaPo herself. Imagine my shock.
Lorenz is the epitome of liberal elite privilege: she grew up super wealthy, is shielded by the media because she’s a part of the mainstream media machine along with her family, has her online history erased thanks to her uncle, and can seemingly brag about committing crimes with impunity.
This piece was written by Gregory Hoyt on October 6, 2022. It originally appeared on RedVoiceMedia.com and is used with permission.
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