President Donald Trump’s magic movement has long been a coalition of strange companions. On the one hand, there is Trump himself, who once boasted to grab women “for the Pussy” and enjoyed a long friendship with the sexual trafficker of minors Jeffrey Epstein, based on the mutual appreciation of both men by “beautiful women.” On the other hand, there are a group of deeply religious men such as former vice president Mike Pence, who has said he does not eat only women for fear of acting inappropriately with them (and since then he was exiled from the magician), and the president of the Mike Johnson chamber, who once told a group of a church in Louisian seventeen -year -old son to dissuade him from seeing pornography.
In particular about pornography, Maga faces internal tensions. Vice President JD Vance wants the government to prohibit it. The same wants The Heritage Foundation, the influential conservative Tank Tank with deep ties with Trump’s White House, and Russ Vought, leader of the 2025 project that now serves as director of Trump’s administration and budget office. A legal fellow of Heritage Foundation has called “diabolical” pornography.
But a nearby associate of President Donald Trump – and a key figure in his social media business, Truth Social – seems to have different opinions about the adult entertainment industry. Chris Pavlovski, CEO and former multi -million dollar founder of the Rumble Video Platform, also founded Jokerooo, a company that for approximately a decade, between 2003 and 2013, possessed explicit websites domains such as pornobrokers.com, lustymaids.com and milfmansion.com.
Some of the domains that Pavlovski had seemed to be out of line during the years he had. Archive Internet records show that at least one domain registered in the name of Pavlovski, Canadianclit.com, advertised “Church upskirts” and “Nasty Hidden Cam Pics” of “Hot Naked College Girls” while he possessed it. (It seems that the ads linked to other places he did not possess.)
Rumble’s spokesman Tim Murtauch, sent to Forbes the following statement: “Forbes must have a lot of free time if they are writing about a domain parking business that Chris Pavlovski handled when he was 18 and 19 years old, and where advertising was managed and operated by third parties. If these were among the hundreds – perhaps thousands – of domains that he once had, he did not remember them, he does not remember them. After the publication, Murtauch sent an additional comment, saying: “These were domain names – among many hundreds or thousands that Chris Pavlovski once had, covering many types of possible businesses – and not websites in operation. They were reserved and parked domain names to be sold to businesses that would like them.”
Pavlovski became a favorite of the Maga Movement thanks to its rumble management, the alternative popular video platform on the American right. Narya, a venture capital firm founded by Vance, co-led an investment round in Rumble in 2021 along with the Republican megadonant Peter Thiel, and around the same time, Rumble signed millionaire contracts with artists and editorials of right tendency such as Steven Crowder and The Daily Wire. The current deputy director of the FBI, Dan Bongino, was host of the most popular Rumble program in 2022.
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In 2021, Pavlovski was recruited in the small group of technologists and loyal to Trump that Truth Social created. They even offered him the position of CEO of Truth Social, but rejected it, according to notes taken by the co -founder of the social network, Andy Dean Litinsky, which were presented as evidence in a demand of investors against Truth Social. (A judge determined last year that the company had breached its contract with investors.) Instead, Pavlovski chose to provide services to Truth Social through cloud and advertising businesses of Rumble, and through an Outsourcing company Canadian-Macedonia that co-founded called Cosmic Development.
The property of pornographic domains by Pavlovski is consistent with his opinions on online content restrictions. He has criticized the “mass censorship” that says other technology companies, and suggested that pornography could be allowed in Rumble (where it is currently prohibited) if it were not for the rules of Apple and Google application stores.
“(E) Llos allow pornography in X, but they would never allow it in Rumble. Why?
President Trump himself has never taken a position on prohibiting pornography. However, he signed Take It Down law earlier this year, a measure that criminalizes the conscious publication of intimate photos or videos of a person without his consent. If published today, “Church Upskirts” and “Hidden Cam Pics” as those that were once advertised on the Pavlovski site could violate the law.
The social platform of Trump, Truth Social, also prohibits pornography – although a quick search in the app by Forbes found multiple examples of total male nudity. The company was criticized in 2023 for its alleged connections with a dark bank known for providing payment services to pornographic sites. Trump Media sued the Washington Post last year for its coverage on the subject, and the litigation is still ongoing.
Today, it outsourizes many of its operations – including, according to the Washington Post, “Senior developers, content editors, content acquisition managers, fraud prevention experts, video recruiters and specialists in digital marketing” – to Macedonian staff and Serbian in Cosmic Development.
Cosmic executives, which Pavlovski co -founded in 2011, have their own history with pornographic domains. The co -founder of Pavlovski and CEO of the company, Ryan Milnes, possessed more than 20 explicit domains, including several with LGBT thematic titles. One of those domains, Slutload, was reported as “one of the largest adult video sites” online when Milnes possessed it. During that period, prosecutors used visits allegedly from children’s predators to Slutload.com as evidence of crimes in at least two cases. Both persecutions resulted in convictions, although one was subsequently revoked. (Slutload in itself was not accused of any lack.) Milnes sold the site in 2011, saying that he would continue looking for other business opportunities in adult entertainment.
Another former Cosmic Development executive, Vuk Popovic, has possessed more than 400 explicit domains, many during his time in Cosmic. He left the company after he started working with Rumble, but before he started working with Truth Social.
Milnes and Popovic did not respond to comment requests. The White House declined to comment, referring Forbes to Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG). TMTG did not respond to the request for comments.
Many of the pornographic domains previously owned by Pavlovski are associated with Jokerooo, a business that began in the early 2000s and that no longer exists. Jokerooo was a primitive social site and blog, which also handled a series of other websites, including “Domain Squats,” a term for poorly written URLs that web developers use to take advantage of the traffic of other sites. One of Jokeroo’s “Domain Squats” was Britebart.com, an apparent spelling error of the Breitbart.com right -wing news site. Milnes, Canadian, also owned at some point in Buyamericanonly.com.
Skopje headquarters, Macedonia, Cosmic Development was originally founded as an IT outsourcing company, and grew up its business by clickbait content for US Internet companies such as America’s Funniest Home Videos and Scarymommy. The company then opened offices in Bitola, Macedonia, Belgrade, Serbia, and Toronto, Canada. (An employee who worked for Cosmic in 2022 and 2023 wrote on LinkedIn that his work was partly “to ensure that each piece is not plagiarized or depends completely on AI.”)
In 2013, Pavlovski founded Rumble, which positioned as a YouTube competitor. Milnes joined Rumble as director. It was years after Vance and Thiel’s investment in 2021 that Rumble and his executives associated with Trumpist politics, an association that bothered some other company investors.
Since then, the company’s associations with Trump have only grown. In 2021, when two former contestants of the former reality show of Trump, The Amprentice, founded Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG), involved Pavlovski in conversations with Trump and his closest collaborators, including the current chief of Cabinet Susie Wiles and the current deputy director of the FBI Dan Bongino. On the recommendation of Pavlovski, TMTG hired Cosmic Development, Vladimir Novachki. A Trump ally congressman supposedly intervened personally to accelerate his visa process (the congressman denied that it was a preferential treatment).
In 2022, only months after Truth Social launched, he announced that he would move his data lodging to Rumble Cloud. (A press release said the Alliance would take the network to “new non -cancelable heights.”) The social network also announced that it would be the first editor to use the internal advertising platform of Rumble – bringing key business to the new advertisements and hosting platforms of Pavlovski.
Recently, Pavlovski and Rumble have expanded their ambitions and started working with other government officials. Last year, Pavlovski, the CEO of Truth Social Nunes, and the current US Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, traveled to Macedonia del Norte to present a data lodging agreement to the country’s right -wing prime minister.
Macedonia del Norte, such as the US, prohibits the publication of non -consensual intimate images. In 2021, the Macedonian government threatened to prohibit Telegram after finding that the platform facilitated the exchange of non -consensual intimate images of women and girls.
Meanwhile, Trump’s close relationship with Pavlovski and Rumble continues. Earlier this month, Pavlovski published a video of a law firm in the White House where Trump mentioned it by name during his speech.
“How is Rumble, well?” Trump asked Pavlovski, who replied “Great.”
“Well,” said the president. “If Rumble is going well, that means that Truth is going well. That’s great. You’re doing a great job.”
Thomas Brewster and Kyle Khan-Mullins contributed to the report.
This article was originally published by Forbes Us
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