It was a dream job for a 20-year old… a mid-level staffer on the president’s campaign team, handling big responsibilities like contracts, finances, a point person for senior officials. When Trump lost the election, the job ended.
Then a better job came along for Dawson Buchanan- with PJS, Private Jet Services, a company that ferries Hollywood stars, pro sports teams and VIP’s from city to city.
“The specific thing that I was going to be detailed with was the National Hockey League, more specifically the Carolina Hurricanes down in Raleigh, North Carolina. It’s called what’s called concierge so it would be like the concierge for them,” said Buchanan.
He says his first day of work was to be Tuesday January 12th.
“Yeah, so they sent me my work computer set up my work email, we had talked about training stuff like that and yesterday was supposed to be my first trip was gonna travel to Raleigh, North Carolina, I went and bought clothes for a new wardrobe I had went not gas up my car and everything and as I was packing they called me Monday night and said you were no longer needed PJS.”
He moved on. A tough life lesson for a 20year old.
“And then the owner actually called me yesterday morning and said that the reason that I was like oh it was because the National Hockey League, specifically the Carolina Hurricanes,” added Buchanan. They found out that I had worked for Trump and kind of pitched a fit to him and said that if I was not let go, like, yo, if I was put on their detail, then they would cancel the contract with PJS which led to my termination.”
Dawson tweeted about it. His tweet thread provoked a call from PJS, threatening legal action if he didn’t take the tweet down.
He added, “And then later that day they called and said, around 4:10 , the owner of PGS called again and said that if I didn’t take it down, take down the tweet, they were going to come, they were exploring legal options they were going to publicly defame, and most importantly, and what’s currently happening is that they were going to deny deny deny.”
So he took the tweet down.
“But then the more I kind of sat on it, the more I thought about it was that the cancer culture that’s exactly what they want you to do. They want to use tactics like that they want to cancel to cancel you then they want to intimidate you. And they want to leave you ends not speaking up, and I thought you know, with this censorship, with everything that’s going on in today’s society and the current political climate. Now is not a time for me to back down, even if that means my reputation, even if that means my career.”
He put the tweet thread back up. And then came the deluge.
“So death threats, something that I’ve never really experienced before. My Twitter and Facebook. People are saying that I should be euthanized that I should go kill myself, that, you know, I should have been aborted and all these different things. So I think that this is a perfect example of, again the the fear the intimidation the bully the, the, just wanting to scare you back into whatever hole you crawled from but I that’s not something that I’m willing to do..”
ESPN.com published an article on Dawson’s alleged canceling. It quotes an executive at Private Jet Services. “Mr. Buchanan was never an employee of our company, ever, at any time… the story was a complete fabrication.”
An NHL spokesman told ESPN, Buchanan’s allegations were, “categorically untrue. Until this news broke, we had never heard of him.”
Our emails and calls to PJS, the Carolina Hurricanes, and the NHL were not returned by publication time.
Buchanan tells the Examiner that the ESPN story is categorically wrong, saying, “What’s funny is that at the end of it, they say that I have denied requests for comment, even though, as far as I know, I have not received any, zero, requests for comment.”
Buchanan says he was at the rally January 6th that has become the flashpoint in a new wave of cancel culture. He says he did not march with the crowd to the Capitol. He does not plan legal action, but does plan to take a stand against cancel culture and to support free speech.
