Crackpots

The New York Daily News reports: Top Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway allegedly punched a tuxedo-clad man at an exclusive inauguration ball just hours after the new commander-in-chief was sworn in, according to a witness. Conway, who serves as President Trump’s senior counselor, apparently stepped between two men after they got into a scuffle at the invite-only Liberty Ball on Friday …

CNN reports: President Donald Trump called on Wednesday for “a major investigation” into voter fraud, following criticism his administration faced for comments the President made earlier this week alleging millions of illegal votes during the general election, without citing any evidence. Trump’s comments on voter fraud came Monday during a meeting with congressional leaders. On Tuesday, Trump’s press secretary vigorously …

Charisma News senior editor Jennifer LeClaire was one of the “prophetesses” who claims to have erected a “POTUS Shield” of prayers over Donald Trump during the inauguration. And during that event, she claims, White Jesus spoke directly to her with his latest plan for the American media. LeClaire helpfully provides a verbatim quote from Christ His Damn Self: “There are …

Raw Story reports: Rep. Steve King (R-IA) said on Tuesday that he had personally done an “extrapolation calculation” from two Virginia counties and determined that President Donald Trump had likely lost the popular vote due to 2.4 million “illegal” voters. During an interview with King on MSNBC, host Hallie Jackson noted that Trump told congressional leaders on Monday that 3 …

Brian Tashman reports at Right Wing Watch: Today, televangelist Jim Bakker once again declared that Donald Trump’s election as president was a victory for God and the church, even going so far as to tell his guest, End Times radio host Rick Wiles, that the new president’s many critics appear to be possessed by demons. “Have you ever looked into …

The Hill reports: Top President Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway has received mail with a suspicious white powder in them and has been assigned Secret Service protection, she told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Monday night. “Because of what the press is doing now to me, I have Secret Service protection,” Conway said, citing the way the media has covered …

“I’d allow one-fourth or one half of the people at the press conference to be citizens. Why is there this presumption that somebody who calls themselves the press even though they’re total left-wing propagandists, they’re somehow privileged creatures? The question is, should people be allowed to ask questions of the White House? Why does that have to be only the …

Via Politico: The media simply does not like President Donald Trump, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Monday morning, and he would be much more comfortable if they simply admitted it. Shown a clip of counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway’s confrontational appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press” over the weekend, Giuliani suggested that the anchor of that show, …

From Merriam-Webster: Fact (“a piece of information presented as having objective reality”) spiked dramatically on January 22nd, following an exchange between Chuck Todd and Kellyanne Conway on NBC’s Meet the Press that was fraught with epistemological tension. “You’re saying it’s a falsehood, and Sean Spicer, our press secretary is giving alternative facts to that,” Conway shot back. “Wait a minute, …

Via Mediaite: Kellyanne Conway said rather bluntly on ABC’s This Week today that President Trump‘s “not going to release his tax returns.” This marks a stark shift after numerous promises from Trump and his team that he would be happy to release them once an audit was completed. George Stephanopoulos brought up the White House petition posted on Friday demanding …

The Huffington Post reports: White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus went after the press Sunday for trying to “delegitimize” President Donald Trump, a man who spent years telling the country that Barack Obama was not constitutionally eligible to be president. “I’m saying there’s an obsession by the media to delegitimize this president, and we are not going to sit …

Kellyanne Conway appeared on Meet The Press this morning where she battled Chuck Todd in her defense of Sean Spicer’s ridiculous lies about the crowds at Friday’s inauguration. Conway: “Don’t be so overly dramatic about it, Chuck. You’re saying it’s a falsehood. Our press secretary, Sean Spicer, gave alternative facts to that.” After Todd continued to press her about the …

Talking Points Memo reports: White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Saturday accused the media of misrepresenting the crowd at Donald Trump’s inauguration in order to dampen enthusiasm for the event. “This was the largest audience ever to witness an inauguration, period,” Spicer said with emphasis. “Both in person and around the globe.” He accused the media of “deliberately false …

The Associated Press reports: President Donald Trump is accusing the news media of lying about the size of the crowd that attended his inauguration. Addressing employees at CIA headquarters in Virginia, Trump wrongly said the crowd had stretched all the way to the Washington Monument in the middle of the National Mall. Photos taken of the Mall on Friday showed …

The Hill reports: A top aide to President-elect Donald Trump says he plans on aggressively overturning federal bureaucracy after his inauguration. “I feel like Washington, D.C. will have a shock to its system with President Trump,” Conway said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Friday. “You’ll know almost immediately that there’s a new sheriff in town,” added Conway, who is Trump’s …

The Huffington Post reports: Part of being a great president is showing off America’s military strength, according to President-elect Donald Trump. The military “may come marching down Pennsylvania Avenue,” Trump told the Washington Post in an interview published Wednesday. “That military may be flying over New York City and Washington, D.C., for parades. I mean, we’re going to be showing …

Brian Tashman reports at Right Wing Watch: Corey Lewandowski, who managed Donald Trump’s presidential campaign during the primary season and recently launched his own lobbying firm, appeared on “The John Fredericks Show” this week to discuss the incoming administration. Lewandowski was upset by Rep. John Lewis’ comments that Trump is not a legitimate president due to Russian interference in the …

Via Mediaite: A man has filed a complaint with the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office about his treatment by Sheriff David Clarke Jr. after a flight the two men shared. Dan Black told local news station WISN that Clarke detained him in an airport when the plane landed due to Black expressing disapproval at Clarke wearing Dallas Cowboys gear. This was …

The loving Christians at World Net Daily today marked the close of President Obama’s tenure by posting a list of why he should never have been born. Some excerpts: Marriage in America would still be between one man and one woman as it has always been. Legalized recreational marijuana laws would not have popped up in state after state, setting …

Brian Tashman reports at Right Wing Watch: Donald Trump confidant Roger Stone appeared yesterday on Alex Jones’ conspiracy theory program, where he alleged that he had been poisoned with polonium or a polonium-like substance, causing him to have fevers, lesions and extreme diarrhea. Stone, who assured Jones that he is a healthy “user of the InfoWars supplements” peddled by Jones’ …