Extremists

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump resolved to withdraw his nomination of former Fox News contributor Janette Nesheiwat to serve as his surgeon general on Wednesday after far-right activist Laura Loomer called for just that in a series of social media attacks earlier this week. The president purged much of his national security team last month after Loomer — who has …

“These US Senators fail to recognize that the rank and file of the people of North Carolina, the first time voters that we helped bring out at Turning Point Action of all of our campus events, Thom Tillis, they are not gonna show up for you. They just won’t. And it’s not that they’ll even vote for the Democrat. It’s …

“Look, I have literally been hired by Donald Trump four times. OK? Four times the president has hired me on different occasions to work for him, to do vetting and to do research. And for some reason, I am not working in the White House or working for the president of the United States despite his directives to his staff …

Politico reports: GOP Sen. Thom Tillis said Tuesday he has told the White House he will oppose Ed Martin’s nomination to be the top federal prosecutor for the District of Columbia, a potentially fatal blow to his already dicey confirmation chances. Tillis spoke to reporters after meeting with Martin on Monday night. The North Carolinian, who is seeking reelection next …

“We have a tremendous national security adviser right now. His name is Marco Rubio. I have gotten to know Marco so well, I consider him a close friend. He’s doing an extraordinary job. He will be the Kissinger of our time. I’m just proud to work alongside [Rubio] in my role as deputy chief and homeland security adviser. Let me …

Punchbowl News reports: Ed Martin’s troubled bid to become U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia is in real doubt after the Senate Judiciary Committee announced it wouldn’t consider his nomination this week. Late Monday night, Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans noticed an executive business meeting for Thursday that didn’t include Martin’s nomination. Time is running out for Martin, who can only …

NewsNation reports: Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she could win either the Georgia governor’s race or Senate primary if she chooses to run. With Gov. Brian Kemp announcing he will not seek reelection, Taylor Greene told NewsNation’s “The Hill” that she still hasn’t decided if she’ll campaign for either seat. “The polling shows I can win the governor’s primary …

“I’m not saying all Indians are scammers. Obviously, there’s great Indians out there, but that stereotype out there, right? They say stereotypes exist for a reason. A lot of Indians are very pissed off with Rep. Shri Thanedar, right, because he’s enabling stereotypes to, to percolate online. And a lot of Indians have messaged me, Indian friends of mine, great …

The Washington Post reports: The anti-immigration Alternative for Germany party on Monday sued the domestic intelligence service for classifying it as a right-wing extremist organization, a decision that subjects it to greater surveillance from authorities. The party known as AfD, which placed second in national elections in February, took action at an administrative court in Cologne, where the intelligence service …

“I think some of these people should not be in Congress. I think they’re a disgrace. I think some of them shouldn’t be Americans. I don’t think they love our country. And I’m not gonna be afraid to call them out and go right at them because I think they’re bad people. And particularly people like Rashida Tlaib. She’s just …

The Meidas Touch reports: During a private dinner at Mar-a-Lago, Trump personally apologized to Enrique Tarrio, the former national chairman of the Proud Boys, for the treatment of January 6th rioters under the Biden administration according to a tweet from Tarrio. Tarrio added that Trump said “I love you guys” and asked him to deliver a message to other January …

Politico reports: Trump’s interim U.S. Attorney, Ed Martin, is coming for the capital’s weed, too — and threatening to upend a tacit agreement where federal prosecutors have respected DC’s local marijuana laws. The opening salvo came via a letter from Martin to a D.C. medical-marijuana vendor. “Your dispensary appears to be operating in violation of federal law,” he wrote, “and …

MARCO RUBIO: “Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition. That’s not democracy—it’s tyranny in disguise. What is truly extremist is not the popular AfD—which took second in the recent election—but rather the establishment’s deadly open border immigration policies that the AfD opposes. Germany should reverse course.” GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTRY: “This is democracy. This decision is …

Talking Points Memo reports: Close allies of President Trump are asking a judge to give the White House control over much of the federal court system. In a little-noticed lawsuit filed last week, the America First Legal Foundation sued Chief Justice John Roberts and the head of the Administrative Office of U.S. Courts. The case ostensibly proceeds as a FOIA …

The Washington Post reports: Attorneys said at a court hearing Friday that they’ve reached a settlement in principle for the U.S. government to pay the family of Ashli Babbitt, a supporter of President Donald Trump who was fatally shot by police on Jan. 6, 2021, as she raised herself into the opening of a broken glass door panel deep inside …

Mother Jones reports: Steve Deace, the host of an eponymous show on the rightwing platform Blaze Media, has built a brand around his brash and provocative personality. Deace has entertained his 52,000 YouTube viewers and 274,000 X followers by calling for violence against drag queens and LGBTQ people and ranting that the Democratic party is controlled by Satan. Those comments …

The Washington Post reports: Germany’s domestic intelligence agency on Friday designated the far-right Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, as an “extremist endeavor,” a move that lowers hurdles for the spy agency in conducting certain kinds of surveillance on the party, the second-largest in Germany’s parliament. AfD party leaders Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla called the upgraded classification a “severe …

Axios reports: President Trump’s top policy adviser, Stephen Miller, is garnering buzz inside the White House as a top candidate to be the next national security adviser, five sources familiar with the situation tell Axios. Miller — the deputy chief of staff and the brain behind Trump’s controversial immigration crackdown — is one of the president’s longest-serving and most-trusted aide. …

CNN reports: As controversies pile up around President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as US attorney for Washington, DC, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee met behind closed doors this week to discuss concerns about Ed Martin’s nomination and whether senators should take the extraordinary step of holding a hearing on it. The senators-only meeting on Tuesday came as Republicans …

“How blessed we all are that the leader sitting in the Oval Office today is President Donald Trump and not President Kamala Harris. What a travesty and a tragedy that would have been. It would have the end of America. Radical regulation, choking off American energy, sending our supply chains to foreign countries, taxing our economy to death, pushing this …