Extremists

The New York Times reports: Investigators are looking into whether the man who tried to breach the F.B.I.’s field office in Cincinnati on Thursday had ties to extremist groups, including one that participated in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, according to two law enforcement officials familiar with the matter. The suspect, identified by the officials as Ricky Shiffer, …

The Washington Post reports: A Virginia police officer who prosecutors say lied about his actions before, during and after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, including his military service and his marriage, was sentenced Thursday to 87 months in prison. Thomas Robertson and Jacob Fracker were members of the police department in the small western Virginia town of Rocky Mount …

The Associated Press reports: Joe Arpaio, the 90-year-old former Arizona sheriff who was a once powerful figure in Republican politics but was ousted nearly six years ago amid frustration over his headline-grabbing tactics and legal troubles, was defeated Wednesday in a race for mayor of the affluent suburb where he has lived for more than two decades. His defeat in …

The Daily Beast reports: Enraged after a team of FBI agents searched Donald Trump’s Florida residence, right-wing media has turned to promoting a pro-Trump rally of sorts outside the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Sunday. “Adam Hardage is calling on fellow veterans and Americans of all walks to join him Sunday 8/14 at the FBI HQ in Washington DC …

Open Secrets reports: A Russian media organ agreed to pay American conspiracy theorist Benjamin Swann about $6.8 million to produce Kremlin propaganda on topics like the war in Ukraine and U.S. “culture wars,” according to new Foreign Agents Registration Act registration records filed with the Department of Justice. A youth pastor turned news anchor who used his platform to spread …

NBC News reports: Some users on pro-Trump internet forums told users to “lock and load,” agitated for civil war and urged protesters to head to Mar-a-Lago in the hours after news broke that former President Donald Trump’s Florida compound was searched by the FBI on Monday. One user posting about the “civil war” shortly after the search was Tyler Welsh …

Vice News reports: After news broke that the FBI searched former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida on Monday, his supporters openly called for an armed violent response, and ultimately, civil war. “Civil War 2.0 just kicked off,” one user wrote, with another adding, “One step closer to a kinetic civil war.” MAGA, QAnon, and far-right message boards and …

The New York Daily News reports: A Brooklyn “incel” with a grudge against the vegan community threatened a mass shooting at the upstate Woodstock Fruit Festival if its organizers didn’t cancel the event or prevent people he hated from attending, the feds say. William Swift, 32, made his threats in e-mails and audio recordings to one of the week-long festival’s …

“I’m going to say this plainly and bluntly. Raids must be met with raids. They raided Donald Trump’s home. “Well, why don’t you go raid BLM for burning down a billion dollars worth of property in the summer of 2020? “They raid Donald Trump, why don’t you go raid Planned Parenthood for all of their, let’s just say, very revealing …

CNN reports: Trump ally Doug Mastriano’s virtual appearance Tuesday before the House January 6 committee only lasted about 15 minutes and “he didn’t answer a single question,” according to a source familiar with the matter. Mastriano’s attorney cut off the virtual appearance soon after it began, the source said. His lawyer, Tim Parlatore, took issue with several procedural matters related …

“Time to take the gloves off. It’s been time. If you’re a freedom loving American, you must remove the Words decorum and civility from your vocabulary. This is a WAR! “And it’s time to obliterate these communists. Tonight they attacked President Donald Trump. If you sit on the sidelines and refuse to act, they will attack you and your family …

The Daily Beast reports: A Republican Florida lawmaker has called for his state’s legislature to break away from federal agencies in the wake of an FBI raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home. State Rep. Anthony Sabatini, who is running for Congress, made his radical proposal in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Sabatini previously supported Trump’s attempts to overturn the …

The Independent reports: Infowars founder and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones allegedly sent an “intimate photo” of his wife to Donald Trump ally Roger Stone, a lawyer for the Sandy Hook parents has said. Mark Bankston, the lawyer representing the parents of a Sandy Hook shooting victim in their defamation lawsuit against Mr Jones, had made the startling revelation that he …

The Week reports: After former President Donald Trump announced Monday that FBI agents had searched his Mar-a-Lago residence, apparently seeking classified documents he failed to hand back to the government, “supporters of the former president reacted in the kind of calm, measured tone we’ve come to expect from the MAGA movement,” Rex Huppke deadpanned at USA Today. “The FBI must …

The Daily Beast reports: Tucker Carlson is “shitting himself” over the possibility that texts between him and far-right conspiracy loon Alex Jones will leak, a source close to the Fox News star told Confider. Carlson and the raving Infowars ranter trade text messages on a daily basis, according to two people familiar with their relationship.  If made public, these sources …

CNN reports: Approximately two years’ worth of text messages sent and received by right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones have been turned over to the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection, a person familiar with the matter told CNN on Monday. The messages were handed over to the committee by Mark Bankston, the attorney who represented two Sandy Hook …

Mediaite reports: After an eventful weekend at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Texas, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) appeared on MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s show rehashing her experience during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, maintaining the false claim that Antifa perpetrated the riots. On Lindell-TV, Greene discussed the events of January 6th saying that she …

The Daily Beast reports: Far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones went on a rant about Sandy Hook family lawyers accidentally obtaining a copy of his phone from his own legal team, insisting they now have a “naked” photo of his wife and not much else. “It’s six months of my phone, late 2019, early 2020,” he said on his broadcast Saturday …

Media Matters has the transcript: STEVE BANNON (HOST): What our folks want to know, is when we take back the House, is it going to be same-old-same-old, what’s going to be different? Are we going to go on the attack? REP. MATT GAETZ (R-FL): You know what, the truth is like a lion, it doesn’t need to be protected, it …

The Christian Post reports: Following criticism over a recent speech in which he attacked what he called an “ideological move” by the “internationalist Left” to claim that Europe is inherently “populated by peoples of mixed race,” Orbán pushed back against allegations of racism over his statement about not wanting to become “mixed race,” saying, “a Christian politician cannot be racist.” …