Infighting Is Funny

Media Matters has the transcript: ALEX JONES (HOST): CNN snaps their fingers. [CNN President] Jeff Zucker snaps his fingers, and Trump clicks his heels and hops up there at attention and says, “How high do you want me to jump, boss?” Here’s Trump in Alabama yesterday. [CLIP BEGINS] DONALD TRUMP (FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT): I believe totally in your freedoms, I …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Lindell’s symposium was such an utter debacle that even his own experts were forced to admit that they had no proof of anything that Lindell had been claiming. Predictably, Lindell reacted to the fiasco by spreading new conspiracy theories alleging that left-wing reporters worked with “antifa” activists to sabotage his event, going so …

“You look at the founders of this country. They really put their lives and their fortunes on the line. All we ask Republicans to do is vote the right way, and they can’t do that led by Mitch McConnell Republicans. “The truth is, the interest of the Democratic party come before those of the country. And allegiance to the party …

The Aiken Standard reports: The Aiken County Republican Party has overwhelmingly voted to censure U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, citing his support of the behemoth infrastructure bill that recently passed the Senate. The local party this week accused the powerful South Carolina Republican of playing both sides of the political aisle to his advantage, consciously violating Republican principles, backing bills “that …

The South Florida Sun Sentinel reports: The conservative activist lawyer that sued China for $20 trillion over the coronavirus pandemic is now seeking $5 million in a defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump ally Roger Stone over comments he made on a social media site popular with far-right extremists. Larry Klayman filed the lawsuit in Palm Beach County on Monday, arguing …

Mediaite reports: Fox News host Mark Levin said Tuesday that every Republican senator who voted for the bipartisan infrastructure bill should be primaried and ousted. 19 Republicans, including Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham, voted for the $1.2 trillion package. After Sean Hannity made a comment about being on the side of liberty, Levin said, “We choose liberty, but the 19 …

Salon reports: In a series of tweets on Sunday afternoon, Donald Trump spokesperson Liz Harrington lashed out at Fox News less than 24 hours after the president called into the conservative network to air out 17 minutes worth of his grievances. Harrington — who took over her position after Jason Miller left to create the beleaguered new pro-Trump social media …

The Wall Street Journal reports: The chief executive of MyPillow Inc., one of Fox News’s big advertisers, said he is pulling his ads from the network after a disagreement over a proposed commercial. Mike Lindell said he made the decision after Fox News declined to run a commercial linked to his efforts to promote his claims of widespread fraud in …

The Hill reports: Former President Donald Trump lashed out at Senate Republicans on Thursday after the upper chamber voted to take up debate on a bipartisan infrastructure package, accusing Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and so-called “RINOs” for surrendering to Democrats. “Under the weak leadership of Mitch McConnell, Senate Republicans continue to lose,” Trump said in a statement. “He lost …

Politico reports: As DeSantis encourages vaccinations — he said “vaccines are saving lives” — he is facing a backlash from the anti-vaccination wing of his political base. It’s the same group that praised him and helped thrust him onto the national stage for his hands-off approach to the virus. DeSantis, with 2024 presidential ambitions, has to walk the line between …

Via email from right wing columnist Erick Erickson: Marjorie Taylor Green, the QAnon Congresswoman, is shaming a restaurant in Atlanta. I think it’s called Argosy or something like that. It’s in Hipsterville, Atlanta. They put up a sign outside asking that only vaccinated people come inside. This happened after several of their staff got COVID and they had to shut …

Mediaite reports: Conservative porn star Brandi Love was looking forward to the Turning Point USA conference in Tampa, Florida this weekend, purchasing a VIP ticket and posting updates on her Twitter account. Love told The Daily Caller that getting kicked out of the TPUSA conference was “one of the more egregious examples” of cancel culture. “Charlie Kirk literally talked about …

Salon reports: Turning Point USA, the right-wing youth student organization led by Charlie Kirk, found itself in an unusual controversy Friday night after “conservative pornstar” Brandi Love was allowed into a Florida conference and welcomed as an “Adult VIP,” sparking backlash. The drama began early in the night when the adult entertainer’s presence in Tampa was first discovered by a …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Late last month, self-proclaimed “prophet” and QAnon conspiracy theorist Johnny Enlow posted a “prophetic alert” on his Facebook page in which he warned that “many of our most famous pastors and Christian leaders are about to be exposed as sexual deviants, pedophiles and worse.” We had no idea what that meant at the …

The Huffington Post reports: Jenna Ellis said she’s done with the GOP because its members aren’t backing ex-President Donald Trump enough. Trump’s former senior legal adviser announced she was leaving the Republican Party during a 22-minute monologue on her “Real America’s Voice News” show “Just The Truth” on Monday. Ellis, who once described Trump as an “idiot,” said Republicans had …

The Inquisitr reports: Rudy Giuliani had a meltdown after Republican National Committee chief counsel Justin Riemer questioned Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud in the 2020 race. The alleged meltdown is outlined in an upcoming book by Michael Wolff, Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency, which claims that Riemer questioned Trump’s claims in an email sent to Trump …

Playbook reports: It’s Donald Trump’s most frequent complaint: people profiting off his name. The latest offender? His son’s girlfriend, MAGA’s own Eva Perón, Kimberly Guilfoyle. Aides told Playbook that Trump has been openly griping that Guilfoyle joined Eric Greitens’ campaign for Senate in Missouri as national campaign chair, and he’s becoming increasingly short with Guilfoyle. “Trump thinks Greitens is problematic, …

The Texas Tribune reports: Allen West’s final days as Texas GOP chairman are ending with an explosion of the kind of intraparty drama he has become known for throughout his tenure. On Wednesday, long-simmering tensions between West and the party’s vice chair, Cat Parks, boiled over as he called her a “cancer” and “delusional and apparently deranged” amid a dispute …

The Hill reports: Former Fox News anchor Ed Henry is suing the network for defamation for statements the company made when they fired him over allegations of sexual misconduct. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Newark, N.J., seeks punitive damages and accuses top brass at Fox News of issuing a statement that “sandbagged” Henry in July of 2020. …

Mediaite reports: Fox host Mark Levin called out his colleague, Tucker Carlson for leaking unflattering stories against conservatives. Speaking Thursday night on his radio show (in a clip flagged by the progressive watchdog group Media Matters), Levin — without mentioning his cohort by name — addressed the revelation brought to light by Ben Smith of The New York Times earlier …