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NRA Head Wayne LaPierre Predicts End To Gun-Free Zones, Background Checks, And Open Carry Bans

The Associated Press reports: Firearms enthusiasts who embraced Donald Trump’s campaign and his full-throated support of the Second Amendment are expecting a sweeping expansion of gun rights under his administration and a Congress firmly in Republican hands. Among their priorities: eliminating gun-free zones at schools, reducing requirements for background checks and ensuring that concealed carry handgun permits from one state …

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Trump: I Wouldn’t Have To Tweet So Many Batshit Crazy Lies If The Dishonest Media Didn’t Force Me Into It

Politico reports: In his 34,100th-plus tweet, President-elect Donald Trump on Monday suggested he would have reason to curtail his prolific Twitter use if the media covered him “accurately & honorably.” Since his historic election nearly a month ago, Trump — who joined Twitter in March 2009 — has blamed the media for allegedly inciting “professional protesters,” attacked The New York …

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NORTH CAROLINA: Gov. Pat McCrory Demands Criminal Investigation Into Alleged “Voting Irregularities”

Talking Points Memo reports: Still trailing nearly a month after Election Day in his drawn-out bid for re-election, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) over the weekend asked the State Bureau of Investigations to launch a criminal probe into GOP claims of “voting irregularities” that are at the center of McCrory’s effort to close the vote gap with his Democratic …

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Eric Trump: Jill Stein Totally Let 5000 Children Die Of Malaria By Wasting Millions On Her Recount Campaign

Via Raw Story: Eric Trump, the son of President-elect Donald Trump, asserted over the weekend that “at least 5,000 children” had died due to an effort to verify the election outcome in Wisconsin. In a tweet on Sunday, Eric Trump said that the “sad truth” was that “the cost Of Stein/Clinton’s #Wisconsin vote recount could have saved at least 5,000 …

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Son Of Potential Trump Administration Pick Michael Flynn Claims DC Pizza Shop Shooting Was False Flag

As I noted in the comments of this morning’s story about the DC pizza shop shooting, YouTube is already ablaze with conspiracy nuts who claim that the gunman was planted by the mainstream media and/or government in order to further the imaginary crackdown on right wing sites like Breitbart. And now this: The son of retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, …

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Gunman Opens Fire In DC Pizza Restaurant Because He Believed Fake News Story About Hillary Clinton

The Washington Post reports: A North Carolina man was arrested Sunday after he walked into a popular pizza restaurant in Northwest Washington carrying an assault rifle and fired one or more shots, D.C. police said. The man told police he had come to the restaurant to “self-investigate” a false election-related conspiracy theory involving Hillary Clinton that spread online during her …

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“Pathological” Ben Carson Tapped For HUD Secretary

NBC News reports: President-elect Donald Trump will nominate “tough” former Republican primary rival Ben Carson as Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the transition team announced Monday. A statement described Carson as a “distinguished national leader who overcame his troubled youth in the inner city of Detroit to become a renowned neurosurgeon.” In the statement, Trump said …

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Reince Priebus: It’s Totally Possible That Millions Voted Illegally Just Like Trump Says With No Proof [VIDEO]

CBS News reports: Reince Priebus, the outgoing Republican National Committee chair, defended Donald Trump Sunday over the president-elect’s charge last week, presented without proof, that “millions” of people had voted illegally during the general election. “Face the Nation” host John Dickerson pressed Priebus on that specific illegal vote claim, asking the incoming White House chief of staff how he handles …

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Conway On Trump’s Many Twitter Tirades: He’s The President-Elect So That’s Presidential Behavior [VIDEO]

This morning Kellyanne Conway appeared on CNN’s State Of The Union to declare that anything Donald Trump says on Twitter is by definition “presidential” because he is the president-elect. More from The Hill: It’s still undetermined if Donald Trump will keep control of his personal Twitter account when he takes office, a top adviser said in an interview aired Sunday. “That’s …

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SWAMP THING: Trump Attends Millionaire Donor’s “Heroes & Villains” Costume Party Dressed As Himself

Kellyanne Conway dressed as Super Woman. The Huffington Post reports: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump attended a “Villains and Heroes” costume party at a major donor’s Long Island home on Saturday night, but declined to don any garb that was in keeping with the theme. Trump entered the party hosted by the Mercer family, one of his biggest donors, at their …

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FAREWELL FREE MARKET: Trump Vows To Impose 35% Tax On US Goods Made In Overseas Factories

Roll Call reports: Donald Trump on Sunday morning tweeted that he intends to slash business taxes and regulations, but the early rising president-elect again warned companies that move all or parts of their operations offshore will face “retribution or consequence.” In a series of tweets that kicked off at 6:41 a.m., Trump said he will impose “a tax on our …

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Carrier: We’re Still Sending 1300 Jobs To Mexico

Via Mediaite: “While this announcement is good news for many, we recognize it is not good news for everyone,” says a letter sent by Carrier to its employees in the wake of the deal set up by Donald Trump that will prevent them from outsourcing some 800 jobs to Mexico. About 1300 Indiana-based jobs are still heading south of the …

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Palin Turns On Trump Over “Cronyism” Carrier Deal

From Palin’s op-ed for the Young Conservatives site: When government steps in arbitrarily with individual subsidies, favoring one business over others, it sets inconsistent, unfair, illogical precedent. Meanwhile, the invisible hand that best orchestrates a free people’s free enterprise system gets amputated. Then, special interests creep in and manipulate markets. Republicans oppose this, remember? Instead, we support competition on a …

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FIRE SAFETY IS FOR CUCKS: Loony Louis Gohmert Is Pissed He Can’t Grill Ribs On His Office Balcony [VIDEO]

Loony Louis Gohmert actually took to the podium of the US House today to bitch that US Capitol fire safety rules don’t allow him to barbecue ribs on his office balcony for the quarterly party he throws for fellow reps. According to Gohmert, “all of the networks” want to do stories about his fantastic ribs, but thanks to typical government …

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WISCONSIN: Trump Surrogates Sue To Stop Recount

The Wisconsin State Journal reports: Donald Trump supporters are asking a federal judge to stop Wisconsin’s presidential election recount, which got underway Thursday. Great America PAC and Stop Hillary PAC, political committees supporting Trump and opposing Democrat Hillary Clinton, moved in Wisconsin’s Western District court late Thursday for a temporary restraining order to bring the recount to an immediate halt. …

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Conway Pretends She Can’t Hear After Being Asked Four Times About Trump’s Voter Fraud Claim [VIDEO]

Via Mediaite: George Stephanopoulos of Good Morning America grabbed one key question by the tail in his morning interview with senior Trump aide Kellyanne Conway and refused to let it go, sending the usually unflappable Conway into a debate ditch. Conway, who served as the third campaign manager for Donald Trump and is the first woman in American history to …

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Anti-Gay Rep Who Called Matthew Shepard’s Murder A “Hoax” To Head House Education Committee

Viciously anti-LGBT and perpetually cross-eyed Virginia Foxx says her main plan is undo every advance achieved by the Obama administration. Via Politico: Virginia Foxx pulled herself up by her own bootstraps and wants every American child to be able to do the same. As the 73-year-old GOP lawmaker and former community college president is poised to assume the leadership of …

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Two Of CNN’s Crazy “Facebook Told Me So” Lunatics Were Actually Delegates For The Trump Campaign

I had THOUGHT one of those nutjobs looked familiar this morning and above is the image I used to mock her way back in September 2015. The other one can be seen going insane in the clip from December below. Via Mediaite: Obviously, what will make this one get much play on CNN over the next few days, as well …

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Idiotic Trump Fans Tell CNN They Know Millions Voted Illegally Because They Saw It On Facebook [VIDEO]

The Hill reports: Supporters of President-elect Donald Trump are pointing to stories circulated on Facebook in explaining why they believe there was widespread voter fraud during the election despite a lack of evidence. CNN “New Day” host Alisyn Camerota was surprised during a segment early Thursday when one female Trump supporter said 3 million people voted illegally in California, adding …

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Scott Brown: It’s No Secret That Massachusetts Voters Drove Up To New Hampshire To Vote There Too

Boston Magazine reports: Scott Brown suggested Wednesday that Massachusetts voters could have driven north to the swing state of New Hampshire to commit voter fraud in this month’s presidential election, a claim the former Massachusetts senator made without providing any proof. Joining Herald Radio for his monthly on-air spongebath, the Trump surrogate expounded on the president-elect’s allegation of “serious voter …

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