Trump cultists

NPR reports: President Trump has pardoned his first national security adviser Michael Flynn, who spent years enmeshed in an often bizarre legal war with the government that sprung from the Russia investigation. The pardon brings an end to a long-running legal odyssey for Flynn, who was the only member of the Trump administration to be charged as part of special …

The Washington Post reports: After years of denying allegations of lax financial oversight, the National Rifle Association has made a stunning declaration in a new tax filing: Current and former executives used the nonprofit group’s money for personal benefit and enrichment. The NRA said in the filing that it continues to review the alleged abuse of funds, as the tax-exempt …

“There’s a lot of opinion hosts, and they have all sorts of things that I don’t subscribe to. I do believe in free discourse, I believe in people having their opinion. “We’re not saying that that is accurate. In fact, we’ve gone out of our way in our news reporting to say we have no evidence. “We have gone out …

The Washington Post reports: As sheriff in Chester County, Pa., Carolyn “Bunny” Welsh was among President Trump’s earliest boosters in the key swing state. In 2016, Welsh attended the Republican National Convention as a delegate, spoke at rallies and even helped her ailing mother cast an absentee ballot for Trump from her deathbed. After Trump’s win, Welsh made multiple trips …

The Associated Press reports: Perdue’s timing was impeccable. He avoided a sharp loss and reaped a stunning gain by selling and then buying the same stock: Cardlytics, an Atlanta-based financial technology company on whose board of directors he once served. On Jan. 23, as word spread through Congress that the coronavirus posed a major economic and public health threat, Perdue …

Law & Crime reports: The senior legal adviser of President Donald Trump’s campaign shared a quote on Twitter that was falsely attributed to former president Theodore Roosevelt. The critical response was immediate and efforts were quickly made to clean up the mess, but that only made things worse. Multiple Twitter users pointed out Ellis’s clumsy use of the debunked meme …

The Independent reports: Boris Epshteyn, an adviser to Donald Trump who recently joined Rudy Giuliani at a press conference alleging widespread voter fraud during the 2020 election, has announced that he tested positive for the coronavirus. “I have tested positive for COVID-19,” he said on Wednesday. “I am experiencing mild symptoms, and am following all appropriate protocols, including quarantining and …

“President Trump should pardon Michael Flynn. He should pardon the Thanksgiving turkey. He should pardon everyone, from himself to his administration officials to Joe Exotic if he has to. “Because you see from the radical left a bloodlust that will only be quenched if they come after the people who’ve worked so hard to animate the Trump administration with the …

“I know that many of you want me to continue denying the results of the election, continue cheerleading for the fight against the result, the Biden victory, I can’t do that. There is no realistic prospect that any legal challenge will overturn the results of the election. Election 2020 is over. We lost.” – Fox News contributor Geraldo Rivera, in …

“All kinds of it are equally blatant. I mean, people sitting on the floor writing on the side of buses filling out ballot after ballot. “It’s in your face everywhere. The statistical evidence is insurmountable. The mathematical evidence is to a mathematical impossibility. “This is no way there was anything but widespread election fraud here. We’ve got one witness that …

Deadline reports: More than three years after Fox News Channel retracted its story that a political conspiracy was behind the fatal shooting of Seth Rich, the Rupert Murdoch-owned outlet has settled its legal battle with the DNC staffer’s family. “IT IS STIPULATED AND AGREED by and between Plaintiffs Joel and Mary Rich and Defendants Fox News Network, LLC, Malia Zimmerman, …

Axios reports: YouTube has barred One America News Network from posting new videos for a week and stripped it of its ability to make money off existing content after the Trump-friendly channel uploaded a video promoting a phony cure for COVID-19, YouTube spokesperson Ivy Choi tells Axios. YouTube has been criticized for allowing OANN to spread misinformation using its platform, …

First, a flashback to two years ago: CNN’s John Berman took time on Tuesday to air a clip of the president when he held the White House Turkey Pardon back in 2018. This was the year where two turkeys, “Peas” and “Carrots,” were put to a vote on the White House’s website, and the winner would officially receive Trump’s pardon. …

Shitcanned Fox News host Todd Starnes writes: Stacey Abrams, a failed Democrat gubernatorial candidate, says more than 750,000 Georgians have requested their ballots for the January 5 runoff elections. Remember this tweet, folks. This is how Democrats will steal the Georgia U.S. Senate races. We must stop the mail-in ballots. The fix is in. Remember what Joe Biden said during …

Talking Points Memo reports: Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Lindsey Graham (R-SC) continued hustling Fox News viewers for money on Monday night, urging them to donate to GOP campaigns in Georgia to avoid what he called a “trifecta from hell.” The hellish trifecta referred to the Democratic leadership of President-elect Joe Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (CA) and Senate Minority Leader …

NBC News reports: Republican Lauren Boebert, 33, was elected this month from a conservative western Colorado district after gaining notice as a brash pro-gun activist who straps a Glock pistol to her hip. Boebert asked Capitol Police officials about carrying her weapon when she and other House freshmen taking office in January were in town recently for orientation programs, according …

“Unless the legal situation changes in a dramatic and frankly an unlikely manner, Joe Biden will be inaugurated on January 20. To say this constitutes living in reality. And if I offered you a false reality, if I told you that there was an excellent, phenomenal chance that the Supreme Court was going to step in and deliver a victory …

Breitbart reports: Politico conducted its 2020 Voter Priorities Survey and results show that a vast majority of Trump voters believe the election results are not valid and that illegal voting and fraud took place during the election. Twenty-one percent of Trump voters believe the results are valid and 79 percent believe the election was stolen. Nearly two thirds of Trump …

Newsweek reports: Republican Congresswoman-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene has said she will be taking part in ballot monitoring for Georgia’s recount and that this will include checking signatures on absentee ballots. However, the recount—set to begin on Tuesday—will be a machine re-tally and will not examine signatures unless there is a court order or “a specific investigatory reason”, according to Politico. …

Mediaite reports: Pro-Trump pundit Dan Bongino floated on his podcast Monday that he would consider running for president of the United States in 2024. “I hate politics,” Bongino said. “Paula [Bongino] is like, don’t you dare. I’m going to dare. I hate — I have said a thousand times on this show, ‘politics and me, no good.’” “If Harry (sic) …