Trump cultists

The New York Times reports: Late last year, after Mr. Trump tapped Kash Patel, a podcaster with scant law enforcement experience, to be F.B.I. director, his aides approached Ms. Pirro about becoming his deputy. She told them she had no interest working for Mr. Patel, according to two people familiar with the exchange. Her tough talk on crime does not …

MARIA BARTIROMO: “It has really, truly been a decade of dirty tricks, and that’s being kind about it, against Donald Trump, beginning with the Russia hoax, to the impeachments, to the indictments, to the Hunter Biden laptop. What have you leaned about January 6?” ED MARTIN: “The federal government, the DOJ, targeted these citizens. The FBI and others were putting …

Politico reports: A pro-Russian propaganda group is taking advantage of high-profile news events to spread disinformation, and it’s spoofing reputable organizations — including news outlets, nonprofits and government agencies — to do so. According to misinformation tracker NewsGuard, the campaign takes advantage of high-profile events to pump out fabricated content from various publications, including ABC News, BBC and most recently …

The New York Times reports: The National Guard’s presence in Washington will grow in the coming days after the governors of West Virginia, South Carolina and Ohio announced on Saturday that they would send troops from their states’ National Guard at President Trump’s request. Gov. Patrick Morrisey of West Virginia said the state would send 300 to 400 troops to …

NBC News reports: A group of state legislators who stayed at a hotel in St. Charles, a suburb outside of Chicago, endured two bomb threats on different days. It reached point that the Texas lawmakers quietly switched hotels and made an internal pact to keep those details private. Even more concerning to them was what their families were dealing with …

Politico reports: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott immediately called another special session to pass a new congressional map, after the first attempt failed due to Texas Democrats leaving the state to deny Republicans the ability to carve out additional GOP seats. When Speaker Dustin Burrows gaveled into the second special session, which began just two hours after the first one wrapped, …

“CA media: After the vulgar behavior today at a live event, you have a duty to not cover these rallies live if Gonzalez is involved. You have a duty to your viewers…and an FCC license to keep. I am looking forward to Nov 4 when California voters hand Gavin Newsom a humiliating defeat by rejecting his corrupt and dishonest redistricting …

Mediaite reports: Sara Gonzales, a host at Glenn Beck’s conservative network BlazeTV, was manhandled out of a town hall on Thursday after she called Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) a “fake ghetto hoodrat” and “a spoiled rich kid from Missouri.” As Gonzales was shouted down by other members of the audience, a woman pushed against her and snapped, “Get your ass …

The Texas Tribune reports: A new poll of Texas’ Senate GOP primary shows Sen. John Cornyn leading Attorney General Ken Paxton by 1 percentage point, breaking a spell of public polling that had found the incumbent trailing by wide margins. In a sample of nearly 500 registered Texans planning to vote in the Republican primary, Cornyn garnered 30% of the …

“In order for politicians to truly demagogue, you have to suggest that America is a terrible place. That the only thing that can fix America is if you give me more power. Your life will be better if you give me more power or you give me more money. “Well, to President Trump’s credit, he understands that in order to …

“And by the way, I’m not joking when I say this. I drive around in Washington, D.C. in my jeep and, yes, I do drive myself. And I don’t buckle up. And the reason why I don’t buckle up, and people can say whatever they want to, they can raise their eyebrows at me, again, is because of carjacking. I don’t …

The Associated Press reports: Missouri lawmakers are preparing for a special session on congressional redistricting as part of President Donald Trump’s push to draw more favorable maps for Republicans ahead of next year’s elections. A document obtained by The Associated Press shows the Senate has received a $46,000 invoice to activate six redistricting software licenses and provide training for up …

The New York Post reports: A raucous chorus of obscene jeers greeted mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani as he took his weeklong, five-borough anti-President Trump tour to Staten Island on Wednesday. Infamous Staten Island artist-activist Scott LoBaido said he was arrested by cops after first trying to confront the Democratic socialist at the event in a Stapleton Heights restaurant — and …

Axios reports: The Israeli government is courting popular MAGA influencers in an effort to address Republican divisions over the war in Gaza, where scenes of violence and starvation have fueled global outrage. U.S. support for Israel’s military actions has fallen to record lows. Even within the traditionally pro-Israel GOP, younger Republicans are increasingly skeptical — questioning both the alliance and …

Stateline reports: Each month, nearly 42 million people receive SNAP benefits to help supplement their grocery budgets. Able-bodied SNAP recipients who are between 18 and 54 and don’t have children have always been required to work. Veterans, however, have been exempt from those rules — but that’s about to change. The giant domestic policy measure that President Donald Trump signed …

The Hill reports: Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) said during a Wednesday podcast episode with Joe Rogan that lawmakers have seen evidence of “interdimensional beings.” “I think that they can actually operate through the time spaces that we currently have,” Luna said during the podcast. “That’s not something that I came up with on my own. That’s based on stuff …

Politico reports: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is calling for a ban on single-stock trading by members of Congress, a push that could supercharge legislative efforts to ban the practice that have gained momentum in recent months. The Treasury secretary is far from the first big name in Washington to advocate for an end to congressional stock trading in recent months. …

“Israel is in a fight for their lives. Our friends in Israel are surrounded by people who would kill them all if they could. I am tired of the word ‘genocide’! Let me tell you about genocide. If Israel wanted to commit genocide, they could. They have the capability to do that. They choose not to. Hamas, they would commit …

The New York Times reports: A former Republican candidate for a State House seat in New Mexico was sentenced to 80 years in prison on Wednesday for orchestrating a politically motivated shooting spree against four Democratic officials. The series of shootings happened in December 2022 and early January 2023, weeks after the candidate, Solomon Peña, had lost his race. When …

NBC News reports: President Donald Trump’s pick to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics was among the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with the White House saying he was a “bystander” who wandered over after seeing coverage on the news. E.J. Antoni, an economist from the Heritage Foundation nominated by Trump this week, after the president fired …