Trump cultists

The Associated Press reports: Justice Department officials in Washington have taken over the corruption investigation into Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, removing the case from the hands of the federal prosecutors in Texas who’d long been leading the probe. The move was disclosed in a statement by state prosecutors handling their own case against Paxton. It’s the latest development in …

NBC News reports: Kari Lake, a Donald Trump acolyte who has refused to accept that she lost the governor’s race in Arizona last year, campaigned on the voter fraud claims first popularized by the former president. She filed lawsuits before and after the election advancing the claims, despite having no clear evidence of election fraud. A federal judge has already …

“I think both the Russian people and the government would like to see this thing end. They’d like to negotiate an end to it. But they’re certainly not going to walk into a negotiation where they’re told, well, you have to accept guilt, quote unquote, for the war, which they really didn’t start. “And then they’re not going to give …

The Daily Beast reports: Greeting the Schlapps on Tuesday night, Newsmax host Jenn Pellegrino gushed over the smiling pair. “As we discussed at the top of the interview here, the two of you work together. You have been married for 20 years. I think a lot of people are wondering: what’s the secret?” After the pair both turned to each …

Florida Politics reports: Make America Great Again, Inc., a super PAC connected to Trump, released a statement hours after Haley launched her campaign. “Nikki Haley is just another career politician,” said Taylor Budowich, head of MAGA Inc. “She started out as a Never Trumper before resigning to serve in the Trump (administration). She then resigned early to go rake in …

The Arizona Mirror reports: Angry at lawyers being disciplined for making baseless election fraud complaints in Arizona courts, a Republican legislator says the State Bar of Arizona and the Arizona Supreme Court should be barred from punishing those attorneys and be heavily fined if they do so. The bill from Sen. Anthony Kern, R-Glendale, prohibits both the State Bar and …

ABC News reports: A New York appeals court on Tuesday rejected Fox News’ bid to shut down a multibillion-dollar defamation lawsuit accusing the network of spreading lies that a voting-technology company helped “steal” the 2020 election from then-U.S. President Donald Trump. A five-judge panel ruled unanimously against the network, host Maria Bartiromo and former host Lou Dobbs. They said they …

The Associated Press reports: A California man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to using a stun gun to attack a Washington, D.C., police officer who was brutally injured while trying to defend the U.S. Capitol from the angry mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters on Jan. 6, 2021. Daniel Rodriguez, 40, of Fontana, admitted to taking part in the violent assault …

Harrisburg’s ABC affiliate reports: Prosecutors say they will seek a sentence of more than seven years in jail for Riley Williams, the Pennsylvania woman once accused of stealing Nancy Pelosi’s laptop during the January 6 riot. In the government’s sentencing memorandum, the government requested 87 months’ incarceration, at the upper end of the applicable sentencing range, three years of supervised …

“Should we even trust anything that the government is saying? Could this all just be a false flag operation to fake an alien invasion or fake a UFO hysteria crisis to try to justify more power — lockdowns — control? These are all rational questions, but I do believe this. I feel like I’m being lied to.” – Charlie Kirk, …

Rolling Stone reports: A new report by the Anti-Defamation League released Monday catalogs dozens of acts of vandalism, harassment and intimidation organized under the “Ye is right” slogan. “Kanye West’s repeated antisemitic remarks – and his dredging up some of the worst anti-Jewish tropes imaginable — are inspiring people to commit real-world acts of hate,” says Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL’s CEO. …

The Insider reports: Rep. Lauren Boebert railed against “wokeness” after a song known as the Black national anthem was performed live and on-field at the Super Bowl on Sunday for the very first time. The far-right Colorado lawmaker said in a tweet that the NFL was trying to “divide” the country, in an apparent reference to actress Sheryl Lee Ralph’s …

The Daily Beast reports: Steve Bannon—the nativist American media personality who’s backed by a Chinese billionaire—hasn’t paid the lawyers who spent years defending him against an onslaught of criminal charges, according to three sources who spoke exclusively to The Daily Beast. With massive legal bills still outstanding, Bannon is now scrambling to find new attorneys, as he faces a looming …

The Hill reports: Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) said President Biden is “detached from reality” and “delusional” about the threat posed by China, after the U.S. shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon that traveled over the country earlier this month. “He’s detached from reality. He’s delusional,” Johnson said of Biden on FOX News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.” “He says that we …

Congress Minutes reports: Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) backed former President Donald Trump’s bid to return to the White House on Friday, becoming the fifth Republican and third freshman senator to offer his support. It’s a far cry from the immediate enthusiasm for Trump’s bid for a second term in the White House just four years ago, as the former president …

Raw Story reports: ABC host George Stephanopoulos asked Republican House Oversight Chair James Comer (KY) if he would investigate Saudi funds provided to former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. “It’s clear that you’re going to be looking at Hunter Biden,” the host said. “I want to put up a front-page story from the Washington Post detailing Jared Kushner’s ties …

“We’ve got a lot of great candidates in the Republican Party. Unlike the Democrat Party, they roll people out like Katie Hobbs and Joe Biden, and they expect us to believe that that’s that’s what people want and we know people don’t want that. Meanwhile, we’ve got great candidates on the Republican Party and on our side. We’ve got so …

The Texas Tribune reports: Attorney General Ken Paxton and four of his former top deputies who said he improperly fired them after they accused him of crimes have reached a tentative agreement to end a whistleblower lawsuit that would pay those employees $3.3 million dollars. In a filing on Friday, attorneys for Paxton and the whistleblowers asked the Texas Supreme …

The Washington Post reports: Twelve years before she was elected as the first Mexican American woman to represent Florida in Congress, Anna Paulina Luna was serving at Whiteman Air Force Base in Warrensburg, Mo., where friends said she described herself as alternately Middle Eastern, Jewish or Eastern European. Known then by her given last name of Mayerhofer, Luna sported designer …

The Christian Post reports: Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy told The Christian Post that DirecTV is “angry” simply because the Florida-based Newsmax is seeking a very “modest” fee of about a dollar per subscriber. For Ruddy, it’s a clear-cut example of political censorship for a network that’s frequently touted by the likes of former President Donald Trump and potential 2024 presidential …