Trump cultists

The Waco Tribune-Herald reports: Trump arrived shortly before 6 p.m., his plane circling the airport as attendees intently looked to the heavens. He wrapped up at 7:32 in the evening, though quite a few fans did not last that long. About 30 minutes into the rally, the crowd began to thin, with people getting a head start on the walk …

The Washington Post reports: An exiled Chinese tycoon indicted in New York earlier this month in a billion-dollar fraud case controls the conservative social media platform Gettr and used it to promote cryptocurrencies and propaganda, former employees have told The Washington Post. They said the arrested expatriate, Guo Wengui, and his longtime money manager, William Je, called the shots at …

The Independent reports: A trio of House Republican committee chairs say the House of Representatives could soon take up legislation to strip state and local prosecutors of the authority to prosecute former presidents in response to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s potential indictment of former president Donald Trump. In a letter to Mr Bragg, House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, …

The New York Post reports: Multiple calls from a Republican staffer for the House Judiciary Committee were met with cursing and a dial tone by the office of New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg. A staffer for the House Judiciary Committee staffer called Bragg’s office multiple times this week to inquire about requested documents involved in the Trump probe. A …

Salon reports: MAGA gun enthusiast Ted Nugent — guitar in hand — got the crowd frothed up with his views on the state of the world, etc. “Glory, glory hallelujah, look! It’s real America!” Nugent hooted at those in attendance. “I’m telling ya the whole world sucks and America’s catching up, but here in Waco, Texas with the real s**t …

The Hill reports: House Democrats said their visit as part of a GOP-led trip to the Washington, D.C. jail where rioters from the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection are being held showed they had no remorse for their actions. The comments came after the trip, which was organized by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), following criticism from some Republicans about the …

Mediaite reports: Newsmax host Lidia Curanaj recalled her tenure as a “lowly production assistant” for CBS News anchor Dan Rather in 2001 when anthrax was sent to their mailroom. “So when you do hear that – powder in an envelope – you can’t help but wonder, my goodness, could this be some sort of deadly bioweapon, because there are a …

NBC News reports: The FBI and NYPD are investigating a letter containing a death threat and white powder that was mailed to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, whose office is investigating former President Donald Trump, law-enforcement sources told NBC News. The letter was addressed to Bragg and said, ““ALVIN: I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!” the sources said. It contained …

Mediaite reports: NBC News reporter Sahil Kapur asked Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) Friday for a response to former President Donald Trump’s latest headline-grabbing screed against his possible upcoming indictment in New York City, which many critics labeled as incitement to violence. Kapur detailed Jordan’s reaction on Twitter, “Asked Rep. Jim Jordan what he makes of Trump’s warning about ‘potential death …

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump’s former press secretary Kayleigh McEnany came under fire by the MAGA faithful on Friday morning for her kind words about Mike Pence. “Excellent interview with Vice President Mike Pence on Sean Hannity,” she wrote Thursday night on Twitter. “His patriotism, love for the country, and love for his Savior on full display.” Hours later, …

The New York Times reports: A Pennsylvania woman who steered a group of rioters toward Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office on Jan. 6, 2021, and directed others inside the Capitol to steal a laptop computer was sentenced in Federal District Court in Washington on Thursday to three years in prison. The woman, Riley June Williams, 24, was convicted in November of …

“Now, if I were Trump and running his campaign, I’d strongly urge him to stop talking about 2020. It’s over. Enough. Marinating in old claims of election fraud will not win over a single voter in any state that he needs to win in 2024. And maybe, just maybe drop the nicknames and the petty personal stuff. It was funny …

The Associated Press reports: Federal prosecutors disclosed Wednesday that a witness expected to testify for the defense at the seditious conspiracy trial of former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four associates was secretly acting as a government informant for nearly two years after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, a defense lawyer said in a court …

“Very simply, Ron DeSantis should look into the camera and say, we’re not going to honor the extradition. It’s dead on arrival. If you’re trying to tell me you’re going to indict a former president through a campaign finance violation in New York, I’m going to send the Florida sheriffs and say this warrant does not apply. “Some people would …

“We thank you for this Donald Trump that you’ve raised up. And lord, even now we lift up a voice on his behalf that you will cause your hand to come upon his head, you will cover his ears so that he only hears what you are saying. “Your hand will be in his heart so that he only feels …

Arizona Central reports: Failed Republican political candidate and former TV news reader Kari Lake wants – perhaps even expects – the Good Lord to do what the voters of Arizona would not do: Make her governor. The latest prank in Lake’s ongoing Christian nationalist post-election publicity tour is what she described as a “prayer event” at a Mesa church Tuesday …

“If I were governor of Florida, I would not allow any Floridian to be hauled before some George Soros-backed prosecutor in some blue city over politics. And I wouldn’t make an exception to not protect the president of the United States. “Ron DeSantis should be standing in the breach to stop any sort of extradition of President Trump from the …

CNBC reports: DirecTV said Wednesday it reached a deal with Newsmax Media to once again carry the right wing network in its satellite-TV and streaming packages. DirecTV had not carried Newsmax on its services since late January, when carriage negotiations broke down between the two companies. Newsmax had earlier alleged at the core of the dispute was “political discrimination,” with …

ProPublica reports: House Republicans have sent letters to at least three universities and a think tank requesting a broad range of documents related to what it says are the institutions’ contributions to the Biden administration’s “censorship regime.” The letters are the latest effort by a House subcommittee set up in January to investigate how the federal government, working with social …

“So in Manhattan tomorrow, what will certainly be an overwhelmingly liberal grand jury will meet. And unless something unexpected happens, Democrats will have taken the unprecedented step of using a corrupt justice system to take out the front runner in the Republican presidential field in a presidential race. You’ve got to hope that for the sake of the country, the …