Trump cultists

The Huffington Post reports: Rep. Maria Salazar (R-Fla.) this month celebrated delivering $1.4 million to a children’s hospital in her district, even attending a photo op where she handed over massive checks to leadership and staff at the Nicklaus Children’s Hospital. Except Salazar voted against the bill that provided this money. “The doctors and staff at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital are …

“Alright, then it was on to the ice cream parlor. Why did they go there? Nobody really seems to know, other than he’s got some sort of weird boyhood fetish thing with ice cream. “I’m an adult male. I like ice cream, I guess. Sure, Baskin-Robbins at a kid’s birthday party, you know, three times a year. “I have seen …

From the Justice Department: A Pennsylvania man was sentenced today on a felony charge related to his conduct during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election. Cameron Edward …

The Hill reports: Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) celebrated the news that Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) is stepping down from his leadership post, recounting the recent shake-ups permeating across the Republican Party. The Florida Republican said that McConnell, the current Republican National Committee (RNC) Chair Ronna McDaniel and former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) all got “86’d.” Gaetz has …

The Washington Post reports: A lawyer billed as the “star witness” in the case to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis (D) testified Tuesday that it was mere “speculation” when he told a defense attorney that Willis began a romantic relationship in 2019 with the outside lawyer she appointed to lead the case against Donald Trump, years earlier …

Mediaite has the transcript: I am here today to provide the Committees with the one uncontestable fact that should end the false premise of this inquiry: I did not involve my father in my business. Not while I was a practicing lawyer, not in my investments or transactions domestic or international, not as a board member, and not as an …

From the Justice Department: An Indiana man pleaded guilty today to sending a communication that included a threat of violence to an election worker in Michigan. “Andrew Nickels threatened that he and millions of so-called ‘patriots’ would kill an election worker in Michigan. Among other threats, he said the local public official deserved a ‘throat to the knife’ for saying …

NBC News reports: Hunter Biden will face questions Wednesday from members of two GOP-led House committees at a closed-door deposition that President Joe Biden’s son had rejected participating in for months. The deposition, scheduled for 10 a.m. ET, is being held by the House Oversight Committee and the House Judiciary Committee, the two panels that have been leading an impeachment …

The Detroit News reports: A Kent County Circuit Court judge ruled Tuesday that Kristina Karamo had been removed as the Michigan Republican Party’s chairwoman on Jan. 6 and barred her from continuing to assert that she holds the position. The decision from Judge J. Joseph Rossi settled, at least temporarily, a leadership dispute that’s been devouring the Michigan GOP for …

“This ice cream – you know my rule about men eating soup in public. I don’t think it’s manly to go like that with the soup, and you’re blowing on it, it’s just not a good look. A grown man – especially the president – should not be licking ice cream in public. “If I were Biden and I was …

The New York Post reports: Rep. Lauren Boebert’s (R-Colo.) oldest son was arrested on Tuesday and faces 22 criminal charges, including five felonies, following a string of alleged thefts in Colorado. Tyler Boebert, 18, was slapped with five felony charges, four for Criminal Possession of ID Documents with Multiple Victims, and one Conspiracy to Commit charge, according to the Rifle …

Reuters reports: Worries about political extremism or threats to democracy have emerged as a top concern for U.S. voters and an issue where President Joe Biden has a slight advantage over Donald Trump ahead of the November election, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll showed. Some 21% of respondents in the three-day poll, which closed on Sunday, said “political extremism or threats …

Mediaite reports: Fired Fox News host Tucker Carlson launched an error-filled and expletive-laden attack against former President George W. Bush over his handling of the 9/11 terror attacks. “You know, George W. Bush fled Washington on 9/11,” Carlson claimed at one point during a three-hour conversation with popular podcaster Lex Fridman. Famously, Bush was in a Sarasota, Florida classroom when …

NBC News reports: An elected member of a Virginia school board —who allegedly bragged about drinking Fireball and Coors Light in the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack and said he was in touch with a member of the far-right Oath Keepers that day — was arrested by federal authorities on Tuesday. Miles Adkins, a member of the Frederick …

“The impeachment inquiry is trucking along quite nicely. Smirnov was irrelevant. This whole indictment is very peculiar if you look at it closely. I think if he isn’t Epstein’d in jail, if he isn’t coerced to have a plea deal and keep his mouth shut, if his lawyers are allowed to mount a defense in court, I think it’ll be …

The Hill reports: Former House Freedom Caucus Chair Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) is calling on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to stop President Biden from giving his annual State of the Union address next month. Perry said during an appearance Monday on Fox Business that Republicans should use the opportunity to ramp up pressure on Biden over the southern border amid …

Courthouse News reports: The FBI informant indicted on charges of giving the bureau false information about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter which was subsequently used by Republican lawmakers and pundits to try to discredit the administration lost his bid to stay out of jail. U.S. District Judge Otis Wright II, at a hearing Monday morning in downtown Los …

“Every time, during luncheon time, I have been here at Capitol Hill to speak on behalf of the one who’s running. You all know who I’m going to say. Yes, it’s number 45, yes, it’s Trump. I’m just gonna say his name right now. “Why not? God talked about him all the time. No matter what you think about him, …

“Only wars we won were fucking ones where we were the most brutal motherfuckers on the planet. Which, I don’t disagree with what Israel is doing. It’s like, they should just go in there and be like, you know what? We want our hostages back. “If we don’t have them back, clock starts now. And fucking 24 hours, we’re going …

The New York Times reports: The chairwoman of the Republican National Committee said on Monday that she would step down in just over a week, as former President Donald J. Trump seeks to install a new handpicked leader for the national party ahead of the general election this fall. The decision is not a surprise. The chairwoman, Ronna McDaniel, told …