Trump cultists

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 …

Mediaite reports: Jimmy Kimmel and his staff got supporters of former President Donald Trump to engage in blatant hypocrisy in what was truly a wild segment of the ABC late night show. During his opening monologue Friday, Kimmel explained the premise of the bit — which was filmed in South Carolina ahead of Saturday’s primary. “We asked people who identified …

Real Clear Politics has the transcript: Onward to victory! Is there anything going to stop us from winning on 5 November of 2024? I can’t hear you. Is anything gonna stop us? In this very hall, the greatest president of the 20th and 21st centuries sat here and said he’s a political dissident, he’s persecuted. That is a mark upon …

Axios reports: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) was booed during former President Trump’s remarks Saturday following his projected South Carolina primary victory. It’s not the first time the South Carolina senator, who has relatively low approval ratings in his state, has faced an unfriendly Trump crowd, particularly in his home state. Graham was met with boos from the crowd while appearing …

“We have drifted further and further. We were pushed farther and farther into a surveillance police state. I don’t know if we should applaud for police state. But you know what? I’ll take applause no matter where I get it. “The idea that this is a free country, that this president, in some way has any right to that office? …

The New Republic reports: After trying and failing to salvage Republicans’ crumbling impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, Ohio Representative Jim Jordan at last, finally, conceded on Friday that Alexander Smirnov’s story might not be totally accurate. “I don’t know, maybe the guy did lie,” Jordan said at CPAC on Friday. Still, Jordan couldn’t totally put the theory to rest …

“All right. We’re continuing to monitor the president’s remarks and I mean no offense to him, some of you might want to continue to hear him, but I did have to say that even though the former president is entitled to his opinions, he’s not entitled to his own set of facts. “The market has indeed been going up and …