Trump cultists

“Prosecutors are even objecting when the defense attorneys refer to President Trump. Let’s put that transcript up and you can go through it. When they call President Trump ‘Mr. President’ or refer to him as President Trump, they object. And they keep objecting. “Oh, you don’t like President Trump being called President Trump because he wasn’t president in 2016 or …

Fox News reports: House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., is filing an ethics complaint against special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday, accusing him of violating Department of Justice (DOJ) standards and trying to tip the election against former President Trump. In a letter sent to the DOJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility, Stefanik urged the government watchdog to investigate Smith …

“First of all, looks like Joe was dressed by his mommy. Did you all see cackling Kamala? Of course she’d laugh at Joe’s jokes. She thought it was funny. That woman would laugh at a funeral. He’s clearly scripted digs at Trump just expose the party’s weakness. “Sure, Joe is a big talker when he’s speaking in a room full …

Mediaite reports: Kimberly Guilfoyle announced the upcoming release of a puppy-themed children’s book on Monday just days after South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem received backlash for boasting about the time she shot and killed her own puppy. Guilfoyle – a former Trump 2020 adviser and the fiancee of Donald Trump Jr. – announced the upcoming release of a new children’s …

MSNBC reports: The purpose of the Cricket story isn’t hard to discern. It paints Noem as tough and decisive, doing what must be done. It also highlights the fact that she’s a gun owner hailing from a rural state, at a time when Donald Trump, a son of Queens, might just be looking for a running mate with rural cred …

Posted this afternoon to OAN’s website: OAN today has retracted its March 27 article entitled “Whistleblower: Avenatti Alleged Cohen­ Daniels Affair Since 2006, Pre-2016 Trump Extortion Plan,” and is taking it down from all sites and removing it from all social media. This retraction is part of a settlement reached with Michael Cohen. Mr. Avenatti has denied making the allegations. …

Bloomberg News reports: Businessman Don Ahern of Ahern Rentals Inc. is hosting a fundraiser for the former president in Las Vegas on June 8, according to an invitation obtained by Bloomberg News. Other hosts include Shane McFarland, the president and general manager of the Ahern Luxury Boutique Hotel; and Pauline Lee, president of the Nevada Republican Club. Ahern Rentals was …

CNN reports: Hunter Biden is demanding that Fox News remove from its platforms sexually explicit images that President Joe Biden’s son says are private, according to a letter obtained by CNN, as part of his strategy to publicly fight back against conservative media. The letter sent by attorneys for Hunter Biden to Fox News and FOX Corp. alleges conspiracy to …

CBS News reports: The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid from Peter Navarro, who was former President Donald Trump’s top trade adviser in the White House, to get out of prison while he appeals a conviction for contempt of Congress. Navarro reported to federal prison in Miami in mid-March to begin serving a four-month sentence for defying a congressional …

Playbook reports: “He has completely sold out the Republican voters who gave us the majority,” MTG wrote just yesterday. “His days as Speaker are numbered.” Still, that threat is much more nebulous than the one she previously made. We’ve tried to reach Greene for five days now seeking clarification. Her office won’t detail her plans or even say whether she …

The Washington Post reports: Former president Donald Trump has long had a soft spot for his acolyte Kari Lake, the expected GOP Senate nominee in Arizona, joking that Lake would pivot to his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen even if she was asked about the weather. But since Lake jumped into the race, Trump has repeatedly expressed …

NBC News reports: The Arizona GOP has selected state Sen. Jake Hoffman, a “fake elector” indicted last week and accused of working to overturn President Joe Biden’s 2020 win in Arizona, as a national committeeman for the Republican National Committee. Hoffman — who was indicted Wednesday along with 17 other people, including former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows …

The Hill reports: Former Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt (R) announced Friday that he will run for Congress in a bid to replace outgoing Rep. Jake LaTurner (R-Kan.).  The three-term attorney general is now gunning for the House after narrowly losing a 2022 gubernatorial bid to Gov. Laura Kelly (D). Schmidt embraced far-right positions on vaccines, transgender rights and critical …

Maria Bartiromo: “Look, with all due respect, people are sick and tired of congressional investigations that go nowhere. People are sick and tired of letters being written and sent to the people who we know are bad in the first place. They want you to do something about it. You’re an elected official. What can you do to right these …

“I think the court’s gonna find that presidential immunity exists for President Trump like every other president, but you got to be within the scope of being president. I think they’ll send it back to the lower courts to find out exactly what actions fall within presidential immunity and what are considered personal. “I think that’s the way this will …

The Daily Beast reports: At first glance, Caleb Oriet’s social media accounts seem typical of a young member of the fringe, online right, featuring likes and reposts of far-right influencers and white nationalists expressing incendiary and bigoted views about racial and religious minorities. But Oriet isn’t just a denizen of the far-right fringes of social media. He’s also a staffer …

Axios reports: North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum is on a long list of VP contenders, but Trump’s rising interest in the North Dakota governor has been clear in recent weeks — and reveals his latest thinking about how he thinks his running mate could help him with undecided voters. Trump and his wife, Melania, hosted Burgum and his wife, Kathryn, …

ABC News reports: The Utah Republican Party on Saturday selected Trent Staggs as its nominee to replace Mitt Romney in the U.S. Senate, hours after the local official received former President Donald Trump’s endorsement. While the endorsement carried Staggs through convention with more than two-thirds of delegate votes, that support may not translate to success at the ballot box. The …

From the far-right Christian site Charisma News: The spiritual warfare taking place in our nation’s capital is at a fevered pitch. Recently, author Dutch Sheets shared a prophetic dream that his brother, Tim Sheets, had concerning the uprooting of Baal’s roots that have taken hold of the White House. In the dream, Sheets saw a massive angel, a soldier he …

The Washington Post reports: When conservative lawyer and media personality Christina Bobb became one of the latest members of Donald Trump’s inner circle to be charged in connection with the effort to reverse the 2020 presidential election results, it became immediately clear she would not have to give up her day job: senior counsel to the Republican National Committee’s election …