Trump cultists

Law & Crime reports: A Connecticut trial court judge on Friday declined to pause a schedule of escalating fines against InfoWars host Alex Jones in connection with a defamation lawsuit filed by the family members of the victims of the Dec. 14, 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre. Because a new deposition date of April 11 has — according to the …

NBC News reports: Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C., broke his silence Friday after days of GOP uproar over his remarks on a podcast claiming congressional colleagues were using drugs and inviting him to sex parties. But in a lengthy statement, Cawthorn attempted to distance himself from his own comments by suggesting it was Democrats and the media that made the allegations …

The Chattanooga Times reports: The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is looking into the internationally known televangelist Perry Stone nearly two years after allegations of sexual harassment and assault surfaced against the Cleveland, Tennessee-based faith leader. The TBI has interviewed at least five people who claim to be victims or who are connected to Stone’s ministry, according to three people who …

“If any average person did that they would be in jail. They would be locked up. They at least would have been arrested or questioned by the police at this point. “But it shows you the double standard that exists. It shows you that when you’re a Hollywood celebrity – and this is basically what I think people took from …

Politico reports: A Florida man was sentenced Friday to a year and a half in federal prison for issuing a series of crude and violent threats to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Paul Hoeffer, 60, of Palm Beach Gardens, received the sentence at a hearing in Fort Pierce, Fla., after pleading guilty to three felony counts of …

The Hill reports: Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) is slated to speak at former President Trump’s upcoming rally in North Carolina, giving the embattled congressman a key audience with Trump’s ultra-conservative base as he faces backlash from GOP lawmakers and much of his state’s congressional delegation. Cawthorn will be joined by Rep. Ted Budd (R-N.C.), whom Trump has endorsed for the …

CNN reports: For years, Herschel Walker has told the same inspiring story: that he graduated in the top 1% of his class at the University of Georgia. He’s told the story, per a review of his speeches by CNN’s KFile, during motivational speeches over the years. The only problem: it’s not true. “I also was in the top 1% of …

Law & Crime reports: A Vietnam veteran who brought nearly a dozen Molotov cocktails to the Capitol Hill area of the nation’s Capitol on Jan. 6 has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison. Lonnie Leroy Coffman, 72, had admitted to driving from his home in Alabama to Washington in a truck loaded with what U.S. District Judge Colleen …

Politico reports: The attorney general of Washington D.C. has expanded his lawsuit against members of the Jan. 6, 2021 mob that played leading roles in the attack on the Capitol — including Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes. Karl Racine announced Friday that he had added six new high-profile figures to the district’s lawsuit, which already featured more than 30 defendants …

Kansas City’s NBC News affiliate reports: A man from Drexel, Missouri, located in Cass County, has been charged with assaulting law enforcement officers during the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Cale Clayton, 41, faces charges of “assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers, civil disorder, theft of government property, and related offenses,” according to a release from the U.S. Department …

“So, this administration is standing up for you. And those are words that every American is grateful to hear. But in this case, there’s a caveat. “‘You’ means trans seniors. Now, wait a second, you may wonder, as you sit down with your family to celebrate the joy of transgenderism on transgender appreciation day, how many trans seniors are there …

The Daily Beast reports: The fire lists were particularly problematic, as they were frequently based on pure conjecture, rumor, or score-settling, where even steadfastly MAGA aides were targeted for being part of the “Deep State” or some other supposedly anti-Trump coalition, according to people who saw them during the Trump administration. The hire lists were so often filled with infamous …

This is going just great: CBS’s newest contributor, former acting Trump Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, attended a fundraiser Wednesday night for Rep. Liz Cheney’s primary opponent Harriet Hageman. CBS’s decision to hire Mulvaney raised eyebrows and sparked furor within the news organization as multiple journalists and CBS employees expressed their frustration with the move to the Washington Post. “I …

Media Matters has the transcript: We got this judge up in Connecticut, if you could call it that — this thing that has just cheated us every way, lied about us, said we didn’t give them this, sanctioned us for not giving them the “Sandy Hook marketing.” It’s like saying give me the unicorn. Don’t have one, lady. I know …

Mediaite reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) released a new ad this week for her re-election campaign and it is everything you would expect from the controversial, conspiracy-promoting Congresswoman. “The war hawks, globalist elites, and neocons are banging the drums of war,” she claims, as images of Trump’s former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam …

The Week reports: Embattled Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) would like to assure everyone that, despite the backlash toward his wild claims of Washington, D.C. orgies and cocaine use, he has every intention of sticking around. Oh, and he’s a friend of former President Donald Trump’s, lest we forget. “The radical left, the establishment, and the media want to take me …

Law & Crime reports: A Florida man who was part of the crowd that surged through Capitol doors and pushed past police officers has pleaded guilty to a felony. Andrew William Griswold appeared before U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper on Wednesday and admitted that he was a forceful part of the mob of Donald Trump supporters that breached the Capitol …

South Carolina’s The State reports: U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said he will not vote for Judge Kentanji Brown Jackson to serve on the Supreme Court, denying President Joe Biden of another Republican vote for his historic nominee who will likely be confirmed as the first Black woman to serve on the nation’s highest court. Graham, a key …

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports: A Chippewa Falls attorney who is a key player in a movement to take the impossible step of decertifying the 2020 election is running for Attorney General on a platform of using the office to prosecute doctors who did not administer the anti-parasite drug ivermectin to dying COVID-19 patients. Karen Mueller is joining the race’s Republican …

The Washington Post reports: The criminal investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has expanded to examine the preparations for the rally that preceded the riot, as the Justice Department aims to determine the full extent of any conspiracy to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s election victory, according to people familiar with the matter. In the past …