Trump cultists

Politico reports: Trump’s special envoy Richard Grenell said there will be strings attached to California wildfire aid. “As a Californian I’m all for it,” Grenell said during a conversation with POLITICO’s Dasha Burns at CPAC on Friday. Grenell said the administration is talking about what these conditions will be. He floated the idea of targeting the California Coastal Commission, which …

The Hill reports: Enrique Tarrio, the former national chairman of the Proud Boys, was arrested by U.S. Capitol Police on Friday following a press conference with other Proud Boys members and Oath Keepers’ founder Stewart Rhodes. A spokesperson for USCP said formal charges have not yet been announced but a statement is imminent. The arrest, which appeared to stem from …

France 24 reports: France’s far-right leader Jordan Bardella said Friday he had cancelled his speech at a right-wing meeting in Washington after a “gesture alluding to Nazi ideology” by conservative firebrand Steve Bannon. “I had been invited … to make a speech on the links between the United States and France, as well as the recent electoral dynamic of patriot …

Newsweek reports: A Republican group is hoping to rally support to change the Constitution to allow President Donald Trump to seek a third term. The “Third Term Project” presented its proposals at the CPAC at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on Thursday. Republican Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee introduced a House joint resolution in …

The New York Times reports: It’s the political equivalent of homecoming week for conservatives, a chance to revel over President Trump’s return to power and the dismantling of government institutions despised by the MAGA movement. But as the Conservative Political Action Conference got underway outside Washington on Thursday, the group’s influential chairman, Matt Schlapp, was embroiled in another scandal involving …

Florida Politics reports: President Donald Trump made clear who he wants as the next Governor of Florida.  In a Truth Social post, Trump all but endorsed U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds to run as the state’s next chief executive in 2026. Donalds responded by all but announcing his candidacy. “I am hearing that Highly Respected Congressman Byron Donalds is considering running …

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: U.S. Rep. Rich McCormick was peppered with boos and catcalls throughout a town hall meeting in Roswell late Thursday, as hundreds of critics jeered the Republican for backing President Donald Trump’s agenda during his first month in office. The Suwanee Republican’s staff expected a robust turnout for his first town hall since Trump took office. But …

“The J6-ers are here at CPAC! [Standing ovation.] From the medium-high to high-security prisons! And lemme tell you something else. I’m talking to Ambassador Ric Grenell and the J6 Choir is gonna play the Kennedy Center! [Audience roars.] Honor their families! And in fact, I got an idea, the night that they play and opens the new Kennedy Center – …

Media Matters has the transcript from CPAC: STEVE BANNON (HOST): Jayne let’s talk to some of these good War Room posse folks before they go up to hear the Vice President. JAYNE ZIRKLE: Your name and what brings you here today? GUEST: Hi, I’m Gordon White and I came here to say Trump 2028. ZIRKLE: Oh yeah. BANNON: Alright. Hold …

“I know he talked to the USA hockey team this morning. He talked to the players after their morning practice around 10 o’clock and I also spoke to some folks from that team after. They were jubilant over President Trump’s comments to the team. I believe they’re going to put out a video of that call. So he looks forward …

The Washington Post reports: “Mr. Patel will be a political and national security disaster,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) said at a news conference outside FBI headquarters — a building Patel has said he would shut down and reopen as a museum to the so-called deep state. Durbin and his colleagues emphasized what they’ve repeatedly described in hearings and floor speeches …

CNN reports: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth could soon move to fire more than half a dozen generals and flag officers, according to two sources familiar with the matter, part of an effort to purge the department of senior leaders perceived as either too political or too close to former Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. The list includes Gen. CQ …

“I think that our culture sends a message to young men that you should suppress every masculine urge. You should you should try to cast aside your family. You should try to suppress what makes you a young man in the first place. “And I think that my message to young men is don’t allow this broken culture to send …

First, a message from the Education Trust: Her background underscores why she is unfit for this role. As the former head of the Small Business Administration in Trump’s first term, McMahon approached governance through a corporate lens, prioritizing budget cuts and deregulation over public service. Her leadership at the America First Policy Institute — a think tank committed to advancing …

Courthouse News reports: House Republicans, taking a cue from Elon Musk, formally moved to impeach the federal judge responsible for halting the Department of Government Efficiency’s effort to access the Treasury Department system for government payments. In Republicans’ crosshairs is Southern District of New York Judge Paul Engelmayer, who this month issued an order keeping Musk’s team out of the …

“You can tell President Trump doesn’t totally trust the oligarchs. We’re putting in very tough antitrust people into the Justice Department and to the alphabet agencies. Look, I’m not a conservative, right? I’m a Republican ’cause I’m a registered Republican. I’m really a populist nationalist. “And by the way, those oligarchs – and people on CNN are gonna understand it …

Gabriel Sherman reports at Vanity Fair: Senate and House Republicans know Trump will orchestrate the running of a primary challenger backed by Elon Musk’s unlimited resources if a member defies him. But this is not the whole story of Republican subservience to the president. In private, Republicans talk about their fear that Trump might incite his MAGA followers to commit …

“The Ukraine war has always been a deep state funded and controlled money laundering operation and proxy war against Russia. Zelensky is an actor in a green jumpsuit that extorts money from everyone while he canceled elections and destroyed free speech in Ukraine and leads a war that has nearly wiped out an entire generation of Ukrainian men. I have …

“So here’s President Trump saying some stuff about Ukraine. [Plays clip.] I have some moral objections to the stuff that he is saying about Ukraine here because I don’t think that it is true.  “So for example, at one point during this press conference, he made the signally false statement that Ukraine started the war. This is not true. Ukraine …

“We are gonna be talking about – from woke capitalism to the culture warriors – to there’s some really fun panel names. One of them actually mentions Joy Reid, where it’s basically this fight against this Trump derangement syndrome, media narrative of their goal to destroy the president, destroy MAGA supporters. “The young voters were such a decisive factor in …