Trump cultists

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports: The former chairman of the Wisconsin Republican Party in a new interview claims he sent Congress paperwork he signed posing as an elector for Donald Trump following the former president’s 2020 election loss out of fear for his safety from the candidate’s supporters. Andrew Hitt, who was chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin during …

“The good news is Americans are smart. They’re not easily fooled, and they see what Biden and Democrats and the prosecutors are doing here. They are bringing politically motivated cases by contorting the law. “They don’t care that it’ll be overturned on appeal. And I think any conviction would be in any of the four indictments, because they just want …

“There he is serving a multi-decade prison sentence and then magically right after the big Tucker Carlson interview and Russia decisively winning the Ukraine war, this happens. Where is the motive for Putin to have him killed? I’m purely speculating here but how do we know that there wasn’t a bounty on his head by Western intelligence agencies and Russia …

“I didn’t talk about the things that every other American media outlet talks about. Because those are covered and because I have spent my life talking to people who run countries – in various countries – and have concluded the following: that every leader kills people, including my leader. “Every leader kills people, some kill more than others. Leadership requires …

The Washington Post reports: The Fulton County district attorney’s office opted not to put Fani Willis back on the witness stand Friday, avoiding the spectacle of more deeply personal testimony from the top prosecutor as she fights an effort to derail Donald Trump’s 2020 Georgia election interference case. On Friday, prosecutors sought to bolster Willis’ testimony that Wade was not …

Newsweek reports: Former New York Republican Representative Lee Zeldin compared the death of Alexei Navalny to former President Donald Trump saying that Democrats want to make sure the former president to “dies in prison.” Navalny was an anti-corruption crusader in dictator Vladimir Putin’s Russia who investigated and published reports about Putin’s corruption and authoritarianism. He survived an assassination attempt using …

Axios reports: Special counsel Robert Hur will testify to a Republican-led House panel next month on his investigation into President Biden, Axios has learned. House Republicans are eager to dig in on Hur’s findings about Biden’s mental acuity and memory. Hur will give public testimony to the House Judiciary Committee on March 12, according to a source familiar with the …

Mediaite reports: On Wednesday, Tucker Carlson dropped two short videos of him evaluating a subway station and grocery store in the Russian capital. “You know Russia is famous for its bread,” asserted Carlson, before stating that “it’s fresh, too” while in the latter. A few moments later he exclaimed, “Look at that!” and then proceeded to groan, sniff another loaf …

Phoenix’s NBC affiliate reports: Clint Hickman announced Thursday he would not seek reelection to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, saying he wanted to spend more time with his family. Hickman, a Republican, is the second supervisor this cycle to forgo another opportunity to serve as part of the five-member board. Abuse targeted at Hickman and other elections officials can …

“Republicans can’t govern, the New York voters claim. They have a point. Look at our southern border disaster and foreign aid funding. Completely off the charts. Recently, Americans are fed up with Republicans – not for political reasons, but because they cannot govern. Democrats are better at calculating political outcomes and make their decisions based on those calculations. While the …

NBC News reports: Brooklyn man who had been arrested at anti-vaccine protests at a Burger King, an Applebee’s and a Cheesecake Factory in New York City was arrested by federal authorities Wednesday and charged with assaulting law enforcement officers during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Mitchell Bosch, 44, was identified with the help of online “sedition hunters” …

The Associated Press reports: A conservative group has told a Georgia judge that it doesn’t have evidence to support its claims of illegal ballot stuffing during the the 2020 general election and a runoff two months later. Texas-based True the Vote filed complaints with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in 2021, including one in which it said it had …

Raw Story reports: Republicans in the Arizona House of Representatives have introduced a resolution that would seek to declare former President Donald Trump the winner of the 2024 presidential election — regardless of what the voters decide, reported KPNX’s Brahm Resnik. The resolution would not carry any force of law because it is not a bill, noted Resnik. It is …

Stateline reports: Secretaries of state and state election directors must be ready for potential cyberattacks, both familiar and uncomfortably new, according to the feds. And they must remain vigilant about possible threats to their personal safety. Voter databases could be targeted this year through phishing or ransomware attacks, election officials were told. Bad actors — both foreign and domestic — …

Politico reports: House Homeland Security Chair Mark Green is expected to announce plans to retire as early as Thursday, marking a surprise exit for a prominent committee chief. Green is expected to announce he will not seek reelection just days after he spearheaded the GOP push to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, according to two Republicans familiar with his …

ABC News reports: Congressional House Ethics investigators have obtained text messages allegedly showing that a few months after first joining Congress, Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz asked a young woman, who at the time had received payments for sex from Gaetz’s then-close friend Joel Greenberg, to join him and others on a three-day trip to the Florida Keys in May 2017, …

Monmouth Polling reports: Just under half (46%) of the American public has heard something about Swift being part of a supposed covert government effort to help Biden win the 2024 presidential election. Just under 1 in 5 Americans (18%) believe such a conspiracy involving Swift exists. Also, nearly three-quarters (73%) of those who believe the Swift conspiracy also believe the …

Mediaite reports: House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) claimed during a Capitol Hill press conference on Wednesday that Special Counsel Robert Hur found that President Joe Biden “broke the law, but he’s not going to be charged.” “We conclude that no criminal charges are warranted in this matter,” begins the report, which goes on to detail Hur could not establish a …

The Jewish Insider reports: In a series of interviews and public appearances spanning nearly two years, Jim Marchant, a Republican candidate for the Senate seat in Nevada, has frequently invoked antisemitic tropes claiming that “evil people” including the “Khazarians,” “the cabal,” “globalists” and “central bankers” have controlled the government and conspired to oppress the American people and the world for …

“The central beating heart of this issue is their ability to steal an election. They stole this election in New York, okay? The logistics and mechanics are, these guys are perfecting. The Marc Elias operation is perfecting the ballot harvesting, and the mail-in ballots are still there and they’re stealing this. Like I said in 2020, they’re stealing it by …