Trump cultists

CNN reports: There was Georgia Rep. Andrew Clyde (R) casting the insurrection as “a normal tourist visit.” And Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson (R) insisting that it wasn’t an “armed insurrection” despite loads of evidence that it was. And House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R) trying to cast Trump as blameless. But all of these efforts were aimed at downplaying what …

Fox News reports: Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday endorsed former NFL star Herschel Walker’s bid for a U.S. Senate seat in Georgia, a key battleground state the GOP hopes to flip from blue to red in next year’s midterm elections. In doing so, the Kentucky senator joins former President Donald Trump in backing Walker, who briefly played for …

The Washington Post reports: The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is expected to subpoena John Eastman, the pro-Trump legal scholar who outlined scenarios for denying Joe Biden the presidency, according to the panel’s chairman. “It will happen,” Chair Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) said in an interview Tuesday of a subpoena for Eastman, who played …

“My colleagues on the other side claim they want to protect the family. But instead they’ve chosen to attack the very bedrock of our country, the moral principles and the traditional family that hold our families and communities together. “In fact, nearly everything that plagues our society can be attributed to a failure to follow God’s laws for morality and …

Florida Politics reports: Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo said in a statement Tuesday he would never knowingly disrespect anyone, three days after news broke that he was asked to leave a Senator’s office for not wearing a mask. “Having a conversation with someone while wearing a mask is not something I find productive, especially when other options exist,” Ladapo wrote. “It …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: “And thou profane, wicked president of my people,” Shane Vaughn preached, speaking on behalf of God. “I got a message for the president of my people, or the resident of my people: You profane homosexual-loving, abortion-loving president, those that took the children and confused them about who they were, you profane president whose …

The Associated Press reports: A Wisconsin judge laid out the final ground rules Monday on what evidence will be allowed when Kyle Rittenhouse goes on trial next week for shooting three people during a protest against police brutality, ruling he’ll permit testimony from the defense’s use-of-force expert and on how police welcomed Rittenhouse and others carrying guns during the demonstration. …

Here’s the transcript of how the exchange started: AUDIENCE MEMBER: You’re brave. You’re brave for what you say, and the fact that you stand up there and say it, and I appreciate it. I think we all appreciate it actually, because there’s not a lot of people that have the balls to do it. But I want to ask you …

From the Raleigh News & Observer editorial board: That Cawthorn was named is hardly a surprise. He spoke at the Jan. 6 rally near the White House where he said, “The Democrats, with all the fraud they have done in this election, the Republicans, hiding and not fighting, they are trying to silence your voice.” Since then, Cawthorn has suggested …

“What I love about this — they said, hey, if you just get Trump out, orange man bad, and you get Biden, you can start having holidays again without arguing at the table and at each other’s throats. “But Mike Lindell comes in, and he’s going to go the Wednesday, the eve of Thanksgiving, on a marathon, so you can …

The Insider reports: A new ad for Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin’s campaign features a Fairfax parent who sought to have Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison’s 1987 classic novel “Beloved” removed from her son’s school curriculum because it gave him nightmares. “As a parent, it’s tough to catch everything” Laura Murphy, identified as a Fairfax County mother, says in …

South Carolina’s Seneca Journal reports: U.S. Rep. Jeff Duncan, who annually hosts a “Faith and Freedom BBQ” event in Anderson, reportedly donned a mask mocking President Joe Biden with a vulgar meaning in the nation’s capital Monday. Duncan walked off the floor of the House wearing a “Let’s Go Brandon” mask. In his Twitter biography, Duncan calls himself a “Christian, …

The Birmingham Herald reports: U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks said he was not involved in the planning of the Jan. 6 “Save America” rally at the Capitol where he made a speech shortly before rioters breached the building. In a phone interview Monday, the Huntsville congressman and 2022 U.S. Senate candidate denied a Rolling Stone report that he or his top …

From the Miami Herald editorial board: Nothing can hide Florida’s descent into Crazyville. Not the “Don’t Tread on Florida” alligator signs held by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ supporters at his latest COVID-19 policy proposal announcement. Not the state’s new Ivy League-educated surgeon general, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, who refused — refused! — to wear a mask when he met with state Sen. …

The Hill reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has been fined a third time for refusing to wear a mask on the House floor, the House Ethics Committee disclosed on Monday. Greene has now racked up a total of $5,500 worth of mask fines this year. Under the rules that Democrats established in January to enforce compliance with the mask …

Fox News reports: With hospitals in Colorado denying unvaccinated patients organ transplants, more people are looking to Texas in the hopes of getting the potentially life-saving procedures. “Here in Texas, vaccines remain voluntary and never forced,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s office told Fox News in a statement. “Anyone being denied critical, life-saving organ transplants is welcome here in Texas, where …

ABC News reports: Jury selection is scheduled to get underway on Monday in the high-profile civil case in the U.S. district court in Charlottesville against organizers and certain participants of the “Unite the Right” rally. Nine people injured over the two-day event are accusing promoters of exhorting followers to “defend the South and Western civilization” from non-white people and their …

The Daily Beast reports: It’s only been three days since Alec Baldwin accidentally shot and killed 42-year-old cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, but the Trump family has never been known to hang around when there’s a tawdry buck to make. The oldest Trump son, Donald Jr., is hawking $27.99 T-shirts on his official site with the mocking slogan: “Guns don’t kill people, …

“As you can all see in Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution, the only people who have a right to change election law in the United States of America, are the state legislatures. “You saw in six key states, namely Wisconsin and Arizona, as the worst perpetrators. The state governors and the Board of Elections there who actually went …

Florida Politics reports: Florida politicians took to social media over the weekend to demand the Florida Senate deny the confirmation of recently installed Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo after news broke of a troubling interaction he had with an immunocompromised state lawmaker. As detailed by Florida Politics, Democratic Sen. Tina Polsky of Boca Raton, who was diagnosed with stage 1 breast …