Trump cultists

“I mean, they’re calling him a grumpy old man. They’re attacking Donald Trump. I remember when Melania Trump was not visible for some period of time. You have people in the media and others snickering and speculating that she was no longer with Donald Trump. “We find out later, of course, that she was caring for her ailing mother, who …

“God, we believe you have chosen Donald Trump as an instrument in your hands for your purpose. However, our enemies are trying to steal, kill and destroy our America. So we need you to intervene. “Your word says that you hate dishonest scales. So, father, we are asking you for election integrity. And we are asking that you would put …

“I’ve said for over a year many times that Joe Biden would not be on the ticket and Michelle Obama would be the likely nominee. It’s clear the Democrat deep state run by Barack Obama knew they had to take him down to give them a chance in November. “They set him up in the report calling him a ‘sympathetic, …

The Hill reports: A Houston woman has been sentenced to three years in prison for threatening a Florida judge overseeing the criminal case against former President Trump for his handling of classified documents. The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Tiffani Gish, 50, was sentenced Friday for “using interstate communications” to threaten U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon. The Texas woman …

“If race and gender are your basis for selecting someone for a job, and the identity of your party is tied to that temple of identity politics, then they will risk looking hypocritical if they sideline her [Kamala Harris] after they sideline Biden. “And I do think Michelle Obama offers them a convenient path out of that problem, somebody who …

NBC News reports: Newly unearthed footage from Jan. 6, 2021, appears to show a rioter — a man identified in an NBC News story nearly two years ago — firing a gun into the air outside the Capitol during the attack. Online sleuths who have aided in hundreds of Jan. 6 prosecutions say he is the same man they identified …

“You have a right to self-defense, you’ve always had that right, and during my four years, nothing happened, and there was great pressure on me having to do with guns. We did nothing. We didn’t yield. And once you yield a little bit, that’s just the beginning. That’s the avalanche begins. “Four more years of Joe Biden means four more …

“I’m calling on Merrick Garland publicly now to do what I think is required under the law in the Constitution. Either charge the president, or he will go to the cabinet and tell them, ‘I believe we have to invoke the 25th Amendment.’ He’s got to do one or the other. If he doesn’t, it will just confirm what everybody …

Axios reports: Former President Trump is kneecapping the Senate hopes of right-wing Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.) before they can even get off the ground. The broader rift between Trump and some of the House Republican hardliners who adopted his scorched-earth tactics to fight GOP leadership is moving beyond the House. Trump endorsed businessman Tim Sheehy, the establishment favorite to take …

Mediaite reports: Donald Trump met with controversial UFC star Sean Strickland on Thursday when the two had a brief conversation before posing for a photo op. Strickland has been in the national spotlight recently after using a UFC press conference to go on an obscene rant about gay and trans people. “Ten years ago, to be trans was a mental …

The New York Times reports: A lawyer for the chief witness against Representative Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida, said on Friday that the witness was cooperating with a House Ethics Committee investigation into whether Mr. Gaetz had sex with an underage girl while he was serving in Congress. Fritz Scheller, a lawyer for Mr. Gaetz’s former friend and political ally …

Fox News reports: Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney is calling for the Cabinet to “explore” the use of the Constitution’s 25th Amendment to remove President Biden from office, following Special Counsel Robert Hur’s “alarming” report. Fox News Digital obtained a letter Tenney, R-N.Y., sent to Attorney General Garland Thursday night, sharing her “grave concerns” following the report. Tenney said Biden “needs …

Al Jazeera reports: Carlson did not even try to refute Putin’s outlandish and ungrounded claims. One was Putin’s belief that elected leaders do not run the United States. “So, twice you’ve described US presidents making decisions and then being undercut by their agency heads. So, it sounds like you’re describing a system that’s not run by the people who are …

The Washington Post reports: In training poll workers for this year’s presidential election, Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes is preparing them for a series of worst-case scenarios, including combat. His office is coordinating active-shooter drills for election workers and has sent kits to county election offices that include tourniquets to stem bleeding, devices to barricade doors and hammers to …

Media Matters has the transcript: NIKKI HALEY (GUEST): You’re saying that I was going to lose New Hampshire by 30 points and I got 43. So, I’m saying that, look, South Carolina hasn’t happened yet. We’re doing this because we have a country to save, and everybody’s blinded by the fact that we’ve got these two 80-year-old candidates — SEAN …

From the Justice Department: A Montana man was found guilty today of several felony and misdemeanor charges related to his conduct during the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election. …

Mediaite has the transcript: STEFANIK: I would not have done what Mike Pence did. I don’t think that was the right approach. I specifically stand by what I said on the House floor. And I stand by my statement, which was– COLLINS: So, you would have rejected the votes? STEFANIK: There was unconstitutional overreach in states like Pennsylvania, and I …

“I don’t believe we need to come up with a new Constitution. The one we have is fine. The problem is people aren’t following it. Our Constitution—if you were to put it into biblical terms—if they were still writing the Bible today, I believe that the American Constitution and the founding of this nation would be in Scripture as one …

The Daily Beast reports: GOP political consultant Alex Bruesewitz has emerged in recent years as a key online ally of Donald Trump, coming to the former president’s defense when he’s attacked and consistently going on offense to needle Trump’s enemies, like Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie, and Joe Biden. But after a House vote to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas …

CNN reports: Peter Navarro, a former trade adviser to President Donald Trump who was convicted of contempt of Congress, has been ordered to report to prison after a judge denied Navarro’s effort to stay out of prison while he appeals the conviction. Navarro was sentenced by Judge Amit Mehta in late January to four months behind bars after a jury …