Trump cultists

CNN reports: Former President Donald Trump’s continued promotion of the “big lie” about the 2020 election could still incite his followers to violence, the Justice Department and judges noted repeatedly this week, as courts weigh the future dangerousness of US Capitol riot defendants. Two federal judges this week brought up the disinformation about 2020 from right-wing figures, and even Trump …

The Huffington Post reports: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) threw some shade at Donald Trump’s former economic adviser Larry Kudlow on Sunday. It was a reference to a gaffe on Fox Business last week. Kudlow, who joined the network as a host after leaving the White House, was railing against the Green New Deal proposal to combat climate change …

Forbes reports: As many politicians—including President Biden—applaud the conviction of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin as a step toward combating racial bias in policing, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Sunday he does not believe systemic racism exists in law enforcement or other U.S. institutions. Graham pointed to the election of former President Barack Obama and Vice President Kamala Harris …

The Hill reports: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Sunday that President Biden’s first 100 days in office amounted to a “bait and switch,” and accused the president of pushing policies that were to the left of those he promised during the campaign. In an interview with Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday,” McCarthy argued that Biden had promised …

The Daily Beast reports: The keynote speaker at a Minnesota county Republican Party’s event last month told members that George Floyd’s murder at the hands of police was “planned since 2016.” On March 27, New Zealand author Trevor Loudon addressed an audience of hundreds of members of the Wabasha County Republican Party at a dinner in a church, the Bemidji …

The New York Times reports: Almost half a year after the election Mr. Trump lost, the promised audit has become a snipe hunt for skulduggery that has spanned a court battle, death threats and calls to arrest the elected leadership of Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix. The head of Cyber Ninjas, the Florida-based firm that Republican senators hired to oversee …

Reuters reports: A federal investigation into whether U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz trafficked a minor for sex will not be derailed by his assertion that a veteran asked his father for money to pay for the release of an American held by Iran, a law enforcement source familiar with the investigation said. Investigators believe the purported scheme to free Robert Levinson, …

Rolling Stone reports: Sia’s directorial debut Music and Mike “My Pillow Guy” Lindell’s “documentary” Absolute Proof each won multiple Razzies at this year’s Golden Raspberry Awards, the annual pre-Oscars celebration of the worst movies and acting performances of the year. Lindell was awarded both Worst Picture and Worst Actor for Absolute Proof, the pillow mogul’s film about rigged voting machines …

The Orlando Sentinel reports: A family member turned in an Ocala man who went to Washington D.C. “knowing full well they were going to break in” to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, according to the U.S. Justice Department. Kenneth Kelly, 58, also sent text messages saying he entered the Capitol by breaking windows, an affidavit said. He turned himself …

Law & Crime reports: The Department of Justice says that a Forestburg, Texas couple was arrested on Wednesday, April 21 for allegedly assaulting cops who were dispatched to man barricades at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Mark Middleton, 52, and Jalise Middleton, 51, made their first appearances in federal court on Thursday in the Lone Star State. “We are …

“America’s most dangerous insurrectionists are not the goofy QAnon people in fur and face paint. OK? “The real threat to our future is Biden and the well-heeled powerful forces who want us to lose sight of what made America great in the first place. “It’s not our diversity. It’s our freedom. You have to give the left credit. They’re totally …

The Washington Post reports: An impassioned supporter of former president Donald Trump, on trial for allegedly advocating the “slaughter” of influential Democrats after the U.S. Capitol riot, also espoused Nazi ideology and suggested to his father that Trump should override the election results and declare the United States a dictatorship as Adolf Hitler did in Germany generations ago, according to …

The Associated Press reports: A Santa Fe man who works for a defense contractor faces criminal charges for his acknowledged presence inside the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot. Authorities say Matthew Martin, who holds a security clearance, told the FBI in an interview that he had gone to Washington after reading then-President Donald Trump’s tweets about election fraud …

The Berkshire Eagle reports: Last month, a year in jail sounded like too much to Lonnie Durfee, the man who set fire last fall to a Dalton farm’s campaign endorsement, a crime covered around the world. On Thursday, he accepted it. Durfee, 50, pleaded guilty to one count of burning personal property during a Central Berkshire District Court hearing, accepting …

CNN reports: Federal authorities are looking into whether a 2018 trip to the Bahamas involving Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz and several young women was part of an orchestrated effort to illegally influence Gaetz in the area of medical marijuana, people briefed on the matter told CNN. Prosecutors with the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section are examining whether Gaetz took gifts, …

The Daily Beast reports: Fox News host and right-wing hanger-on Sean Hannity shelled out $5.3 million for a beachfront house on the south end of Palm Beach—less than three miles from Mar-a-Lago, property records show. The buy makes Hannity the latest in a long line of conservative media figures to set up shop in the wealthy south Florida town, sometimes …

NBC News reports: The Justice Department has notified federal judges in Washington that it expects to charge more than 500 people with taking part in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. “Over 400 individuals have been charged in connection with the Capitol attack,” federal prosecutors said in court documents filed late Thursday. “The investigation continues and the government …

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: “Jobs, Jobs, Jobs,” was the top bullet point in her rollout platform, followed by “Advocate for Business: Never vote for tax increases, always fight burdensome regulations.” The packaging of Marjorie Taylor Greene as a successful businesswoman helped bring the political outsider into the Republican fold, as people in the 14th Congressional District brushed off criticism of …

“What President Biden has done is immeasurably reckless and foolish. He’s gone full wokerista. He has joined those people who believe that America was wicked in its origins and that the American people are even more wicked today, that we have millions of Americans who are racist and misogynistic and ignorant, especially if they didn’t vote for him. “And the …

Salon reports: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s social media site FRANK is facing ridicule from the community of “grandmasters” around the content management software Drupal, who say Lindell’s site was destined to fail from the start because his developers failed to take “elementary” coding steps to limit attacks from outside forces. Since its supposed “VIP launch” last Thursday night, Lindell’s platform …