Trump cultists

Mediaite reports: Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of Twitter, embraced Tucker Carlson’s revisionist account of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol in a series of tweets. In addition to being misleading, Carlson’s episode on the Jan. 6 tapes was riddled with glaring factual inaccuracies. Musk celebrated Carlson airing the footage. In one tweet, he responded to Mike Cernovich, …

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: The Georgia House approved a measure to create a new state board that could punish or oust district attorneys, the latest step in an ongoing campaign by Republicans to exert oversight over prosecutors they see as skirting their duties. The measure passed the House 98-75 on Monday over the objections of Democrats and prominent prosecutors. Among …

Law & Crime reports: Two friends from North Carolina — one of whom wore a backpack embroidered with his last name on it to the Senate floor on Jan. 6 — have been charged with breaching the U.S. Capitol building. Christopher Carnell, 20, of Cary, North Carolina, and David Worth Bowman, 21, of Raleigh, North Carolina, allegedly broke into the …

The Associated Press reports: Over the past 11 months, someone created thousands of fake, automated Twitter accounts — perhaps hundreds of thousands of them — to offer a stream of praise for Donald Trump. Besides posting adoring words about the former president, the fake accounts ridiculed Trump’s critics from both parties and attacked Nikki Haley. When it came to Ron …

Phoenix’s ABC affiliate reports: After losing his 2022 bid for Arizona Secretary of State, Mark Finchem filed a lawsuit attempting to overturn the results of the election. His suit was dismissed, and he is now facing sanctions. The Maricopa County Superior Court found that his lawsuit was “groundless and not brought in good faith,” documents show. The court ordered Finchem …

The New York Times reports: In appearing before the Jan. 6 committee last year, Cassidy Hutchinson, the former White House aide who recounted President Donald J. Trump’s conduct in the lead-up to the attacks on the Capitol, shared how her original lawyer had tried to influence her testimony. While represented by that lawyer, Stefan Passantino, Ms. Cassidy told the committee …

ABC News reports: Paul Manafort, the former chairman of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, has agreed to pay $3.15 million to settle a civil case filed by the Justice Department over undeclared foreign bank accounts. When the civil case was filed in April 2022, prosecutors alleged that Manafort had failed to disclose more than 20 offshore bank accounts he ordered …

Politico reports: If any subject is verboten in the early stages of the Republican presidential primary, it’s the insurrection that once served as a defining point in 2024 frontrunner Donald Trump’s career. Whereas Republicans once talked openly about it being disqualifying for the former president, today it is little more than a litmus test in GOP circles of a candidate’s …

CNN’s Daniel Dale has a partial list. Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio uttered two false claims about President Joe Biden. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia repeated a debunked claim about Zelensky. Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama used two inaccurate statistics as he lamented the state of the country. Former Trump White House official Steve Bannon repeated his regular lie …

Law & Crime reports: One of the men accused of attacking Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot has admitted to participating in the assault and stealing the officer’s badge. Thomas Sibick pleaded guilty Friday to assaulting Fanone, identified only as “Officer M.F.” in charging documents, and stealing his badge. The nine-page statement of offense, however, …

“Seems like every time I turn around, they’re engaged in surveillance or list building or monitoring. And I don’t care if it takes every second of our time and every ounce of our energy. “We either get this government back on our side or we defund and get rid of abolish the FBI, CDC, ATF, DOJ, every last one of …

The New York Post reports: D.C’s weirdest marriage is over. Page Six hears that Kellyanne Conway, the longtime advisor to President Donald Trump, and George Conway, the longtime tormentor of President Trump, have decided to divorce after 22 years of marriage. Beltway insiders tell us that they’ve both lawyered up and that the two sides are hashing out the details …

“Do Christians run for school boards as much as the LGBT community does? No. As I said yesterday, which is groomers can’t reproduce, so instead they recruit. “So, they go serve on school boards. And they go do drag queens. And they do all this other sort of disgusting nauseating stuff. “I’ll be honest, it’s more important to go run …

The Denver Post reports: A jury made up of four women and two men, found former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters guilty of obstruction of a government operation. Peters was convicted on a misdemeanor obstruction charge for refusing to turn over an iPad she allegedly used to videotape a court hearing. The charge has a mandatory sentence of up to …

USA Today reports: White nationalist Nick Fuentes was removed from CPAC over his lengthy history of openly promoting antisemitic and racist rhetoric. Fuentes is a prominent figure among the far-right, known for peddling white supremacist ideals and using his platform to openly promote antisemitism. Trump dined with Fuentes – a Holocaust denier – as well as rapper Ye (formerly Kanye …

“The media is covering up for Ron DeSantis. He is a Trojan Horse, he is the Trojan Horse for globalists. Do not believe anything you’re reading by the media about Ron DeSantis. “Now I’ll tell you what Ron DeSantis — and he’s got money behind him — did he do anything for Disney? “Remember that was the big thing, you’re …

The New York Times reports: The first three witnesses to testify privately before the new Republican-led House committee investigating the “weaponization” of the federal government have offered little firsthand knowledge of any wrongdoing or violation of the law. Instead, the trio appears to be a group of aggrieved former F.B.I. officials who have trafficked in right-wing conspiracy theories, including about …

Politico reports: Newsmax’s brawl with satellite cable provider DirecTV has spilled over onto K Street. The conservative news channel, which disappeared from DirecTV’s airwaves in January amid a dispute over fees paid to carriers, has enlisted former Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) and longtime GOP aide Tommy Andrews of Squire Patton Boggs to escalate its fight in Washington, according to newly …

The Insider reports: Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley has promised to support former President Donald Trump should he win the 2024 GOP nomination contest — the kind of categorical support that Trump has so far declined to make. Haley, former UN Ambassador and South Carolina governor, made the commitment during an episode of the “Honestly” podcast. The host, journalist Bari …

“What average citizens need to, just at some point be willing to acknowledge and accept that every single facet of the federal government is weaponized against every single one of us. They’ve got to be put on notice. They’ve got to be quaking in fear. They’ve got to be worried. They’ve got to be losing weight because they’re not eating, …