Trump cultists

Yahoo News reports: Letitia James wants Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl to drop a dime on whoever funded their pro-Donald Trump robocall schemes. The state of New York’s Attorney General’s office has subpoenaed two pro-Trump internet trolls in relation to a possible voter suppression scheme. Jacob Wohl, 22, and Jack Burkman, 58, have been subpoenaed by Attorney General Letitia James …

The Daily Beast reports: After getting pardoned by President Trump on Wednesday night, one of Paul Manafort’s first moves was to tweet for the first time in four years. In May, he was sentenced to seven-and-a half years in prison, though he was allowed to serve at home due to fears of COVID-19. Mr. President, my family & I humbly …

The New York Times reports: Mr. Parscale, President Trump’s former campaign manager, said he was trying to move on from that bleak Sunday in late September when he made the national newscasts, after police were called to his home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. His wife told officers he was inside the house, ranting, acting erratically, with a loaded and cocked …

The Houston Chronicle reports: All John Fetterman wants for Christmas is the $3 million he says Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick owes him. The Democratic lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania has been trolling his Republican counterpart for weeks to collect on the $1 million Patrick offered in November for evidence of fraud in the Nov. 3 election. Three supporters of President …

The Daily Beast reports: In a strange, innuendo-filled rant published Monday, the administrator of the far-right social networking platform Voat called it quits, spreading shockwaves across far-right image boards and social networks. Adding to President Trump’s failure to secure an election victory or overturn his stinging defeat, the loss of Voat spells another setback for QAnon, the pro-Trump conspiracy theory …

The Verge reports: Lawmakers had been broadly skeptical of efforts to pass Section 230 reform as part of the defense bill — but some Senate Republicans now say they will not vote to override Trump’s veto. “I will not vote to override presidential veto unless effort is made to wind down Section 230,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said in a …

CNN reports: President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team on Wednesday disputed suggestions from Pentagon officials who questioned the accuracy of Biden’s assertion a day earlier that the Department of Defense has refused to brief his team on the massive cyberattack on government agencies and major American technology and accounting companies. “As the President-elect noted yesterday, the Department of Defense has continued …

From the Whitestone Republican Club: So apparently the media is freaking out because we dared to celebrate the holidays in a perfectly ordinary and unremarkable way — with a gathering of friends and family. We’re now getting calls from the New York Times, Gothamist, the Washington Post and other outlets asking for our comments. On a holiday party. Let that …

Yesterday Pat Robertson declared that Trump must be living in an “alternate reality” to still be trying to overturn the election. Robertson’s fellow scamvangelicals are furious. From the far-right Charisma News: The timing of Robertson’s negative pronouncement about Trump is peculiar. Although the Supreme Court has, so far, refused to hear any case about election fraud, several members of Congress …

“What’s alarming to my spirit, and I believe grievous to God—now listen to me, preacher, if you’re watching, listen to me, politician, if you’re watching. “Why are you conceding when the majority of true Americans want honesty and integrity and we did not get that in this election? “We demand truth. We demand integrity. We’ve just recently had national figures, …

Mediaite reports: Fox News host Pete Hegseth celebrated President Donald Trump’s pardoning this week of four Blackwater military contractors who were convicted for their roles in the 2007 Nisour Square massacre, in which 17 Iraqi civilians were killed. The Fox & Friends Weekend host has lobbied the president for years to intervene in the cases of U.S. soldiers accused or …

The Washington Post reports: In a tweet last week, Trump foreshadowed a “wild” protest in D.C. on Jan. 6 — the day Congress formally counts the electoral college votes — and his supporters are determined not to disappoint him. This week, Women for America First requested a protest permit for that day. The group of conservative women was at the …

Esquire reports: The massacre in Nisour Square for which the four Blackwater guards were doing time was as bad an incident as can be found in the history of that godawful cluster of fck. A cabdriver got shot in the back. A mother and her infant son were killed, and one of the Blackwater contractors kept firing into crowds of …

The Associated Press reports: White supremacists plotted to attack power stations in the southeastern U.S., and an Ohio teenager who allegedly shared the plan said he wanted the group to be “operational” on a fast-tracked timeline if President Donald Trump were to lose his re-election bid, the FBI alleges in an affidavit that was mistakenly unsealed. The Ohio teen, who …

From Glenn Beck’s The Blaze: Antonio Sabato Jr. — an American actor who was blacklisted by Hollywood over his support for President Trump — is teaming up with other conservative entertainment figures to launch a pro-America film studio and make movies that “support our country.” The 48-year-old actor detailed the launch of ConFlix Studios, saying that conservatives in America have …

Law & Crime reports: The Arizona Republican Party could face court sanctions for filing a lawsuit even though the state’s audit debunked its allegations, a judge suggested in a ruling tossing the case. “What exactly the Arizona Republican Party and its attorney knew or had reason to know about the status of hand count audit, at the time of filing …

The Washington Post reports: A website designed to raise $2 million in defense funds for Kyle Rittenhouse, the Illinois teenager charged with killing two men and injuring a third during street protests in Kenosha, Wis., in August, has prompted concerns among experts who call it a dangerous step toward injecting brand marketing into criminal defense. The website, which went live …

The Daily Dot reports: Blundering pro-Trump operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman’s legal team think the duo are on track for their case to be heard by the Supreme Court. Wohl and Burkman face felony charges for a robocall scheme authorities say targeted Black voters. Speaking in court on Monday morning, lawyer Scott Grabel and William Amadeo of Grabel & …

NPR reports: A top employee of Dominion Voting Systems, who has gone into hiding after becoming the subject of conspiracy theories on the right since the election, is suing the Trump campaign, a number of campaign surrogates and pro-Trump media outlets for defamation. Eric Coomer, director of product strategy and security for the Denver-based company, has been baselessly accused of …

NBC News reports: With Trump’s days in office dwindling, QAnon influencers have become increasingly restless and militant, urging the president to “#crosstherubicon,” the hashtag a reference to Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon river after the Roman Senate explicitly told him not to, effectively kick-starting the Roman civil war and Caesar’s dictatorship. On Sunday, Arizona Republican Party Chairwoman Kelli Ward [[photo] …