Trump cultists

The Daily Mail reports: Dukes of Hazzard star John Schneider has issued a death threat against president Joe Biden, saying he “should be hung.” Schneider, 63, wrote the concerning message on X on Wednesday and also targeted Biden’s son Hunter. Schneider deleted the post, but not before TMZ reported on it. Schneider, who played Bo Duke on the Dukes of …

The Messenger reports: Republican leaders of the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday sent a letter to Special Counsel Jack Smith requesting detailed information about the Justice Department’s investigation of former President Donald Trump. In the letter, obtained by The Messenger, Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., wrote that they have “significant concerns” about Smith’s “commitment to …

Just in via press release: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton joined an amicus brief to the Supreme Court of the United States (“SCOTUS”) opposing Special Prosecutor Jack Smith’s petition that requested SCOTUS take up former President Donald Trump’s appeal for presidential immunity before a lower appeals court considers the issue. Smith’s effort to circumvent the standard appellate process is extraordinarily …

The Hill reports: In an interview with Fox News’s Laura Ingraham Wednesday, the former Speaker said more than a million Coloradans voted for Trump in the last election and “four lawyers want to block him from being on the ballot.” He said efforts to stop Trump from appearing on the ballot are “a system of establishment arrogance” and “not sustainable.” …

The Washington Post reports: It’s been evident for a long time that Republicans — and supporters of Donald Trump, especially — take a more no-holds-barred approach to politics than Democrats do. They’re much more likely to say political violence can be justified, for instance. It’s also become clear that Trump being convicted of a felony isn’t a red line for …

The Huffington Post reports: Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold said Wednesday she is “extremely concerned” about fanatical supporters of Donald Trump becoming violent in response to the state Supreme Court ruling that Trump is ineligible to appear on Colorado’s 2024 presidential primary ballot. “I’ve been concerned about violence and threats of violence since Donald Trump incited the insurrection,” Griswold, …

ABC News reports: South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has said she doesn’t believe there are mechanisms in place for her to remove Joe Biden from the 2024 ballots in her state as Republicans suggested similar ideas in response to the Colorado Supreme Court disqualifying Donald Trump from running for president. In an interview on Fox News, Kellyanne Conway asked Noem …

“What we are seeing in the courts, at the Department of Justice, and even in state attorneys generals’ offices—and given Democrats’ ‘Trump is Hitler’ rhetoric – is it not logical, even to consider, maybe to assume that some on the left are hoping to spark some type of civil unrest here? “Which would be followed, of course, by a mass …

NBC News reports: In the 24 hours since the Colorado Supreme Court kicked former President Donald Trump off the state’s Republican primary ballot, social media outlets have been flooded with threats against the justices who ruled in the case. Advance Democracy, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, identified “significant violent rhetoric” against the justices and Democrats, often in direct response to Trump’s …

“Every time Trump’s arrested, he becomes more powerful in the eyes of the voters. What’s going to happen when they take him off the ballot? They’re turning Trump into the greatest political underdog America’s ever witnessed. They’re setting up the greatest comeback story in American political history. They say they’re protecting us from danger, but Trump’s not a danger to …

“Well, the first thing that I want to say is that anybody that thinks that this is somehow in some way fake or staged, I wanted to tell them that the hate crime that happened to Jussie Smollett was fake. This hate crime was very real. I have seen Donald Trump denounce white supremacy over and over and over again …

Arizona Central reports: A Maricopa County judge ruled Wednesday that a defamation case against former gubernatorial and current U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake will go forward. Judge Jay Adleman determined that Lake failed to provide enough evidence to get the case dismissed outright under a recently revised state law intending to deter lawsuits that seek to censor or intimidate critics. …

Newsweek reports: Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, issued a warning on social media on Wednesday that a “national divorce” between red and blue states is imminent amid the “constitutional crisis” in the U.S. “America is in a constitutional crisis,” Greene wrote Wednesday on X. “The admin is enabling a full scale border invasion and harboring illegal migrants. The …

“This is insane. In the US, we don’t allow political hacks to kick their ‘enemies’ off the ballot because they disagree with them. If this is the path that radical Democrats choose to weaponize the courts against conservatives, we are no better than the socialist regimes in Venezuela and Cuba. Joe Biden can’t win an election so he’s trying to …

The Des Moines Register reports: On the campaign trail, he has engaged in harsh rhetoric to describe political enemies as “radical thugs that live like vermin,” said that immigrants who enter the U.S. illegally are “poisoning the blood” of the U.S., touted himself as “the only one who will prevent World War III,” and suggested suspending parts of the Constitution …

Newsweek reports: The Colorado Republican Party may withdraw from the 2024 presidential primary in protest of the state’s Supreme Court saying Donald Trump is disqualified from running for president again for allegedly engaging in an insurrection on January 6. Dave Williams, chairman of the Colorado Republican Party, said the state could instead have a caucus, instead of an open voting …

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports: A tip from a high school classmate led the FBI to arrest a Lakeville man who has been charged with invading the U.S. Capitol during the violent and destructive Jan. 6 insurrection in 2021. Martin James Cudo, 43, was charged with illegal entry of the Capitol with the intent to impede or disrupt the U.S. House …

Via press release from GOP Sen. Thom Tillis: Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) announced he will soon introduce the Constitutional Election Integrity Act, legislation that would prevent state politicians and state entities like the Colorado Supreme Court from disqualifying presidential candidates from the ballot on Constitutional matters that should be decided by only the Supreme Court. The Constitutional Election Integrity …

Media Matters reports: After a Minnesota commission unveiled its finalist pick for a new state flag to replace a racially offensive design, right-wing media insisted that the new design resembled one from a state in Somalia. Conservatives used the redesign to promote the racist “great replacement” conspiracy theory, claiming that Minnesota has been “conquered” by Somali immigrants. Right-wing media claimed …

“First of all, he didn’t say immigrants were poisoning the blood of this country. He said illegal immigrants were poisoning the blood of the country, which is objectively and obviously true to anybody who looks at the statistics about fentanyl overdoses, and I think just one observation about the press as an organization: you guys seem far more upset about …