Trump cultists

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 …

“Today’s ruling attempting to disqualify President Trump from the Colorado ballot is nothing but a thinly veiled partisan attack. Regardless of political affiliation, every citizen registered to vote should not be denied the right to support our former president and the individual who is the leader in every poll of the Republican primary. We trust the U.S. Supreme Court will …

The Daily Beast reports: Dan Patrick, the Republican lieutenant governor of Texas, threatened on Tuesday to remove President Joe Biden from his state’s ballot—seemingly as retribution for a Colorado Supreme Court ruling which booted former President Donald Trump from that state’s 2024 presidential race for engaging in an insurrection on Jan. 6. Patrick made the comments on Fox News, justifying …

Axios reports: Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) must turn over almost 1,700 records recovered from his phone to the Department of Justice for special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into former President Trump’s 2020 election interference case, a judge ruled Tuesday. The federal judge’s ruling in D.C. is the latest turn in a long-standing battle with the DOJ for Perry, the chair …

“Radical left judges said Donald Trump can’t be on the ballot in Colorado, so you see a two-front attack on democracy. They are saying to American citizens, ‘You can’t vote. You don’t have a voice. You can’t be heard.’ “And they’re also saying, ‘We’re bringing in new people that we think will agree with us and support us and their …

“This is what an *actual* attack on democracy looks like: in an un-American, unconstitutional, and *unprecedented* decision, a cabal of Democrat judges are barring Trump from the ballot in Colorado. “Having tried every trick in the book to eliminate President Trump from running in this election, the bipartisan Establishment is now deploying a new tactic to bar him from ever …

The Associated Press reports: A former leader of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group was sentenced on Tuesday to more than three years behind bars for joining a plot to attack the U.S. Capitol nearly three years ago. Charles Donohoe was the second Proud Boy to plead guilty to conspiring with other group members to obstruct the Jan. 6, 2021, …

From the Justice Department: A California man has been arrested on felony and misdemeanor charges related to his conduct during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. 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. Kyle …

Atlanta’s Fox affiliate reports: The attorneys representing Trevian Kutti, a co-defendant of Donald Trump and former publicist for Kanye West, have filed a motion to withdraw as counsel of record. The motion, submitted on Dec. 18 in Fulton County Superior Court, lists Darryl B. Cohen and the law firm Cohen Cooper Estep & Allen; Steven A. Greenberg and the law …

“We should get kids off social media and start teaching them the proper use of guns, how to defend themselves, their own self-defense, should we not? Make that an integrated part of the education so they’re not picked on or not threatened and certainly not scared, right?” – Steve Bannon, drawing cheers from the audience at Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point …

Newsweek reports: A Black and gay Republican influencer shared a video showing what he described as “White Supremacists” shouting slurs at him. Rob Smith, an Army veteran, shared the video on X, formerly Twitter, on Monday. Smith said the incident occurred in Phoenix, where he and other conservatives gathered for Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest, a four-day event that runs through …

“I will defend life before suffrage. Because a vote used to represent the family. When we were a culture that really valued family and really understood the natural order that God intended, man serving God, woman following man who serves God, man and woman developing and nurturing children. You only needed one vote per household because that vote was about …

The Huffington Post reports: Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.) on Monday tried to spin former President Donald Trump’s recent claim that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country” and CNN’s Abby Phillip wasn’t having it. “Well, I don’t think that’s what he was saying,” Malliotakis told Phillip. “When he said they are poisoning, I think he was talking with the …