Trump cultists

This one takes the cake in cultist victimhood: Former San Francisco Giants player Aubrey Huff on Tuesday claimed that team management had informed him he was not invited to a reunion and celebration of the 2010 Giants team that won the World Series over his support for Trump. Huff in a tweeted statement said Giants CEO Larry Baer told him …

CNN reports: Roger Stone will still be sentenced Thursday, a federal judge ruled Tuesday, amid a tumultuous week that saw President Donald Trump suggest she is biased and several prosecutors quit his case after Justice Department leadership rescinded their initial sentencing recommendation. Judge Amy Berman Jackson says she’ll consider his latest request for a new trial on a different schedule …

USA Today reports: Gun rights activist and Kent State graduate Kaitlin Bennett was greeted by a crowd of screaming protesters when she visited Ohio University Monday. Bennett came to internet fame for taking a celebratory stroll around campus carrying a semi-automatic rifle after her graduation from Kent State University in 2018. A video she posted on Twitter, referring to it …

“The deep state tonight appears to be all the more powerful, and the rule of law in serious question. After 22 months of investigation, the Department of Justice today told former fired FBI acting director Andrew McCabe that he will not face criminal prosecution for lying to FBI investigators not once, twice, but three times. “The department’s own inspector general …

Fox News reports: Sen. Tom Cotton said Sunday that China is “still lying” about the gravity of the coronavirus outbreak that has killed more than 1,660 people. “This virus did not originate in the Wuhan animal market,” Cotton said. “Epidemiologists who are widely respected from China who published a study have demonstrated that several of the original cases did not …

The Daily Beast reports: White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said on Sunday that President Donald Trump was “toying with everybody” when he attacked Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg as “racist” over his previous support of stop and frisk, a policy Trump himself has long endorsed. Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace asked Conway about Trump’s since-deleted tweet calling the former …

Posted last night on Medium: We, the undersigned, are alumni of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) who have collectively served both Republican and Democratic administrations. Each of us strongly condemns President Trump’s and Attorney General Barr’s interference in the fair administration of justice. As former DOJ officials, we each proudly took an oath to support and defend our …

The Associated Press reports: A Florida man undergoing kidney dialysis three times a week is upset that he can’t bring a life-sized cardboard cutout of President Donald Trump for emotional support. Nelson Gibson told WPBF that his family can’t sit with him during his three-and-a-half-hour treatments. To help, he began bringing a picture of Trump as a comfort item. Gibson …

The New York Times reports: George T. Conway III has described the work of his wife, Kellyanne Conway, for President Trump in terms usually reserved for hostage situations: brainwashed by a cult, suffering from Stockholm syndrome, an overwhelmed mother protecting a destructive man-child. And if you think it’s all shtick, some wink-and-nod act by a couple who fights by day …

“The left has made it impossible to say the N-word any longer. That’s disgusting, it’s a farce. It’s the only word that you can’t say in the English language. The left runs the culture. The Republicans have the Senate and the presidency and that’s very important. But the culture? “And the more the left controls the more totalitarian it is. …

Mediaite reports: CNN’s Jake Tapper fired back at Rush Limbaugh‘s rant against 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg Thursday, blasting the radio kingpin with a singeing barb about the radio host’s multiple marriages. Tapper framed the mini segment by stating, “just days after being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Rush Limbaugh, who has a decade’s long record of bigotry, …

“Bill Barr is doing the Lord’s work, as well as that of this great republic. You know what? I heard that independent crap from James Comey. I heard it — let me tell you something, he works for the president of the United States. He works for the American people, he’s not independent by any measure. “He is the Attorney …

“Let’s say you’re the Democrat establishment. How’s this going to look, 37-year-old gay guy kissing his husband on stage next to Mr. Man Donald Trump? What’s going to happen there? “They got to be looking at that and they’ve got to be saying  that despite all the great progress and despite all the great wokeness and despite all the great …

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Contemptor reports: Referring to an incident where Biden called a woman ‘dog-faced’, Lewandowski speculated about the media reaction to Trump saying something similar. Lewandowski seems to have willfully forgotten that Trump has frequently insulted women. During the 2016 campaign, he made disparaging remarks about the looks of MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski, Republican candidate Carly Fiorina and Senator Ted Cruz’s wife. Trump …

“Bloomberg, if he continues to rise, is going to have serious problems with women and African-Americans. His language is offensive and atrocious. “Then again, maybe he can buy the DNC just like Hillary did and steal it from Bernie in 2016. “Either way, I think this is a great night for President Trump.” – Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the second-most famous …

Politico reports: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Wednesday that he will not call Attorney General Bill Barr to testify on the Justice Department’s decision to lower its sentencing recommendation for Trump associate Roger Stone. “He’ll come in as part of oversight, but we’re not going to call him based on this,” Graham told reporters when asked …

The Daily Beast reports: Not long ago, he was accused of tracking a U.S. ambassador from the shadows. Now he says he wants to step into the light and share what he knows with Congress. Robert Hyde, the Trump donor with ties to indicted Trumpworld associate Lev Parnas, has recently communicated with and provided documents to the House Foreign Affairs …

“Elizabeth Warren, failing and bitter in New Hampshire and, like so many on the left, howling for Roger Stone to die in prison. A 67-year-old man with no criminal record caught up in the Russia hoax, farce. Caught up in an investigation that proved to be fruitless. He’s looking at nine years behind bars. Do you know what the average …

Will Sommer reports at The Daily Beast: CPAC, but for white nationalists: Later this month, conservative operatives from all over the country will head to a hotel outside Washington for the Conservative Political Action Conference, the annual mega-confab for all things Trump. But this time, CPAC will face a racist rival conference at an undisclosed location nearby: the “America First …