Trump cultists

“You want to use that nothing burger to convict the President of the United States?! Are you stupid, too? And you say this is the most difficult decision you ever made? Mitt, you’re full of it! And since you are such a scholar did you ever consider the president’s constitutional rights that were stripped from him in the star chamber …

Politico reports: Housing Secretary Ben Carson appeared to stray from prepared remarks as he introduced Donald Trump on Friday, declaring that the president “is not a racist” and pointing to how he treats the members and service workers at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. The comments came at the beginning of a North Carolina event touting the administration’s Opportunity Zone …

ABC News reports: Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council who testified during the House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, was escorted from the White House Friday afternoon, his lawyer said. “LTC Vindman was asked to leave for telling the truth,” his attorney David Pressman said in a statement. “The truth has cost …

Fox News reports: A resilient Rush Limbaugh returned to his golden EIB microphone on Friday after missing three episodes to undergo cancer treatment just in time to mock the “implosion” of the Democratic Party and downplay his diagnosis as something with which “millions of Americans” are also dealing. “What a week. What an incredible week,” Limbaugh said at the top …

The Birmingham News reports: Officials in the tiny Alabama town of Geraldine say they are still investigating a policeman who suggested U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other “dumbocrats” could be targeted with a roadside bomb. “Due to the current investigation, no further comment can be made,” said Geraldine police Chief Heath Albright in a statement Friday morning. “We will …

The Miami New Times reports: The Miami-Dade Democratic Party on Thursday filed a formal bar complaint against Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz (R), urging the Florida Bar to sanction the Trump acolyte for storming a secure congressional facility during the closed-door phase of the impeachment inquiry. As previously reported at the time, a faction of approximately two dozen House GOP members, …

“These are people on the Democratic side who really have not told us what they’re for. We know they’re against little kids getting school choice, we know they’re against babies being protected in their mother’s womb, we know they’re against our military. They don’t want to see them get the money that they need. “We know they’re against securing our …

The Hill reports: The Conservative Political Action Conference will host a performance later this month of a play based on the texts sent between a former lawyer and agent at the FBI who are regularly ridiculed by President Trump. “FBI Lovebirds: UnderCovers” will be formed at the conservative confab in a performance set to feature “Lois & Clark: The New …

Politico reports: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Thursday took a shot at Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah — the lone Republican to vote to convict President Donald Trump. “I don’t think Romney is effective in any shape or form,” McCarthy told a group of reporters outside the House chamber. But McCarthy dodged questions about whether Romney should be …

The Sacramento Bee reports: Twitter is demanding that Rep. Devin Nunes pay its legal fees in a new court filing responding to one of the Republican congressman’s attempts to identify anonymous people who heckle him online. Nunes, R-Tulare, is suing Twitter, two parody accounts known as Devin Nunes’ Cow and Devin Nunes’ Mom and a Republican strategist in Henrico County, …

The Salt Lake Tribune reports: A rural Utah lawmaker is asking his colleagues to send a message of support to President Donald Trump by voting to censure Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah. Rep. Phil Lyman, R-Blanding, on Thursday announced that he had filed a resolution to censure Romney, saying the senator’s judgment was questionable even if his motives were pure. “We’re …

Fox News reports: Fresh off the Senate impeachment trial that resulted in President Trump’s acquittal, Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., is calling for an amendment to the Constitution that would make it more difficult for presidents to be impeached. Scott’s amendment would require a super-majority of three-fifths of the House of Representatives in order to approve articles of impeachment, instead of …

Media Matters has the transcript: STEVE DOOCY (CO-HOST): To comment on this, we’ve got the executive director of Unhyphenated America, Christopher Harris joins us from DC. Christopher, good morning. CHRISTOPHER HARRIS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, UNHYPHENATED AMERICA): Good morning. No, not good, great. It’s a great day. DOOCY: It is. HARRIS: Listen, I would argue that it’s probably three of the greatest …

The New York Post reports: Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz filed an ethics complaint against Nancy Pelosi that said the House speaker possibly violated numerous House rules — and maybe even broke the law — by tearing up a copy of President Trump’s State of the Union speech. The Florida legislator sent a letter to the House Committee on Ethics requesting …

Bloomberg News reports: Supporters of President Donald Trump flooded a hotline used by Iowa precinct chairs to report Democratic caucus results after the telephone number was posted online, worsening delays in the statewide tally, a top state Democrat told party leaders on a conference call Wednesday night. According to two participants on the call, Ken Sagar, a state Democratic central …

“They might accuse me of being anti-Semitic for saying it, but the truth is there is an Israeli connection to the app that bombed last night in Iowa. But you’re not allowed to say these things. Everybody is being censored now. By who? The same people who are doing this stuff.” “It isn’t too hard to figure out what is …

“You have to be blind to say something is not afoul in the deep state It keeps coming up with this witness, this whistleblower. It’s going to all come out. “This person has ties that go back to 2017. We don’t know what his name is anymore, but for some reason, it’s kept in the dark and obscurity. “We know …

“If you vote for a Democrat, they will tear up the Constitution, they will tear up the laws of the United States. The Democrats will act like Speaker Pelosi did last night, and tear up this economy, they will tear up your civil rights, they will tear up the Constitution. Nancy Pelosi tore up the president’s speech on national TV. …

The Hill reports: A former writer for “The Simpsons” on Wednesday ripped Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for using a snapshot from the show to knock Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), saying “please do not ever ever ever use Simpsons material in your twitter or watch the show or refer to it in any way.” Bill Oakley, along with his writing …

Politico reports: President Donald Trump plans to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom – the highest civilian award in the U.S. – to conservative radio icon Rush Limbaugh after learning of his advanced cancer diagnosis, the president told television anchors at a private lunch. Limbaugh, 69, revealed his cancer diagnosis on his popular radio program Monday afternoon, telling listeners that …