Trump cultists

The Hill reports: Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) are renewing their calls to defund the office of special counsel Jack Smith, who on Tuesday indicted former President Trump on charges stemming from his efforts to remain in power following the 2020 election. Gaetz, a staunch Trump supporter, introduced a bill to prohibit federal funding for Smith’s …

“Look, as students start going back to school, do you think they’ll be learning about foundational principles, they’ll probably be learning about trans surgeries, there is no truth. It is depressing what most kids learn when they go to college. I just hope you as parents are prepared, and grandparents, when you send that kid off to college, you may …

The Washington Post reports: A Michigan prosecutor charged a former state lawmaker and a losing candidate for state attorney general Monday as part of an investigation into the improper acquisition of voting machines. Monday’s charges against former state Rep. Daire Rendon (R) and former attorney general candidate Matthew DePerno (R) stem from a stand-alone probe into what happened to voting …

Michigan Live reports: Filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza and former Arizona GOP governor candidate Kari Lake were announced in recent days as speakers for the Michigan GOP’s annual Leadership Conference scheduled for Sept. 22-24 at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island. Their attendance is the MIGOP’s latest embrace of voting conspiracies since election denier Kristina Karamo, who never conceded last November’s secretary …

“We stay maniacally focused in the general, particularly as – remember this – the firestorm of the lawfare will start next spring with him. If you can walk through that, which you can do, you can walk through that fire, which you can do and I think, get 55 percent or more of the country. And I think if somehow …

Politico reports: A super PAC supporting the presidential ambitions of longshot Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reported receiving more than half its nearly $10 million in funds from a single GOP donor. Of the $9.8 million reported, $5 million came from Timothy Mellon, a longtime GOP donor who gave $1.5 million to a Trump-aligned group last fall, according …

The Texas Tribune reports: Lawyers for suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton requested Monday that all but one of 20 articles of impeachment be dismissed, arguing his removal would “override the will of the people” who elected him with knowledge of his alleged misconduct. In a separate filing to the court of impeachment, Paxton’s team also requested that his trial before …

The Daily Beast reports: “The Jan. 6 thing is bad, but also, the intelligence agencies were involved in provoking people into the Capitol Building. That’s a fact,” Joe Rogan proclaimed before invoking Ray Epps’ supposed involvement in pushing rioters to attack the Capitol. While calling it a “fact” that the federal government utilized “agent provocateurs” on Jan. 6 while citing …

NBC News reports: A freshman Republican lawmaker received bipartisan condemnation after he allegedly yelled at a group of high- school-age Senate pages for “defiling” the Capitol on Wednesday. New details shared with NBC News paint an even more disturbing picture of what took place that night. Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis., told the teenagers to “get the f— out” of …

“The standard I use as our next president is what moves our country forward. What is the right thing for the United States of America? Absolutely the right answer is to move on and I would pardon him. I would. “I intend to be our next president. And yes, I do believe I will move us forward. “And yes, I …

From the Justice Department: A New York man was sentenced today for assaulting a law enforcement officer 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. Thomas F. Sibick, …

“This is amazing timing, as the — Hunter’s plea deal falls apart, that suddenly these new charges on Trump just happened to arrive. And then, what about surveillance cameras? What’s wrong with that? What’s wrong with — like, are those yours? Why can’t you clear them? I don’t understand that. They’re not like other people’s emails that you then, you …

“Did January 6 make the left more powerful? Yes. Did it give the security state stronger hold over the citizens? They’ve done a 1,100-person drag net, they’re going after the opposition political leader. “Do you think they want another January 6? Yes. They have been preempting us and preconditioning us with domestic violent extremism and right-wing violence. How would you …

CNBC reports: Donald Trump on Friday defended the handling of surveillance footage at his Florida home that is at the center of major new criminal charges in the federal case over the former president’s retention of classified documents. “These are my tapes that we gave to them,” Trump told a conservative radio host in his first public interview since being …

The Texas Tribune reports: In response to increasing threats against members of Congress, the U.S. Capitol Police plans to open regional field offices across the country, including in Texas. Capitol Police Chief J. Thomas Manger announced the plans at a joint oversight hearing of the Capitol Police Board, describing a 300% increase in threats to members of Congress over the …

“The history of the United States Capitol Rotunda, that during the Civil War it was used as a field hospital and countless Union soldiers died on that floor, and they died because they were fighting the Civil War to end slavery. And I think that place should be treated with a tremendous amount of respect for the dead. If anyone …

“I think it would be better to gather more evidence before an impeachment. If there’s going to be impeachment, let’s have quite a bit of evidence out there that the American people are actually behind this, because I don’t really want to impeach every president comes forward. “I think the Democrats set a terrible precedent in impeaching Donald Trump just …

The Messenger reports: Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wisc., reportedly chewed out Senate pages in vulgar fashion for taking pictures of the Capitol dome Wednesday night. Punchbowl News broke the story, reporting that Van Orden spotted a group of pages lying on the floor of the rotunda to take pictures of the dome’s interior and reportedly called the pages “lazy shits” …

NBC News reports: Former Michigan Republican gubernatorial candidate Ryan Kelley pleaded guilty to a federal crime on Thursday in connection with the attack on the U.S. Capitol. Kelley pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of entering and remaining on restricted grounds, admitting that he “rushed past U.S. Capitol police officers and started climbing the northwest scaffolding” and began gesturing to …

From the Justice Department: A Florida couple pleaded guilty today to felony and misdemeanor charges related to their actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Their 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. Jamie …