Trump cultists

“So you stated in your speech at the TPUSA conference that the Democratic Party used to have loving Americans, but has now been hijacked by Marxist lunatics. “You also went on to say that what we have today is not a fight between Republicans and Democrats, but a fight between good and evil, dark and light, and the godly against …

Politico reports: Special counsel Jack Smith’s probe of efforts by Donald Trump and others to subvert the 2020 election remains ongoing — with at least one interview this week that focused on fundraising and spending by Trump’s political action committee. In a closed-door interview on Monday with Bernard Kerik, investigators asked multiple questions about the Save America PAC’s enormous fundraising …

The Hill reports: Fox News’s Jesse Watters said Monday that former President Trump would “immediately” violate a possible protective order that special counsel Jack Smith requested a federal judge issue last week. “I’m sure he’ll violate it immediately,” Watters said on Fox’s “The Five.” “He will, and he’ll dare the judge to do something about it.” Smith appealed to the …

The Arizona Republic reports: Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan is trying to keep secret more than 1,600 texts he exchanged with a Michigan lawyer who was indicted on charges of illegally accessing voting machines as part of a plot to overturn 2020 election results. Logan sent and received nearly 2,400 texts with Stefanie Lambert, more than any other person he …

The Texas Tribune reports: Attorneys for suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a flurry of motions over the weekend that seek to dismiss additional articles of impeachment, arguing that the allegations are baseless or fall under the legitimate duties of the attorney general’s office. Paxton’s team also downplayed the severity of the accusations against him — including those surrounding his …

USA Today reports: Members of the white supremacist organization Patriot Front have filed a federal lawsuit against a leftist activist, claiming he infiltrated their group and revealed their identities as members. The activist’s “doxxing” of the four plaintiffs as members of Patriot Front cost them their jobs, incomes and relationships with family members, the lawsuit claims. Filed in federal court …

The Insider reports: Rudy Giuliani, the man who defined 9/11-era Manhattan before descending to ignominy as Donald Trump’s election-denying personal lawyer, has listed his Upper East Side apartment for $6.5 million. The listing by Sotheby’s Realty, posted during the final week of July, makes no mention of the property’s owner, or the fact that it was the site of a …

Politico reports: Attorney John Eastman, an architect of Donald Trump’s last-ditch efforts to subvert the 2020 election, is asking a California judge to postpone disbarment proceedings lodged against him, saying he’s increasingly concerned he’s about to be criminally charged by special counsel Jack Smith. “[R]ecent developments in the investigation have renewed and intensified [Eastman’s] concerns that the federal government might …

“This is a disgusting attack on our electoral system. And as I’ve said before, the electoral system in America is now dead unless all of this is reversed. Is a president not free to discuss decisions about elections with his vice president and strongly urge him to take one position or another? The judge who is going to hear this …

The Kentucky Lantern reports: Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear and Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron traded barbs and addressed a raucous crowd of supporters and naysayers during the 143rd Fancy Farm Picnic. Cameron addressed the crowd first. His speech focused on culture war issues laced with zingers referencing conservative internet feuds, like backlash to country singer Jason Aldean’s “Try That In …

Mediaite reports: Pissed-off supporters of ex-President Donald Trump heckled ex-VP Mike Pence to his face as he greeted supporters in the parking lot of his event in New Hampshire. The indictment also seems to have awakened something in Pence, who suddenly leaned very hard into ripping Trump over his effort to pressure Pence into changing the result of the electoral …

The Associated Press reports: A Texas man who advocated for a mass shooting of poll workers and threatened two Arizona officials and their children has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in federal prison, prosecutors said Friday. Frederick Francis Goltz, 52, of Lubbock, pleaded guilty earlier this year to interstate threatening communications. Goltz was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge …

Mediaite has the transcript: JOHNSON: I think the atmosphere, perhaps Stephen, is right for true, true reform here at the DOJ. Sir, how do you go about doing it? MILLER: Well, the first and most important thing is to reestablish what is known as the unitary executive. So this goes back to the Watergate era. And now we obviously know, …

“This is a guy who’s already won. He won in 2016. He won even bigger in 2020. All that January 6th was, was a staged riot to cover up the fact that they certified a fraudulent election. If we just go back and deal with this fraudulent election and what happened in 2020, we don’t have to impeach Biden because …

Politico reports: Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy would not say if he would have certified the election results like former Vice President Mike Pence did on Jan. 6, 2021, sidestepping repeated questions on Thursday. “I would have never let it get to that point,” Ramaswamy said in response to POLITICO’s questions. “I would have never put myself — or been …

“We are arresting the leader of the opposition and a former president because of destabilizing lies. Really? How — what does it — what does it mean, even? What is destabilizing? What does lying mean? “You know for a fact, you arrogant America haters, you know for a fact that the last election was honest? I don’t know for a …

The Associated Press reports: A Michigan attorney involved in multiple efforts around the country to overturn the 2020 election in support of former President Donald Trump has been charged in connection with accessing and tampering with voting machines in Michigan, prosecutors announced Thursday. The charges against Stefanie Lambert come days after Matthew DePerno, a Republican lawyer whom Trump endorsed in …

South Carolina’s The State reports: Four members of a South Carolina family who acted as “ringleaders” to an unruly mob inside the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6 have been sentenced to stints in prison for their actions. Linwood Robinson Sr.; his son, Linwood Robinson II; a younger son, Benjamin Robinson; and Brittany Robinson, the wife of Linwood Robinson II, …

“You look at the poll numbers earlier in the week, it’s it’s 54 to 17 in the Republican primary. But more importantly, he’s dead even with Joe Biden in The New York Times poll. So, my gut tells me, if that’s what The New York Times is saying, it’s probably better for President Trump in another poll. And I think …

The Charlotte Observer reports: U.S. Rep. Dan Bishop, a Charlotte Republican, announced Thursday morning he will run for the N.C. attorney general instead of seeking reelection to the 8th Congressional District seat. “To have the news break that, in fact, I’m going to be a candidate, to come home in North Carolina and seek the spot of attorney general, and …