Trump cultists

The New York Post reports: Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani showed up at the Long Island residence of the suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer Saturday — driving up and asking an officer how close he could get to the home. Giuliani stayed inside his car, chatting with police outside the Massapequa Park home of Rex Heuermann, as it was being searched …

Newsweek reports: A furious crowd of Donald Trump supporters chanted “let us in” after being denied entry to see the former president speak in Florida. Many complained about waiting for hours to enter the Palm Beach County Convention Center, in West Palm Beach, for the Turning Point Action Conference on Saturday, July 15. A woman who spoke to the camera …

“There are clergy in Ukraine who are being thrown in prison, convents raided, nuns kicked out, priests handcuffed, thrown in jail. So I asked a self-appointed Christian leader about that, and I said, ‘What do you think? As someone who’s spent his life advocating for religious freedom about raiding nunneries and throwing priests in jail?’ And he said with a …

NBC News reports: Arizona Republican Kari Lake teased a potential fall announcement for an Arizona Senate bid on the sidelines of the Family Leadership Summit in Iowa Friday. “I’m thinking in the next couple of months I’ll be making a decision,” said Lake. When asked for a timetable, the 2022 candidate for governor said, “maybe sometime in the fall.” Arizona …

The Riverside Press-Enterprise reports: The cities of Anaheim and Riverside conspired with Democrats and others to violate the free speech rights of GOP Reps. Matt Gaetz of Florida and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, according to a lawsuit stemming from their chaotic 2021 visit to Southern California. The lawsuit, filed Thursday, July 13 in federal court, also names the Riverside …

The New York Post reports: A New York court ordered new congressional maps be redrawn ahead of the 2024 midterms, siding with Democrats salivating at the chance to overturn several embarrassing losses last November. The appellate court reversed a lower court’s decision on Thursday and ordered the state’s redistricting commission to start work on new proposed state congressional lines impacting …

The Messenger reports: Failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake must pay a $122,200 sanctions penalty together with her attorney Alan Dershowitz and fellow far-right candidate Mark Finchem for pursuing a “frivolous” lawsuit seeking to overturn her 2022 midterm defeat, according to a federal judge’s order issued Friday. Lake filed multiple lawsuits seeking to overturn her defeat, including one listing Finchem …

The Washington Post reports: A Jan. 6 defendant who had been arrested with guns and ammunition in his van near former president Barack Obama’s house faces two felony weapons charges in addition to the misdemeanor and trespassing counts brought against him last month, court records show. Taylor Taranto, a defendant in the riot at the U.S. Capitol, was charged with …

Reuters reports: Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson and former White House adviser Neil Patel are looking to raise funds to start a new media company that could potentially be anchored on Twitter, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The duo is looking to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to fund the company, the report said, citing people …

The Daily Beast reports: A Daily Mail article featuring what the publication claimed were set photos from Disney’s upcoming live-action Snow White sparked a storm of conservative backlash on Friday, surrounding the “politically correct” “dwarf actors” pictured. The only problem? The photos aren’t legit. When asked by The Daily Beast for comment on the Daily Mail’s article, which touts photos …

The Hill reports: Five House Republican-backed initiatives to curtail aid to Ukraine using the annual Pentagon policy bill were shot down Thursday afternoon in votes that saw a consensus from both sides of the aisle to keep money flowing to Kyiv. The Ukraine-related amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act would have effectively limited or rolled back U.S. involvement in …

Cleveland.com reports: A Shaker Heights attorney accused of illegally voting in the last two general elections should be acquitted, in part, because he cast ballots in two states by accident, his attorney argued to a judge. James Saunders, a 56-year-old former lawyer for the Internal Revenue Service, did not mean to commit a crime when he cast ballots in both …

The Washington Post reports: On Jan. 6, 2021, Alan Hostetter and Russell Taylor were shoulder to shoulder in the battle they had predicted would come if the 2020 presidential election results unseating President Donald Trump were not discarded. Under a photograph of the men taken during the riot and posted on Instagram, Hostetter wrote: “We are just getting started.” Hostetter …

Media Matters reports: On July 12, Newsmax hosts Eric Bolling and Dick Morris floated the idea that former President Donald Trump should skip the upcoming Republican primary debate on Fox News and instead “schedule a town hall or some other forum on Newsmax, to compete with Fox News” in the same time slot. Both Morris and Bolling are former Fox …

Newsweek reports: The auction of more than 800 pieces of “surplus industrial equipment” by MyPillow appears to have got off to a slow start, with more than 100 items having no bids at all whilst many others are currently going for well below the market price. For example, a 45-inch by 20-inch ‘Hytrol Power Belt Conveyor’ is currently going for …

The Washington Post reports: Arizona’s top prosecutor is ramping up a criminal investigation into alleged attempts by Republicans to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in the state by signing and transmitting paperwork falsely declaring Donald Trump the winner, according to two people familiar with the investigation. Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) [photo] assigned a team of prosecutors to …

CBS News reports: The Justice Department plans to appeal the 18-year-prison sentence handed down for Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the far-right Oath Keepers, in the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, as well as those of other Oath Keepers, because the terms were not as long as what prosecutors had sought, according to court papers filed Wednesday. …

“Why would you pick Ukraine? Why not extend NATO to Russia and make it an anti-China alliance? Like, are we really thinking that we’re more afraid of the broke-down tanks from Russia than the fact that China is building a secret military base on the island of Cuba, 90 miles away from the United States? “Like, if we had to …

CNN has the transcript: WALLACE: When did you stop being an election denier? MCDANIEL: I think saying there were problems with 202020 [sic] is very real. I don’t think that’s election-denying. I mean, Chris, I am from Wayne County. We had a woman send a note saying, “I’m being told to backdate ballots.” We had to look into that. That’s …

CNN reports: Federal prosecutors interviewed Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson last month as part of the ongoing criminal probe into efforts to overturn the 2020 election, according to a source familiar with the matter. Benson’s meeting with prosecutors working for special counsel Jack Smith, which has not been previously reported, lasted “for several hours,” the source said. Benson’s interview …