Trump cultists

The Guardian reports: Unafraid is a grievance-packed audition in Lake’s tireless quest to be named Trump’s running mate in 2024. He wrote the book’s foreword. Donald Jr is her publisher. Unafraid is bile-filled and breezy. Introspection takes a holiday. Lake trashes high-profile LGTBQ+ Americans, embraces Paul Gosar of Arizona, one the most extreme and incendiary members of the Republican party …

The Hill reports: Supporters of former President Trump booed and called South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham (R) a “traitor” at a rally in the senator’s home state on Saturday. “Thank y’all for coming. Thank you very much,” Graham said in response to a chorus of boos at the rally for the former president in Pickens, S.C. “Just calm down for …

The Associated Press reports: A judge on Friday awarded more than $1 million to a Black church in downtown Washington, D.C., that sued the far-right Proud Boys for tearing down and burning a Black Lives Matter banner during a 2020 protest. Superior Court Associated Judge Neal A. Kravitz also barred the extremist group and its leaders from coming near the …

NBC News reports: A Trump supporter who stormed the Capitol wearing a “Make Space Great Again” hat had two guns and 400 rounds of ammunition in his van when he was arrested Thursday near former President Barack Obama’s home, federal authorities said Friday. A federal prosecutor said in court Friday that Taylor Taranto, a 37-year-old man first identified by online …

NBC News reports: An Arizona county elections director quit Tuesday, accusing the local elections department of caving to “a faction of the Republican party” and failing to protect her from “intimidation.” “I have watched as you idly stood by when I was attacked,” Geraldine Roll, the Pinal County elections director, wrote in an email to the county’s manager, Leo Lew. …

CNN reports: Speaker Kevin McCarthy has scrambled to contain the fallout after he questioned whether former President Donald Trump is the strongest candidate in the 2024 presidential race – comments that outraged Trump allies. McCarthy called Trump Tuesday morning to apologize, two sources familiar told CNN. The call came after McCarthy said during a CNBC interview that he thinks Trump …

The Birmingham Herald reports: Sen. Tommy Tuberville used a tweet to call attention to more than a billion dollars in federal aid to expand broadband access across Alabama. But he didn’t vote for the 2021 legislation that made it possible. Alabama is set to receive $1.4 billion from the federal infrastructure law to expand broadband access in the state as …

CNN reports: Advisers and allies to former President Donald Trump are expressing outrage after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said that he thinks Trump can win in 2024, but does not know if he is the “strongest” candidate. “I’ve been fielding calls on this since it happened,” one Trump ally told CNN, referring to McCarthy’s comments. “People are not happy. What …

The Hill reports: Fox News host Steve Doocy suggested former President Trump may have been behind the leak of an audio recording showing Trump talking about his handling of classified documents. “You know what? If Trump thinks it’s an exoneration of him, perhaps somebody on his side actually did the leaking to CNN and Maggie Haberman,” Doocy said Tuesday morning. …

Rolling Stone reports: Stephen Miller, one of Donald Trump’s top immigration advisers, advocated using U.S. predator drones in 2018 to blow up migrant boats full of unarmed civilians, according to an upcoming book by a former administration official. In a passage reviewed by Rolling Stone, former Trump Department of Homeland Security appointee Miles Taylor writes about an April 2018 conversation …

The Sacramento Bee reports: Three weeks after California Senate Republicans sat out a vote declaring June LGBTQ Pride Month, Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones, R-Santee, took to the floor Monday afternoon to honor the first openly gay man to serve in a presidential cabinet. Ric Grenell of Palm Springs served as former President Donald Trump’s ambassador to Germany before being …

“Nobody wants to hear the real truth. They’re horrified of it, rather go with bullshit. It’s easier. And the ‘truth’ is that Biden got 81 million votes by winning 36 counties? And that is just incredible. It really is. You can’t say that like, you know, the election was rigged. That’s all a ‘lie.’ “The election was not rigged, 36 …

Charisma News founder Stephen Strang writes: Just look at what has been happening with major retailers like Target, Kohls and Bud Light. They have not only shoved down the LGBTQ agenda onto adults, but they have pushed these monstrous views onto children and infants. This agenda goes far beyond a cultural phenomenon and has direct spiritual implications as there is …

Mediaite reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) released a tweet on Sunday stating that she believes someone is spying on her through a television after it “turned on by itself.” “Last night in my DC residence, the television turned on by itself and the screen showed someone’s laptop trying to connect to the TV,” the GOP firebrand wrote in a …

Politico reports: Conservative media personality and former Fox News host Dan Bongino was spotted getting forcibly removed from Cucina Palm Beach by several restaurant employees close to midnight on Friday. Pic Asked for comment, Bongino texted Daniel Lippman: “That’s an absolutely FASCINATING take on what really happened. Does Politico support physical violence against women? You’ll have to tune in to …

Rolling Stone reports: Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit against Fox News laid bare how the network communicated behind the scenes about broadcasting 2020 election misinformation, ultimately leading the network to fork over a massive settlement. Newsmax could be next, as voting technology company Smartmatic has subpoenaed several of the right-wing cable network’s current and former employees for work and personal …

“You know our policy, if the entire media is in alignment on something, then there’s probably something hidden. What if all of this is actually a ploy to keep people from visiting the Titanic wreckage? But if that’s the goal, why? Maybe because if people explore the Titanic too much, they would discover that it wasn’t an iceberg that sank …

Charlotte’s CBS affiliate reports: A Concord man has been arrested and charged with hate crimes after investigators say he harassed his neighbors—a Mexican family—and Black motorists for more than a year. Marian Hudak was arrested by FBI agents on Thursday. He faces two charges related to intimidating people based on their race. One incident, according to the court document, was …

“I’m running because he’s let us down. He has let us down because he’s unwilling, he’s unwilling to take responsibility for any of the mistakes that were made and any of the faults that he has and any of the things that he’s done. And that is not leadership, everybody. That is a failure of leadership. You can boo all …

ABC News reports: Infowars host Owen Shroyer, who promoted baseless claims of 2020 election fraud on the far-right internet platform, pleaded guilty on Friday to joining the mob of Donald Trump supporters who rioted at the U.S. Capitol. Shroyer, who didn’t enter the Capitol but led rioters in chants near the top of the building’s steps, pleaded guilty to a …