Trump cultists

Newsmax Host Calls Proud Boys Convictions A “Sham”

“The fake news ecstatic today because Enrique Tarrio and several of his friends convicted, very serious charges. He faces decades in prison, potentially, and I think the whole damn thing is a sham and a shame. “Seditious conspiracy, obstructing official proceedings, no. Look, he wasn’t even there. I’ve seen the evidence. Granted, I did not sit through all of the …

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Anti-LGBTQ Voter Fraud Activist Dies At Texas Capitol

The Texas Tribune reports: Alan Vera, an influential Republican voter-fraud activist who pushed controversial election bills in Texas, died Thursday at the Texas Capitol as he was preparing to testify on election legislation. He was 75. The news was announced suddenly during a Texas House Elections Committee meeting Thursday morning as the committee heard public testimony on one of about …

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Judicial Activist Made Secret Payments To QAnon Ginni

The Washington Post reports: Conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo arranged for the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to be paid tens of thousands of dollars for consulting work just over a decade ago, specifying that her name be left off billing paperwork, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post. In January 2012, Leo instructed the GOP pollster …

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Bartiromo Denies Claims Made By Fired Fox Producer

The Hill reports: Fox host Maria Bartiromo is pushing back on claims made by an ex-producer on her show who alleges that she used her personal connections to former President Trump to protect herself at the network. “If they were marginalizing her, she could always say, ‘I can get the President of the United States on the phone,’” Abby Grossberg …

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Carlson Wants To Host His Own GOP Candidates Forum

The Washington Post reports:  Tucker Carlson — who was fired by Fox News last week at the height of his popularity and influence in right-wing punditry — has aspirations of moving into a larger role that doesn’t limit him to a single medium, according to people familiar with his thinking. And he is willing to walk away from some of …

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BREAKING: Proud Boys Found Guilty Of Sedition

NBC News reports: A jury has reached a partial verdict for at least some of the defendants in the five members of the far-right Proud Boys organization who are facing charges of seditious conspiracy in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly said from the bench Thursday. Enrique Tarrio, Joseph Biggs, …

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Graham: It’s “Ridiculous Theater” For Biden To Send Troops To The Border (He Praised Trump For Doing It)

“I feel that Donald Trump did the best job in my political lifetime. When Donald Trump did something, it worked. Everything he did, as Ted suggested, worked. What am I urging the Biden administration to do? Because Trump did it doesn’t mean you can’t do it. “Your country is being destroyed by illegal immigration. Your own democratic cities are being …

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Former FBI Agent And Project Veritas Staffer Arrested In Capitol Riot, Allegedly Called On Cultists To Kill Cops

The New York Times reports: Federal prosecutors have charged a former F.B.I. agent with illegally entering the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot and said he had called police officers Nazis as he encouraged a mob of Trump loyalists to kill them. The former agent, Jared L. Wise, was arrested on Monday and faces four misdemeanor counts, including disrupting the …

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Cultist Charged With Throwing Explosive During J6 Riot

CNN reports: The FBI on Tuesday arrested a Florida man accused of setting off an “explosive device” in the US Capitol tunnel during the attack on January 6, 2021. In one of the most violent scenes of the Capitol riot, a line of police officers protected an entrance to the building against violent rioters who used poles, bats, fists, stolen …

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Nevada QAnon Nutbag Launches Run For US Senate

The Nevada Independent reports: Jim Marchant, a former Republican state assemblyman and one of the state’s most prominent election deniers, is planning to run for Nevada’s U.S. Senate seat in 2024. Marchant, 66, announced his bid Tuesday at a “Make America Great Again” rally at Fervent Church in Las Vegas, where advertised guests included Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), a member …

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Feds: Man Set Fires At Mosques, Graffiti’d Omar’s Office

From the Justice Department: Jackie Rahm Little, aka Joel Arthur Tueting, has been arrested and charged in a federal criminal complaint with arson following fires at two Minneapolis mosques, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger. Little was apprehended and arrested last night in Mankato by the Blue Earth County Sheriff’s Office and taken into federal custody today by FBI and …

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Guilfoyle Sells Sheets For Sleeping With Hairy Guys

“The bedding is temperature-regulated so you sleep just right. It is literally on our bed. We have these sheets, they’re fantastic. They keep just the right temperature. Don’t you hate it when you have a hot bed and you kick a leg out, da da da da? You know, you share a bed with Don Junior, he’s like a big …

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Devin Nunes Welcomed To QAnon Tour With Rap Song

First, an earlier report from Media Matters: Devin Nunes, a former Republican congressman and the CEO of former President Donald Trump’s social media platform Truth Social, appeared on a QAnon-supporting show to promote Trump’s platform and repeatedly lauded the show for “getting the truth out.” On April 14, Nunes appeared on QAnon show X22 Report, whose host is known only …

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Cruz: Dems Hate Clarence Thomas Because He’s Black

Mediaite reports: “Democrats hate Justice Thomas, and they save this special degree of hate for him, because he’s a Black man,” Cruz declared. “And their view is an African American is not allowed to be a conservative, is not allowed to disagree with Left-wing orthodoxy.” Cruz went on in claiming Democrats see Thomas “as a traitor because he is African-American,” …

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McDaniel: Abortion Not Trump Cost Us The Midterms

The Hill reports: Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said Sunday a recent report on the party’s disappointing performance in last year’s midterms showed that the GOP was unable to lock down the support of independents, citing abortion messaging as a key reason why. “The biggest takeaway we’re taking is independents did not break our way, which has to …

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Giuliani Admits “Dirty Trick” To Suppress Hispanic Vote

The Guardian reports: Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani has admitted to a “dirty trick” that his campaign used to suppress the Hispanic vote during the city’s 1993 mayoral race. Giuliani explained that he spent $2m to set up a so-called Voter Integrity Committee which was headed by Randy Levine, current president of the New York Yankees baseball team, and …

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Kirk: We’ll Probably Lose, Biden Is “Tough To Hate”

“I think one of the reasons why Joe Biden is tough to beat is because he’s tough to hate. I mean, you almost feel sorry for him. He’s a candidate of sympathy. Kamala Harris is different. It is very easy to build a movement against someone who is just so arrogant and smug and cackle-y, and self-righteous, and has failed …

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Pepper Spray “Patriot” Rioter Sentenced To 4.5 Years

NBC News reports: A California man who used stolen police pepper spray against officers battling a mob during the Jan. 6 attack was sentenced to more than four years in prison Friday, prosecutors said. Jeffrey Scott Brown, 56, was sentenced to 54 months in prison, or 4½ years, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a statement. Brown, of Santa Ana, …

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Rudy Giuliani Sued Over Unpaid $30,000 Phone Bill

The Daily Beast reports: Rudy Giuliani’s consulting firm hasn’t paid its phone bill, and the carrier is dragging the disgraced former New York City mayor’s company to court over the outstanding charges. That’s according to a summons filed in New York state court by Momentum Telecom, a company that sells internet-based calling technology. The Atlanta-based company says it was stiffed …

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QAnon Rioter Embraced By Trump: Execute Mike Pence And All Congress Members Who Certified The Election

NBC News reports: Former President Donald Trump embraced a Jan. 6 defendant at a diner during a campaign stop Thursday night, calling the woman, who served prison time for her actions during the Capitol attack and wants former Vice President Mike Pence executed for treason, “terrific.” Larson-Olson said she believes that the members of Congress who voted to certify Biden’s …

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