Tag Archives: Trump cultists

The Hill reports: Asked by moderator Margaret Brennan on CBS’s “Face the Nation” if he agreed with Pence — who on Friday said he had “no right to overturn the election” — Rubio said that after examining the matter, he concluded that vice presidents do not have the power to not certify an election. “Well, if President Trump runs for …

The Washington Post reports: A school board outside Denver voted to fire the district’s superintendent Friday night in a controversial move that came amid accusations that the newly elected conservative majority had violated state open-meeting laws. The Douglas County, Colo., school board voted 4 to 3 in a special meeting Friday night to fire Corey Wise without cause, dismissing the …

Mediaite reports: In a segment designed to portray large cities run by liberal politicians as unsafe and unhealthy, Dan Bongino’s Unfiltered showed a map of the U.S. that highlighted the “Top Ten Most Unhealthy U.S. Cities.” But there’s a problem. According to WalletHub – the source that Unfiltered cited in its graphic – the 10 cities featured in the graphic …

The Daily Beast reports: There are a few key reasons why the twice-impeached former president hasn’t yet endorsed Josh Mandel or anybody else in that race. One reason for the hold-up is that Trump—who has long been addicted to dishing tabloid-style gossip and dirt—has for months told people close to him that he thinks Mandel is a charisma-free weirdo and …

From the St. Louis Dispatch‘s editorial board: Something serious appears to have prompted Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., to label a fellow Republican, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, a “con artist” and “one of the worst human beings.” Perhaps it was Hawley’s public questioning of the need to defend Ukraine from a Russian invasion. Maybe it was when Hawley this week urged …

Mediaite reports: “Wow,” Bannon said after taking a moment to collect himself. “That’s not what President Trump said. What President Trump said is you had the full right to revert back to the states.” Bannon continued, saying, “Pence, you’re going to carry this thing, eventually, to your grave, Okay? Because it is a mark of shame, and you are a …

Mediaite reports: The chair of the Republican National Committee called out the New York Times on Friday after the publication quoted her organization accurately. McDaniel herself used the language in a statement. “Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger crossed a line,” she said. “They chose to join Nancy Pelosi in a Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens who engaged in legitimate political …

Via email from hate group leader Brian Brown: The Supreme Court nomination battle to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer provides us with a historic opportunity to demand that the US Senate only confirm a nominee with a proven commitment to the rule of law who will judge cases based on the clear text and meaning of the US Constitution as …

Uproxx reports: Michelle Malkin is a conservative blogger and TV personality described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a “white nationalist apologist.” She’s spent years praising her white supremacist friends in speeches, wrote books on why internment camps were (and still are) a good thing, and dubbed herself the “mommy” of the white nationalist internet troll group known as …

Via press release from CAIR: The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today welcomed a judge’s affirmation of a Florida ruling ordering far-right Islamophobic conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer and her company Illoominate Media to pay CAIR almost $125,000 in attorney’s fees and costs stemming from a lawsuit falsely claiming the Muslim civil …

The Washington Post reports: “This week, our former president said I had the right to ‘overturn the election. President Trump is wrong,” Pence said Friday. “I had no right to overturn the election.” Pence dismissed Trump’s statement during a keynote speech given Friday during a conference hosted by the Federalist Society, an organization for conservative and libertarian lawyers, in Florida …

Capitol Media Services reports: The top House Republican is unilaterally quashing legislation that would have given lawmakers the power to reject election results. Strictly speaking, Speaker Rusty Bowers is not killing House Bill 2596, that’s something he could do by simply refusing to assign it to any committee to be considered. Instead, Bowers has taken the unprecedented step of assigning …

Media Matters has the transcript: PEARSON SHARP: More and more Americans are standing up and fighting back against the tyranny of the COVID conspiracy theory. Convoys of outraged truck drivers are sending a message loud and clear to cowardly leaders all over the world, from Canada to Australia and even here in the U.S., and that message is simple: Back …

CNN reports: The House select committee investigating the Capitol insurrection is now in possession of White House records that provide new details about a phone call Donald Trump made to Republican Rep. Jim Jordan on January 6, 2021 — as the investigation drills down on the former President’s communications that day and questions have long swirled around calls between him …

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports: A Delaware County man whose vociferous support of President Donald Trump at work prompted his coworkers to turn him into the FBI is facing up to six months behind bars after pleading guilty Friday to Capitol riot charges. Lawrence Earl Stackhouse III, 34, of Chester, told a federal judge that he illegally entered the Capitol, took …

The Washington Post reports: In an extraordinary rebuke, the Republican National Committee passed a resolution condemning Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), who voted to impeach former president Donald Trump after the deadly insurrection. The resolution said that the behavior of Cheney and Kinzinger “has been destructive to the institution of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Republican …

Politico reports: Emails handed over to American Oversight, a group that bills itself as a government watchdog, suggest that DeSantis is in regular contact with Justice Clarence Thomas. In June 2021, Thomas’ wife, Ginni, who runs her own consulting firm, worked with the DeSantis administration to have the governor talk to a coalition of groups, including people affiliated with Judicial …

The Insider reports: Sen. Rand Paul said that Republicans will subpoena chief White House medical advisor Dr Anthony Fauci if they take control of the Senate in the mid-term elections. The Kentucky Republican is a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee. He stands to be nominated as chairman of the panel if Republicans win the Senate …

Newsweek reports: In a tense exchange in court Thursday, Josiah Kenyon, 34, who was arrested in Reno, Nevada, asked Judge Carl Nichols to acknowledge that he has the right to defend himself if corrections officers try to assault him, according to Politico’s Kyle Cheney. Before his comment, Nichols warned Kenyon to consult with his attorney before speaking. “I have a …

The right wing Washington Examiner reports: Social media upstart GETTR fired over a dozen staff members late last year, including two key executives and its entire IT and cybersecurity teams, amid rapid growth and what former employees said were funding problems. The layoffs came even as interest in the company, founded by Jason Miller, a spokesman for former President Donald …