Tag Archives: Trump cultists

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: In December, Clay Clark will be taking his tour to Elevate Live Church in Frisco, Texas, and he’s filled the speaking slots with the usual allotment of MAGA activists and conspiracy theorists, such as Michael Flynn, Greg Locke, Scott McKay, Ann Vandersteel, Mark Sherwood, Gene Ho, Patrick Byrne, Stella Immanuel, Jackson Lahmeyer, Leon …

Law & Crime reports: A U.S. Capitol Police officer pleaded not guilty to helping a Facebook friend scrub evidence of participation in the Jan. 6 siege of the complex he was sworn to defend. Officer Michael Angelo Riley, who has more than 25 years of experience, allegedly helped a man he barely knew — known only as “Person 1” in …

The Des Moines Register reports: Iowa Democratic Party Chair Ross Wilburn received multiple threats, including one of lynching, after he penned an opinion piece critical of former President Donald Trump, he told the Des Moines Register. Wilburn, a state representative from Ames, is the first Black chair of the Iowa Democratic Party. Wilburn authored an opinion piece titled “Iowa Republicans …

The Texas Tribune reports: Bills intended to block any Texas entity, including hospitals and private businesses, from mandating COVID-19 vaccines for employees failed to pass the Texas Legislature before lawmakers adjourned the third special legislative session early Tuesday morning. Signs that the legislation was in trouble came early as business groups spoke out against the proposals. Even though the issue …

The Daily Beast reports: Jordan Klepper hadn’t attended a Trump rally since he inadvertently found himself in the middle of the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, “a day no one will ever forget, unless you’re a Republican member of Congress,” the Daily Show contributor joked in his latest dispatch. But this past week, Klepper boldly returned to the scene, trolling …

Law & Crime reports: A right-wing radio host stole the baseball cap worn by a U.S. Capitol Police officer who defended Congress on Jan. 6 and wore it during a live stream of one of his broadcasts, federal authorities claimed in court papers released on Monday. Three witnesses who worked at his media outlet allegedly told the FBI that he …

Talking Points Memo reports: Dozens of state lawmakers from around the country have signed onto a letter falsely referring to the 2020 elections as “corrupted” and insisting on “forensic audits” in all 50 states. “This is our historic obligation to restore the election integrity of the vote as the bedrock of our constitutional republic,” the letter, which has been signed …

Vice News reports: The organizer of a major QAnon conference in Las Vegas later this week, where at least four sitting GOP lawmakers will speak on stage, shared a neo-Nazi film with his 70,000 followers on Sunday evening. John Sabal, who’s known online as QAnon John, is preparing for Thursday’s “For God and Country: Patriot Double Down” conference, but on …

Los Angeles’s ABC News affiliate reports: Don’t call him Kanye anymore. A Los Angeles judge on Monday approved a petition by rapper Kanye West to officially change his name to be known simply as “Ye,” with no middle or last name. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michelle Williams Court gave her nod to the request by the singer, who filed …

“Our culture today is trying to completely de-masculate all of the young men in our culture. You can look at the testosterone levels in young men today and they are lower than throughout all of history. “There’s a lot of reasons for this that we can get into later. But my friends, they’re trying to de-masculate the young men in …

Mediaite reports: Senator Ted Cruz shared a video of himself saying “Let’s go Brandon” on Twitter Sunday evening, which unto of itself would not be necessarily newsworthy. The fact that the phrase has become a euphemism for “F*ck Joe Biden” in conservative circles, and that he is well aware of its political meaning, suggests that the Texas Senator is not …

The New York Times reports: Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia has supported exhaustive audits of the 2020 results to look for evidence of voting irregularities that repeated reviews have failed to produce. Still, she has told colleagues that she was surprised by a recent survey of Republican voters in her district. The internal survey found that 5 percent of …

Newsweek reports: GOP Congressman Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina pledged that if Republicans retake control of Congress, he would ensure that Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is legally charged. While speaking in Rutherford County, outside of Asheville, Cawthorn, accused Fauci of lying to Senator Rand Paul during a Senate hearing. “It’s a …

The Huffington Post reports: Daniel “D.J.” Rodriguez, the Donald Trump fanatic who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 and was arrested for electroshocking D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer Mike Fanone a month after he was identified in a HuffPost story, spilled his guts to the FBI after his arrest, repeatedly crying as he told special agents he was a “fucking …

“The process on Thursday night, we’ll be voting on a report in the committee. The report concludes that Bannon should be held in contempt, he failed to appear, he has no reasonable explanation for that failure to appear, and that will then go to the full House. “The full House will vote to hold him in criminal contempt, and then …

CNN reports: A California man who was accused of sending threats to a congressman and multiple journalists has pleaded guilty to one count of making threatening interstate communications. At his change of plea hearing Friday, Robert Lemke pleaded guilty to the count related to a threat he made to a family member of a New York City-based journalist, saying in …

From convicted Capitol rioter Brandon Straka: If you’ve been reading any stories in the news about me this year, you probably find it hard to know if the story is actually about me or a comic book villain from a dystopian universe, who’s out to destroy America and then the entire world at large. Of course, most of these same …

Mother Jones reports: Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz both have a knack for ginning up outrage and stealing headlines. All this sound and fury is assumed to hoover up dollars from the riled up grassroots, but that’s not true, according to the most recent campaign finance filings. In its first few months, the Put America First PAC seemed like …

Salon reports: Christmas is still more than two months away — but that hasn’t stopped President Joe Biden from ruining the holiday, at least in the minds of Republican lawmakers and right-wing pundits. “This is the guys who is trying to steal Christmas,” the House Republican caucus tweeted this week, typo and all, alongside a strangely framed picture of Biden’s …

Mediaite reports: It has been more than four months since the political media world was set abuzz after The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman first reported that Trump was telling confidants that he believed he’d be reinstated to the presidency in August, reporting that was later confirmed by other outlets — and fed by delusions floated by Trump allies like …