Tag Archives: Trump cultists

The Huffington Post reports: The FBI has arrested a mother-and-son duo accused of entering House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office during the Jan. 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol after the pair were successfully identified by online sleuths. Maryann Mooney-Rondon and Rafael Rondon were arrested on Friday, a law enforcement official told HuffPost. The two arrestees ― whom online sleuths working …

From the Department of Justice: A Texas man who plotted to blow up a data center in Virginia was sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah. Seth Aaron Pendley, 28, was arrested in April after attempting to obtain an explosive device from an undercover FBI employee in …

Tampa’s CBS News affiliate reports: A former Florida candidate for Congress was arrested this week on charges related to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. In probable cause documentation, the Department of Justice — citing video and photo evidence — accuses Jeremy Brown of being on Capitol grounds in full military apparel. He, too, is said to have …

Politico reports: The woman who has accused Corey Lewandowski of making unwanted sexual advances last weekend has sent a statement to police outlining her allegations against the former Trump adviser. Trashelle Odom, an Idaho-based Trump donor, alleged that while seated next to Lewandowski at a Las Vegas charity dinner, Lewandowski described his genitalia, boasted about his sexual performance and touched …

Austin’s NBC News affiliate reports: The Austin Fire Department Arson Investigators and the FBI announced an arrest in an incident involving a person who tried to vandalize and start a fire at the Travis County Democratic Party Headquarters earlier this week. On Friday, AFD identified the man as Ryan Faircloth, 30. An arrest warrant released on Friday for Faircloth said …

The Daily Beast reports: Being Sidney Powell is harder than it used to be. Once, she was a key player in Donald Trump’s inner circle. These days, she might have trouble just getting in the front door. The “Kraken” queen long ago removed herself from acceptability among the more respectable GOP circles with a constant stream of bizarre election conspiracy …

The Huffington Post reports: Infowars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has lost his third lawsuit brought by a parent of a child who died in the Sandy Hook school shooting, one day after he lost two other Sandy Hook cases. In a court filing unsealed Friday, Judge Maya Guerra Gamble issued her ruling for default judgment against Jones in the defamation …

The Insider reports: “I’m not considering anything beyond doing my job. We got a lot of stuff going on in Florida. I’m going to be running for reelection next year,” the Republican told Fox News host Sean Hannity. “We are also working on a lot of things in the state beyond the governor’s race. We got school-board races,” DeSantis added. …

The New York Times reports: The organizers of the review “made up the numbers,” the headline of the experts’ report reads. The experts, a data analyst for the Arizona Republican Party and two retired executives of a Boston-based election consulting firm, said in their report that workers for the investigators failed to count thousands of ballots in a pallet of …

The Daily Beast reports: A key “Stop the Steal” attorney who tried, on Donald Trump’s behalf, to convince former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen to help execute a coup and overturn the 2020 election is helping a group of Michigan poll challengers sue voting machine company Dominion Voting Systems. And according to newly filed court documents, that Trumpist attorney, Kurt …

The Insider reports: Former top White House aide Stephanie Grisham used a slew of colorful metaphors to describe former President Donald Trump’s White House in her forthcoming memoir. In one instance, she wrote that in the White House, “everything was like a clown car on fire running at full speed into a warehouse full of fireworks,” according to an excerpt …

“This is the first ad that they’ve approved — remember they say you can’t use the word ‘Frank,’ you can’t use the word ‘Frank Speech,’ so rather than just saying OK I’m just going to give up trying to get the word over to people about Frank Speech, I said no. I’ll direct them to a drop-in page. “If you …

Minnesota Public Radio reports: A man who had been part of a far-right group that wants to foment a civil war admitted in federal court Thursday he traveled to Minneapolis from the San Antonio area to sow chaos after the police murder of George Floyd. Ivan Harrison Hunter, 24, of Boerne, Texas, pleaded guilty to a single count of rioting. …

The Texas Tribune reports: Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday called for Texas lawmakers to increase the penalty for illegal voting — less than a month after he signed a bill that lowers the maximum punishment. The crime of illegal voting was scheduled to go from a second degree felony to a Class A misdemeanor in December, after the passage of …

The New York Daily News reports: MyPillow founder and rabid conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell ended his two-month tiff with Fox News Thursday with a one-minute commercial that aired on the midday program “America Reports.” In his new spot, Lindell steers clear of the sort of election fraud rhetoric that has him and Fox News in the crosshairs of billion-dollar lawsuits …

Media Matters has the transcript: JOE ROGAN (HOST): Do you think [Joe Biden] got a booster? Do you think that was a real booster? MIKE BAKER (FORMER CIA OFFICER): You mentioned that before — before we started talking, and I hadn’t thought about it before. But you know what, when I watched it on TV, when I watched, you know, …

Washington DC’s CBS News affiliate reports: A right-wing activist who spoke at a “Stop the Steal” rally before the Capitol riot has agreed to plead guilty to joining the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol Building, according to a court notice filed Thursday. Brandon Straka, 43, will appear before U.S. District Judge Dabney L. Friedrich on October 6 to enter …

Fox News reports: Liberal pundit-turned-politician Matthew Dowd once called for “White male Christians” like himself to be sidelined in politics. “As a [W]hite male Christian in America, I am part of a dwindling subset that has held the levers of power politically and economically in nearly every field for the entire history of the United States,” Dowd wrote. “Yes, the …

The Washington Post reports: Senate Democrats and Republicans on Thursday approved a measure to fund the government into early December, putting lawmakers one step close toward staving off a shutdown that is set to occur after midnight. The morning vote followed weeks of hand wringing between the two parties, after Democrats initially sought to move the measure along with another …

“Satan hates everybody. He even hates the ones who are doing this mock takeover. And I can tell them—I’m speaking to you right now, the evil, wicked ones that have been doing all that—you won’t get a high place in Hell. You will be put on a meat hook right next to Hitler. “Because the ones who give their self …