Tag Archives: Trump cultists

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 …

The Hill reports: Former President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he was trying to persuade former Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.) to enter Wisconsin’s 2022 gubernatorial race. “Working hard to get very popular and capable Former Congressman Sean Duffy of Wisconsin to run for Governor. He would be fantastic!” Trump said in a statement issued through his Save America PAC. …

The Washington Post reports: A wealthy Trump donor who helped finance the rally in Washington on Jan. 6 also gave $150,000 to the nonprofit arm of the Republican Attorneys General Association, records show, funds that a person familiar with the contribution said were intended in part to promote the rally. The nonprofit organization paid for a robocall touting a march …

Posted today to Franklin Graham’s Facebook page: This 4-star retired Army General says that yes, our rapid pull-out of Afghanistan is a humiliation—but it’s a “civil war” at home that he’s concerned about. General Stanley McChrystal makes an important point that should be troubling to all of us. He warns that the polarization happening in American society today is a …

The Washington Post reports: Local governments and the National Guard spent at least $792,500 to assist U.S. Capitol Police in its response to the Sept. 18 “Justice for J6” rally, a small right-wing rally supporting those arrested during the insurrection that prompted a massive law enforcement response. This is not the total cost to taxpayers as it does not include …

The Arizona Republic reports: Ron Watkins, the man whose bulletin board sites hosted the postings that launched the conspiracy theory QAnon — and who some pegged as the author of the cryptic writings — announced that he was running for Congress in Arizona. Watkins, in a video posted online Thursday night, said he was aiming to unseat Tom O’Halleran in …

Oregon Public Radio reports: Not long after the pro-gun rally in Salem, Portland police officer Joseph Webber appears to have joined the Oath Keepers militia, an anti-government, anti-immigrant extremist group that was thrust into the national security spotlight for its role in the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection. According to data leaked earlier this month and reviewed by OPB, Webber …

Mediaite reports: The attorney general of Arizona posted a video Friday morning showing off his nunchucks skills. And yes, you are reading that correctly. Attorney General Mark Brnovich, currently running for Senate, posted a video of him on a rooftop captioned, “You want the nunchucks. You got the nunchucks.” “We’ve gotten a lot of calls, a lot of emails,” he …

The Tampa Bay Times reports: A recent Saturday morning found Debbie Horgan, Kevin May, and Paul Jordan on a mission. They drove around Pasco County seeking to ferret out voter fraud that local and state election officials have affirmed doesn’t exist. Each knock presented an opportunity to find someone whose address didn’t match their voter registration — and cast doubt …

The Associated Press reports: A man who was shot in the arm by Kyle Rittenhouse during a protest last year against police brutality in Wisconsin has filed a federal lawsuit alleging police enabled the violence by allowing an armed militia to have free run of the streets during the demonstration. The filing maintains police knew the militia was there to …

The Associated Press reports: A U.S. Capitol Police officer has been indicted on obstruction of justice charges after prosecutors say he helped to hide evidence of a rioter’s involvement in the Jan. 6 insurrection. The officer, Michael A. Riley, is accused of tipping off someone who participated in the riot by telling them to remove posts from Facebook that had …

Florida Politics reports: Gov. Ron DeSantis is considering asking the Legislature to allow employees to sue bosses who require them to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and to remove the state’s litigation shield from businesses that require them of workers and customers. “If a business forces somebody to do this then that employee, if there’s anything that happens negative as a …

Politico reports: One of the Republican Party’s biggest donors is working to defeat Arkansas Sen. John Boozman [photo] in next year’s GOP primary. Dick Uihlein, a prominent conservative megadonor, is giving $1 million to a newly formed super PAC aligned with Republican Jake Bequette, according to a person familiar with the contribution. Bequette is an Iraq war veteran and retired …

“What I would prefer to happen is that Trump acts as the advocate. Keep doing the rallies, keep fighting the media, keep doing all the dirty work, be the bodyguard, so that, say, a DeSantis/Tim Scott ticket maybe could get through. “My personal message to Trump is think about putting your ego in check for the first time in your …

The Daily Beast reports: In a truly bizarre attempt to get his charges dismissed for his alleged role in the Capitol riots, Infowars host Jonathon Owen Shroyer compared his conduct to that of Jesus Christ or the Dalai Lama. The comparison was among several arguments Shroyer made in a Thursday motion to dismiss the two misdemeanors charges he faces. He …

Politico reports: Gov. Ron DeSantis has opened a multimillion-dollar battle against vaccine mandates, and on Thursday took the fight to the Biden administration. The GOP governor said Florida will challenge in federal court and through legislation any vaccine mandates placed on employers or others by President Joe Biden. DeSantis’ comments follow those of Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who earlier …

NBC News reports: Republican Glenn Youngkin wouldn’t say Thursday whether he wants former President Donald Trump to campaign for him in the final weeks of Virginia’s high-stakes gubernatorial election and distanced himself from a controversial right-wing rally supporting his candidacy the night before. Youngkin — who is trying to walk a fine line by appealing to both “forever Trumpers and …

Just in from the House Select Committee on January 6th: Mr. Bannon has declined to cooperate with the Select Committee and is instead hiding behind the former President’s insufficient, blanket, and vague statements regarding privileges he has purported to invoke. We reject his position entirely. The Select Committee will not tolerate defiance of our subpoenas, so we must move forward …

But it’s totally not a cult: A fuming fundraising text from the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) has angered Trump-supporting conservatives after it called them “traitors” for not donating enough money to the GOP. “You’re a traitor,” the NRCC boomed in a mass text, presented as a message against supporters who had “abandoned” him. The message, which was shared widely …