Trump’s ‘deep-state’ warrior
Trump has repeatedly blasted an alleged “Deep State” in the intelligence community, repeatedly accusing career officials of seeking to undermine his administration from the inside despite no evidence to back up his claims. In between his turns in government, Grenell had a public affairs consulting firm called Capitol Media Partners. One of the firm’s clients, according to the financial disclosure that Grenell filed when he became an ambassador, was Arthur J. Finkelstein, the late Republican political consultant whose international clients included Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary. Learn More
Spending hundred of millions, so much dark money backing long-debunked lies about Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, and supporting campaigns to derail direct democracy efforts in multiple states
Who benefits?
Trump and Trump enablers CPI, the Election Integrity Network, The Heritage Foundation, the Federalist Society, Mark Meadows, Steven Bannon, MTG and many more
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How Tucker Carlson Stoked White Fear to Conquer Cable
April 30, 2022
Nicholas Confessore
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/30/us/tucker-carlson-gop-republican-party
How Tucker Carlson Reshaped Fox News — and Became Trump’s Heir
April 30, 2022
Nicholas Confessore
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/30/us/tucker-carlson-fox-news Learn More
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is a far right conspiracy theorist who was part of the January 6 plot to over throw the 2020 election and now serves on the Homeland Security And Oversight Committees... In addition to her other conspiracies, racist remarks, and wild accusations, Greene relentlessly spread lies about the 2020 election being “stolen” and was a key figure working in Congress to overturn the results in Donald Trump’s favor….
Jan. 6 committee testimony revealed that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene asked Trump for a pardon, but she denies this.
She faced a lawsuit in her home state of Georgia where she was forced to testify on her involvement in the effort to overturn the election. She often said she couldn’t recall key moments and meetings.
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If there is a madness, slight or otherwise, in Kennedy’s bid, it is not confined to his hubris. He is roiling with conspiracy theories: S.S.R.I.s like Prozac might be the reason for school shootings, vaccines cause autism. There are many. To prepare for the conversation, I listened to some of Kennedy’s podcast sessions with the likes of Bari Weiss, Jordan Peterson, Russell Brand, and Joe Rogan.
I watched his marathon announcement speech and tuned in to all the hosannas he was getting from a peculiar amen corner that includes Steve Bannon, Jack Dorsey, and Tucker Carlson. In his 2021 book “The Real Anthony Fauci,” Kennedy accuses Fauci, who was then the nation’s top infectious-disease doctor, of helping to carry out “2020’s historic coup d’état against Western democracy.” (The book has blurbs from Carlson, Naomi Wolf, Alan Dershowitz, and Oliver Stone.)
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Six days after major news organizations declared Donald J. Trump the loser of the 2020 presidential election, his allies were applying a desperate full-court press in an effort to turn his defeat around, particularly in Georgia.
The pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell went on television claiming that there was abundant evidence of foreign election meddling that never ultimately materialized. Another lawyer, L. Lin Wood, filed a lawsuit seeking to block the certification of Georgia’s election results.
That same day, Nov. 13, 2020, Senator Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican and one of Mr. Trump’s most ardent supporters, made a phone call that left Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, immediately alarmed. Mr. Graham, he said, had asked if there was a legal way, using the state courts, to toss out all mail-in votes from counties with high rates of questionable signatures. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/24/us/lindsey-graham-trump-georgia.
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Beyond his vote not to certify electors on January 6, Rep. Paul Gosar plotted with Trump to overturn the 2020 election and was a ringleader in that plot. In December after the 2020 election, right-wing political activist and organizer Ali Alexander said that he, Gosar, Biggs, and U.S. Representative Mo Brooks were "planning something big": a "mob" to pressure Congress into rejecting the election results. Then Rep. Gosar then voted to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Gosar has a long history of collaborating with white nationalists and far right extremists, and several of his own estranged siblings have referred to him as a “traitor to his country” and called for his removal from the House.
He was the keynote speaker at an America First Political Action Conference, organized by white nationalist Nick Fuentes, whom the Department of Justice in a court filing calls a “white supremacist” and who marched in the deadly Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally.
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Sept. 29, 2019
Pirro imagines barbarians storming the White House gates:
“The White House stands alone like an ancient walled city with barbarians storming the gates, looking to annihilate the man the American people put in that house in 2016.” Jan. 6, 2021
Pirro sees barbarians storming the U.S. Capitol gates:
“I want to be clear. The actions at the United States Capitol three days ago were deplorable, reprehensible, outright criminal." Learn More
Joker: Former President Donald Trump:
“. . . lie and attack, win no matter what . . .” “I’m telling you the single biggest issue, as bad as the border is and it’s horrible, horrible what they’re doing, they’re destroying our country — but as bad as that is, the single biggest issue — the issue that gets the most pull, the most respect, the biggest cheers — is talking about the election fraud of the 2020 presidential election.” - Donald Trump, October 10, 2021 “There’s hostility to lying, and there should be.” – Bob Woodward Learn More
“. . . lie and attack, win no matter what . . .” “I’m telling you the single biggest issue, as bad as the border is and it’s horrible, horrible what they’re doing, they’re destroying our country — but as bad as that is, the single biggest issue — the issue that gets the most pull, the most respect, the biggest cheers — is talking about the election fraud of the 2020 presidential election.” - Donald Trump, October 10, 2021 “There’s hostility to lying, and there should be.” – Bob Woodward Learn More
Poor Ted - unmanned, unprincipled, unliked, yet drowning in ambition:
"The call was just one step in a collaboration [between Trump and Cruz] that for two months turned the once-bitter political enemies into close allies in the effort to keep Trump in the White House based on the president’s false claims about a stolen election. By Cruz’s own account, he was “leading the charge” to prevent the certification of Joe Biden as president."
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On "The Beat" tonight, Ari Melber connected Trump Co-Conspirator John Eastman to Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX). Just before midnight on January 6, 2021, after the attack on the U.S. Capitol, Eastman wrote to Pence’s lawyer to beg him to get Pence to adjourn Congress “for 10 days to allow the legislatures to finish their investigations, as well as to allow a full forensic audit of the massive amount of illegal activity that has occurred here.” On the floor of the Senate at about the same time, Cruz, who voted against certification, used very similar language when he called for “a ten-day emergency audit.” Learn More