The New York Young Republican's Club? A combative young Republican group in the state, firmly on the right and Trump-friendly, the club’s 29-year-old president, presiding.
Mr. Wax's kindred spirit? Vish Burra, the director of operations for Representative George Santos, the New York Republican whose long history of lies has been festooned with a nascent embrace of right-wing political positions. In December 2023, Mr. Wax made headlines after he made remarks at a gala in Manhattan — attended by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene and Stephen K. Bannon, both noted Trump allies — suggesting the Republicans should wage “total war” against the Democrats.The radicalization of some New York Republicans vaulted Carl Paladino, a western New York Republican, to the 2010 ballot for governor. Mr. Paladino’s history of racist, sexist and homophobic comments did not stop him from carrying the Republican banner.
Last year, Mr. Paladino made a bid for a House seat and quickly won the endorsement of Representative Elise Stefanik, the “Ultra MAGA” upstate congresswoman and the third-highest ranking Republican in the party’s House majority.
Rubio dismisses Trump’s NATO comments: ‘Zero concern’
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) attempted to defend Trump’s comments at a rally on Saturday, where the former president said he warned a foreign leader that if that country didn’t contribute enough to the alliance, then Russia can “do whatever the hell they want."
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“There's two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy, Republican-California, said, according to a recording of the 15 June 2016, exchange, which was listened to and verified by The Washington Post. Representative Dana Rohrabacher is a Californian Republican known in Congress as a fervent defender of Putin and Russia. Learn More
Ken Cuccinelli, again Emerging as Public Face, and Irritant, of Homeland Security 2025?
If the White House adviser Stephen Miller is the architect of Mr. Trump’s effort to restrict both legal and illegal immigration, Mr. Cuccinelli has emerged as its public face.
As a state senator, Cuccinelli introduced a proposal that would have sheltered employers who fired employees for not speaking English. Learn More
Noem, a presidential aspirant, clinging closely to the Trump playbook, was adamant that widespread fraud existed in the 2020 election, despite the lack of concrete evidence.
After Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, Noem tried to deflect blame from the president, blaming the Capitol insurrection on lack of civics education while making no mention of President Donald Trump’s role in the attack that sent Congress into hiding. Learn More
Alt-right radio host Jesse Kelly, adoring Trump booster, and frequent guest on Tucker Carlson’s former prime-time Fox News show, agreed with a Twitter user's suggestion that “Weimar problems eventually lead to Weimar solutions."
Kelly's tweet?
America “needs a dictator.” Learn More
After the 2020 election, Flynn, a high-profile figure in the QAnon community, said that President Trump should deploy the military to 'rerun an election' in battleground states that he lost to President-elect Joe Biden.
In late May 2021, the disgraced former general reportedly voiced his support for a Burmese military-style coup scenario to return Trump to power.
Just weeks before the November 2022 election, a group backed by Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, Flynn and Overstock.com founder Patrick Byrne is challenging the eligibility of tens of thousands of Georgia voters .
And today former national security adviser is fusing deranged political ideas with a mangled version of the Christian faith. Learn More
Eric Trump ”liked” a Tweet identifying QAnon “Shaman” Jacob Chansley and the assault on the U.S. Capitol as “a staged #Antifa attack”.
In response to such false accusations: Fox News' Jeanine Pirro Blasts Pro-Trump Capitol Rioters, Says Don't Blame Antifa: ‘You Did It’
Mr. Flynn was also present at the Trump International Hotel on Jan. 5 for a meeting that included about 15 people, where the discussion centered on “how to put pressure on more members of Congress to object to the Electoral College results,” according to one attendee, Charles Herbster, a Republican candidate for governor of Nebraska.
Among those in attendance, according to Mr. Herbster, were Mr. Trump’s sons Eric and Donald Jr.; Mr. Giuliani; Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama; the Trump advisers Peter Navarro, Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie; and Mike Lindell, the MyPillow executive and conspiracy theorist. (Boldface added) Learn More
- 2017: Promoting Trump’s false ‘voting fraud’ narrative: “Well, I won't reveal private conversations with the president, Judy, but I will tell you that what the president is talking about is registration and voter rolls. He knows there are dead people registered, there are illegal people registered, and he wants to get to the bottom of that without an election on the horizon.
- 2021: “Alternative facts”: Conway praised Trump for his response to the U.S. Capitol riots.
- The very next day: President Trump appoints Conway to the board of visitors of the U.S. Air Force Academy.
CPI: "Breeding ground for the next generation of Trump loyalists," an engine of voter suppression
- Funded by? The Council for National Policy (CNP), also known as the “Secret Hub of the Radical Christian Right."
- Founded/directed by? Jim DeMint, CNP member & former president of The Heritage Foundation.
- Led by? Trump enabler & co-conspirator Mark Meadows, CNP member & former Trump chief of staff.
- Founder and funder of? Election Integrity Network (EIN), voter suppression masquerading as election integrity,
- EIN's leader? CNP/CPI member & Trump voter-suppression attorney, Cleta Mitchell.
- Opposed: "For the People" Act, the elections reform bill that would undo Voter ID laws, support mail-in ballots, enact automatic voter registration, and shine light on dark money.
- Partners with: Jan 6. enabler Turning Point USA, which played a major role in the January 6th Capitol riots.
- Funding: Mark Meadows' mission "to create more members [of Congress] like Jim Jordan, Ted Cruz, and Josh Hawley," via CPI’s new State Freedom Caucus Network.