The feud between Donald Trump and Bob Vander Plaats, one of the most prominent evangelical commentators in the country, is heating up. Last week, Vander Plaats, the head of the conservative The Family Leader organization and a former Iowa gubernatorial candidate, endorsed Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s bid for the 2024 …
Read More »'Just Say It Was Corrupt': Former Officials Detail Trump's Push to Convince DOJ to Help Overturn Election
“Just say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen.” This is how former acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue said former President Donald Trump responded when then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen told him that the Justice Department “can’t and won’t snap its fingers and …
Read More »'Is Google Trying to Fuck Me?' Trump's Tech Paranoia Hits New Level
Donald Trump has had a question for his friends and advisers in the past several weeks: “Is Google trying to fuck me?” The source of his paranoia, according to two people with knowledge of the ex-president’s query, was the absence of an Android app for his struggling social media app, …
Read More »Roger Stone Aide Caught on Tape Calling for Trumpers to 'Descend on Capitol' in Week Before Jan. 6
A one-time aide to Roger Stone urged Donald Trump supporters to “descend on the Capitol,” in a recorded conference call obtained by The New York Times. Communications expert Jason Sullivan told those calling in that the 2020 election had been stolen and added they should come to Washington on Jan. …
Read More »Ginni Thomas Pushed Trump to Hire Someone the White House Suspected Was a Foreign Spy
Ginni Thomas regularly met with Donald Trump while he was president, often providing him lists of people whom he should fire and hire — one of which the White House suspected of being a foreign spy. The latest turn in the MAGA unmasking of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas‘ wife, …
Read More »Trump Bashes Report That McConnell Schemed to Get Him Disinvited From Biden's Inauguration
UPDATE: Trump has responded to Jonathan Karl’s report suggesting he announced he was not attending President Biden’s inauguration only after he received word that Mitch McConnell was working to disinvite him. “From Election Day, November 3rd, the day I realized that the 2020 Presidential Election was rigged, I would never …
Read More »Trump Must Testify on Camera in Lawsuit Filed by Trump Tower Protesters, Judge Orders
President Trump must testify on tape by the end of the month in a lawsuit brought by protesters who say they were assaulted by security officers outside Trump Tower in New York in 2015, a judge ordered Thursday. “Donald J. Trump shall appear for a deposition October 18, 2021 at …
Read More »Trump Thinks the General Who Lost the Civil War Definitely Would Have Won the Afghanistan War
Donald Trump would like us all to believe that the United States would have registered a “complete and total victory” in Afghanistan had its troops been led by … General Robert E. Lee. Lee is not typically associated with winning wars, in large part because he is the most famous …
Read More »Italian Military Satellites, Dominion Machines, and Other Election Conspiracies Trump Desperately Pushed the DOJ to Validate
In the days after Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump, no conspiracy was too outlandish, no report too unfounded, and no source too shady for the then-president or his aides, who, as emails and documents made public this week show, aggressively pushed Justice Department officials for help overturning the results of …
Read More »Diamond and Sulk: A Weekend With Mike Lindell and the MAGA Zombies
The phone rings and it’s Mike Lindell, the MyPillow Guy, recovered cocaine addict, believer that the 2020 presidential count was 20 million off, and, apparently, a fan of 1970s AM Radio. After saying hello and introducing myself, Lindell begins howling through the telephone line,‘Wanna see my picture on the cover, …
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