Donald Trump loathes Ron DeSantis for the Florida governor’s “disloyal” challenge to Trump’s iron grip on the Republican Party. The former president’s ire, however, is dwarfed by the intense desire harbored by some of Trump’s key aides and allies to see DeSantis politically ruined. These advisers, lawmakers, and operatives personally …
Read More »Georgia Prosecutor Asks FBI For Security Help After Trump Sicced His Fans on Investigations
Fulton County, Georgia, is asking the federal government for security help as it conducts a high-profile probe into former President Donald Trump. The request came a day after Trump tore into those investigating him while calling for his supporters to rise up and take action if the investigations don’t go …
Read More »Lara Trump Talks Political 'War,' 'Good Versus Evil' in Extremist Heart of Texas
Lara Trump, who recently made headlines for speculating on Fox News that Clippy the Microsoft Word assistant is spying on her documents, made a pit stop in north Texas Wednesday ahead of her father-in-law’s rally in Houston this Saturday to speak at an event organized by the Collin County Conservative …
Read More »'Cowboys for Trump' Founder Now Just a Cowboy After Bashing Former President
QAnon adherents congregated in Las Vegas over the weekend for a multi-day conference to spread misinformation about the 2020 election, Covid vaccines, and probably most everything else that was addressed at what was dubbed the For God & Country Patriot Double Down convention. One of the speakers was “Cowboys for …
Read More »George Clooney Calls Trump Girl-Crazy 'Knucklehead,' Likens U.S. to 'Battered Child'
George Clooney has said he wouldn’t run for president of the United States because he would rather have a “nice life.” In aninterview with the BBC’s Andrew Marr yesterday (October 10th), the Oscar winner said entering politics does not appeal to him, and instead looks forward to reducing his workload. …
Read More »Laura Jane Grace Gave Four Seasons Total Landscaping a Cleansing Ritual
Standing on a makeshift stage surrounded by shrubbery, the smell of cedar chips lacing the humid summer air, Laura Jane Grace addressed the sold-out crowd that had shambled through the industrial wasteland of the Philadelphia outskirts to see her play a pretty unconventional venue: Four Seasons Total Landscaping. “I’ve performed …
Read More »This Is Your Brain After Trump
This piece originally appeared as part of Rolling Stone’s annual Hot List, in the July/August 2021 issue of the magazine. When Twitter banned @real-donaldtrump on January 8th, it short-circuited the 45th president’s hard-wired connection to the nation’s consciousness, silencing his anytime platform to threaten, cajole, insult, troll, and terrify the …
Read More »Trump's Chief of Staff Pushed DOJ To Investigate Bogus Election Conspiracy Theories, Newly Uncovered Emails Show
As his presidency was coming to a close, Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, urged the Justice Department to investigate wild and unfounded conspiracy theories involving the 2020 presidential election, according to newly uncovered emails which were provided to Congress and reviewed by The New York Times. Meadows repeatedly asked …
Read More »Lindsey Graham Displays His Deep Devotion to the Cult of Trump in Fox Interview
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) proved once again his undying loyalty to the former president, going so far as to declare that Trump and his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, the “future of the Republican Party.” Graham began the Fox interview on Sunday by defending Donald Trump, whom the Senate failed to convict …
Read More »The Republican Pandemic Aid Plan Is a Trick
Saturday will mark one year since we’ve been seeing Americans die from Covid-19, and in January of this year alone, the disease killed 96,377 people in this country — more than two-and-one-half times the number of lives it claimed just two months prior. The escalation in fatalities is apparently a …
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