During the tribute to Martin Scorsese’s Apple film Killers of the Flower Moon at this year’s Gotham Awards, Robert De Niro claimed that his original speech had been edited. “I just want to say one thing,” he said during Monday night’s ceremony in New York City, according to Variety. “The …
Read More »Trump Campaign Staffer Told Fake Electors to Operate in 'Complete Secrecy'
The Trump campaign told a group of Georgia Republicans who planned on misrepresenting themselves to Congress as the state’s rightful electors to make sure they carry out the scheme in “complete secrecy,” The Washington Post reported Monday. In an email on December 13, 2020, the day before electors in the …
Read More »Hack Interviews Liar
Piers Morgan has been one of Donald Trump‘s most vocal advocates in the United Kingdom for years. Those years may now be over. The consistently insufferable British TV host interviewed the former president for his new show Piers Morgan Uncensored. After the interview, Morgan on Wednesday tweeted out a very …
Read More »Man Arrested For Allegedly Telling Secret Service He Wanted to Kill Donald Trump
A New York City man has been arrested and charged with threatening to kidnap and kill Donald Trump. Thomas Welnicki, 72, was arrested Friday in New York. The federal complaint unsealed Monday morning claimed the Rockaway Park, Queens, resident had made multiple threats to law enforcement agencies, including the Secret …
Read More »The Jan. 6 Committee Says Jim Jordan Has Some Explaining to Do
The House committee investigating Jan. 6 has named a second sitting Republican member of Congress: Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio). The committee on Wednesday requested an interview with the MAGA-friendly lawmaker who previously admitted to talking with former President Donald Trump on the day of the insurrection. “We write to seek …
Read More »'Trump Called Us to D.C.': Capitol Rioter Who Tased Cop Blames Trump for Jan. 6 Attack. So Does a Federal Judge
The longer the federal hearings for indicted Jan. 6 rioters continue, the clearer it becomes that former President Trump bear a substantial amount of blame for the attack on the Capitol. During a Wednesday sentencing hearing for Jan. 6 defendant Russell Peterson, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said outright …
Read More »Lauren Boebert Got a Lot of Mileage Out of Her Bigoted Ilhan Omar Elevator Story, New Video Shows
Suggesting her Muslim colleague is a terrorist is apparently regular material in Lauren Boebert‘s pathetic, unfunny standup act. The Colorado lawmaker was filmed in September telling a near-identical story to the one she told over Thanksgiving weekend about riding in a Capitol Hill elevator with Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and …
Read More »Mnuchin and Pompeo Discussed a Plan to Oust Trump from Office on Jan. 6: Report
Steve Mnuchin and Mike Pompeo discussed a plan to remove Trump from office after the Jan. 6 insurrection, according to Jonathan Karl’s new book Betrayal, which chronicles the final days of the former president’s time in office. Then-Treasury Secretary Mnuchin reportedly called then-Secretary of State Pompeo on the evening of …
Read More »'You Can Be a Patriot or You Can Be a P*ssy': Trump Confirms He Bullied Pence on Jan. 6
In an interview with ABC’s Jonathan Karl, former President Donald Trump said he “would not dispute” reports that he told then-Vice President Mike Pence on the morning of Jan. 6 before his supporters launched a deadly storming of the Capitol, “You can be a patriot or you can be a …
Read More »Right-Wing Conspiracy Rally Collapses Under Weight of Right-Wing Conspiracies
A rally for supporters of the “Big Lie” is looking like a big flop. Reports from the start of the “Justice for J6” rally Saturday show an event much smaller than the January 6th Capitol insurrection. Video from on-scene reporters appears to show more members of the media in attendance …
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