Rep. Jim Jordan, a staunch devotee to Donald Trump who helped peddle lies about the 2020 election, urged “the left” to “uphold democratic norms” this week after the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity. “Hyper-partisan prosecutors like Jack Smith cannot weaponize the rule of law to go after the Administration’s chief political rival, and we […]
Establishment-backed Republican candidate Jeff Hurd has won his GOP primary for Rep. Lauren Boebert’s (R-Colo.) seat in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District, according to a projection from Decision Desk HQ. Hurd, an attorney in Grand Junction, won a competitive Republican contest over candidates including former state Rep. Ron Hanks (R), who had been elevated by Democrats […]
An infamous 95-year-old Holocaust denier has been ordered to stand trial in Germany on charges of incitement, authorities announced on Friday. Ursula Haverbeck was sentenced to 10 months in jail in November 2015 for denying that the Nazi German regime systematically murdered people at the Auschwitz concentration camp. She has appealed that sentence, and will […]
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a petition by MyPillow founder and election denier Mike Lindell to consider his challenge to the legality of the FBI’s seizure of his cellphone at a restaurant drive-through. The high court, without comment Monday, declined to reconsider three lower court rulings that went against […]
A judge has found Georgia Republican Party official Brian Pritchard guilty of illegally voting nine times over several years. Pritchard has falsely asserted Democrats had stolen the 2020 election through fraud. Administrative Law Judge Lisa Boggs wrote in her Wednesday decision that Pritchard, the Georgia GOP’s first vice chairman, violated state election laws by voting […]
WASHINGTON — An environmental lawyer whom Donald Trump wanted to take over the Justice Department in the days before the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol repeatedly asserted his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during a disbarment hearing Wednesday. Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department civil lawyer with no criminal law experience, had wanted […]
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A court plans to order the eviction of MyPillow from a suburban Minneapolis warehouse that it formerly used, but company founder and prominent election denier Mike Lindell said Wednesday that it’s just a formality because the landlord wants to take the property back. Lindell denied in an interview with The […]
Mark Robinson, who easily won North Carolina’s Republican gubernatorial primary on Tuesday, has the misfortune of having spent years on Facebook without thinking about his future political career. The current lieutenant governor of the state—and the first Black man to hold the position—was a furniture manufacturer who was launched into politics in 2018 when he […]
Every American is familiar with former President Donald Trump‘s efforts to undermine the results of the 2020 presidential election. But before those cries of wolf became a foundational Republican election strategy, some Democrats in El Paso were walking the same path. Now, one of those Democrats is looking to make a return to politics and […]
By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) – Sandy Hook conspiracy theorist Alex Jones could exit Chapter 11 bankruptcy by late March or early April, his lawyer said on Wednesday after a judge decided families whom he owes $1.5 billion for lying about the 2012 school shooting can vote on competing plans to resolve their claims. […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — MyPillow chief executive and prominent election denier Mike Lindell said Friday that Fox News has stopped running his company’s commercials, disputing the network’s assertion that it is simply because he hasn’t paid his bills. Lindell went public by tweeting that that Fox, which had been one of MyPillow’s biggest advertising outlets, had […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson called suggestions that he is an election denier “nonsense,” but refused to affirm that President Joe Biden won the 2020 election during an interview that aired Sunday. The Constitution was “clearly violated during the 2020 election,” the Louisiana Republican told CBS’ Margaret Brennan during an interview on “Face The Nation.” In […]