It’s January 6th. Later today, Vice President Kamala Harris will certify the 2024 presidential election. She will do what Al Gore did in 2000 and Mike Pence did in 2020. Here is Mickael Kruse at Politico: Last summer, in a […]
2020 Election
“Once he takes office, Mr. Trump will be positioned to finish refashioning Jan. 6 as a modern Lost Cause of the Confederacy.”
Tyrants rewrite history. They do so to strengthen their claim to political power. The insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 was based on the lie that the 2020 election was stolen. Trump’s telling of what happened on […]
Jenna Ellis will testify against Rudy Giuliani in Arizona election case
In 2020, Jenna Ellis was part of a group of Donald Trump lawyers who tried to overturn the results of the presidential election. She now realizes that she hitched her cart to the wrong wagon. This, of course, is what […]
Jenna Ellis pleads “not guilty” to felony charges in Arizona
Jenna Ellis is back in the news today. The lawyer who helped Donald Trump try to overturn the 2020 presidential election, and an outspoken evangelical Christian, pleaded “not guilty” today to forgery, fraud, and conspiracy charges in the Arizona “fake […]
Jenna Ellis loses her law license
The evangelical Christian lawyer who aided Donald Trump in his attempt to overthrow the 2020 election just lost her law license. Here is CNN: Jenna Ellis, who assisted Donald Trump after the 2020 election then pleaded guilty last year in the Georgia […]
Mitt Romney: Some Trump voters are “are out of touch with reality”
Earlier this week I received a query from a journalist who covers the United States for a conservative Protestant daily newspaper in the Netherlands affiliated with the Calvinist Reformed Political Party. (Follow the links to the paper and its party. […]
Is Oklahoma senator James Lankford conspiratorial enough for The Federalist?
Preview in new tab Here is The Federalist editor Mollie Hemingway, the daughter of a Missouri-Synod Lutheran minister. Career Democrat and ABC host George Stephanopoulos completely emasculated Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma this weekend on his Sunday show. Right at […]
Mike Pence’s son talked his father into showing-up on January 6, 2021 to certify the election
ABC News is reporting that Mike Pence was thinking about skipping the January 6, 2021 certification of the 2020 presidential election until his son, a Marine, convinced him otherwise during a Christmas 2020 family vacation in Colorado. All of this […]
Any House member who voted to certify the 2020 election has no real chance of being Speaker of the House in today’s GOP
Earlier today, the GOP caucus chose Minnesota Rep. Tom Emmer as its candidate for Speaker of the House. Hours later Emmer dropped out of the running. This leaves five candidates: Reps. Byron Donalds of Florida Chuck Fleischmann of Tennessee Mark […]
Trump plans to release a 100-page report on the Georgia election fraud claims
If Mike “MyPillow Guy” Lindell appears in the footnotes of this report I don’t know whether I am going to laugh or cry. 🙂 Here Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan at The New York Times: Hours after former President Donald […]
Fulton County, Georgia grand jury indicts Donald Trump. That’s #4. Evangelical lawyer Jenna Ellis also indicted. (UPDATED)
Trump may be done-in by the political philosophy of federalism. Since this Georgia indictment is a state charge, not a federal indictment, Trump cannot pardon himself should he win in 2024. Ironically, it may not be Joe Biden, Merrick Garland, […]
Responses to Trump’s third federal indictment
Donald Trump is now facing federal indictments in three different jurisdictions with a probable fourth indictment (Georgia) on its way. In case you missed it, yesterday Trump was indicted over efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Here are some of […]
Trump indictment #3 is coming soon. How are people (including a few evangelicals) responding?
This time the indictment is for January 6th. (Still waiting on Georgia). CNN has some good coverage. The indictment is probably coming, perhaps in days. It looks like Trump is going to spend most of 2024 in court. Here is […]
Mike Pence responds to an election denier at an Iowa Pizza Ranch
Mike Pence ran into an election denier at a Sioux City, Iowa Pizza Ranch. (As a north Jersey kid who is half Italian I can’t get my head around the idea of a “Pizza Ranch”–but I digress). She told Pence […]
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Fox News anchor Brett Baier: “I look at my job as being sort of like an ice hockey goalie trying to stop bad pucks from getting through…”
I am not sure if Brett Baier is Jim Craig of the 1980 Olympic team or Elvis Merzlikins of the Columbus Blue Jackets. Whatever the case, he has faced a lot of “bad pucks” over the years. Here is David […]
Inside Tucker’s head
I ran across this video today: And then I read David French’s recent column at The New York Times. A taste: On Tuesday evening, two news reports caught my attention. The first was an Emerson College poll of Republican primary voters in […]
More on the censure of Trump lawyer and evangelical pundit Jenna Ellis
As I wrote last night in this post, Jenna Ellis rarely tweets without claiming that she is a great defender of truth. She has built a platform on defending Donald Trump and contesting the 2020 election and now she had […]
Trump lawyer and conservative evangelical pundit Jenna Ellis is censured in Colorado for lying about the 2020 election
It was all lies. Jenna Ellis is a former Liberty University representative, Colorado Christian University law professor, former host of a podcast titled “Just the Truth,” and a Trump election fraud lawyer who, along with Rudolph Giuliani, tried to overturn […]
Why did Fox News lie to its viewers about the 2020 election?
David French offers a theory at his New York Times column: Fox isn’t just the news hub of right-wing America, it’s a cultural cornerstone, and its business model is so successful that it’s more accurate to think of the rest […]