His name is Nick Fuentes. Here is Maggie Haberman and Alan Feuer at the The New York Times: Former President Donald J. Trump on Tuesday night had dinner with Nick Fuentes, an outspoken antisemite and racist who is one of...
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Robert Jeffress helped stoke the GOP “civil war.” Now he wants no part of it.
Here is Anugrah Kumar’s piece on one of Donald Trump’s most prominent court evangelicals: Texas megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress, who was one of the first Evangelical leaders to publicly support former President Donald Trump and attend his rallies during the...
Eric Metaxas: “Spokesperson for election fraud conspiracies and an evangelist for a politicized God who would support going to battle for Donald Trump”
“On the Media” podcast tackles Eric Metaxas and Salem Media. It’s well done. The first episode shows how Salem radio hosts who refused to promote Trump were fired from the network. Ben Shapiro (once an anti-Trumper), Joe Walsh, and Michael...
“Jack Smith makes me look like a golden retriever puppy”
When I first saw this image (above) of the Justice Department’s new special counsel to investigate Donald Trump I thought it was a joke. Why did Merrick Garland appoint Coach Beard from Ted Lasso to prosecute Trump? But it looks...
Court evangelical James Robison: Trump acted “like a little elementary schoolchild”
The Washington Post is covering a speech by the seventy-nine-year-old James Robison at the November 16 meeting of the National Association of Christian Lawmakers. Read the Post piece here. According to its website, the National Association of Christian Lawmakers (NACL)...
Zakaria: The GOP must purge Trump
Do the results of the 2022 midterm elections represent a serious wound, if not a mortal wound, to Donald Trump and Trumpism? Not really. Take the issue of election denial. Kari Lake lost her gubernatorial bid in Arizona, but the...
Why last night’s Mike Pence interview was so hard to watch
In case you missed it, CNN hosted a townhall conversation with former vice president Mike Pence. Jake Tapper hosted the event and Pence took questions from the audience. Pence is clearly positioning himself for a presidential run in 2024 and...
Why Kari Lake lost the Arizona gubernatorial race
Watch Vaughn Hillyard on Morning Joe: This, of course, is also a stinging indictment of Trump’s 2024 candidacy. Even though Lake lost, I still think it is disturbing that she got over 1.2 million votes....
“Florida Man Makes Announcement”
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What Trump said last night
I managed to stomach Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential announcement last night. Here are my live tweets: Trump came out to a full room at Mar-A-Lago. A lot of nicely dressed people in the audience as well as the kind of...
If GOP candidates lose, Eric Metaxas and Mike “MyPillow Guy” Lindell will find fraud
Here is Metaxas talking to Steve Deace of Glenn Beck’s website, The Blaze: In a strange historical rant, Deace says that Christianity survived for “1700 years” because it was “subversive” and refused to “bow to Caesar.” Perhaps this is true...
Ex-presidents who ran again
After tonight, Donald Trump will be the fifth former president on this list. As Joshua Zeitz reminds us at Politico, only four former presidents ran again after they were voted out of office. They are Martin Van Buren, Grover Cleveland,...
Can Trump win again?
Tonight Donald Trump will announce his candidacy for the presidency in 2024. Can he win? Conservative writer Kevin Williamson thinks it’s possible. Here is a taste of his piece today at The New York Times: It will not be easy...
It looks like the Trump “disinfo brigade fell flat” this time around
Of course they should have fell flat in the wake of the 2020 election as well. Here is Jack Shafer at Politico: The red wave wasn’t the only conspicuous no-show on Election Day. The so-called rising tide of political disinformation...
Mike Pence: “The president’s words were reckless. It’s clear he decided to be part of the problem”
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How Trump “sabotaged” the GOP
John Podhoretz is a conservative columnist who edits Commentary magazine and writes a columnist for the New York Post. He was a speechwriter for Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. Here is a taste of his recent column at the...
Zakaria: The GOP is “not filled with authoritarians.” It’s “filled with cowards”
Fareed Zakaria believes the midterms were about two things: abortion and Trump. Here is a taste of his column at The Washington Post: So, what was the vote about (or, rather, against)? It’s difficult to be sure, because exit polls...
Today’s New York Post on Trump
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Metaxas says Biden and Pelosi are not Catholics and anyone who believes otherwise are buying into a “lie” from the “pit of hell”
Metaxas showed-up at a Trump rally in LaTrobe this weekend. The Biden and Pelosi stuff starts at the 2:38 mark: My “favorite” part of this interview is at the 3:10 mark when the Trump-loving Metaxas says that “when somebody lies...
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis believes he is God’s anointed one
Donald Trump said this week that he will probably run for president in 2024. Many are saying that Ron DeSantis will also run for president in 2024. This could put some evangelicals in a real dilemma. Will they vote for...