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Ron Johnson Says He Still Has Many Unanswered Questions

Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin has been on the forefront of elevating fringe theories about President Biden’s son Hunter, the coronavirus and the results of the 2020 election. In recent weeks he has come under renewed scrutiny for claiming in a series of radio interviews in his home state that the Jan. 6 attack on […] More

by Tonya Frazier March 1, 2021, 3:00 am
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Trump Revives Familiar Falsehoods in CPAC Speech

Former President Donald J. Trump, in his first public appearance since leaving the White House, mounted inaccurate attacks against his successor and revived familiar falsehoods in a speech on Sunday at the Conservative Political Action Conference. In a speech replete with false and misleading claims, Mr. Trump again repeated the lie that he had won […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 28, 2021, 11:21 pm
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‘I think of it every day’

The Supreme Court decided Monday that they were high court justices and not mob assets on the Trump payroll—clearing the way for the release of the tax returns Trump jealously guards like Jeffrey Dahmer guarded his refrigerator. Soon after, this fun little Reuters story dropped into my lap. Author and journalist E. Jean Carroll has been waiting […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 28, 2021, 9:15 pm
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CPAC Takeaways: Trump, Kristi Noem, Ron DeSantis, ‘Cancel Culture’

Any lingering belief that Donald J. Trump would fade from the political scene like other past presidents evaporated fully on Sunday as he spoke for more than 90 minutes in a grievance-filled and self-promoting address that sought to polish up his presidential legacy, take aim at his enemies and tease his political future. Here are […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 28, 2021, 7:58 pm
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Progressives are right to push President Biden to cut military spending

Would it surprise you to know that the Orange Julius Caesar, unable to feel satisfied with the increased dollars spent under his watch, couldn’t resist lying about it? “We’ve totally rebuilt the military.” (To quote Shermer High School’s John Bender: “Totally?”) Spending on defense, according to Donald Trump, “used to be ‘million.’ And then, about […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 28, 2021, 4:30 pm
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Trump Wins CPAC Straw Poll, But Only 68 Percent Want Him to Run Again

ORLANDO, Fla. — Nearly four months after he lost the 2020 election, Donald J. Trump was able to celebrate being a winner again on Sunday, after he captured the 2024 presidential straw poll of the Conservative Political Action Conference, while Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida finished first in a second 2024 straw poll covering a […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 28, 2021, 3:50 pm
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Trump, Addressing Conservatives, Plans to Claim Leadership of G.O.P.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Former President Donald J. Trump was planning to use his first public appearance since leaving office to lash President Biden and insist that there are no divisions within the Republican Party — even as he plots revenge on those lawmakers who have broken with him. In a speech prepared for his Sunday […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 28, 2021, 3:09 pm
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Trump ‘groomed’ Chansley and millions of other Americans to believe conspiracies

… including Republicans erecting literal golden idols of their slovenly god-king. If God doesn’t flush Orlando down a fucking sinkhole this weekend, then Sodom and Gomorrah deserve a huge apology. Of course, we’re not here to praise Donald Trump, but to bury Taco Bell sporks in our rheumy eyeballs if he somehow becomes a viable political force […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 28, 2021, 2:30 pm
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‘The Republican party really no longer stands for any kind of principles’

In fact, they’re so far off the deep end these days, a former CPAC chair even slammed the conference and its slouch into death cultism in an interview on Friday. Huffington Post: Mickey Edwards — who led the American Conservative Union, which organizes the event, for five years until 1983 — ripped Republicans attending this year’s […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 28, 2021, 11:30 am
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At CPAC, a Golden Image, a Magic Wand and Reverence for Trump

“We’re so disgusted by Republicans that, honestly, if Trump’s not running, we don’t care who wins,” Sany Dash said as she worked at her Trump merchandise booth. Ms. Dash’s store, Bye Bye Democrats, was bustling on Saturday as CPAC attendees browsed bejeweled MAGA clutches, plush elephants and a tapestry featuring an image of Mr. Trump […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 28, 2021, 5:00 am
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A Day Before He Speaks, Conservative Gathering Is Mostly About Trump

ORLANDO, Fla. — A pair of influential House Republicans used a conservative political gathering on Saturday to lavish praise on former President Donald J. Trump and, in ways subtle and direct, marginalize their G.O.P. colleagues who have distanced themselves from Mr. Trump in the aftermath of the Capitol riot last month. House Minority Leader Kevin […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 27, 2021, 7:36 pm
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Opinion | Cuomo and the Twilight of the Anti-Trump Idols

Throughout the Trump presidency and especially in the Covid era, there was a quest for figures that could be held up as embodiments of everything that Trump’s opposition wanted to restore: reason, technical competence, idealism. Over time these figures took on the character of familiar dramatic archetypes — the Good Republican, the Heroic Whistleblower, the […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 27, 2021, 2:30 pm