by Jim Heath | Feb 4, 2021 | Congress, GOP, Headlines, QAnon
Democrats, and 11 Republicans, voted tonight to remove Marjorie Taylor Greene from both her committee assignments for espousing QAnon conspiracies before being elected to Congress – including supporting calls online for Nancy Pelosi’s execution. The 230-199 vote...
by Jim Heath | Feb 4, 2021 | Entertainment, Headlines, Trump
Donald Trump has preemptively submitted his resignation from SAG-AFTRA as the union moved through a disciplinary process that could have resulted in expelling him. On Wednesday, Trump sent an exclamation mark-laden letter to union president Gabrielle Carteris...
by Jim Heath | Feb 4, 2021 | Headlines, Impeachment, Trump
The House today asked Donald Trump to testify under oath next week as part of the former president’s second impeachment trial in the Senate. In a letter to Trump, the House’s lead impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said Trump’s testimony was necessary...
by Jim Heath | Feb 4, 2021 | Headlines, Trump
While Charles Koch and his late brother David have dominated Republican fundraising in recent decades, the billionaire Mercers’ recent strategic investments in far-right candidates bought them a disproportionate level of influence in the Republican Party before...
by Jim Heath | Feb 4, 2021 | 2020, Headlines
A voting technology company swept up in baseless conspiracy theories about the 2020 election filed a monster $2.7 billion lawsuit today against Fox News, some of the network’s star hosts, and pro-Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, alleging the...
by Jim Heath | Feb 2, 2021 | Headlines
The pro-Trump network Newsmax today cut off the microphone of Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, after he started amplifying bogus conspiracy theories about the 2020 election while on the air. On Monday, Twitter permanently banned the account belonging to MyPillow...
