QAnon supporter Lauren Witzke just won a GOP Senate primary in Delaware, making her the second QAnon supporter to win a Republican Senate nomination this cycle. Here’s Witzke in a QAnon shirt. She’s also tweeted the QAnon hashtag #wwg1wga.
Right-wing media is melting down today over the erroneous idea that Politico is secretly funded by USAID. Here's the backstory:
-Politico missed payroll yesterday because of a tech issue.
-MAGA supporters took that as proof that Politico is secretly bankrolled by USAID, whose programs have been suspended by Trump.
-They seized on USASpending.gov pages showing the entire US gov paid Politico $8.2 million last year, wrongly assuming all that money came from USAID alone.
-That money appears to be for Politico Pro subscriptions, which cost thousands of dollars a year. Nonetheless! Lots of MAGA personalities still mad, now Dana Loesch wants a protest at Politico's office.
The irony here is that Benny Johnson, a key popularizer of this secret Politico funding theory, actually was himself secretly and illegally paid millions of dollars by the Russian government. He claims he didn't know the money was from Russia. washingtonpost.com/style/media/20…
Politico mania has made it to the floor of Congress! In an oversight hearing today, Lauren Boebert falsely claimed that Politico is laying people off now that they've been cut off from their secret USAID funds. "They can no longer sustain themselves."
This indictment alleges that right-wing commentators like Dave Rubin, Benny Johnson, Tim Pool, and Lauren Southern — as part of the "Tenet Media" YouTube channel — have been unwittingly working for a Russian influence operation.
Two people described in the Tenet indictment as unnamed "founders" were very aware their operation was funded by Russians.
Tenn. biz records list Tenet's founders as BlazeTV host and TPUSA contributor Lauren Chen aka "Roaming Millennial," and her husband.
Funny moment in the Tenet indictment: a Tenet founder, who have told Youtubers their funding is coming from a Western European businessman, emails the investor for more money. When no one responds, Tenet's founder drops the pretense and googles "time in Moscow"
Lots of big revelations coming out tonight in the exhibits to Dominion's lawsuit against Fox News.
Days before Jan. 6, Tucker Carlson wrote in a text message exchange about Trump: "I hate him passionately" and "I truly can't wait" to ignore him.
The exhibits include hot new details on the source of the Dominion hoax, a woman who believes herself a ghost who was "internally decapitated" in a car accident.
She claims Scalia was killed during a human hunting expedition, and advises Powell not to join that hunting club
The new Dominion exhibits include a text message exchange where Steve Bannon tries to recruit "depressed" Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo to run for Senate herself against Chuck Schumer.
This filing in the Dominion lawsuit against Fox News is one of the most remarkable documents I've ever seen. Filled with private texts between Fox stars like Hannity and Carlson, plus Murdoch, all admitting they knew Fox's stolen election claims were lies. int.nyt.com/data/documentt…
The texts show Fox trapped in a dilemma of its own making, afraid to admit the election was honest bc they'll lose viewers to Newsmax. Tucker rages and tries to get Fox reporter @JacquiHeinrich fired after she admits the election wasn't stolen.
Here's Rupert Murdoch telling Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott to focus on winning the GA Senate races for Republicans, "helping any way we can."
Eliza Bleu has told grim stories of her life, claiming she was addicted to meth and forced to live in a gang-land apartment by a high profile athlete. But Bleu's former friends aren't buying it: “That is so not true. She lived in a really cute apartment." thedailybeast.com/eliza-bleus-ow…
Eliza Bleu's work as an advocate has been integral to Elon Musk's efforts to paint previous Twitter execs as soft on child abuse material. But Epstein survivors have been critical of her actions: "She clung to us all from out of nowhere."
There's a big feud breaking out tonight between two of the biggest names in right-wing media. It pits Steven Crowder against Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire, all over a $50 million offer for Crowder that he found so offensive he leaked the terms of the offer.
Yesterday, Crowder—newly independent and trying to build his own media company—released the terms of the deal without naming DW. Crowder made this out to be a big whistleblower moment, urging his fans to fight "Big Con" (and join his email list, ofc).
Crowder focused on two parts of the offer: that he would lose money if he failed to deliver all of his contracted episodes, and that his money could be reduced if he was banned from YouTube or other platforms. He left out that this was over *$50 million* over 4 years.