About time! MAGA Archbishop Carlos Maria Vigano, a far right Putin loving culture warrior & ally of Michael Flynn & Steve Bannon, has been excommunicated! He spoke on Flynn’s Reawaken America Tour last year, during the Dec 2020 Jericho March, & . w/ Bannon on 1/4/21. 1/
7/ In March 2023, Vigano spoke during the first Congress of the International Movement of Russophiles with Sergei Lavrov, Aleksandr Dugin, and Konstantin Malofeev.
8/ That month, Hamas leadership said it had recently met with Lavrov. They had met with him on prior occasions too.
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10/ Remember how Trump gave classified Israeli intelligence to Lavrov?
Trump has picked Paul Ingrassia to lead the Office of Special Counsel. As of 9 days ago, Ingrassia’s Instagram included a pinned photo of himself w/ self-professed “misogynist” Andrew Tate who has since been charged w/ rape & trafficking in the UK & who performed the Nazi salute on video (in apparent defense of Elon Musk). 1/
MAGA’s favorite White South African activist group—Afriforum—admitted last year that “there is no white genocide going on in South Africa.”
(In 2018, Afriforum had traveled to the US to discuss their claim that White South African farmers were being murdered due to their race. They have since hobnobbed with Tucker Carlson, Jack Posobiec, New Founding, CPAC, & NatCon.) 1/
The Center for Renewing America—founded by Trump’s OMB Director pick Russ Vought, a top architect of Project 2025—has *explicitly* said that it wants the federal govt to “eliminate” Obamacare’s life-saving Medicaid expansion. Here are some stats on the expansion. 1/ cbpp.org/research/healt…
Pete Hegseth attends a church that belongs to the CREC, the evangelical denomination founded by Christ Church pastor Doug Wilson. This guy. 👇 h/t @ExaminingMoscow 1/
3/ Doug Wilson founded the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, formerly known as the Confederation of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC). Pete Hegseth attends a CREC church as discussed in the USA Today piece.