NEW: Jeremy Carl, top Trump State Dept. nominee, deleted 1000s of social media posts, many with inflammatory commentary, including incendiary posts about race, claims that “peaceful coexistence” with Democrats is impossible, even a call for Randi Weingarten to be executed. One deleted tweet said Capitol rioters on trial had it worse Black people in Jim Crow Mississippi.
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I had not seen this Fox News extended interview with Trump from 2024 — where they deliberately edited his Epstein answer — where he won’t commit to releasing the full files because of “phony” stuff in it. Check out what Trump said vs what Fox edited.

NEW on CNN: Darren Beattie, the acting Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy —one of Trump’s most senior State Department appointees — deleted tweets spreading unfounded rumors that Rubio attended gay foam parties and calling him “low IQ.” cnn.com/2025/03/10/pol… Beattie’s deleted tweet came after Rubio voted to certify the 2020 election. It also invoked a far-right conspiracy theory about a curfew violation arrest from Rubio’s teenage years that was later twisted into baseless speculation that Rubio is gay. cnn.com/2025/03/10/pol…

NEW on RFK Jr.: In audio we uncovered from his radio show he read and praised a description of Trump and his supporters as "belligerent idiots," "outright Nazis," and "cowards" and "bootlickers."

He also compared Trump to Adolf Hitler.

cnn.com/2024/11/21/pol… RFK later concluded Trump was NOT Hitler because "Hitler was interested in policy."

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NEW: In comments made on the forum of a porn website between 2008 and 2012, Mark Robinson called himself a "Black Nazi," said he supported reinstating slavery and -despite a recent history of anti-transgender rhetoric - said he enjoyed watching transgender pornography.
cnn.com/2024/09/19/pol… On the porn website Nude Africa, Robinson also graphically described his own sexual arousal as an adult from the memory of secretly “peeping” on women in public gym showers as a teen, recounting the story as a memory he said he still fantasized about.
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NEW: Harris called Trump’s border wall “a monument standing in opposition to not just everything I value, but to the fundamental values upon which this country was built” in 2019.

Now, she’s using Trump’s wall in an ad to say she’s tough on the border.

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/09/04… CNN identified one of the border walls in her new campaign ads as constructed during Trump’s presidency in Sasabe, Arizona, in an area where there had not previously been border wall (and building there was was quite controversial).

The other walls feature signs that they were Trump-era walls, such as so-called anti-climbing plates that were built during the Trump years. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/09/04…

NEW: During his 2006 congressional run, Tim Walz’s campaign falsely claimed he wasn’t drinking during his 1995 arrest and the DUI charge was dismissed. They even said he drove to the station.

Court records show the truth.

He was drunk, driving 96 mph.

cnn.com/2024/08/15/pol… In 2006, Tim Walz’s campaign made multiple false claims about his 1995 arrest:

- He wasn’t drinking that night and failed the sobriety test due to hearing loss from his National Guard service.

- He drove himself to the police station and then home after being stopped.

- The DUI charge was dropped because the trooper misunderstood his condition and there was no basis for the charge.

Court records contradict all of these claims, showing Walz was drunk, driving 96 mph, and was transported to jail by a state trooper.

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NEW: JD Vance repeatedly indicated in 2016 that he believed Trump committed repeated sexual assault, questioned Trump’s credibility over his accusers and even tweeted, “What percentage of the American population has @realDonaldTrump sexually assaulted?”

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/07/23… In other another instance in 2016, Vance liked a tweet that said Trump committed “serial sexual assault.”

“Maybe the Central Park 5 could take out a full-page ad to condemn the coddling of thug real estate barons who commit serial sexual assault.”

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NEW: Ed Martin, a top leader on the RNC’s platform committee has entertained jailing women who get abortions and has advocated for a national ban without exceptions for rape.

He has pushed back on claims Trump is watering down the platform on abortion.

cnn.com/kfile-ed-marti… Martin, the deputy policy director for the convention’s platform committee, is one of threepeople the Republican National Committee selected in May to help craft the party’s platform, which serves as a blueprint for the Republican Party’s agenda by detailing policy positions and how Republicans and former President Donald Trump would govern if elected.

NEW from me: JD Vance, a top candidate to be Trump's VP liked tweets in 2016 and 2017 that harshly criticized Trump and his policies — including one speculating that he'd serve in a Clinton administration.

Other tweets liked by Vance said Trump committed “serial sexual assault,” called him “one of USA’s most hated, villainous, douchey celebs." A since-removed set of tweets, also harshly criticized Trump’s response to the White nationalist rally in Charlottesville – something he now defends Trump over.

cnn.com/2024/06/13/pol… Vance liked a series of tweets calling then-candidate Trump a “monster” and a “nemesis of the GOP.” He also liked a tweet acknowledging “threats and derogatory terms Trump supporters hurl at Jews.” He even liked a tweet from CNN anchor Jake Tapper criticizing Trump’s tweet about a woman’s appearance amidst then-first lady Melania Trump’s campaign against cyberbullying.

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NEW: Michele Marrow, the GOP nominee to run North Carolina’s public schools and its $11 billion budget has repeatedly called for executing Democrats including Joe Biden and Barack Obama (who she said she wanted executed PPV on TV).

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The Biden execution comment was because Biden suggested Americans were masks at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

She also suggested executing Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Hillary Clinton, Sen. Chuck Schumer and other prominent people such as Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates.

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Exclusive: Kenneth Chesebro, who helped devise the Trump campaign’s fake electors plot, concealed a secret Twitter account from Michigan prosecutors, hiding dozens of posts that undercut his statements to investigators about his role in the scheme.
cnn.com/2024/02/26/pol… Chesebro told Michigan investigators GOP electors served as a backup plan if Trump prevailed in election lawsuits. He dismissed the notion of legislatures intervening if Trump lost in court as "absurd."

But as BadgerPundit on Twitter that's exactly what he advocated.

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NEW: In the 2000s, Mike Johnson worked collaborated closely with a conversion therapy group on an event aimed at high school teens telling them homosexuality was behavior they could change - and pointing them to "ex-gay" conversion therapy ministries.

cnn.com/2023/11/01/pol… Johnson worked for years with Exodus Ministries - a pro-conversion therapy group that later shutdown and apologized for "pain" it caused on the Day of Truth. A day they launched in response to a anti-bullying event at high schools to help LGBTQ youth.
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NEW: Speaker of the House Mike Johnson's past includes harsh anti-gay statements, including support for criminalizing gay sex. In the mid-2000s, he called homosexuality 'inherently unnatural' and a 'dangerous lifestyle,' and said it could destroy America.

cnn.com/2023/10/25/pol… “Experts project that homosexual marriage is the dark harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy that could doom even the strongest republic," Johnson wrote in on editorial.

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NEW: Years before he said he was running for president to “defeat the cult of gender ideology,” Donald Trump praised transgender Miss Universe contestants and cited transgender women in Olympic sports as his reasoning for letting them compete.

cnn.com/2023/06/16/pol… "We didn’t have a rule. This is sort of new territory. We are going by at some point, the Olympic rules...“I said we have 58 contestants in Canada, I said let her run and maybe she will win and if she wins, she will go to Miss Universe."

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NEW: Ron DeSantis once strongly supported sending “offensive and defensive” weapons to Ukraine - repeatedly criticizing Obama as weak on Russia, saying the U.S. had “common cause” with the Ukrainian people in their fight with Russia.

cnn.com/2023/02/26/pol… “We in the Congress have been urging the president, I’ve been, to provide arms to Ukraine. They want to fight their good fight. They’re not asking us to fight it for them. And the president has steadfastly refused. And I think that that’s a mistake,” said DeSantis in 2015.

NEW: In 2010, Nikki Haley spoke with a small group where she defended the Confederate flag, Confederate History Month, & secession. One questioner was a board of member of the white nationalist group that inspired the 2015 shooting at a Charleston church. cnn.com/2023/02/21/pol… Interviewing Haley in the small, now defunct “The Palmetto Patriots" was Robert Slimp - a founding board member and active member of the Council of Conservative Citizens.
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NEW: George Santos has said he was unaware of alleged fraud at "Ponzi Scheme" he worked at for more than a year. But in a since-deleted tweet, Santos was alerted to fraud by a potential customer and defended the business as "100 legitimate."

cnn.com/2023/01/13/pol… Santos was employed at Harbor City Capital from Jan. 2020 until April 2021. The response from Santos shows he being alerted to them having a fraudulent bank guarantee more than a year before it was shutdown following an SEC complaint.

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NEW: We uncovered many more falsehoods from George Santos — including giving a fake Jewish name he appeared to do GoFundMes under, claims he was removed from a fancy NYC private school, and claims he repped Goldman Sachs at a finance conference (and more).
cnn.com/2022/12/28/pol… Santos said he represented Goldman Sachs at a top financial conference where he berated the company for investing in renewables — organizers say not only was he not on a panel but he didn’t even attend. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/12/28…

NEW: Hershel Walker got a tax break the last two years on his TX home intended only for your primary residence — possibly running afoul of both Texas tax law and Georgia rules for establishing residency for both voting and running for office: cnn.com/2022/11/23/pol… Walker took the homestead exception — which TX law says is for your “primary residence,” the last two years. Georgia has 15 rules considered for establishing residency for purpose of voting — one of which is voting/running where you take the exemption. cnn.com/2022/11/23/pol…

NEW: In an interview discussing Democratic attempts to pass voting rights bills, and GOP attempts to make voting more strict, Kim Crockett, the GOP nominee to run elections in Minnesota said the issue of voter integrity was "our 9/11" for Republicans...

cnn.com/2022/08/25/pol… Crockett, a conservative activist running for secretary of state, previously was quoted saying of Somali immigrants in Minnesota, "These aren't people coming from Norway, let's put it that way. These people are very visible."

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