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Finally, Brenden Dilley appears to be panicking about the GOP's prospects in the midterm elections: "THE DEMS WERE CUTTING KIDS DICKS OFF, ALLOWING ILLEGALS TO INVADE, MURDER AND LIVE OFF OF YOUR TAX DOLLARS, ALL THE WHILE THE MILITARY WAS IN TOTAL WOKE DISARRAY! FUCK YOUR GAS PRICES! IT'S REPUBLICAN OR COMMUNISM!"

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We just won a historic legal victory, together with our partner, the League of Women Voters, and our co-counsel, to defend voters from AI-generated deception and voter intimidation.

A federal court in New Hampshire has ruled in favor of our clients in LWVNH v. Kramer, the first major voter-intimidation case involving AI deepfakes. The ruling:

Confirms violations of the Voting Rights Act and state election laws;

Awards damages to the voters harmed; and

Permanently bars the defendant from using AI-generated robocalls to intimidate voters in any future U.S. election.

This is a major win, not just for New Hampshire, but for democracy nationwide.

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[### Trump's A.I. Video "Propaganda" | The Brian Lehrer Show

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[### How Trump is Using AI to Attack Enemies and Rouse ...

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How Trump Is Using Fake Imagery to Attack Enemies and Rouse Supporters

By Stuart A. Thompson Oct. 21, 2025

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The era of A.I. propaganda is here — and President Trump is an enthusiastic participant.

After nationwide protests this weekend against Mr. Trump’s administration, the president posted an A.I.-generated video to his Truth Social account depicting himself as a fighter pilot, careening through major cities and dropping excrement on protesters.

It was the latest example in a yearslong shift by Mr. Trump to deploy fake imagery, generated by artificial intelligence, as part of his social media commentary.

Mr. Trump has posted A.I.-generated images or videos at least 62 times on his Truth Social account since late 2022, according to a review by The New York Times of his posts to the social network. The fake imagery has included blistering attacks on his political rivals, flattering depictions of himself, and misleading political campaign materials made entirely by A.I. tools.

Overall, he has attacked his opponents, including top Democratic leaders and his Republican rivals, with A.I. imagery at least 14 times.

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In the run-up to the 2024 election, Mr. Trump posted at least 19 A.I. images or videos in support of his presidential campaign, including an image of Elon Musk next to a D.O.G.E. logo long before the cost-cutting idea became reality.

19 fake images and videos about his campaign

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Mr. Trump posted at least seven times this year attempting to score political points by bringing to life his policy ideas, mocking criticism against them or celebrating his administration.

7 fake images and videos about his policies and administration

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And, most of all, Mr. Trump posted at least 21 fantastical reimaginings of himself — rendered, for example, as the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize or even a king.

21 fake images or videos about himself

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Some of the posts were likely to mislead viewers or amplify political divisions. Others were jokes with obvious markers of A.I. trickery. Political experts said that even the most anodyne uses of A.I. by the president would normalize the tools as a potent new part of modern political propaganda.

“Trump is the most notable person sharing this content, but this is really becoming an international, new form of political messaging,” said Henry Ajder, an expert on A.I. and the founder of Latent Space Advisory, an A.I.-consulting firm. “It’s designed to go viral, it’s clearly fake, it’s got this absurdist kind of tone to it. But there’s often still some kind of messaging in there.”

The White House has responded to questions over Mr. Trump’s use of A.I. imagery by suggesting it was part of his successful social media strategy.

“No leader has used social media to communicate directly with the American people more creatively and effectively than President Trump,” Liz Huston, the White House’s assistant press secretary, said Friday in an emailed statement.

Mr. Trump’s use of the technology has evolved alongside the tools, which have rapidly improved from producing obviously fake images in 2022 to more lifelike renderings — including video and audio — this year.

In countries around the world, the tools have offered new ways for politicians and candidates to bring to life their partisan arguments. Politicians have, for instance, used A.I. to imagine futures they want voters to fear, such as punctuating anti-immigrant messages by using A.I. to depict classrooms overcrowded with immigrants.

For Mr. Trump, the tools helped him to visualize the supposed effects of “open borders” during his campaign, contrasting two A.I. images: one an idyllic scene, the other an overcrowded one with trash piled out in the open.

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Two A.I.-generated images, shown side by side. The first image shows an idyllic city street with the text: “Your future under Trump.” The second shows a crowded thoroughfare with the text: “Your future under Kamala.”

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The content can be rapidly created by typing descriptions of the desired images and videos into A.I.-generating tools like Grok or ChatGPT. Some videos were made using multiple A.I. tools, such as a video of Robert De Niro that Mr. Trump shared last year: Someone replaced the actor’s lip movements with A.I.-rendered manipulations to match a voice soundalike that was also created by A.I. audio tools.

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The New York Times used tools designed to detect A.I. images to help identify the fakes, alongside manual review. Content that could not be clearly identified as A.I., and posts that appeared to primarily show real videos that had been edited by A.I.-powered filters, were excluded.

Mr. Trump’s use of A.I. content began in earnest during his re-election bid, when the tools became sophisticated enough for amateur creators to produce realistic images of famous people, including Mr. Trump.

Last September, after his first debate against Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee and then the vice president, Mr. Trump claimed that Haitian immigrants in Ohio were eating cats and dogs — a racist conspiracy theory for which there was no credible evidence.

Mr. Trump responded to the backlash that followed by posting a flurry of A.I. images depicting him embracing cats, ducks and dogs. His supporters shared the images widely online.

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“The more ridiculous the photo or video, the more likely it is to dominate our news feeds,” said Adrian Shahbaz, vice president of research and analysis at Freedom House, a nonprofit focusing on democracy and liberty around the world. “A controversial post gets shared by people who enjoyed it and people outraged by it. That’s twice the shares.”

Mr. Trump’s embrace of A.I. content has accelerated since he re-entered the White House in January, increasing in sophistication alongside tools that can now generate superrealistic A.I. videos and audio. It was not clear in most cases whether the imagery was posted by Mr. Trump or by a member of his team, but the message-conscious president is famous for controlling his own social media accounts. It was also not clear in many cases whether the A.I. imagery was created by Mr. Trump or someone in the White House, or whether it originated elsewhere and was simply reposted by Mr. Trump's account.

The president has used A.I. imagery to highlight policy ideas and appeared to joke about issues that were roiling the public. For instance, when he appointed himself as the head of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, he published an image of himself depicted as a conductor. He also posted an image of himself atop a mountain, next to the Canadian flag, punctuating his suggestion that Canada should become the 51st state.

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In recent months, Mr. Trump has demonstrated a willingness to use A.I.-generated content to skewer opponents and stoke deeper tensions.

This month, he posted a video depicting the Democratic House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, in stereotypical Mexican garb. The video used A.I. to replace the voice of the Democratic Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, making it seem as though he was disparaging the Democratic Party.

In a televised statement, Mr. Jeffries criticized the video as racist. Then, in another post, Mr. Trump posted that interview, edited with A.I. tools to include four A.I. versions of the president as members of a mariachi band.

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Mr. Trump was also widely criticized for a video he posted in February depicting “Trump Gaza,” a futuristic version of the war-torn region rendered as a beachfront paradise with a gold statue of Mr. Trump at its center.

Democratic lawmakers and advocates for Palestinian rights called the video insulting and disturbing. The White House responded: “Trump is a visionary.”

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The backlash has not slowed the president’s use of the technology, especially during moments of national outrage. He posted a video showing himself shaking hands with a figure in the Cracker Barrel logo after an uproar among conservatives over the company’s plans to remove an older white man from its logo in favor of a text-only version. As he toyed with plans to send the National Guard to Chicago, he posted an A.I.-generated image of himself imagined into the film “Apocalypse Now” above the title “Chipocalypse Now” and a caption that read, in part, “Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR.”

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The memes and videos have deceived some social media users, who replied to his posts asking whether they were real or fake.

After Mr. Trump posted a video that included a fictitious, A.I.-generated arrest of former President Barack Obama, a few users on Truth Social signaled that they were not sure whether the footage was real.

“Whoa…. Did this really happen?” wrote one user.

“Is this real footage of Obama being arrested????” wrote another.

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A.I. tools have been embraced by scammers and conspiracy theorists, who have used the technology to make too-good-to-be-true videos of news reports about miracle medicines or astounding discoveries.

Mr. Trump posted one such video last month about a news report concerning “medbeds,” a fictional health product described as a cure for a variety of illnesses. Medbeds have been an obscure conspiracy theory among internet users. It was not clear why Mr. Trump posted the video or whether he knew it was A.I.-made, and the video was soon deleted from his account. Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said during a news briefing that the president “saw the video and posted it,” but offered no explanation.

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In at least some cases, generating A.I. fakes has proved effective at seizing Mr. Trump’s attention. After Mr. Trump did not win a Nobel Peace Prize, despite openly lobbying for one, he posted an image originally posted by the Israeli government depicting him receiving the prize amid applause and confetti.

After the government shut down over a funding fight this month, Mr. Trump posted a video depicting himself and members of his cabinet in ominous cloaks reminiscent of the Grim Reaper.

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The video was created by Dilley 3000 Meme Team, a guerrilla messaging outfit that is deeply loyal to Mr. Trump and has produced dozens of videos skewering Democrats and praising Mr. Trump. The group is run by Brenden Dilley, a podcaster and former congressional candidate, and a team of content creators who organize online. Mr. Dilley declined to comment.

“The truth no longer matters, all you have to do is go viral,” Mr. Dilley wrote on X during Mr. Trump’s re-election campaign.

Correction: Oct. 22, 2025

An earlier version of this article misidentified the U.S. state at the center of a conspiracy theory about Haitian immigrants eating cats and dogs. It was Ohio, not Michigan.

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Kyle Mantyla

Brenden Dilley is a overtly racist, unapologetically misogynistic, and gleefully amoral Trump cultist who has established close ties to the Trump administration and the president himself, thanks to the role he plays in leading a "troll army" that relentlessly promotes Trump and attacks his enemies on social media.

Dilley has openly stated that he doesn’t “give a fuck about being factual” and will “make shit up” if doing so furthers Trump’s political agenda, pledging to "lie, cheat, [and] fucking steal" on behalf of Trump. For this, he has been repeatedly rewarded with meetings with Trump and invitations to the White House.

Dilley has openly issued threats against Trump's enemies, declaring that Trump supporters had better "start developing a stomach for death," proclaiming that his mission to just keep "keep curb-stomping these motherfuckers," and warning that he and others MAGA activists are just waiting until Trump "gives us the green light" to take to the streets and start gunning down activists.

Ignoring his own history of violent rhetoric, Dilley reacted to the murder of Charlie Kirk by calling on Trump to become a dictator and impose martial law on the nation until those on the left whom he deems responsible for Kirk's death have been rooted out and destroyed.

"The time for words is totally over, man," Dilley declared. "The only thing I wanted to hear [from Trump is,] 'Here's what I'm doing to make sure that this shit stops instantly.' I wanted to wake up today and have all of the media outlets banned temporarily; executive order. I'm pulling the licenses of Fox, MSNBC, CNN, CBS, and all other mainstream media until we can sort out what is going on."

"They've been calling Donald Trump a dictator for 10 years," he added. "You already got the name. One man's dictator is another man's patriot. Go full Abe Lincoln; suspend habeas corpus, introduce martial law. Let's actually cut out the cancer from the mainstream media."

"What is it going to take us? 90 days?" Dilley asked. "All I know is that whatever the response is to Charlie's death—and Charlie's death is horrific—must be 100 times more aggressive, deliberate and well-executed. It has to be. Whatever the government's response is to this has to be shock and fucking awe."

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Mark Meckler reacted to the assassination of Charlie Kirk by declaring that "the nation got a taste of the utterly senseless violence radical leftism can — and inevitably will — unleash."

Todd Starnes blames Democrats for Kirk's murder: "I hold all them responsible for what happened today. They all have blood on their hands today."

Virginia state legislator Nick Freitas vows that "there will be a reckoning": "My Christian faith requires me to love my enemies and pray for those who curse me. It does not require me to stand idly by in the midst of savagery and barbarism...quite the opposite."

Brenden Dilley proclaims that "the mainstream media and Democrat party killed Charlie Kirk."

Finally, Ali Alexander is calling on Trump to "[seize] powers not normally exercised" and use them to ensure that "10% of the left-wing [are] arrested, charged, detained, or made to flee" in reaction to the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

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Trump “meme team” leader Brenden Dilley: “There’s going to be nobody left doing podcasts soon because the top people are all going to work for the government”

Dilley hyped Trump administration appointments for right-wing podcasters Dan Bongino and Graham Allen

Written by Alex Kaplan

Published 02/26/25 10:20 AM EST

Brenden Dilley, a far-right podcaster and leader of a pro-Trump “meme team,” highlighted the role of right-wing podcasters in the Trump administration, saying there would be “nobody left doing podcasts soon” because “the top people” would all be working for the administration and specifically hyping the appointments of Dan Bongino and Graham Allen for deputy director of the FBI and digital media director of the Department of Defense, respectively.

Podcasts played a role during the election, with UFC President Dana White praising several podcasters for their role in helping to get Trump elected. “I want to thank the boys Adin Ross, Theo Von, Bussin' with the Boys. And last but not least, the mighty and powerful Joe Rogan,” he said.

On February 24, Dilley praised Bongino’s appointment as “beyond exciting” and said he “was texting him congratulations.”

“We literally went from, like, ‘Oh noes, the FBI is gonna arrest all the memers,’ to … the most senior cabinet position at the FBI is a guy that I fucking made cry at his birthday with a meme from the Dilley meme team because it was so touching,” Dilley said. “Like, just wrap your mind around what just shifted. Like, our guy, my neighbor and friend, is now the second most powerful man at the FBI.”

Dilley previously said Bongino pledged to help get his show promoted on right-wing streaming platform Rumble’s front page and in its “editor picks” section. Bongino is reportedly a Rumble shareholder.

In addition to Bongino, Dilley hyped fellow right-wing podcaster Graham Allen’s appointment to the Department of Defense, marveling, “There’s going to be nobody left doing podcasts soon because the top people are all going to work for the government.”

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BRENDEN DILLEY (HOST): I mean, one of the other moves that was made was that — I don’t know if people familiar — I don’t know how familiar you guys are with Graham Allen. He’s another podcaster and kind of a media guy, new media guy. He just got hired by Pete Hegseth over at the Department of Defense. I don’t know what the hell’s going on. It’s all — there’s going to be nobody left doing podcasts soon because the top people are all going to work for the government.

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Mario Murillo asserts that God orchestrated Donald Trump's election "to spare America from disaster": "Trump is here to give the church the time to reform America morally."
Brenden Dilley declares that "Barack Hussein Obama was/is a terrorist by every definition of the word."
Anna Perez wants it known that she was born racist: "I hate when they say racism is 'learned behavior.' I honestly think I was born this way and I don’t get enough credit for it."
Johnny Enlow claims that 80-90 percent of world leaders "have been people either involved in the worst type of pedophilia [and] Luciferianism that you can imagine, or they're blackmailed by it."
Finally, Christian nationalist Ben Zeisloft appears to have wiped his Twitter feed ahead of announcing that he's stepping away from the platform until his book is published in the spring.

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11/22/2024

Kyle Mantyla

Eric Metaxas says that Donald Trump is ready to "go scorched Earth on the satanic bureaucracy that is the Deep State."
Mario Murillo advises anyone attending a church where the pastor did not celebrate Trump's election to find another church.
Rudy Giuliani was once a highly-influential political figure. Now, he's been reduced to interviewing Trump campaign troll Brenden Dilley.
The Catholic League says "the Biden-Harris administration is the most anti-Catholic in American history."
Finally, Michigan state Rep. Josh Schriver declares that "every illegal immigrant is a 'violent criminal': "They have assaulted the sovereignty of our Great Nation by illegally invading our land. They ALL must go. RIGHT. NOW."

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Trump “meme team” ally Brenden Dilley calls Puerto Rico a “shit-ass island,” “dirty-ass island,” and “floating trash heap”

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10/24/2024 rww

Kyle Mantyla

Douglas Wilson that if Kamala Harris wins in a close election, it'll only be because the election was stolen and will spark a constitutional crisis.
Floyd Brown says that America has "become completely paganized" and prays that "the spirit of delusion" over the nation will be broken.

Neo-Nazi Ryan Sanchez makes the "The Nationalist Case For Trump": "Trump will buy us four more precious years to build a revolutionary consciousness among our People, and organize a movement to take back our Homeland."
Trump campaign troll Brenden Dilley is calling upon his "meme team" to "unleash their absolute dankest memes" in the closing days of the presidential campaign.
Finally, Joel Webbon that his fellow Christians should not criticize him for his extreme views because it is radicals like him who help to shift the Overton Window.

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Trump publicly bragged about tanking the border bill — now a Fox host is trying to help him revise history

09/27/24 mma

September 26, 2024, edition of The Dilley Show, streamed on Rumble

BRENDEN DILLEY (HOST): Donald Trump gave us all an opportunity to actually have a role in his campaign in saving America, and I think that's one of the things I love about him more than anything, is, you know, we were able to actually get involved. And I think that the level of trust he had in the Dilley meme team and myself in my discernment, and that's reflected in the fact that the incredible amount of access we have had and the incredible amount of insight we have been given and the levels of responsibility that many at varying parts of this campaign who are Dilley 300 have been given, it directly reflects just how much he and that campaign respect and trust what we do. And I think that that feeling like you've earned Donald Trump's respect and trust, as well as his team's respect and trust, that in itself is an incredible gift, because you realize — you're like, “Holy shit. We got to play a role in saving America,” and we're coming down the home stretch.

And we had a plan that we kicked off that I — and I'll be straight with you, a plan that I had. I had this plan in 2022 and then shaped it with the Dilley meme team. And eventually this led into the Dilley 300 and eventually Team Trump.

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And so, when you look at where we're sitting here today, where it's a little over three years since those dialogues and those conversations, and you understand just how far we have traversed over this last three and a half years, it is nothing short of miraculous, but more importantly is that it was kicked into overdrive the moment that Donald Trump said, “The Dilley meme team gets whatever they want and the Dilley 300 receive whatever they want because these people have been loyal and had my back. And if they need anything, you give it to them because they are working harder than anybody in this campaign.” And this was back when the campaign had 12 staffers.

You know, I mean, you guys understand how bizarre this is? And there was a point where we are — the Dilley meme team was twice the size of the Trump campaign at one point. That is unheard of. And our volunteers at one point were like at least triple the size of that. And it's just crazy to see kind of this experience evolve in — and when I go back and I looked at all of it, and this is where this conversation ultimately started, was the blessings are a direct result of participating in community and blessing others.

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How You Know That Trump Lost The Debate

By Kyle Mantyla | September 11, 2024 RWW

Brenden Dilley is an overtly racist, unapologetically misogynistic, and gleefully amoral die hard Trump supporter who has established close ties not only to the Trump campaign, but to the former president himself, thanks to the role he plays in leading a “troll army” that relentlessly promotes Trump and attacks his enemies on social media.

Dilley has openly declared that he is willing to lie, cheat, and steal on behalf of Trump, and that willingness was on full display during his daily livestream program before Tuesday night’s presidential debate, when he issued orders to his fellow Trump cultists to relentlessly attack Vice President Kamala Harris in the event that Trump lost the debate.

“If Donald Trump comes out and hits grand slams, it makes your job very easy,” Dilley said. “But what if Donald Trump, if for any reason doesn’t come out [on top]? … You must be prepared to counterpunch more so than anything else.”

“If, for any reason, it becomes apparent that they’re going to railroad Trump, we must go on full fucking offense against Kamala no matter what,” Dilley instructed. “It means we don’t amplify or try to spin anything Trump was saying; we focus entirely on the goddamn lies that are coming out of her mouth. Do you understand? This is how you actually have to fight back against it. You pretend he’s not on the debate stage and you go completely full fucking tilt against her. You highlight how stupid she is, how much she’s lying, and we gotta be able to fact check in real time all of it.”

“You can’t make his debate performance look good if they have chosen to make him look bad,” Dilley continued. “It will be almost impossible. But if you stay on top of Kamala and you bury her, then at best, if they go to try to railroad Trump, then our objective is to even that playing field to where it’s at minimum a wash. That’s what we’re looking for. It’s either we win or it’s a tie, but what we will not give is a loss. We will not lose.”

Debate Night Preview! w/Author Brenden Dilley 09/10/2024

It is widely acknowledged that Trump lost the debate, which even Dilley seemed to recognize, given that today’s program focused almost entirely on trying to spin the debate as a loss for Harris.

Asserting that Trump is already “a known quantity” and therefore had nothing to prove, Dilley insisted that onus was entirely on Harris to prove that she is not a “petty unlikable bitch” and he claimed that she failed.

“All she had to do was maintain a little bit of grace and likability and a little bit of buoyancy and it would have won over undecided voters in their first time experiencing Kamala Harris, and she totally failed,” Dilley insisted. “Donald Trump getting somewhat angry and getting in the mud is not going to hurt him at all in this election; it’s been nine years of this, it’s already baked into the numbers. Kamala Harris taking the bait and getting in the mud and then getting triggered and upset and angry because President Trump kept referring to her as Joe Biden, that was the mistake she made.”

“She came across as a petty, unlikable bitch and nobody in America, man or woman, wants to deal with a petty, unlikable bitch,” he continued. “Kamala Harris, by every measure, totally failed the test last night. She was not trying to win over 50, 60, 70 percent of the country, she was trying to win over 4 to 8 percent of undecided voters who had never listened to her speak for an extended period of time and she fucking bombed.”

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Had Trump hit “grand slams,” then presumably Dilley’s show today would have been dedicated to gloating over the highlights, but that is not at all what happened. Instead, Dilley spent the show trying to convince fellow members of the Trump cult that it was Harris who had failed miserably, which is precisely the line of attack he announced, in advance, that he would use in response to Trump losing the debate.

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Christian nationalist state Sen. Dusty Deevers and several other elected officials have launched the Oklahoma Freedom Caucus, with the backing of U.S. Rep. Josh Brecheen.

Jim Bakker warns that if Kamala Harris is elected, “all the Christians will be taken off the air.”

Operation Rescue defends Donald Trump’s flip-flopping on the issue of reproductive rights: “With Trump being a product of both the polls and culture, he knows he cannot win with the same agenda on abortion that propelled him to victory in 2016 – and win he must, if America is to be preserved as a Constitutional Republic.”

MAGA troll Brenden Dilley explains the humor behind his efforts on behalf of the Trump campaign: “I don’t recognize anything off limits. … The darker, more fucked up the topic that you really shouldn’t be laughing at, the more glorious it is when I make you laugh at it.”

Finally, Nick Fuentes fumes that the Trump campaign has been taken over by the likes of Sen. Tim Scott, “the gay nig.”

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We are not at all surprised to learn that far-right Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon that the Civil War was “atrocious and wrong and unjust.”

Self-proclaimed “prophet” Amanda Grace that “Aaron Burr was a deep state operative.”

Mark Meckler claims that “England has fallen”: “It’s now a totalitarian state, primarily run by a Muslim theocracy.”

Why do Christian nationalists like Richard Harris know so little about history? No, the Founders did not “put religious freedom the first of the first of the first” in the Bill of Rights. They actually put no establishment of religion first and even that was an accident of history.

Finally, Nick Fuentes is vowing to wage war against the Trump campaign and MAGA cultist Brenden Dilley is not happy about.

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bRENDEN DILLEY (HOST): I'll be coordinating with the Dilley meme team on Thursday night for the debate. We are going to hijack the debate hashtag, whatever it is. We're going to be launching all new memes that will be centered around the debate in real time. So basically we're going to do our best State of the Union, you know, fucking State of the Union address response team exactly the same way. We did it 2 years in a row. Here we are, MAGA. I need you guys to show out on Twitter on Thursday night because I will be there. I'm going to be on vacation, mini vacation, and, I'm taking, you know, 3 hours that evening to prep the meme team, get everything all dialed in as far as our video content and what I want and how I think we can do it, but also working with all of you, the Dilley 300, in rapid response. We want to hijack that hashtag as we always do. Whatever the top three hashtags are for the debate, we want to own them.

And all you have to do, everybody remember, all you've got to do, you can go on to my page, or the Dilley meme team page, and all I want you doing is retweeting all of those videos. So we're going to be working that shit, dropping the videos, pushing back, and showing the truth about Joe Biden's lies.

We're also going to be pushing pro-Trump content, which makes it even cooler because we actually get to show the boss' commitment to a lot of the policies he's going to be laying out for the American public and debating. So it is — we'll be locked and loaded. This is what we do. This is how we dominate. And this is how we actually initially made a name for ourselves, not just as a meme team, but as a community all the way back in February of '23. So time to show out, remind these motherfuckers who runs the internet, and we'll do it this Thursday. Put it on your calendar.

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MAGA activists have been attacking President Joe Biden by producing and spreading fake, deceptively edited, and misleading videos in an effort to undermine his reelection. And, according to pro-Trump broadcaster Brenden Dilley, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.

Dilley is a overtly racist, unapologetically misogynistic, and gleefully amoral Trump cultist who has established close ties not only to the Trump campaign, but to the former president himself, thanks to the role he plays in leading a “troll army” that relentlessly promotes Trump and attacks his enemies on social media.

The “Dilley Meme Team” has been responsible for the “God Made Trump” video that went viral earlier this year, the “Unified Reich” video that generated widespread outrage last month, and as a series of virulently sexist attacks on former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley during the Republican primary.

Dilley has, in the past, openly stated that he doesn’t “give a fuck about being factual” and will “make shit up” if doing so furthers Trump’s political agenda, and that attitude is still motivating Dilley’s efforts, as he made clear during a recent broadcast.

“There’s nothing I won’t fucking do or say,” Dilley declared. “Nothing! It’s war. I view you as a fucking enemy of the country. I will do anything necessary.”

“Republicans don’t give a fuck if you think we’re good people anymore,” he continued. “We don’t care. You don’t think we’re gonna fuck you square in the ass every chance we get after what you’ve done to this country, after you stole a fucking election? Fuck you. Call me an immoral godless scumbag, I don’t care, motherfucker. Call me a criminal. Call me a liar. I don’t give a fuck.”

“You can save the moral high ground virtue signaling bullshit for a Republican that’s still stupid enough to play those fucking games, but it ain’t me, dude,” Dilley added.

“Fucking print that shit, bitch; ‘Dilley Goes On Show, Says He Will Lie, Cheat, Fucking Steal,” Dilley concluded. “I don’t even have shame in telling you that. I know what my role is. I know what my purpose is. I will let my creator dictate and decide and judge me when I get there. Until then, fuck you.”

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Apparent “meme team” leader Brenden Dilley told women not to “worry your pretty head about those politics” and that “what you need to concern yourself with is how come the floors in the kitchen aren’t as shiny as they were two weeks ago”

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*Content warning: Language highlighted in this piece includes extreme anti-LGBTQ, ableist, and misogynistic commentary and slurs, and other profane language.

After former President Donald Trump posted a video mentioning a “unified Reich,” his campaign blamed a “random account” but left out that the account is seemingly part of a pro-Trump “meme team” that has ties to the campaign and is apparently led by Brenden Dilley, a podcaster who regularly spews extreme and hateful rhetoric on his online show.

On May 20, Trump posted on Truth Social a short video that shows hypothetical newspaper articles from after a Trump victory, including of a “unified Reich.” As The Associated Press explained, “The word 'Reich' is often largely associated with Nazi Germany’s Third Reich, though the references in the video Trump shared appear to be a reference to the formation of the modern pan-German nation, unifying smaller states into a single Reich, or empire, in 1871.”

The post was deleted after Trump’s campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the video “was created by a random account online and reposted by a staffer who clearly did not see the word.”

Despite Leavitt’s claims that the video came from a “random” online account, the AP revealed it “appears to have been created” by a meme creator who goes by the username Ramble_Rants and is part of a “group of meme makers” that has ties to Trump’s campaign.

The account repeatedly defended and posted the video in response to criticism, saying it didn’t invoke “anything except peace and prosperity for Americans,” and the account positively responded to other users that offered praise after Trump shared the video.

On his May 21 show, apparent meme team leader and podcaster Dilley also defended the video, saying that people “imagined that there is Nazi propaganda,” and adding, “When there is no mistake, and there is only an imagined mistake, there is only an imagined — imagined — controversy, only f–––––– overreact to imagined controversy.” He added: “Double down!”

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Regardless of the intention behind the video Trump shared, Dilley and his team’s association with the Trump campaign is noteworthy.

Trump and his campaign have repeatedly shared the meme team’s material, and the campaign reportedly “privately communicated with members of the meme team, giving them access and making specific requests for content,” and “in at least one instance … shared behind-the-scenes footage to be used in videos, according to members of the team.” Trump has been photographed with Dilley and reportedly “sent personalized notes to several of the group’s members, thanking them for their work.”

Additionally, Dilley disclosed that the campaign gave him and another member of the meme team a “special” and “exclusive” press credential for the campaign’s Iowa caucuses night, where “you hang out with all these wonderful people, and Don Jr. comes through, and Eric Trump comes through, and pretty much the entire Team Trump comes through.” (Reporting has indicated that several journalists from mainstream publications, including The Washington Post, NBC News, Axios, and Vanity Fair, have been denied press access to Trump’s campaign events.)

Dilley, who unsuccessfully ran for Congress in Arizona in 2018, previously supported the QAnon conspiracy theory, wearing QAnon hats and covering posts from QAnon’s central figure, “Q,” on his show. (He has since dubiously claimed that he “never was all in for Q.”)

On his show, Dilley also regularly spews extreme and hateful rhetoric:

On January 19, Dilley said women who vote will be “faced with two options, continue to allow Democrats to control law enforcement, which will no doubtably result in them getting raped at some point in 2025 by an illegal immigrant or some migrant from a foreign land or some criminal who's completely been out — let out scot-free despite being charged multiple times with this crime.”

On February 8, Dilley said, “I hope everything goes back to the 1950s,” when “women could focus on their pretty dresses and their house and their children and making me sexually satisfied all the time and food.” Dilley added that he would tell women, “You don't worry your pretty head about those politics” and “that’s a man's problem,” adding that instead “I’ll let you know who to vote for” and that “what you need to concern yourself with is how come the floors in the kitchen aren’t as shiny as they were two weeks ago.”

On February 20, Dilley called for his meme team to target then-GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley and anyone she knows because they can’t pivot to focusing on Trump “until this person is utterly destroyed.” He also called Haley a “dumb bitch” and “a lying dirty ho” — and he has repeatedly used the word “bitch” to describe other women as well, including former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, pop star Taylor Swift, former Trump White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, conservative commentator Candace Owens, and Vice President Kamala Harris.

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BRENDEN DILLEY (HOST): The Dilley meme team has decided to make you, your family, your friends, your co-workers, and every single individual who’s even remotely associated with you a political target henceforth.

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I hope that every single person who's ever fucking called you, emailed you, or shaken your goddamn hand is used to having public scrutiny via meme and fucking song and deep dives and everything in between.

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Then I guess we just unload everything we've got all the time. This is what we're gonna work on. This is what the team needs to work on. You need to understand, we can't pivot and work on the work that needs to be done until this person is utterly destroyed. Let's get to work.

On March 15, Dilley dedicated much of his show to discussing Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee’s ruling not to disqualify District Attorney Fani Willis from prosecuting Trump and his co-defendants in the Georgia election interference and racketeering case — and Dilley seemed to urge his audience to use “asymmetrical warfare” against the judge and his family.
On April 25, Dilley called U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson a “DEI” pick and repeatedly mispronounced her name: “Let's check-in on how that's fucking going because I'm sure she's not showing her asshole to the entire country. … I am absolutely positive she does not sit on the Supreme Court and embarrass the fuck out of herself publicly.”
On May 9, Dilley said, “They don't know that we brought back the word f––––– yet” and “they have no idea how to deal with that or … r–––––.” He has repeatedly used the slur for LGBTQ people on the show, including to describe philanthropist George Soros’ son Alex.

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Vanity Fair recently reported that several journalists from mainstream publications, including The Washington Post, NBC News, Axios, and Vanity Fair, were denied press access to Trump’s campaign events, seemingly in retaliation for their previous critical coverage. Meanwhile, Media Matters found that the campaign has granted press credentials to the QAnon-promoting MG Show and Brenden Dilley, a podcaster who has promoted the QAnon conspiracy theory and leads a “meme team” that creates pro-Trump content.

Washington Post reporter Isaac Arnsdorf has allegedly been barred from Trump’s campaign events since February, according to Vanity Fair, over his rejection of a campaign request to change the title of his book Finish What We Started: The MAGA Movement’s Ground War to End Democracy. Several other reporters also allegedly had press access revoked over critical coverage or public spats with campaign officials. Vanity Fair reported:

In recent weeks, the [Trump] campaign has taken similar punitive measures against other reporters, according to multiple sources familiar with the moves. An Axios reporter had their credentials approved for an event and then revoked the same day, following the publication of a story about the Trump-led Republican National Committee’s struggles in swing states. (An Axios spokesperson declined to comment.) At least one other Post reporter was temporarily denied press credentials to multiple events after accurately reporting on Trump’s public statements. Most recently, Brian Stelter, a special correspondent for Vanity Fair, was denied press access to Trump’s rally in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.

While it has barred mainstream journalists, the campaign has granted press credentials to a QAnon-promoting show and a podcaster who creates pro-Trump content.

At least one host of the QAnon-promoting podcast MG Show was seemingly given a press pass for Trump’s December 17 campaign rally in Reno, Nevada. Days before the rally, co-host Shannon Townsend announced on the podcast that after seeking press passes for the rally, the show was granted the status of “accredited media with Donald Trump and the rally campaign.” Afterward, Townsend posted images from the rally, including one that appears to show him holding a press pass in a media area.

In response to reporter Brian Stelter posting on April 19, “I applied for press credentials for Trump's most recent rally in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania and was rejected,” Townsend shared an image of his credentials for the Nevada rally, and said, “I have mine.”

MG Show had previously received press credentials for a 2021 Trump rally in Sarasota, Florida, at which host Townsend wore a wristband with the QAnon slogan “where we go one, we go all” — or “WWG1WGA” for short — and led a crowd in chanting the slogan. The Trump campaign was forced to publicly distance itself from QAnon and MG Show after receiving backlash for credentialing the conspiracy theorists.

In January, Brenden Dilley, a podcaster who has previously promoted the QAnon conspiracy theory, bragged that he was given press credentials for the Trump campaign's Iowa caucus event.

Dilley has been the leader of a pro-Trump online “meme team” which calls itself “Trump’s Online War Machine,” and he has admitted that he “make[s] shit up” to further Trump’s agenda and hurt his political opponents. During an episode of his show, Dilley displayed the press pass, bragging that he got a “special” and “exclusive” press credential that got him into the “Trump War Room,” where he said “pretty much the entire Team Trump comes through.”

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Barring mainstream journalists from campaign rallies and other events is hardly new for the Trump team. During his 2016 presidential campaign, Trump and his allies waged an all-out war on the press, including banning certain journalists from events, and attacking critical coverage and entire mainstream news outlets as “fake news.”

Trump's presidential term was also marked by repeated instances where mainstream journalists were barred from official events and press conferences over unflattering coverage and unwanted questions. And his reelection campaign also reportedly issued a blanket credential denial against Bloomberg News over the outlet’s perceived “bias” against him.

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The right is currently terrified that pop superstar Taylor Swift will endorse President Joe Biden and, in doing so, potentially motivate millions of young people to go to the polls in November.

MAGA broadcaster, “life coach,” and Trump campaign troll Brenden Dilley addressed the possibility that Swift may endorse Biden on his program yesterday, urging his fellow Trump cultists to hold their fire until Swift actually makes a decision.

Dilley urged Trump supporters to reach out to Swift and try to convince her to support Trump or at least remain neutral in the upcoming elections. But, Dilley said, should Swift reject their overtures and ultimately make “the wrong choice,” then it will be necessary for MAGA to “punish that bitch.”

“I’m gonna be straight up blunt with you,” Dilley said. “As long as Taylor Swift remains, we’ll call it a free agent, we will behave a certain way. The second she makes the wrong choice, it is absolutely incumbent upon us to punish that bitch for doing that.”

“Right now, there’s been no commitment, so for now, we are essentially courting [Swift],” he continued. “There are people that you are courting; once they make the wrong choice, you punish.”

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As Right Wing Watch explained earlier this month, Dilley is an overtly racist, unapologetically misogynistic, and gleefully amoral MAGA activist whose relentless attacks on Trump’s enemies has garnered him direct access to Trump and his campaign.

A key component of Dilley’s method of operation is simply lying, as Dilley himself acknowledged on multiple occasions, admitting that he doesn’t “give a fuck about being factual” and will “make shit up” if doing so helps Trump.

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“It doesn’t have to be true,” Dilley has said, “it just has to go viral.”

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Currently, Dilley and his “meme team” are deploying explicitly sexist attacks against former Gov. Nikki Haley, who is challenging Trump for the Republican presidential nomination.

Should Swift make “the wrong choice” by endorsing Biden, we can fully expect to see these sorts of tactics, and much worse, deployed against her by Dilley, his “meme team,” and others in the MAGA movement.

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The term disinformation tends to conjure up images of Twitter bot armies with thick Russian accents, but the disinformation landscape in 2020 is a lot more complex. While Russia has great expertise in roiling U.S. political waters, it isn’t the only foreign actor in the disinformation and trolling games. The Oxford Internet Institute issued a report finding “evidence of organized social media manipulation campaigns which have taken place in 70 countries, up from 48 countries in 2018 and 28 countries in 2017.”Social media companies have removed content with disinformation campaigns originating in Saudi Arabia, China, and Iran.

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But homegrown disinformation is a much bigger problem, starting with President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign and extending into a vast network of pro-Trump super PACs, right-wing media outlets, and an organized army of MAGA warriors happy to amplify every lie, false conspiracy, and misdirection online. Domestic disinformers have adopted tactics deployed by Russia and other hostile actors in 2016, optimizing them for 2020.

The lessons of 2016 haven’t been lost on the legions of far-right, pro-Trump conspiracy theorists who have their own web-based video and audio shows. With the coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout posing threats to Trump’s reelection, the president’s online far-right boosters have taken up disinformation messaging designed to discredit the judgment of public health officials and scientists on the severity of the pandemic and the resulting COVID-19 disease. For instance, Rodney Howard-Browne, a Florida megachurch pastor who convened large church services in defiance of social distancing orders, claimed that the pandemic was “planned” at a 2019 New York event hosted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. And Rick Wiles, a religious-right broadcaster and font of anti-Semitic lies, suggested that the coronavirus emergency may have been “staged” to shut down the U.S. (Despite ample documentation of Wiles’ conspiracy-mongering and anti-Semitism, he is regularly granted press credentials by both the White House and the Trump campaign.)

In fact, MAGA-world influencer Brenden Dilley, whose YouTube channel has more than 12,000 subscribers, laid bare the MAGA disinformation playbook last year when he baldly asserted, “It doesn’t have to be true; it just has to go viral.” In that episode of his show, he used the example of the false claim that Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who was then running for the Democratic presidential nomination, had a racist knick-knack on display in her kitchen. On a more recent edition of his YouTube show, he reiterated that reasoning when explaining why he was advancing a false story about MSNBC host Joe Scarborough.

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The Trump campaign and pro-MAGA super PACs have made it clear that the old rules of politics no longer apply, and their base now largely believes in an alternative reality. The president spreads and amplifies so much disinformation on his Twitter feed that it’s nearly impossible to keep up, and GOP elected officials for the most part now follow suit. Republican operatives have built disinformation tactics into their strategies.

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Trump’s online supporters can’t merely be dismissed as bots. His online fanbase is overamplified but made up of actual individuals happy to spend considerable time and resources getting pro-MAGA messages out into the ether. Social media researcher Erin Gallagher has a fascinating piece on #TrumpTrains, self-organized cells of Trump fans working in Twitter direct messaging groups to spread Trump’s rhetoric and recruit new supporters to the cause.Gallagher was able to get a #TrumpTrain “conductor” to go on the record about how the #TrumpTrains are organized, recruiting volunteers or “riders” to tweet pro-Trump content in large volume at the direction of “conductors.”

Facebook groups and pages are another hub for pro-Trump disinformation. Writing for Media Matters, social media researcher Natalie Martinez details how the far-right propaganda machine operates on Facebook, “On Facebook, right-wing meme pages play a vital role in condensing and recycling far-right talking points and keeping the MAGA base engaged online. These pages regularly post extremist content, arguably violating Facebook’s hate speech content policy, and often exploit tragic events in the news cycle, images of veterans, and violent anti-immigrant rhetoric for likes and shares.” Multiple candidates running for office as Republicans have been caught participating—some as page administrators—in right-wing Facebook groups.

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