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March 5, 2025, edition of Newsmax's Greg Kelly Reports
GREG KELLY (HOST): I am a little bit fearful of her, or at least her being around my kids. Sorry, but the LGBTQ agenda that she is pursuing is radical and weird and I think should be criminalized. So there's this Pride group somewhere. And, by the way, there are some totally decent Pride groups. There are. I think the Pride thing is all kinds of excess, but I don't know. Jamie Michelle, you know that woman — Gays Against Grooming, right? Fantastic people. This to me looks like grooming. She participated in this project. We're going to start with the leader of the little group reading sexualized content to children.
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KELLY: Adults reaching out to children — unless they're your children, that's not a good idea. Without parental consent. They're talking about going around the parents and getting to children they believe or are hoping are LGBTQ. Or maybe they want to convince them to go LGBTQ. This strikes me as grooming, people. And Elissa Slotkin is part of it. Take a look.
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KELLY: Yeah, but this is not about colors. Alright? This book is about to take a deep and dark and sexualized turn. And that's Elissa Slotkin right there. Not too long ago, participating in a video like this might get you thrown in jail. Now it gets you a number one speaking spot in the Democrat Party. Keep going.
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KELLY: The family would be confused because the family would know, right? They're talking to kids and trying to get them to fall prey to this crazy, warped ideology. They have no business doing that. They don't even know the children they're reading to. It's dangerous. And a U.S. senator is involved. A couple more.
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KELLY: If the inside is really as important as you say, why are you focused on children's sex organs and sexuality? This is crazy stuff. I'm tempted to call the cops, or at least the — I don't know, the sergeant at arms on this person. This should be a major scandal. Instead in the Democrat Party, this gives you a prime time speaking spot post-President Trump, right? This is up-and-comers. They have big plans for Elissa Slotkin. Well I think we have big plans in stopping this hideous agenda. And it's being stopped.
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[## Benny Johnson on the New Orleans attack: “Was this an inside job?”
01/02/25 9:30 AM EST](https://www.mediamatters.org/benny-johnson/benny-johnson-new-orleans-attack-was-inside-job)
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December 16, 2024, edition of Newsmax's Greg Kelly Reports
GREG KELLY (HOST): All right, you probably heard about this. Another mass shooting at a school. Three dead, including the shooter. Six injured, I'm told some of those are really, really critical. Bad news, right? And what's going to happen now? What is happening right now? A sick, lame and lazy conversation about gun control.
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KELLY: Well, whatever it may look like, it's a violation of the Constitution. You want to have that conversation again? Everybody's sick of it. All right? Even the gun control advocates, I think they know deep down inside they don't know what they're talking about. Why can't we talk about psychotropic drugs? Notice it never really comes up. We have millions and millions and millions of kids on lithium, all kinds of — whatever it is.
I mean, there are all kinds of drugs, and those drugs have side effects, right? They tell us in the commercials, you know, watch out for this ideation. Watch out for that. Some of the side effects are pretty intense, really intense.
But we don't — does anybody know that this is actually when it all started? The first school mass shooting — a lot of people consider this the first school mass shooting, when Brenda Ann Spencer shot at a middle school right across the street where she lived. She was 16 years old at the time, and that might have been the first modern day school shooting. What was going on in the 80s? The pills, the pills, and more pills. This country has always been awash in guns. We're a gun culture. We are pioneers. It's not the guns. It's a lot of other things.
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- Diana Falzone @ Mediaite: ‘Will Result in Termination’: Newsmax Bans Criticism of Pete Hegseth After Trump Fumed Over Host’s Attack
Newsmax instructed staff to lay off Pete Hegseth, the Fox News host Donald Trump nominated to serve as his secretary of defense, after a segment bashing the pick sparked the ire of Trump himself.
- Alexander C. Kaufman @ HuffPost: Trump Names Price For Avoiding All Environment Regulations: $1 Billion Or More
President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday he planned to expedite federal regulatory approvals, including all environmental permits, for any company or individual proposing to invest $1 billion or more in a construction project.
- Sean Craig @ The Daily Beast: Mel Gibson Threatens ‘to Kill Someone’ While Fearmongering at Mar-a-Lago
A cavalcade of supporting characters in the MAGA universe, and President-elect Donald Trump, showed up at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday to attend a soirée for the conspiratorial, QAnon-adjacent conservative nonprofit America’s Future.
- Nikki McCann Ramírez @ Rolling Stone: Advocacy Group Calls B.S. on Nancy Mace’s Claim That She Was Assaulted in Capitol
A man has been arrested, and Nancy Mace is wearing a wrist brace and shoulder sling after the South Carolina congresswoman said she was “physically accosted” in a Capitol office building on Tuesday afternoon.
- Peter Drier @ Talking Points Memo: Trump Does Not Have Mandate
Newspaper headlines have called Donald Trump’s victory “decisive,” “massive,” “resounding,” “historic,” and “sweeping.” Trump himself has described his win as a “landslide.” On election night, he claimed that “America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate.” None of those things are true.
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On Newsmax, Monica Crowley says about Trump's cabinet nominations: “We have not seen this kind of talent pool since the Founding Fathers”
11/15/24
https://www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/newsmax-monica-crowley-says-about-trumps-cabinet-nominations-we-have-not-seen-kind-talent)
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November 25, 2024, edition of Newsmax's *Chris Plante: The Right Squad
CHRIS PLANTE (HOST): I've been a champion of getting rid of funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for way more than a decade. You know, in the media universe that is an ever expanding universe that's exploding before our very eyes, I don't think we need to spend half a billion dollars or more to fund, let's face it, the NPR network is a total — it is a saturation propaganda network, 100% dedicated to the Democrat Party. It's like a foreign entity invaded the United States and set up this radio network.
MICHAEL FOLDI (CO-HOST): And you have a successful radio show with no support from the corporation.
PLANTE: Yeah, that's right. Yeah.
FOLDI: Because people actually want to listen to it.
PLANTE: I could use $535 million dollars for my show.
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PLANTE: All right. Also, you know, Sesame Street is a multi-billion dollar corporation, one of the most profitable outfits in the history of the world. And I think we're still funding them, too. You know, Big Bird can earn his own paycheck.
MERCEDES SCHLAPP (CO-HOST): And they've gone a bit woke, too.
MATT SCHLAPP (CO-HOST): Elmo.
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October 28, 2024, edition of Newsmax's Greg Kelly Reports
GREG KELLY (HOST): Alright, just a couple of other things from the rally. You heard about this comedian, the controversial comedian? I thought he was actually pretty good. I mean, one or two things weren't so hot, but this was definitely funny.
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KELLY: That's good stuff. His name is Tony Hinchcliffe. Politically incorrect? Sure. Bold? Sure. Not liberal? OK. I thought this was great too.
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KELLY: Yeah, they liked it when he made fun of the left. When he made fun of Puerto Rico it was — alright. But this one I thought was well within bounds.
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KELLY: It's funny. That is the essence of humor. I'm totally OK with it. Now, this is the big controversial line, the one about Puerto Rico that did not go over so well in the room, I'll add. There were people groaning when he actually made this joke, which, yeah, wasn't the best.
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KELLY: You see the room reacted negatively to the slam on Puerto Rico, but it's possible that not everybody — I didn't really get the joke, but there's something to it. Let's see.
Did you know that there's a great big island of garbage in the Pacific Ocean? And it's been a thing for a long time. Yeah, we actually have a picture of it. It's been floating around out there for a long time. In fact, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now so huge and permanent that a coastal ecosystem is thriving on it, according to scientists.
Now, if you ask ChatGPT, you know what they say to this joke that he made? The joke, while intended to be humorous, is a form of satire based on a mix-up between environmental issues and political commentary. It plays on the fact that there is a massive garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean, a well-known environmental concern — not by everybody — by suggesting that Puerto Rico, a US Territory, is a floating island of garbage, it can be seen as a satirical commentary on the neglect or mistreatment Puerto Rico has historically faced, especially following serious weather events.
I'm alright. I think we'll be OK. You know, if he referred to San Francisco as Garbage City, I think everybody would kind of be OK with that, right? Everybody would understand. Puerto Rico has gone through some very, very hard times. They've been lagging economically for an incredibly long period of time. And take a look at this, if you don't mind, from the Council on Foreign Relations, Puerto Rico continues to be ravaged by a sustained recession. Annual economic growth fell by roughly 12.5% overall between 2004 and 2020, while Puerto Rico's population shrunk by more than 16%. That is a crisis. I think, maybe, he was just — it's a joke.
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October 18. 2024 edition of Newsmax's Newsline
KERRI TOLOCZKO (GUEST): There are two kinds of noncitizen voters. Ones are – one group who are the people who are here completely illegally. 19 states give them drivers licenses and DC. Then there are people that are noncitizens who came here lawfully. God bless them. They came to the country, filled out the paperwork, may want to be a citizen one day and to me the most egregious part of the DOJ trying to push noncitizen voting because that’s basically what they’re doing is it is a felony for those folks to vote.
And if they do vote and they are found out when they apply for citizenship they can be immediately deported in their application for citizenship even if they’ve been here for forty years, is completely thrown out. And that’s just taking advantage of those people in a way that should never happen.
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October 16, 2024, edition of Newsmax's Greg Kelly Reports
GREG KELLY (HOST): It's fascinating. Donald Trump, twice now, the victim of an assassination attempt. And they give him a hard time when he says this.
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KELLY: Nervous. They're so nervous that The New Yorker magazine -- President Trump is talking about the enemy within, within the United States. And absolutely — antifa, the woke crazy mob, and prosecutors who use the law in a corrupt way to take down a president. I think he's on pretty solid ground to say enemy within. Remember the assassination attempt again? Enemy within, sure enough. And the guy has been arrested, what, five times? Enemy within. He has every right to say that, to believe it and to fight against it. They're even trying to cancel him over this. Anyway, he's uncancellable. He is unstoppable, especially with his wingman, Vance.
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Right-wing cable news networks have pushed false claims about non-citizens voting relentlessly
In the past three weeks, Fox News, Fox Business, and Newsmax together have made at least 141 baseless claims pushing falsehoods about noncitizen voting
Written by Harrison Ray
Research contributions from Rob Savillo, Tyler Monroe, Ben Van Bloem & Lis Power
Published 10/04/24
Fox Business, Fox News, and Newsmax have peddled the false conspiracy theory that noncitizens vote en masse at least 141 times since House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) unveiled the text of the SAVE Act messaging bill. Fox anchor Maria Bartiromo and her shows have been some of the biggest propagators of the claims.
- On September 6, Johnson unveiled a continuing resolution to fund the federal government that included the text of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, “legislation backed by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump requiring proof of citizenship to vote.” As The Washington Post’s Philip Bump put it, the SAVE Act is “a Republican effort to combine election denialism and border alarmism” that “would make Americans’ lives more difficult in service of addressing a problem that is not demonstrably significant.”
Since then, conservative cable news networks’ false claims have included suggesting that Democrats have actively encouraged noncitizens to vote in order to swing election results, stating that there have been thousands of instances of noncitizen voting, and highlighting extremely rare, individual instances of voter impersonation in order to suggest the practice is widespread.
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- Right-wing media and Republicans have pushed false claims that noncitizens are widely voting in elections for years — even though it has long been illegal for noncitizens to make a false claim of citizenship on a voter registration form or to vote in federal elections — and states have many measures in place to prevent noncitizens from voting. Additionally, studies have shown that voting by noncitizens is extremely rare and does not impact the final outcome of elections. But that hasn't stopped the networks from disseminating the lie.
- From September 6, when Johnson unveiled a continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown that included the text of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, through October 2:
- Fox Business, Fox News, and Newsmax together made at least 141 claims falsely suggesting or fearmongering about noncitizen voters in the 2024 elections.
- Newsmax led all networks with the most false claims (65), which was followed by Fox News (42) and Fox Business (34).
- Two of Maria Bartiromo's three shows — Fox Business' Mornings with Maria and Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo — were among the top five shows with the most claims, with 20 and 11 claims, respectively. The other top shows spreading false claims about noncitizen voting were Newsmax's Rob Schmitt Tonight (16), The Chris Salcedo Show (11), and Wake Up America (10).
* Among the top offenders was Newsmax host Rob Schmitt, who had the most claims (10), followed by Newsmax host Chris Salcedo (7), Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) (5), Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) (5), and Fox anchor Maria Bartiromo (4).
- In total, 52 of the 141 claims (37%) came from Republican members of Congress.
- By relentlessly pushing baseless and false claims about noncitizen voting, right-wing media are once again priming viewers to deny results of the election.
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September 12, 2024, edition of Newsmax'sPrime News
BOB BROOKS (HOST): Wow. Your thoughts. Lindsey Davis, Kamala Harris, sorority sisters here. Any collusion going on? What are your thoughts?
QUISHA KING (GUEST): No collusion. What are you talk — what do you mean collusion? No, of course, of course.
But that's the only way Kamala could survive any pressing of her when it comes to her policies, is for her to collude with the media. And I think Americans are starting to wake up now. The more she comes out and starts to talk, they realize that she is phony. She — you could tell she was rehearsed. You could tell she was not really, you know, prepared to answer questions on policy. But she didn't have to be because she had ABC news and her sorority sister there to help cover for her, which they did. And they lied to the American people over and over and over again.
She has some nerve to ask Americans for a vote for her when what we really should be voting on is an impeachment of the Biden-Harris administration considering the dereliction of duty and the violation of the oath that she has taken with her actions — concerning her actions with the border. It's ridiculous for her to think she has the — she can ask us for a vote to promote her when she needs to be investigated for impeachment, in my opinion.
BROOKS: Well, said.
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September 4, 2024, edition of Newsmax's Prime News
MICHAEL GRIMM (HOST): So, listen, Vince, first of all, her parents are PhD parents, OK? And she grew up in a nice neighborhood in Canada. She is not at the forefront of social justice in the United States. What is going on here?
VINCE EVERETT ELLISON (GUEST): Yeah, I didn't know they had civil rights marches down in -- up in Canada. And, you know, Kamala lying. Man, look, the way you know Kamala Harris is lying is that her lips are moving. I mean, she was in San Francisco. She was Willie Brown's side piece. Willie Brown was married. She used him to get a position inside of San Francisco. And then she lied about being Black in order to try to win the Democratic Party nomination. And then when Joe Biden had 100 Black men say that they were going to destroy his campaign unless they chose a Black woman to be his vice president, Kamala lied about being Black to get a Black woman's position.
Now, I don't believe in affirmative action, I don't believe in DEI, but the Black men and the Black people in the Democratic Party are supposed to believe in it. So, Kamala Harris, a Caucasian woman, took a slot for a Black woman. It's like that movie Soul Man -- you remember back in the '80s when the guy wanted to get into Harvard and he took the melanin tablets to get the slot?
GRIMM: Yeah.
ELLISON: And she did that. She actually did it and became vice president based on a lie. And now she's trying to become president based on another lie. This is why she cannot have a legitimate interview with you. She knows you're going to ask that question. She knows that you're going to ask her, when did you know Joe Biden was crazy and why didn't you tell the American people about it? She knows you're going to ask her: OK, OK. Kamala you are the border czar. How did 15 million illegals get over here? She knows you're going to ask her, Kamala, do you believe in abortion until the ninth month? And do you believe that we should have passed the Born Alive Bill, which means you can abort babies after they're born? You know, she -- you're going to ask her those questions. That's why she won't sit down with you.
GRIMM: No, she's not going to sit down with me.
ELLISON: So she's going to step back, she's going to try to run out the clock. She's going to lie, lie, lie, lie, lie. But the American people are too smart. We're going to find her out and we're going to run out of town.
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August 22, 2024, Newsmax broadcast of the Democratic National Convention
MERCEDES SCHLAPP (CO-HOST): It is all about president of joy. And every other speech is about joy. It's incredibly strange. It actually reminds me of Karl Marx. You know, Karl Marx saying, "surround yourself with happy people," and that's what the Democrats are trying to do.
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SCHLAPP: There is nothing joyful about socialism, there is nothing joyful about communism, and the policies that politicians implement. We've seen this in so many of these countries that have lost their countries when they have implemented socialist policies, or a communist system. It oppresses people. It makes you all have to be in line to only support one thought process, and it makes sure that the economy does not prosper. This is the type of, quote unquote, "joy" that the Democrats are pushing forward. It's very clear that Kamala's past policies have supported and are basically pushing forward this type of socialist and communist type of policies that has entered, has creeped in into America, and it is the duty of the American voter to decide which direction do they want America to go?
GREG KELLY (CO-HOST): Wow. Powerful, definitely, Mercedes. And you're right about this collective happiness thing, it is a fixture of communist countries. Take a look at these pictures. It is Kim Jong Un, big smile on his face all the time. All the happiness comes from the dear leader. This is, just as you said, out of their playbook. It is, you are happy because the state is happy. Because the group is happy. It overlooks the individual, which I think is what our Bill of Rights and Constitution is kind of all about. Right?
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republican state officials are investigating ActBlue after right-wing media used inaccurate information to claim the fundraising platform was laundering money
Right-wing media homed in on a Virginia donor, but FEC data shows the vast majority of donations were to WinRed and Republican PACs rather than ActBlue
Written by Kayla Gogarty
Research contributions from Alex Kaplan
:{Published 08/07/24
Amid Kamala Harris’ surging fundraising, right-wing media are alleging that Democratic PAC ActBlue is laundering money through a Virginia donor, claiming there were more than 22,000 donations listed for that individual, totaling over $800,000. But according to data from the Federal Election Commission, the alleged donor actually gave hundreds of thousands to WinRed and other Republican PACs.
Regardless, the claim spread — including to former President Donald Trump — and right-wing media figures called on attorneys general to investigate. At least two Republican attorneys general have announced they are looking into it.
After President Joe Biden announced that he was dropping out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris, fundraising for her campaign surged. Amid that surge, right-wing personalities accused ActBlue of engaging in a money laundering scheme.
As part of these accusations, some right-wing media figures and social media accounts amplified data from a website for a tax-exempt organization, Election Watch, reportedly founded by serial election denier Peter Bernegger, which provides “smurfing data by state.” (“Smurf” apparently refers to “an individual whose ID may have been used to launder money into political campaigns.”) Users can click on a state to see the so-called “smurf” donors, which are apparently identified by “numbers and patterns of transactions” in FEC data “that indeed appear to be highly questionable.”
Right-wing media have seemingly latched onto the first Virginia entry, which the website claims made 22,619 transactions, totaling $839,466. According to FEC data for an individual of the same name living in the same zip code (or at the affiliated address), that individual has made nearly 25,000 transactions since 2019, totaling more than $765,000. Nearly half of the transactions were with WinRed — totaling nearly $380,000. Additional hundreds of thousands went to other Republican PACs. Only four transactions were apparently made with ActBlue — totaling just $66. (Previously, Republican donors have reportedly been “steered … into unwitting donations,” unknowingly signing up for weekly recurring contributions when contributing through WinRed.)
Despite the FEC data, right-wing media figures and social media accounts alleged that the Virginia donor data showed “money laundering” through ActBlue, urged others to use Election Watch's data to find more “smurfs,” and called for attorneys general to investigate.
- 03/07/24
Republic PAC the Virginia Project claimed there was a “ghost donor problem” and made an allegation about one Virginia donor.
The Virginia Project, which has an “election integrity program,” posted about a “Ghost donor problem,” specifically citing alleged data from Bernegger’s Election Watch site. The PAC claimed, “One Virginia donor. 22,619 transactions totaling $839,466.00. $37.11 average donation.” Virginia Project, accessed [7/30/24; Twitter/X, 3/7/24]
- 07/23/24
Social media account NoVA_Campaigns amplified the Virginia Project’s claims about the Virginia donor multiple times.
NoVA_Campaigns, a social media account which seemingly pushes right-wing narratives and election conspiracy theories, amplified Virginia Project’s March post multiple times, saying, “Massive @actblue fraud. How @TheDemocrats launder💰in billions,” and specifically claiming that the Virginia donor “made 22,619 Fed donations since ‘19, totaling $839,466 in 592 days.” In a second post, the account repeated the claim about the donations, calling on “AGs like @JasonMiyaresVA 🦗.” Twitter/X, [7/23/24, 7/23/24, 7/23/24, accessed 8/5/24]
- 07/23/24
Bernegger amplified the claims about the Virginia donor and called on his followers to use his organization’s website to find “smurfs.”
Bernegger responded to the Virginia Project’s social media post about the Virginia donor and called on people to “Check your state out” on his organization’s website, telling them to “scroll down to the USA map, click on any state, let it load, listing of Smurfs.” Twitter/X, [7/23/24]
- 07/24/24
Newsmax host Carl Higbie amplified Election Watch’s site on his show and claimed “smurfs” or “money mules” are used to funnel money “through the Democrats’ fundraising platform, called ActBlue.”
:{During the July 24 edition of his Newsmax show, Higbie claimed that “a bunch of people” found “a bunch of stuff that appears to not add up,” crediting Bernegger’s organization, which he said “compiled millions … of data points from the Federal Election Commission.”
According to Higbie, “We were able to find out that in the past few years, over $200 million of political donations have been funneled through the Democrats’ fundraising platform, called ActBlue. … And from our research, it appears that these people, most of them, don't even know these donations are being made in their name. It's not their money. They call these people ‘smurfs’ or ‘money mules.’” Twitter/X, [7/24/24]}:
- 07/26/24
Right-wing personality Charlie Kirk called on state attorneys general to get involved: “When will one of them take action?”
Kirk alleged that there are “massive, repeated donations to ActBlue that use stolen identities and, quite possibly, stolen credit card,” specifically noting that “one person in Virginia has been named in 22,619 separate donations since 2019, totaling more than $800,000.” Kirk went on to claim that “obviously, she's being exploited for some kind of money-laundering operation,” and he called on state AGs to get involved: “ActBlue raises from all fifty states. We have fifty state AGs. When will one of them take action?” Twitter/X, [7/26/24]
- 07/26/24
Right-wing social media personality DC Draino specifically called out Virginia’s Republican AG Jason Miyares, asking if he will “prosecute this ActBlue money laundering and protect VA’s exploited citizens.”
DC Draino amplified Kirk’s social media post, adding, “Didn’t Virginia elect a Republican AG? Will @JasonMiyaresVA prosecute this ActBlue money laundering and protect VA’s exploited citizens? Or will he be a 1 term politician?” Twitter/X, [7/26/24]
- 07/29/24
On Truth Social, Trump amplified Kirk’s and DC Draino’s allegations about ActBlue and their calls for AGs to investigate.
- 07/29/24
Just over an hour after Trump made his post, Virginia’s Jason Miyares said his office was “looking into” the claims about ActBlue and money laundering.
On social media, Miyares responded to Kirk and said, “My office is aware of these allegations and rest assured, we are looking into it.” The same day, Dan Bishops — the Republican candidate for North Carolina AG — suggested he would take action against ActBlue on “January 1” after being elected. Twitter/X, [7/29/24, 7/29/24]
- 07/30/24
Wyoming Republican Secretary of State Chuck Gray announced an “investigation into ActBlue,” citing “nationwide money laundering and identity theft allegations.”
In a press release, which he posted on social media, Gray encouraged “any Wyoming citizen who has reason to believe a political action committee stole their identity or falsely reported a donation using their name” to report it to his office. Wyoming Secretary of State media release, [7/30/24]
- 08/01/24
Right-wing activist James O’Keefe said he would “personally pay” $3,000 to people who confront potential “smurfs” in their neighborhoods.
O’Keefe, the ousted founder of Project Veritas who is now trying to build up O’Keefe Media Group, posted on social media: “Uncover ActBlue Smurfs and get paid like our Citizen Journalists,” urging people to go to Election Watch’s site, “ choose your state, enter your zip code, and start investigating. Not comfortable going door-to-door? … Submit potential Smurfs and links to your FEC findings through our X DMs or Signal.” The post included a video showing how to use Bernegger’s Election Watch site and instructing people to “knock on these people’s doors,” tell them they “seem to be a victim of a money laundering scheme,” and get bank statements from them. Rolling Stone, [6/20/24; Twitter/X, 8/1/24]
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- 08/02/24
Virginia’s Republican AG, Jason Miyares, posted that he sent a letter to ActBlue “demanding answers.”
Miyares posted the letter on social media and said, “The integrity of our election is at stake.” The letter claims that his office “has become aware of multiple serious allegations that ActBlue, ActBlue Civics, Inc., and ActBlue Charities, Inc. (together ‘ActBlue’) have engaged in fraudulent, deceptive, and/or otherwise illegal activities in the Commonwealth of Virginia and/or aided and abetted others in doing so.” Twitter/X, [8/2/24]
Newsmax's Greg Kelly: “Fact-checking is fake, and it's actually kinda dangerous”](https://www.mediamatters.org/greg-kelly/newsmaxs-greg-kelly-fact-checking-fake-and-its-actually-kinda-dangerous)
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Newsmax guest lobs a racist slur at Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY)
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ROB SCHMITT (HOST): I mean, let's just say what this what they really are. I mean, this is the Marxist group. These are the communists in Congress. And I mean, that's why Bernie's there. And sure, hating the Jews right now is the fashionable thing in this group. But this -- what they believe is so much more vile and dangerous than that. And they're spreading that rapidly and they get so much attention from the media because the media is so stupid. They love having these people on, and it's all of them. It's the Rashida Tlaib and it's the Ilhan and it's the Cori Bush, and it's all of these -- I mean, they're insufferable people. They're very unintelligent and they're beloved by the media that just thinks it's so sexy to be communist in a capitalist country.
MICHAEL SAVAGE (GUEST): Well, Bernie Sanders is the head of the snake of that organization. We all know that. He's the one who trained these puppets to speak the way they speak. They are naked and absolute Bolsheviks. If you want to call them communists, Bolshevik, it doesn't really matter. If they had the power, they would put you and me in a reeducation camp or execute us. That's who these Bolsheviks are. But the worst of them all is Bernie Sanders.
I have been on to him since he came along. Bernie Sanders brainwashed these people. Bernie Sanders looks like a benign Jewish grandfather in a crumpled suit with a tuna fish stain on his lapel from riding the subway and not having enough money to buy a hot dog on a cart. But this man is a vile, evil American of the worst kind, Bernie Sanders. We shouldn't lose the focus on who is behind these people. It's Bernie Sanders. He's worthy of our attention and our contempt. But he certainly is not up for reelection. He is a man who espouses hatred for capitalism and owns three or four houses that we know of. His wife bankrupted a college in Vermont and then walked off with a big amount of money.
These are gangsters. These are classic Bolshevik gangsters, very much like their boss in the White House, who you very clearly spoke about so succinctly in two segments ago. So, we're dealing with criminals who are also Bolsheviks, and they're very dangerous. So we can celebrate. Yes, Bowman is gone. The ghetto thug is gone. He's probably going to have a great career on MSNBC tomorrow. They probably -- the paper was probably waiting for him. I don't think he'll be hired by by Newsmax. I suspect he's not going to be a competitor for this slot.
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WRITTEN BY GIDEON TAAFFE
PUBLISHED 06/11/24
After the European Union Parliament — the legislative branch of the 27-member trade bloc — held elections Sunday that resulted in large electoral gains for far-right parties, right-wing media touted the results as good news for Republicans. Conservative media figures claim the results signify “a fundamental political shift” with regard to immigration that will be echoed in the U.S. and could help the GOP win in upcoming elections.
- ## Far-right parties gained power in EU Parliament elections
- EU elections resulted in huge gains for far-right parties.In Germany, the far-right party Alternative for Germany won the second highest number of seats after the center-right party in the EU Parliament elections. In France, the National Rally party, led by Marine Le Pen, got more than double the percentage of the vote received by President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist Renaissance party. The Associated Press, [6/10/24]
- Despite far-right gains in the EU Parliament, centrist parties still hold a majority.The center-right party, European People's Party Group, remains the dominant party with 186 seats. The second most popular party is the center-left party, Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, which lost four seats for a new total of 135 seats. The Associated Press, [6/10/24; European Union, European Parliament 2024-2029 Provisional Results, 6/10/24]
- Right-wing victories could reshape legislative priorities in the EU.Environmental reforms are expected to be harder to pass and there is an increased likelihood of the EU adopting stricter anti-immigration policies. CNBC, [6/9/24]
- ## Right-wing media suggested EU Parliament elections are good news for conservatives in America
- On War Room, former Trump adviser Steve Bannon declared, “Europe is on fire with the right.” War Room correspondent Ben Harnwell added, “There’s clearly an undercurrent that’s moving in our direction.” Real America’s Voice, *War Room*, [6/10/24]
- Right-wing news site The Daily Caller published an op-ed titled “Sleeping MAGA Giant Of Europe Finally Awakens, And The Global Left Could Not Be More Terrified.” The outlet wrote: “Americans should take these elections as a promising sign; defeat is not inevitable, and the restoration of greatness is never more than a generation away.” The Daily Caller, [6/10/24]
- Conservative outlet Washington Examiner wrote, “Survey finds right-wing surge in EU election results driven by similar concerns to US voters.”The article compared the EU election results to Brexit, writing, “The impressive showing of the Right brought back memories of 2016, when the successful Brexit vote served as a precursor to former President Donald Trump’s victory.” Washington Examiner, [6/10/24]
- OutKick host Tomi Lahren posted on X (formerly Twitter): “The EU shift towards the right is promising.”She also compared the election with the 2016 Brexit vote, “Remember that Brexit was a great precursor to Trump’s victory here in 2016. The world is sick of woke shit!” Twitter/X, [6/10/24]
- Conservative radio host Bill Mitchell: “If Europe is the canary in the coalmine, Democrats are going to be wiped out in November.”Twitter/X, [6/10/24]
- Conservative Political Action Conference chairperson Matt Schlapp reacted to the EU Parliament election results on Newsmax, saying, “This is a great day for what we believe in, with groups like CPAC, with the results in Europe.” Schlapp also seemed to use the European election results to argue that the GOP should fall in line behind Trump: “The kind of establishment center-right parties in most of these European countries, akin to the Republican Party, … [are] suffering from this idea of going along with the left but less. So it’s the same problem we have here in the Republican Party. You have Republicans that are still unsure if they want to have a full embrace of Trump.” Newsmax, *The National Report*, [6/10/24]
* During an appearance on Newsmax, conservative activist Tim Parrish praised right-wing success in EU elections and said, “We're going to see that here in the United States as well.”Parrish claimed, “More conservative policies are starting to take root as people, just like we are here in the United States, are dealing with mass immigration and crime and things that are impacting their communities. Policies that are a little more conservative are starting to take root in these areas, and we’re seeing that in not only in France and across the world, but we’re going to see that in the United States as well.” Newsmax, *The National Report*, [6/10/24]
- ## Right-wing media praised far-right anti-immigrant rhetoric
- Fox News host Laura Ingraham claimed the EU elections showed that “globalists, for the most part, are on the run,” and that, “people are tired of the mass migration.”She added, “But the media are still clinging to this notion of globalism. They don’t understand Americans’ feelings on this [immigration].” Fox News, *The Ingraham Angle*, [6/10/24]
- The Daily Wire host Michael Knowles called the election a “fundamental political shift” because “these elections are about migration,” saying, “I’m hopeful that this is what we’re seeing in Europe now: a sign of things to come
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- Prompted by a quote from actor Rob Schneider, Donald Trump Jr. argued that “we don't have a choice” and that the GOP will have to prosecute Trump critics as retribution. *Triggered*, [5/30/24]
- On his radio show, Fox News host Sean Hannity lashed out at Judge Juan Merchan. *The Sean Hannity Show*, [5/30/24]
- Fox News guest Brett Tolman: “I really blame the judge.” Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [5/30/24]
- A Newsmax host made clear that Trump jurors can never go anywhere without being harassed. Newsmax, [5/30/24]
- Fox News reporter Shannon Bream hyped criticism of the judge’s jury instructions. Fox News, *Special Report*, [5/30/24]
- Laura Ingraham speculated that two attorneys on the jury steered the rest of the jury’s deliberations. Fox News, *The Ingraham Angle*, [5/30/24]
- A Fox News guest called Trump’s conviction a result of a “show trial” and said it shows why presidents “need immunity from criminal prosecution to do their jobs.” Fox News, *The Ingraham Angle*, [5/30/24]
- Newsmax guest Joseph di Genova warned jurors to be “very careful.” Newsmax, *Rob Schmitt Tonight*, [5/30/24]
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Newsmax's Greg Kelly defends Trump's “human scum” post: “What about when Obama said the n-word?”
WRITTEN BY MEDIA MATTERS STAFF
PUBLISHED 05/29/24
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allies of South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem were hoping that her new book, "No Going Back: The Truth on What's Wrong With Politics and How We Move America Forward," would increase her chances of becoming presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump's running mate. But various controversies surrounding the book may have, according to reports, made Trump's campaign less likely to choose her.
First, Noem drew widespread criticism — even on the right — for an anecdote in which she describes shooting and killing a puppy in a gravel pit on a farm. Then, the Dakota Scout reported that a meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un described in the book was very much "in dispute."
When Noem made a Tuesday, May 7 appearance on Newsmax — the cable news channel that prides itself on being even to the right of Fox News and Fox Business — host Rob Finnerty described the Kim Jong-Un encounter as a flat-out falsehood.
READ MORE:'No way': Foreign policy experts question Noem's 'dubious' account of meeting North Korean dictator
Finnerty told Noem, "If you asked me a month ago who's at the top of the list to run with Donald Trump, I would've said your name. If you asked me that same question this morning, I don't even think you're on the list…. It's because of things that came out in this book, like your claims that you met Kim Jong-Un."
Noem responded, "I've been to the DMZ."
But Finnerty quoted directly from Noem's book, saying of the alleged meeting with Jong Un, "Governor, that never happened, did it?"
Noem told Finnerty, "What I have said in the book is that when I became aware of the content, that we had it changed. And that's the way that it is. I should not have put that anecdote in the book. I am not going to talk about my meetings…. I am not going to talk about my conversations with world leaders."
READ MORE:Kristi Noem doubles down with 'legal cover' for shooting her puppy to death
Noem claimed that she has been "very forthright" about meetings she had with world leaders when she was serving in the U.S. House of Representatives. But Finnerty continued to stress that her book describes a meeting that is pure fiction.
The Newsmax host told Noem, "Governor, I'm not asking you about the details of this alleged meeting. I'm asking you if the meeting actually happened. I don't think it did. And I think if it did, you'd be able to confirm for me that yes, it did — and here's when it happened…. You're going to have to continue to answer this question."
Noem responded, "I don't think so, because the average American citizen is more worried about the border."
READ MORE:Kristi Noem's damage control response to puppy shooting story: She also killed 3 horses
*Watch the full video below or at this link.
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