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01/15/2026
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Charisma, a conservative Pentecostal-oriented media outlet, has long been in the tank for President Donald Trump, relentlessly portraying him as anointed by God to lead the U.S. This week, after Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy the military even more aggressively against American citizens, Charisma’s Abby Trivett declared, “We may be on the brink of a new America.”
Trivett falsely characterized Gov. Tim Walz’s recent comments encouraging Minnesotans to continue documenting ICE’s “organized brutality.” Walz explicitly and repeatedly urged people to protest peacefully, but Trivett claimed that he had “encouraged Minnesotans to continue to clash with ICE agents violently.”
Trivett’s post provided a good example of Christian nationalists’ obsession with authoritarian order and their embrace of the Trump regime’s violence against immigrants as a righteous form of spiritual warfare:
America is approaching a hinge point in history, and Minnesota may be the place where the door finally swings. As lawlessness is celebrated and those tasked with upholding order are mocked, restrained or resisted, the clash between civil authority and spiritual authority is becoming impossible to ignore.
Scripture warns that in the last days “lawlessness will increase” and people would call evil good and good evil — and for many watching what is unfolding in Minnesota right now, that warning feels less theoretical and more like a headline.
Whether critics like it or not, the nation is being forced to choose between chaos and order, rebellion and restraint, anarchy and accountability. And in moments like these, history reveals a pattern: God often exposes the cracks in a nation before He heals it.
Trivett’s comments align with other religious-right leaders who consistently act as public relations agents of the Trump White House and who have adopted the administration’s dishonest rhetoric about the killing of Minneapolis mom Renee Good by an ICE agent.
Pastor and MAGA activist Franklin Graham, who has claimed that anti-ICE protests are organized by radical leftists who want to destroy America, organized a nationwide prayer event this week urging people to pray for Trump administration leaders. Dominionist Dutch Sheets promoted Graham’s call, delivering a prayer that called anti-ICE protesters evil.
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[pix: Right-wing activist Larry Klayman represents the source for a debunked claim about a supercomputer stealing the 2020 election from Trump.
As Right Wing Watch has been reporting, many of President Donald Trump’s religious-right backers are parroting and amplifying his unjustified clams that he won the presidential election and that Democrats are out to steal it from him. One of the most ardent pro-Trump media outlets, the Pentecostal-oriented Charisma, has now erased whatever blurry line might have existed between partisan propaganda, conspiracy theory, and outright misinformation.
In a Monday evening post, Charisma contributor Amir George quoted religious-right activist Franklin Graham saying the election isn’t over and calling on his followers not to give up or “stop asking for God’s help and mercy on this country.”
George’s post then went off the rails, talking about the “stunning news that a powerful supercomputer known as ‘The Hammer’ has been combined with a software system called ‘Scorecard’ to alter 3% of the votes when they are sent from local ballot offices to central counting systems.”
The Charisma post cites “government contractor Dennis Montgomery” as the sourcefor the claim, arguing that “it is imperative for citizens to stand up for the blatant attempt to overthrow an election dramatically won by President Trump.”
Reporter Will Sommer exposed the dubious source of the “Hammer” supercomputer hoax at The Daily Beast. “The head of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has called the claim about supercomputer election fraud ‘nonsense,’ and urged Americans not to promote it,” Sommer reported.
Sommer noted that “Montgomery has a long history of making outlandish claims that fail to come true” and “was behind what’s been called ‘one of the most elaborate and dangerous hoaxes in American history,’ churning out allegedly fictitious data that one prompted the Bush administration to consider shooting down airplanes.”
The “Hammer” hoax has been debunked by Snopes and Lead Stories. It has been spread by former White House aide Steve Bannon, guests on Fox News, other right-wing media outlets—and now Charisma.
Montgomery’s credibility is not exactly enhanced by the fact thathis lawyer is right-wing crank and conspiracy theorist Larry Klayman, who once held a far-from-successful rally in Washington D.C. that he hoped would draw millions to “occupy” the nation’s capital and force then-President Barack Obama to leave office.
Tags: Amir George Donald Trump Franklin Graham conspiracy theories Election 2020 Stop the Steal Charisma
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